Biography
Byron Howard (born 26 December 1968) is an American animator, character designer, story artist, film director, producer and screenwriter. He has directed several Walt Disney Animation Studios feature films, including Bolt (2008), Tangled (2010), Zootopia (2016), Encanto (2021) and Zootopia 2 (2025).
Howard attended Evergreen State College. He began his Disney career as a tour guide at Disney-MGM Studios before joining the studio in 1994 as an animator on films such as Pocahontas, Mulan, Lilo & Stitch and Brother Bear. He has won Academy Awards for Best Animated Feature for Zootopia and Encanto.
