---
name: "William Joyce"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/william-joyce"
fi1m_id: "william-joyce"
imdb_id: "nm0431622"
tmdb_id: 60678
wikidata_id: "Q1385774"
roles: ["Producer"]
born: "11 December 1957"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_as: "producer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-05T04:01:14.213976+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."
---

# William Joyce

## Identity

William Joyce

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/william-joyce
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** william-joyce
- **IMDb ID:** nm0431622
- **TMDB ID:** 60678
- **Wikidata ID:** Q1385774
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Joyce_(writer), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1385774, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0431622/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/60678

Producer. Born 11 December 1957 in Shreveport, Louisiana, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Producer
- **Born:** 11 December 1957, Shreveport, Louisiana, USA
- **Active:** 1995–2005
- **Titles on Fi1m:** 2: 1 producing, 1 crew
- **Academy Awards:** 1 Oscar (1 won)
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1990s 92 (1), 2000s 62 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Joyce_(writer), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1385774, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0431622/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/60678

## Biography

William Joyce is an American writer, illustrator and filmmaker. Born in Shreveport, Louisiana, he studied film at Southern Methodist University and began his career as a children's book author and illustrator in the 1980s.

He contributed concept art to Pixar's *Toy Story* (1995) and *A Bug's Life* (1998). Joyce served as producer and production designer on the animated feature *Robots* (2005), which he developed with director Chris Wedge. Several of his books have been adapted into films, including *Meet the Robinsons* (2007). He created the television series *Rolie Polie Olie* and directed the Oscar-winning short *The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore* (2011).

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

## On Fi1m (2)

### Produced (1) — the average rests on these

- *Robots* (2005), Fi1m 62, Production design, Producer, Production Design — [page](https://film.one/film/robots-2005.md)

### Crew (1)

- *Toy Story* (1995), Fi1m 92, Concept Artist — [page](https://film.one/film/toy-story.md)

## Complete filmography (22)

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

- *Lost Ollie* (2022), series, Book
- *Mr. Spam Gets a New Hat* (2021), Director
- *Martha: A Picture Story* (2019), Associate Producer
- *The Numberlys* (2015), Creator
- *The Raven* (2014), Adaptation
- *The Cask of Amontillado* (2014), Director, Adaptation
- *Silent* (2014), Writer, Executive Producer
- *The Numberlys* (2014), Director
- *The Scarecrow* (2013), Producer
- *Epic* (2013), Screenplay, Production Design, Executive Producer, Book, Story
- *Rise of the Guardians* (2012), Novel, Executive Producer
- *The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore* (2012), Director, Writer
- *The Oscar Nominated Short Films 2012: Animation* (2012), Director
- *Meet the Robinsons* (2007), Executive Producer, Book
- *Robots* (2005), Producer, Production Design — Fi1m 62, [page](https://film.one/film/robots-2005.md)
- *The Man in the Moon* (2005), Director, Novel
- *A Bug's Life* (1998), as Visual Development — Fi1m 73, [page](https://film.one/film/a-bugs-life.md)
- *Rolie Polie Olie* (1998), series, Executive Producer, Creator
- *Buddy* (1997), Screenplay, Co-Producer, Screenstory
- *Toy Story* (1995), Concept Artist — Fi1m 92, [page](https://film.one/film/toy-story.md)
- *The Great Gatsby*, Director
- *Santa Calls*, Book

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 1 won

- 2012: Best Animated Short Film (won), for *The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore*

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

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