---
name: "Jennifer Yuh Nelson"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/jennifer-yuh-nelson"
fi1m_id: "jennifer-yuh-nelson"
imdb_id: "nm0950775"
tmdb_id: 142312
wikidata_id: "Q705711"
roles: ["Director"]
born: "7 May 1972"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_as: "director"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-05T14:03:04.808436+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."
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# Jennifer Yuh Nelson

## Identity

Jennifer Yuh Nelson

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/jennifer-yuh-nelson
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** jennifer-yuh-nelson
- **IMDb ID:** nm0950775
- **TMDB ID:** 142312
- **Wikidata ID:** Q705711
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jennifer_Yuh_Nelson, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q705711, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0950775/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/142312

Director. Born 7 May 1972 in South Korea.

## Details

- **Work:** Director
- **Born:** 7 May 1972, South Korea
- **Active:** 2008–2019
- **Also known as:** Jennifer Yuh
- **Titles on Fi1m:** 2: 1 directing, 1 writing
- **Frequently works with:** [Angelina Jolie](https://film.one/person/angelina-jolie.md), [Dustin Hoffman](https://film.one/person/dustin-hoffman.md), [Glenn Berger](https://film.one/person/glenn-berger.md), [Jack Black](https://film.one/person/jack-black.md), [Jonathan Aibel](https://film.one/person/jonathan-aibel.md), [Melissa Cobb](https://film.one/person/melissa-cobb.md)
- **Academy Awards:** 1 Oscar nomination
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2000s 77 (1), 2010s 73 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jennifer_Yuh_Nelson, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q705711, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0950775/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/142312

## Streaming the US now

- **Tubi:** [*Kung Fu Panda 3*](https://film.one/film/kung-fu-panda-3.md) (73)

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

## Biography

Jennifer Yuh Nelson is an American film and television director, story artist and illustrator. She was born in South Korea on 7 May 1972 and immigrated to the United States with her family at the age of four. She studied illustration at California State University, Long Beach, graduating with a BFA in 1994.

Nelson joined DreamWorks Animation in 1998 as a storyboard artist. She served as head of story on *Kung Fu Panda* (2008) and made her feature directorial debut with *Kung Fu Panda 2* (2011). She co-directed *Kung Fu Panda 3* (2016). She directed the live-action film *The Darkest Minds* (2018) and has worked as supervising director on the Netflix anthology series *Love, Death & Robots* (2019–).

Her awards include Annie Awards for Best Storyboarding on *Kung Fu Panda* and Best Directing on *Kung Fu Panda 2*, and two Primetime Emmy Awards for her work on *Love, Death & Robots*. She received an Academy Award nomination for Best Animated Feature for *Kung Fu Panda 2*.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, deadline.com, calstate.edu, televisionacademy.com.*

## On Fi1m (2)

### Directed (1) — the average rests on these

- *Kung Fu Panda 3* (2016), Fi1m 73, Director — [page](https://film.one/film/kung-fu-panda-3.md)

### Wrote (1)

- *Kung Fu Panda* (2008), Fi1m 77, Sequence Supervisor, Head of Story — [page](https://film.one/film/kung-fu-panda.md)

## Complete filmography (13)

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

- *Grim* (2025), series, Executive Producer
- *The Sea Beast* (2022), Additional Storyboarding
- *Battle Kitty* (2022), series, Thanks
- *Love, Death & Robots* (2019), series, Director, Storyboard Artist, Other
- *The Darkest Minds* (2018), Director
- *Panda Paws* (2016), Director
- *Kung Fu Panda 3* (2016), Director — Fi1m 73, [page](https://film.one/film/kung-fu-panda-3.md)
- *Kung Fu Panda 2* (2011), Director
- *Kung Fu Panda* (2008), Head of Story, Sequence Supervisor — Fi1m 77, [page](https://film.one/film/kung-fu-panda.md)
- *Storm Cell* (2008), Third Assistant Director
- *Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas* (2003), Head of Story
- *Todd McFarlane's Spawn: Season 2* (1998), Director
- *Spicy City* (1997), series, Visual Effects, Character Designer, Production Assistant

## Gallery

- ![Jennifer Yuh Nelson](https://film.one/media/person/3718389/gallery-70fd5ae659f9.jpg) Jennifer Yuh Nelson — Karel Chladek, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6a/Jennifer_Yuh_Nelson.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Jennifer Yuh Nelson at the C2-MTL business conference held in Montreal (2012)](https://film.one/media/person/3718389/gallery-7ec331c3fd1d.jpg) Jennifer Yuh Nelson at the C2-MTL business conference held in Montreal (2012) — Karel Chladek, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/59/Jennifer_Yuh_Nelson%2C_2012%2C_Montreal.jpg/1280px-Jennifer_Yuh_Nelson%2C_2012%2C_Montreal.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 0 won, 1 nominated

- 2012: Best Animated Feature (nominated), for *Kung Fu Panda 2*

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

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