---
name: "Jinko Gotoh"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/jinko-gotoh"
roles: ["Producer"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 4
average_fi1m_score: 76
average_as: "producer"
average_over: 4
updated: "2026-09-18T09:01:45.807747+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."
---

# Jinko Gotoh

Producer. Born in Japan.

## Details

- **Work:** Producer
- **Active:** 2003–2019
- **Academy Awards:** 1 Oscar nomination
- **Average Fi1m score:** 76, as producer, over 4 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2000s 85 (1), 2010s 73 (3)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 76 to 74 across 4 titles
- **Score spread:** 1 at 80+, 3 at 60–79, 0 under 60
- **Genres:** Animation 4, Family 3, Adventure 2, Comedy 2, Action 1, Drama 1
- **Screen time:** 6 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $1,146m across 3 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q100715822, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1380146/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/76590

## Coming up

- *Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse* (2027-06-17), Producer

## Biography

Jinko Gotoh is a producer of animated films. She began her career in the 1990s as CGI producer on *Space Jam* (1996) and later served as Director of Digital Production at Walt Disney Feature Animation, contributing to *Dinosaur* (2000).

Her credits include associate producer on *Finding Nemo* (2003), producer on *9* (2009) and *Walking with Dinosaurs* (2013), co-executive producer on *The Illusionist* (2010), executive producer on *The Little Prince* (2015), and producer on *The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part* (2019) and *Klaus* (2019). *Klaus* won a BAFTA and received an Academy Award nomination. She is vice president of Women in Animation and is producing *Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse*.

*Sources: pro.imdb.com, sonypicturesanimation.com, oak3.the-numbers.com.*

## On Fi1m (4)

- *Klaus* (2019), Fi1m 77, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/klaus.md)
- *The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part* (2019), Fi1m 63, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/the-lego-movie-2-the-second-part.md)
- *The Illusionist* (2010), Fi1m 78, Co-Executive Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/the-illusionist.md)
- *Finding Nemo* (2003), Fi1m 85, Associate Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/finding-nemo.md)

## Complete filmography (11)

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

- *Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse* (2027), Producer
- *Klaus* (2019), Producer — Fi1m 77, [page](https://film.one/film/klaus.md)
- *The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part* (2019), Producer — Fi1m 63, [page](https://film.one/film/the-lego-movie-2-the-second-part.md)
- *The Little Prince* (2015), Executive Producer
- *Walking with Dinosaurs* (2013), Producer
- *The Illusionist* (2010), Co-Executive Producer — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/film/the-illusionist.md)
- *9* (2009), Producer
- *Finding Nemo* (2003), Associate Producer — Fi1m 85, [page](https://film.one/film/finding-nemo.md)
- *Mortal Kombat: The Journey Begins* (1995), Animation Director
- *Bear Season*, Executive Producer
- *TEZUKA! God of Manga*, Producer

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 0 won, 1 nominated

- 2020: Best Animated Feature (nominated), for *Klaus*

### Other awards — 0 won, 1 nominated

- European Film Award for Best Animated Feature Film 2020: European Film Award for Best Animated Feature Film (nominated), for *Klaus*

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

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