Ричард Л. Мур: Американдық анимация режиссерінің өмірбаяны

American film director
the animation director

Richard L. Moore (born May 10, 1963) is an American film and television animation director, screenwriter and voice actor. He is best known for serving as a director on primetime animated television series such as The Simpsons, The Critic and Futurama as well as directing the films Wreck It Ralph (2012), Zootopia (2016) and Ralph Breaks the Internet (2018) for Walt Disney Animation Studios. He is a two time Emmy Award winner, a three time Annie Award winner and an Academy Award winner.

Moore was born and raised in Oxnard, California. He studied film and video at the California Institute of the Arts, graduating with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 1987. While there, he narrated Jim Reardon's 1986 student film Bring Me the Head of Charlie Brown. Moore was one of the original three directors of The Simpsons, directing 17 episodes in the first 5 seasons from 1990 to 1993, including the episodes: "Flaming Moe's", "Itchy and Scratchy: The Movie", and "Marge vs. the Monorail". He won a 1991 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Program for The Simpsons: Homer vs. Lisa and the 8th Commandment, and later return as one of the sequence directors on The Simpsons Movie in 2007. In 1994, Moore became a producer and supervising director for the animated series The Critic. Moore's other television animation directing credits include Comedy Central's Drawn Together and "Spy vs. Spy" for MADtv.

In 2004, Moore directed the Warner Bros. animated short film Duck Dodgers in Attack of the Drones. This would become the 2012 animated feature Wreck It Ralph, Moore's feature directing debut, and a box office and critical success. Wreck It Ralph won five Annie Awards, including Best Animated Feature and a Best Director award for Moore, and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature. Moore's next animated feature film was Disney's Zootopia, which he directed alongside Byron Howard and co director Jared Bush. The film, released on March 4, 2016, became the second highest grossing animated feature film of 2016 with a worldwide box office gross of over $1.023 billion. The film also won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature. After Zootopia, Moore returned to direct Ralph Breaks the Internet, the sequel to Wreck It Ralph, with fellow filmmaker Phil Johnston. The film was a financial success, outgrossing the original film with over $529.3 million worldwide. It was also nominated for multiple awards in the Best Animated Feature category, including the Academy Awards, Annie Awards, and Golden Globe Awards. On April 8, 2019, Moore revealed that he had left Disney to join Sony Pictures Animation, where he would direct and produce original animated films for the studio, and ultimately produced the film Vivo. On March 16, 2022, Moore revealed that he has entered into an exclusive, multi year overall deal with Skydance Animation. On October 18, 2023, it was revealed that Moore is directing an untitled Jack and the Beanstalk project at Skydance.