---
name: "Madeline Sharafian"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/madeline-sharafian"
fi1m_id: "madeline-sharafian"
imdb_id: "nm6461347"
tmdb_id: 1171950
wikidata_id: "Q106595662"
roles: ["Writer","Director"]
born: "1 February 1993"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 3
average_fi1m_score: 80
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-09-30T21:55:11.851318+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."
---

# Madeline Sharafian

## Identity

Madeline Sharafian

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/madeline-sharafian
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** madeline-sharafian
- **IMDb ID:** nm6461347
- **TMDB ID:** 1171950
- **Wikidata ID:** Q106595662
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madeline_Sharafian, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q106595662, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm6461347/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1171950

Writer and director. Born 1 February 1993 in Alameda, California, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer, Director
- **Born:** 1 February 1993, Alameda, California, USA
- **Active:** 2017–present
- **Also known as:** مادلين شارافيان
- **Titles on Fi1m:** 3: 1 directing, 2 writing
- **Academy Awards:** 2 Oscar nominations
- **Average Fi1m score:** 80, as writer, over 2 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2010s 84 (1), 2020s 70 (2)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madeline_Sharafian, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q106595662, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm6461347/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1171950

## Streaming the US now

- **Disney+:** [*Elio*](https://film.one/film/elio.md) (64)

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

## Biography

Madeline Sharafian is an American film director, screenwriter and storyboard artist. She was born on 1 February 1993 in Alameda, California, and trained at the California Institute of the Arts.

She began her career at Cartoon Network on the series *We Bare Bears* (2015) before joining Pixar Animation Studios. At Pixar she worked as a story artist on *Coco* (2017) and *Turning Red* (2022), and directed the short film *Burrow* (2020).

Sharafian made her feature directorial debut co-directing *Elio* (2025) with Domee Shi and Adrian Molina, on which she is also credited for the story. Both *Burrow* and *Elio* received Academy Award nominations.

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

## On Fi1m (3)

### Directed (1)

- *Elio* (2025), Fi1m 64, Director, Story — [page](https://film.one/film/elio.md)

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

- *Hoppers* (2026), Fi1m 76, Story Supervisor — [page](https://film.one/film/hoppers.md)
- *Coco* (2017), Fi1m 84, Story Artist — [page](https://film.one/film/coco.md)

## Complete filmography (11)

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

- *Hoppers* (2026), Story Supervisor — Fi1m 76, [page](https://film.one/film/hoppers.md)
- *Elio* (2025), Director, Story, ADR & Dubbing — Fi1m 64, [page](https://film.one/film/elio.md)
- *Turning Red* (2022), Head of Story
- *Burrow* (2020), Director, Writer
- *Coco* (2017), Story Artist — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/film/coco.md)
- *Weekends* (2017), Animation
- *We Bare Bears: Goodnight Ice Bear* (2016), Lead Editor, Director, Writer
- *We Bare Bears* (2015), series, Writer
- *Acorn* (2014), Writer, Director, Animation
- *Omelette* (2013), Director, Producer, Writer
- *The Mew-sician* (2012), Director, Writer

## Gallery

- ![Madeline Sharafian](https://film.one/media/person/8369/gallery-b0feab96896a.jpg) Madeline Sharafian — Kevin Paul, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bd/Madeline_Sharafian_at_53rd_Saturn_Awards_2026-01.jpg/1280px-Madeline_Sharafian_at_53rd_Saturn_Awards_2026-01.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Madeline Sharafian](https://film.one/media/person/8369/gallery-fe5e1ce1b861.jpg) Madeline Sharafian — Image via TMDB

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 0 won, 2 nominated

- 2026: Best Animated Feature (nominated), for *Elio*
- 2021: Best Animated Short Film (nominated), for *Burrow*

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

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