---
name: "Justin K. Thompson"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/justin-k-thompson"
fi1m_id: "justin-k-thompson"
imdb_id: "nm1042511"
tmdb_id: 1046497
wikidata_id: "Q119243833"
roles: ["Director"]
born: "9 January 1981"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 4
average_as: "director"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-04T04:16:39.841830+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."
---

# Justin K. Thompson

## Identity

Justin K. Thompson

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/justin-k-thompson
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** justin-k-thompson
- **IMDb ID:** nm1042511
- **TMDB ID:** 1046497
- **Wikidata ID:** Q119243833
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justin_K._Thompson, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q119243833, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1042511/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1046497

Director. Born 9 January 1981 in New York City, New York, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Director
- **Born:** 9 January 1981, New York City, New York, USA
- **Active:** 2009–present
- **Also known as:** Justin K. Thomson, Michael Kent Thompson, Justin Thompson
- **Titles on Fi1m:** 4: 1 directing, 3 crew
- **Frequently works with:** [Christopher Miller](https://film.one/person/christopher-miller.md), [Phil Lord](https://film.one/person/phil-lord.md), [Avi Arad](https://film.one/person/avi-arad.md), [Hailee Steinfeld](https://film.one/person/hailee-steinfeld.md), [Jake Johnson](https://film.one/person/jake-johnson.md), [Shameik Moore](https://film.one/person/shameik-moore.md), [Amy Pascal](https://film.one/person/amy-pascal.md), [Bob Persichetti](https://film.one/person/bob-persichetti.md)
- **Academy Awards:** 1 Oscar nomination
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2000s 75 (1), 2010s 57 (2), 2020s 82 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justin_K._Thompson, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q119243833, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1042511/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1046497

## Coming up

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

## Streaming the US now

- **Netflix:** [*Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse*](https://film.one/film/spider-man-into-the-spider-verse.md) (87)

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

## Biography

Justin K. Thompson is an American film director and production designer. He began his career in 1993 working on projects for Disney Television Animation, DreamWorks Animation Television and Film Roman. From 2000 to 2005 he worked at Cartoon Network on series including *The Powerpuff Girls*, *Samurai Jack* and *Star Wars: Clone Wars*.

Thompson joined Sony Pictures Animation in 2006. He served as production designer on *Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs* (2009) and its sequel (2013), *The Angry Birds Movie* (2016), *Smurfs: The Lost Village* (2017), *The Emoji Movie* (2017) and *Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse* (2018). He made his directorial debut co-directing *Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse* (2023) with Joaquim Dos Santos and Kemp Powers. He is also directing *Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse* (2027) with Bob Persichetti.

Thompson won Annie Awards for production design on *Into the Spider-Verse* and for directing on *Across the Spider-Verse*. The latter film received an Academy Award nomination for Best Animated Feature.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, deadline.com, sonypicturesanimation.com.*

## On Fi1m (4)

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

- *Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse* (2023), Fi1m 82, Director — [page](https://film.one/film/spider-man-across-the-spider-verse.md)

### Crew (3)

- *Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse* (2018), Fi1m 87, Production design — [page](https://film.one/film/spider-man-into-the-spider-verse.md)
- *The Emoji Movie* (2017), Fi1m 27, Visual Development — [page](https://film.one/film/the-emoji-movie.md)
- *Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs* (2009), Fi1m 75, Production Design, Production design — [page](https://film.one/film/cloudy-with-a-chance-of-meatballs.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), Director
- *Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse* (2023), Director — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/film/spider-man-across-the-spider-verse.md)
- *Spider-Ham: Caught in a Ham* (2019), Thanks
- *Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse* (2018), Production Design — Fi1m 87, [page](https://film.one/film/spider-man-into-the-spider-verse.md)
- *The Emoji Movie* (2017), as Visual Development — Fi1m 27, [page](https://film.one/film/the-emoji-movie.md)
- *Smurfs: The Lost Village* (2017), as Visual Development
- *Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2* (2013), Production Design
- *Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs* (2009), Production Design — Fi1m 75, [page](https://film.one/film/cloudy-with-a-chance-of-meatballs.md)
- *Kim Possible Movie: So the Drama* (2005), Background Designer
- *The Powerpuff Girls Movie* (2002), Background Designer
- *The Powerpuff Girls* (1998), series, Storyboard, Writer

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 0 won, 1 nominated

- 2024: Best Animated Feature (nominated), for *Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse*

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

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