Chris Buck previously directed “Frozen 2” and the Oscar® winning “Frozen,” along with fellow director Jennifer Lee, and both films went on to become the top two highest-grossing animated features ever released. Buck made his directing debut on the Walt Disney Animation Studios blockbuster “Tarzan,” and began his professional career with Disney in 1978. He has made important contributions as an animator, supervising animator, character designer and director. His other feature directing credit is on the Oscar®-nominated 2007 film “Surf’s Up” from Sony Pictures Animation.

Born in Wichita, Kan., Buck studied character animation for two years at CalArts before launching his career at Disney as an animator on the 1981 animated feature “The Fox and the Hound.” He received an animation credit on a short film “Fun with Mr. Future” and did some early experimental work on “Who Framed Roger Rabbit.” From 1984-92, Buck worked on a variety of freelance assignments, including several for Disney. Joining creative forces with director Tim Burton, Buck helped storyboard Disney’s 1984 live-action featurette “Frankenweenie.” He went on to animate commercials for such Los Angeles-based production entities as Film Fair, Kurtz & Friends and Duck Soup. He also served as a directing animator (teaming again with Burton) on the 1993 “Family Dog” episode of Steven Spielberg’s “Amazing Stories,” which was directed by Brad Bird. Buck served as director of the subsequent 13 half-hour episodes of the animated series. Buck helped design characters for Disney Animation’s animated classic “The Little Mermaid,” and performed similar duties as well as experimental animation for “The Rescuers Down Under.” He then went on to supervise the animation of Percy, Grandmother Willow and Wiggins in Disney Animation’s “Pocahontas.”