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Byron Howard

1968 - Today

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Byron P. Howard (born December 26, 1968) is an American animator, character designer, story artist, film director, producer, and screenwriter. He is best known as one of the directors of the Walt Disney Animation Studios films Bolt (2008), Tangled (2010), Zootopia (2016), Encanto (2021), and Zootopia 2 (2025). He is the first LGBT director to win the Oscar for Best Animated Feature twice for his work on Zootopia and Encanto. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2024). Byron Howard is the 1,735th most popular film director (down from 1,600th in 2024), the 2,331st most popular biography from Japan (down from 1,753rd in 2019) and the 65th most popular Japanese Film Director.

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Byron Howard ranks 1,735 out of 2,041. Before him are Lowell Thomas, Yeşim Ustaoğlu, Joseph Pevney, Valentyn Vasyanovych, Michel Franco, and Stacy Peralta. After him are Guy Maddin, Jessica Hausner, Bill Plympton, Sooraj Barjatya, Wang Xiaoshuai, and Ebrahim Alkazi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1968, Byron Howard ranks 546. Before him are Leila Meskhi, Lorenzo Bernardi, Philippe Katerine, Angela Jones, Kazuya Maekawa, and Asako Takakura. After him are Dragan Skočić, Florin Prunea, Indira Bajramović, Chris Miller, Magaly Carvajal, and Artur Dmitriev.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Byron Howard ranks 2,331 out of 6,245. Before him are Yoshito Ōkubo (1982), Futoshi Ikeda (1970), Kazuya Maekawa (1968), Reo Yamashita (1998), Asako Takakura (1968), and Masahiro Endo (1970). After him are Joe Odagiri (1976), Koyoharu Gotouge (1989), Toru Kawashima (1970), Masashi Otani (1983), Masatoshi Mizutani (1987), and Osamu Miura (1989).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Japan

Among film directors born in Japan, Byron Howard ranks 65. Before him are Hiroyuki Morita (1964), Noriyuki Abe (1961), Kazuya Tsurumaki (1966), Mahiro Maeda (1963), Yasuhiro Takemoto (1972), and Mari Okada (1976). After him are Ryuhei Kitamura (1969), Tatsuya Ishihara (1966), Naoko Yamada (1984), Shinji Aoyama (1964), and Shiori Itō (1989).

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