---
name: "Peter Sohn"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/peter-sohn"
fi1m_id: "peter-sohn"
imdb_id: "nm0812307"
tmdb_id: 21198
wikidata_id: "Q7177024"
roles: ["Actor","Writer","Producer"]
born: "21 June 1975"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 8
average_fi1m_score: 82
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 5
updated: "2026-10-03T02:11:18.360958+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."
---

# Peter Sohn

## Identity

Peter Sohn

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/peter-sohn
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** peter-sohn
- **IMDb ID:** nm0812307
- **TMDB ID:** 21198
- **Wikidata ID:** Q7177024
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Sohn, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7177024, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0812307/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/21198

Actor and writer. Born 21 June 1975 in The Bronx, New York City, New York, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor, Writer, Producer
- **Born:** 21 June 1975, The Bronx, New York City, New York, USA
- **Active:** 2004–present
- **Also known as:** Pete Sohn, פיטר סון, 彼德·松
- **Titles on Fi1m:** 8: 5 acting, 1 directing, 1 writing, 1 producing
- **Academy Awards:** 1 Oscar nomination
- **Average Fi1m score:** 82, as actor, over 5 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2000s 90 (2), 2010s 76 (2), 2020s 75 (4)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 82 to 79 across 5 titles
- **Score spread:** 3 at 80+, 2 at 60–79, 0 under 60
- **Lead roles:** 0 of 3 acting credits billed first or second
- **Genres:** Animation 5, Family 4, Comedy 3, Fantasy 3, Action 2, Adventure 2
- **Screen time:** 9 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $2,741m across 5 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Sohn, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7177024, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0812307/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/21198

## Coming up

- *Incredibles 3* (2028-06-14), Director

## Streaming the US now

- **Disney+:** [*Ratatouille*](https://film.one/film/ratatouille.md) (91), [*Luca*](https://film.one/film/luca.md) (78), [*Monsters University*](https://film.one/film/monsters-university.md) (72), [*Elemental*](https://film.one/film/elemental.md) (64)

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## Fi1m on Peter Sohn

> Peter Sohn’s animation is warm, handsome and too often held back by its storytelling. We find more to like in Ember and Wade’s romance in *Elemental* than in the busy city built around it.

In *Elemental* (2023), a burst pipe brings a city inspector into a fire family’s shop, where he has to report the leak. Peter Sohn has put a promising couple together and immediately given them administrative work. The attraction between Ember and Wade makes this a decent, good-hearted romance, but the repeated attention to plumbing keeps getting in its way. Sohn’s problem as a director is judging how much story those characters need before he can leave them to it.

Sohn’s work has crossed art, story, animation and voice, a useful background for someone directing an animated city. Brad Bird was an early mentor and collaborator, and directed *Ratatouille* (2007), in which Sohn voices Emile. We recommend that film without hesitation: its precise animation and the seriousness it grants a rat’s wish to cook keep the unlikely premise persuasive. It also provides a useful comparison with Sohn’s directing, where the central desire can get lost amid the surrounding activity.

His directing began with the short *Partly Cloudy* (2009). The first feature, *The Good Dinosaur* (2015), was an assignment he took over during production, and its thin story is a limitation we cannot overlook. *Elemental*, his second feature, moves towards personal material, drawing on his parents’ immigration experience. That gives the expectations surrounding Ember something concrete: her parents run a shop and expect her to take it over. The trouble is that the script keeps adding complications to a conflict we already understand.

Firetown’s stacked shopfronts and coloured lanterns make the family’s neighbourhood worth looking around, but Sohn is better still when he narrows his attention to the couple. We were touched by Ember and Wade’s time alone together, because their attraction finally received the attention it deserved. Too much of the film takes them away from each other to deal with the city’s problems, and the handsome setting cannot compensate for that. Try *Elemental* for the romance, with patience for the interruptions.

## Biography

Peter Sohn is an American filmmaker, animator and voice actor at Pixar Animation Studios. He joined the studio in 2000 and contributed to the art and story departments on films including *Finding Nemo* (2003), *The Incredibles* (2004), *Ratatouille* (2007) and *WALL·E* (2008). He made his directorial debut with the short film *Partly Cloudy* (2009).

Sohn directed the feature films *The Good Dinosaur* (2015) and *Elemental* (2023), the latter of which he also wrote the story for. He has provided voices for characters including Emile in *Ratatouille* (2007), Squishy in *Monsters University* (2013), Ciccio in *Luca* (2021) and Sox in *Lightyear* (2022). He trained at the California Institute of the Arts and previously worked at Warner Bros. and Disney Television.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, pixar.com, animationmagazine.net.*

## On Fi1m (8)

### Performed in (5) — the average rests on these

- *Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse* (2023), Fi1m 82, as Ganke (voice) — [page](https://film.one/film/spider-man-across-the-spider-verse.md)
- *Luca* (2021), Fi1m 78, as Ciccio (voice) — [page](https://film.one/film/luca.md)
- *Monsters University* (2013), Fi1m 72, as Squishy (voice) — [page](https://film.one/film/monsters-university.md)
- *Ratatouille* (2007), Fi1m 91, as Emile (voice) — [page](https://film.one/film/ratatouille.md)
- *The Incredibles* (2004), Fi1m 88, as Additional Voices (voice) — [page](https://film.one/film/the-incredibles.md)

### Directed (1)

- *Elemental* (2023), Fi1m 64, Story, Director — [page](https://film.one/film/elemental.md)

### Wrote (1)

- *Incredibles 2* (2018), Fi1m 80, Story Consultant — [page](https://film.one/film/incredibles-2.md)

### Produced (1)

- *Hoppers* (2026), Fi1m 76, Executive Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/hoppers.md)

## Complete filmography (28)

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

- *Incredibles 3* (2028), Director
- *Hoppers* (2026), Executive Producer — Fi1m 76, [page](https://film.one/film/hoppers.md)
- *Elemental* (2023), Director, Story — Fi1m 64, [page](https://film.one/film/elemental.md)
- *Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse* (2023), as Ganke (voice) — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/film/spider-man-across-the-spider-verse.md)
- *Lightyear* (2022), as SOX (voice)
- *Luca* (2021), as Ciccio (voice) · Executive Producer — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/film/luca.md)
- *Out* (2020), Story
- *Incredibles 2* (2018), Story Consultant — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/film/incredibles-2.md)
- *Cars 3* (2017), as Additional Voices (voice) — Fi1m 58, [page](https://film.one/film/cars-3.md)
- *The Good Dinosaur* (2015), as Forrest Woodbush (voice) · Director, Story
- *Party Central* (2014), as Squishy (voice)
- *Toy Story of Terror!* (2013), as Transitron (voice)
- *Monsters University* (2013), as Squishy (voice) — Fi1m 72, [page](https://film.one/film/monsters-university.md)
- *Small Fry* (2011), as Recycle Ben (voice)
- *Toy Story 3* (2010), Production Artist — Fi1m 87, [page](https://film.one/film/toy-story-3.md)
- *George and A.J.* (2009), as Russell (voice)
- *Partly Cloudy* (2009), Director, Writer, Character Designer
- *Tokyo Mater* (2008), as Additional Voice Talent (voice)
- *Cars Toon Mater's Tall Tales* (2008), as Additional Voices (voice)
- *El Materdor* (2008), as Additional Voice Talent (voice)
- *Mater the Greater* (2008), as Additional Voice Talent (voice)
- *Rescue Squad Mater* (2008), as Additional Voice Talent (voice)
- *Your Friend the Rat* (2007), as Emile (voice)
- *Ratatouille* (2007), as Emile (voice) · Animation, Story Artist — Fi1m 91, [page](https://film.one/film/ratatouille.md)
- *One Man Band* (2005), Production Artist
- *The Incredibles* (2004), as Additional Voices (voice) · Animation, Production Artist — Fi1m 88, [page](https://film.one/film/the-incredibles.md)
- *Osmosis Jones* (2001), Animation
- *The Iron Giant* (1999), Animation — Fi1m 88, [page](https://film.one/film/the-iron-giant.md)

## Gallery

- ![Peter Sohn](https://film.one/media/person/16464/gallery-c2c3b8085ace.jpg) Peter Sohn — Boungawa, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/45/Peter_Sohn.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Peter Sohn at the 2015 Annecy International Animated Film Festival (2023)](https://film.one/media/person/16464/gallery-7600e42a20b6.webp) Peter Sohn at the 2015 Annecy International Animated Film Festival (2023) — Deepwaterss, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a2/FEATURES_150919577_EP_-1_CUTUCSDCMSDS.webp?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Peter Sohn (2023)](https://film.one/media/person/16464/gallery-62f3542dbe6a.webp) Peter Sohn (2023) — Deepwaterss, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/69/Peter_Sohn.webp/1280px-Peter_Sohn.webp?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 0 won, 1 nominated

- 2024: Best Animated Feature (nominated), for *Elemental*

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

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