Jennifer Yuh Nelson | |
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 Jennifer Yuh Nelson in May 2012 at the C2-MTL business conference | |
| Born | Jennifer Yuh May 7, 1972[1] South Korea |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | California State University, Long Beach |
| Occupation(s) | Story artist, character designer, television director, illustrator, film director |
| Years active | 1994–present |
| Notable work | Kung Fu Panda 2 Kung Fu Panda 3 The Darkest Minds |
Jennifer Yuh Nelson (née Yuh; born May 7, 1972) is an American story artist, character designer, illustrator, and film and television director. She is best known for directing the films Kung Fu Panda 2, Kung Fu Panda 3, and The Darkest Minds. Yuh is the first woman to solely direct and the first Asian American to direct a major American animated film,[2] and has been recognized as a commercially successful Asian American director.[3]
She won an Annie Award for Best Storyboarding in an Animated Feature Production for directing the opening for Kung Fu Panda and was the second woman nominated for an Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, for her work on Kung Fu Panda 2. The film proved to be one of the most financially successful films directed by a woman. As a supervisor director for her work on Love, Death & Robots, she won Emmy Awards two consecutive times.
- ^ "Yuh, Jennifer". Library of Congress. Archived from the original on May 11, 2018. Retrieved September 10, 2013.
- ^ Yuh Nelson, Jennifer. "TIME Firsts Women Leaders: Jennifer Yuh Nelson". Time. Archived from the original on January 8, 2022. Retrieved January 8, 2022.
- ^ Kim, Elaine H. (2017). "Overcoming barriers to representation". The Routledge Companion to Asian American Media. Taylor & Francis. p. 84. ISBN 978-1-317-54084-7.