---
name: "Enrico Casarosa"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/enrico-casarosa"
fi1m_id: "enrico-casarosa"
imdb_id: "nm1154836"
tmdb_id: 930567
wikidata_id: "Q1343730"
roles: ["Writer","Director"]
born: "20 November 1971"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 3
average_fi1m_score: 88
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-10-03T02:17:53.187954+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Enrico Casarosa

## Identity

Enrico Casarosa

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/enrico-casarosa
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** enrico-casarosa
- **IMDb ID:** nm1154836
- **TMDB ID:** 930567
- **Wikidata ID:** Q1343730
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enrico_Casarosa, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1343730, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1154836/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/930567

Writer and director. Born 20 November 1971 in Genova, Italy.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer, Director
- **Born:** 20 November 1971, Genova, Italy
- **Active:** 2007–present
- **Also known as:** 埃里康·卡萨罗萨
- **Titles on Fi1m:** 3: 1 directing, 2 writing
- **Academy Awards:** 2 Oscar nominations
- **Average Fi1m score:** 88, as writer, over 2 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2000s 91 (1), 2010s 84 (1), 2020s 78 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enrico_Casarosa, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1343730, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1154836/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/930567

## Coming up

- *Gatto* (2027-03-03), Saverio (voice)

## Streaming the US now

- **Disney+:** [*Luca*](https://film.one/film/luca.md) (78)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Enrico Casarosa is an Italian director, screenwriter and storyboard artist. Born on 20 November 1971 in Genoa, Italy, he moved to New York in his twenties and studied animation at the School of Visual Arts and the Fashion Institute of Technology. He began his career as a storyboard artist on television series including *101 Dalmatians: The Series* and *PB&J Otter*, and worked at Blue Sky Studios on *Ice Age* (2002) and *Robots* (2005).

Casarosa joined Pixar Animation Studios in 2002 as a story artist on *Cars* (2006), *Ratatouille* (2007) and *Up* (2009). He directed the short film *La luna* (2012), which received an Academy Award nomination, and made his feature directorial debut with *Luca* (2021), also nominated for an Academy Award. He has contributed to numerous other Pixar productions as a story artist and member of the senior creative team.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (3)

### Directed (1)

- *Luca* (2021), Fi1m 78, as Card Player / Angry Fisherman (voice) — [page](https://film.one/film/luca.md)

### Wrote (2) — the average rests on these

- *Coco* (2017), Fi1m 84, Story Artist — [page](https://film.one/film/coco.md)
- *Ratatouille* (2007), Fi1m 91, Story Artist — [page](https://film.one/film/ratatouille.md)

## Complete filmography (11)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Gatto* (2027), as Saverio (voice) · Director
- *Buon compleanno Massimo* (2023), as Sé stesso
- *Ciao Alberto* (2021), Executive Producer
- *Luca* (2021), as Card Player / Angry Fisherman (voice) · Story, Director — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/film/luca.md)
- *Coco* (2017), Story Artist — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/film/coco.md)
- *Piper* (2016), Storyboard Artist
- *La luna* (2012), Director, Writer
- *Up* (2009), Storyboard Artist — Fi1m 88, [page](https://film.one/film/up.md)
- *Ratatouille* (2007), Story Artist — Fi1m 91, [page](https://film.one/film/ratatouille.md)
- *Cars* (2006), Story Artist
- *Ice Age* (2002), Story Artist

## Gallery

- ![Enrico Casarosa](https://film.one/media/person/363685/gallery-e89b1c0c0dfa.jpg) Enrico Casarosa — Jeff Kays, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1e/Enrico_Casarosa.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Portrait of Enrico Casarosa. (2014)](https://film.one/media/person/363685/gallery-39193a13c1da.jpg) Portrait of Enrico Casarosa. (2014) — DarTar, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/80/Enrico_Casarosa_2014.jpg/1280px-Enrico_Casarosa_2014.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Enrico Casarosa](https://film.one/media/person/363685/gallery-acb7297fd40a.jpg) Enrico Casarosa — Image via TMDB
- ![Enrico Casarosa](https://film.one/media/person/363685/gallery-2b0d55850cae.jpg) Enrico Casarosa — Image via TMDB

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 0 won, 2 nominated

- 2022: Best Animated Feature (nominated), for *Luca*
- 2012: Best Animated Short Film (nominated), for *La Luna*

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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