Bob Peterson (filmmaker)

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Bob Peterson
Peterson in 2015
Born	Robert Peterson (1961-01-18) January 18, 1961 (age 64) Wooster, Ohio, U.S.
Education	Ohio Northern University, Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering, 1983; Purdue University, Master's degree in Mechanical Engineering, 1986
Occupations	Animator director screenwriter storyboard supervisor voice actor
Years active	1994–present
Employer	Pixar Animation Studios (1994–present)

Robert Peterson (born January 18, 1961) is an American animator, director, screenwriter, storyboard supervisor and voice actor who works at Pixar. He was hired at Pixar by Roger Gould in 1994 as an animator for commercials, before subsequently becoming an animator on Toy Story (1995). He was the co-director and co-writer for Up (2009), in which he also voiced the characters Dug and Alpha. He helped work on part of The Good Dinosaur, before being cut from it. His work as a writer for the films Up and Finding Nemo (2003) earned him nominations for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. He was also a co-writer on Cars 3 (2017) and won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Short Form Animated Program for his work on Forky Asks A Question (2020).