---
name: "Robert Valley"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/robert-valley"
fi1m_id: "robert-valley"
imdb_id: "nm3230254"
tmdb_id: 1650076
wikidata_id: "Q26831127"
roles: ["Director"]
born: "1 January 1969"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "director"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-22T21:39:05.432665+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."
---

# Robert Valley

## Identity

Robert Valley

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/robert-valley
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** robert-valley
- **IMDb ID:** nm3230254
- **TMDB ID:** 1650076
- **Wikidata ID:** Q26831127
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Valley, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q26831127, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3230254/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1650076

Director. Born 1 January 1969 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

## Details

- **Work:** Director
- **Born:** 1 January 1969, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
- **Academy Awards:** 1 Oscar nomination
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Valley, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q26831127, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3230254/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1650076

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*INVINCIBLE*](https://film.one/tv/invincible-2021.md) (74)

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

## Biography

Robert Valley is a Canadian animator, illustrator and director. Born in Vancouver, British Columbia, in 1969, he completed a four-year animation programme there before moving to San Francisco in 1992. He later returned to Vancouver and has worked internationally on commercials, music videos and animated series.

Valley is known for directing episodes of *Tron: Uprising* (2012) and *Love, Death & Robots* (2019–2025), including 'Zima Blue', 'Ice' and '400 Boys'. He wrote and directed the animated short *Pear Cider and Cigarettes* (2016), which received an Academy Award nomination for Best Animated Short Film and won an Annie Award. He also directed the pilot episode of the animated series *Invincible* (2021).

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

## On Fi1m (1)

- *INVINCIBLE* (2021), Fi1m 74, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/invincible-2021.md)

## Complete filmography (13)

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

- *Agent Elvis* (2023), series, Character Designer
- *Apex Legends Stories from the Outlands "Metamorphosis"* (2021), Director
- *INVINCIBLE* (2021), series, Director — Fi1m 74, [page](https://film.one/tv/invincible-2021.md)
- *Love, Death & Robots* (2019), series, Director, Production Design, Character Designer, Storyboard Artist, Layout
- *Saturnz Barz (Spirit House)* (2017), Animation Director
- *2017 Oscar Nominated Short Films: Animation* (2017), Director
- *Pear Cider and Cigarettes* (2016), Editor, Associate Producer, Writer, Production Design, Director
- *Shinjuku* (2016), Director, Screenplay, Editor, Animation
- *Wonder Woman* (2013), series, Writer, Producer, Character Designer, Director, Creator
- *TRON: Uprising* (2012), series, Director, Storyboard Artist, Character Designer
- *Planet Terror* (2007), Layout Supervisor
- *The Woodstock Trip*, Director
- *The Trouble with Peter*, Director

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 0 won, 1 nominated

- 2017: Best Animated Short Film (nominated), for *Pear Cider and Cigarettes*

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

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