Everett Downing Jr. (He/Him) An Academy Award©-winning animation director, Everett Downing has over 20 years of experience as an animator and story artist at Pixar, Blue Sky, Sony, and Dreamworks Animation. His impressive resume includes WALL*E, Ratatouille, Up, Toy Story 3, Ice Age, and Maya and the Three. In 2020, Everett received the Academy Award for directing the acclaimed animated short film Hair Love with Matthew A. Cherry and Bruce Smith, Most recently Downing received an Emmy Award for his contribution to the limited series We the People from Team Obama, and he was the executive producer and showrunner on the Netflix animated series that he co-created, My Dad the Bounty Hunter. In 2022, Downing joined Walt Disney Animation Studios as a feature film director. WEBSITE
