Josh Cooley
Director, Transformers One
Josh Cooley is an American director, screenwriter, and voice actor. After graduating art school with an emphasis on illustration/traditional animation, he was hired by Pixar Animation Studios as the first intern in the story department. He worked at Pixar Animation Studios for 18 years, contributing to many films including The Incredibles, Ratatouille, and Up. In 2015, Josh became part of the Pixar Senior Creative Team and Braintrust, helping to oversee, Coco, Incredibles 2, Onward, and Soul. He is best known for writing on the 2015 Pixar animated film, Inside Out, which earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay. In 2019, he won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature with his feature film directorial debut, Toy Story 4. In 2021, Josh wrote the live-action adaptation of the young adult novel Malamander for Sony Pictures, a live-action/CG hybrid film for Universal Pictures based on the classic Universal Monsters, and the live-action Tower of Terror for Disney Studios and Scarlett Johansson, based on the Disney theme park attraction.
He just wrapped on TRANSFORMERS ONE for Paramount, which opens September 20th 2024.