Highest rated movie: Beauty and the Beast (1991)
Lowest rated movie: Atlantis: The Lost Empire (2001)
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Movies from this director have generally received positive reviews and hold an average rating of 73%.
Beauty and the Beast is Kirk Wise's highest rated movie, with a score of 85% based on 834 reviews.
The lowest rated film from Kirk Wise is Atlantis: The Lost Empire, with a score of 63% based on 823 reviews.
Kirk Wise is an American animator, director and producer known for his work at Disney
Wise graduated from Palo Alto High School and went on to study character animation at California Institute of the Arts. Wise worked as an animator on The Brave Little Toaster, and Steven Spielberg's Amazing Stories episode "Family Dog". At Disney, he began as an assistant animator on The Great Mouse Detective and Oliver & Company before eventually landing in the story department, where he was reunited with former CalArts classmate Gary Trousdale. After working as storyboard artists on The Rescuers Down Under and The Prince and the Pauper, Wise and Trousdale were responsible for helming the celebrated Beauty and the Beast (1991), the first animated feature to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture. They collaborated on two more features for Disney, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, and Atlantis: The Lost Empire.
Wise also directed the English dubb of Hayo Miyazaki's Spirited Away.
Kirk Wise has directed films starring David Ogden Stiers, Patrick Pinney, Frank Welker and Jim Cummings.
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