--- name: "Nick Bruno" canonical: "https://film.one/person/nick-bruno" fi1m_id: "nick-bruno" imdb_id: "nm2939767" tmdb_id: 1745178 wikidata_id: "Q122998708" roles: ["Director"] reviewed_on_fi1m: 1 average_as: "director" average_over: 1 updated: "2026-09-30T22:10:14.382588+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." --- # Nick Bruno ## Identity Nick Bruno - **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/nick-bruno - **Type:** Person - **Fi1m ID:** nick-bruno - **IMDb ID:** nm2939767 - **TMDB ID:** 1745178 - **Wikidata ID:** Q122998708 - **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Bruno_(film_director), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q122998708, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2939767/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1745178 Director. Born in Mohegan Lake, NY. ## Details - **Work:** Director - **Also known as:** 닉 브루노 - **Academy Awards:** 1 Oscar nomination - **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Bruno_(film_director), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q122998708, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2939767/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1745178 ## Streaming the US now - **Netflix:** [*Nimona*](https://film.one/film/nimona.md) (74) For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country. ## Fi1m on Nick Bruno > Nick Bruno, always alongside co-director Troy Quane, is a character animator who became a director, and it shows: his films are drawn with care and plotted without surprise. Two features in, the drawing is the reason to watch. Ballister Boldheart is minutes from being knighted when his sword fires by itself and kills the queen, and the city that raised him decides in the same instant that it always knew he was a villain. That is the first act of *Nimona* (2023), and it is where Nick Bruno's cinema, such as it is after two features, shows what it is for. The kingdom is a castle city with screens and flying machines, drawn in flat planes of colour and lit so that the mood of a scene sits in its palette. Bruno and Troy Quane have said they were thinking of *The Sword in the Stone* and the background painter Eyvind Earle, and you can see it: the computer is doing the work, but the result looks like a page from an old storybook. Bruno came to directing the long way. He started as an animator at Blue Sky Studios in 2005 on *Ice Age: The Meltdown*, was a supervising animator on *The Peanuts Movie* (2015), and made his debut co-directing *Spies in Disguise* (2019) with Quane, a spy comedy with a message about teamwork. When Blue Sky closed, the pair took *Nimona* with them and finished it with DNEG Animation and with ND Stevenson, who made the graphic novel. Two films, both with Quane, both about outsiders learning to be a pair. The animation background is the point. Bruno's films live in faces and small gestures, and the shapeshifting teenager who turns up in Ballister's hideout and refuses to leave is a character animator's dream: she is never one shape for long and every shape is acted. We laughed a good deal, mostly at her, and at Riz Ahmed's Ballister trying to keep his dignity while she rearranges his life. The trouble is everything around them. The plot follows the fairytale path exactly, so that you can see each turn arriving a full scene early, and the adaptation sands down the graphic novel's sharper edges until nothing in it could alarm anyone. We scored it 74 and stand by it: a good evening, not a surprising one. Bruno has since joined Annapurna Animation to develop new projects. What he can do is settled: he can make a computer draw like a painter and make a drawn face act. What he has not yet shown is that he can direct a story that keeps pace with his pictures. Give him a script as unruly as his teenager and we will be first in the queue. Until then, watch *Nimona* with a child present, and try not to guess the ending out loud. ## Biography Nick Bruno is an American animator and film director. He began his career at Blue Sky Studios as a junior animator on *Ice Age: The Meltdown* (2006) and worked on subsequent films including *Rio* (2011) and *Epic* (2013). He later served as supervising animator on *The Peanuts Movie* (2015). Bruno co-directed the animated films *Spies in Disguise* (2019) and *Nimona* (2023) with Troy Quane. He also received a story credit on *Nimona*, which was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature. He studied illustration and fine arts at UMass Dartmouth and computer animation at New York University. *Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.* ## On Fi1m (1) - *Nimona* (2023), Fi1m 74, as Sir Nicholas Brun / Additional Voices (voice) — [page](https://film.one/film/nimona.md) ## Complete filmography (11) Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page. - *Nimona* (2023), as Sir Nicholas Brun / Additional Voices (voice) · Director, Story — Fi1m 74, [page](https://film.one/film/nimona.md) - *Spies in Disguise* (2019), as Agency Employee #11 / Pigeon Voice (voice) · Director - *Get Rich Free* (2017), as Loan Manager - *The Invisible Worm* (2016), as Party Friend - *The Peanuts Movie* (2015), Supervising Animator, Additional Storyboarding - *Straight Outta Tompkins* (2015), as Gene's Classmate - *Epic* (2013), Animation - *Ice Age: Continental Drift* (2012), Animation Supervisor - *Ice Age: The Meltdown* (2006), Animation - *Stray*, Director - *Untitled Nick Bruno Film*, Director ## Awards ### Academy Awards — 0 won, 1 nominated - 2024: Best Animated Feature (nominated), for *Nimona* *From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.* --- © Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. 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