---
name: "Kelsey Mann"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/kelsey-mann"
fi1m_id: "kelsey-mann"
imdb_id: "nm1626375"
tmdb_id: 182001
wikidata_id: "Q58640889"
roles: ["Writer","Director"]
born: "16 November 1974"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 3
average_fi1m_score: 73
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-10-03T01:26:32.197766+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."
---

# Kelsey Mann

## Identity

Kelsey Mann

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/kelsey-mann
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** kelsey-mann
- **IMDb ID:** nm1626375
- **TMDB ID:** 182001
- **Wikidata ID:** Q58640889
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelsey_Mann, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q58640889, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1626375/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/182001

Writer and director. Born 16 November 1974 in Burnsville, Minnesota, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer, Director
- **Born:** 16 November 1974, Burnsville, Minnesota, USA
- **Active:** 2013–present
- **Also known as:** Келсі Манн
- **Titles on Fi1m:** 3: 1 directing, 2 writing
- **Academy Awards:** 1 Oscar nomination
- **Average Fi1m score:** 73, as writer, over 2 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2010s 72 (1), 2020s 71 (2)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelsey_Mann, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q58640889, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1626375/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/182001

## Streaming the US now

- **Disney+:** [*Inside Out 2*](https://film.one/film/inside-out-2.md) (68)

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

## Biography

Kelsey Mann is an American film director and storyboard artist. He directed and contributed to the story of the Pixar animated feature *Inside Out 2* (2024).

Mann graduated from Northern Michigan University with a BFA in illustration in 1998. He began his career as a storyboard artist at Cartoon Network before joining Pixar in 2009. At Pixar he worked as story supervisor on *Monsters University* (2013), *The Good Dinosaur* (2015) and *Onward* (2020), and directed and wrote the short film *Party Central* (2014).

*Inside Out 2* earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Animated Feature.

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

## On Fi1m (3)

### Directed (1)

- *Inside Out 2* (2024), Fi1m 68, Director, Story — [page](https://film.one/film/inside-out-2.md)

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

- *Onward* (2020), Fi1m 74, Story Supervisor — [page](https://film.one/film/onward.md)
- *Monsters University* (2013), Fi1m 72, Story Supervisor, Script Supervisor — [page](https://film.one/film/monsters-university.md)

## Complete filmography (8)

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

- *Inside Out 2* (2024), Director, Story — Fi1m 68, [page](https://film.one/film/inside-out-2.md)
- *Monsters at Work* (2021), series, Creative Consultant
- *Onward* (2020), Story Supervisor — Fi1m 74, [page](https://film.one/film/onward.md)
- *Purl* (2019), as Office Bro #4 (voice)
- *The Good Dinosaur* (2015), Story, Story Supervisor
- *Party Central* (2014), Director, Writer
- *Monsters University* (2013), Script Supervisor, Story Supervisor — Fi1m 72, [page](https://film.one/film/monsters-university.md)
- *My Gym Partner's a Monkey* (2005), series, Storyboard Artist

## Gallery

- ![Kelsey Mann](https://film.one/media/person/11412/gallery-eb0f73def117.jpg) Kelsey Mann — Kevin Paul, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2c/Kelsey_Mann_-_Inside_Out_2.jpg/1280px-Kelsey_Mann_-_Inside_Out_2.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Kelsey Mann](https://film.one/media/person/11412/gallery-30459b4c7fb4.jpg) Kelsey Mann — Image via TMDB

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 0 won, 1 nominated

- 2025: Best Animated Feature (nominated), for *Inside Out 2*

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

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