Occupation Screenwriter, actor Role Screenwriter | Name David Reynolds Years active 1986 - present Siblings Brian Reynolds | |
Notable work The Emperor's New Groove
Finding Nemo Awards Annie Award for Outstanding Writing in an Animated Feature Production Nominations Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay Movies Finding Nemo, The Emperor's New Gro, A Bug's Life, Atlantis: The Lost Empire, Chicken Little Similar People Andrew Stanton, Lee Unkrich, Bob Peterson, Mark Dindal, Joe Ranft | ||
Residence United States of America | ||
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David Reynolds is an American screenwriter for television and film. His credits include the Disney animated films The Emperor's New Groove and Finding Nemo.
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Biography
In the early 1990s, he became a television writer. He made his writing debut on the late night television series, Late Night with Conan O'Brien. Afterwards, he started to trend into film with his theatrical debut as additional story material on Mulan. After the success of Mulan, Disney gave Reynolds a 'six-year contract' deal to work for both Walt Disney Animation Studios and Pixar. Some later works with the "Mouse-House" included additional writing on story for A Bugs Life, writer of the host segments on Fantasia 2000, and got his official writing debut with The Emperor's New Groove.
He then worked with other writers like Atlantis: The Lost Empire with Tab Murphy, The Jungle Book 2 with Karl Geurs and Evan Spiliotopoulos, and his most acclaimed work yet, Finding Nemo, with Andrew Stanton and Bob Peterson. He received numerous nominations and awards for Nemo, including an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay, a BAFTA nomination for Best Original Screenplay, a Hugo Award nomination for Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form, and a Nebula Award nomination for Best Script, and won an Annie for Writing in a Feature Production. His last movie credit was for working on Chimpanzee where he was a creative consultant and wrote the short film The Polar Bears in 2012. In 2010, it was reported that he's supposedly teaming up with Sony Pictures Animation for an untitled feature with Stephan Franck directing and co-writing the feature. On June 7, 2015, Reynolds and New Groove director Mark Dindal attended a conversation event for the Austin Film Festival to share their knowledge, their secrets, and strategies.