13 Facts About Rich Moore

Richard L Moore was born on May 10,1963 and is an American film and television animation director, screenwriter and voice actor.

Rich Moore is best known for serving as a director on primetime animated television series such as The Simpsons, The Critic and Futurama as well as directing the films Wreck-It Ralph, Zootopia and Ralph Breaks the Internet for Walt Disney Animation Studios.

Rich Moore is a two-time Emmy Award winner, a three-time Annie Award winner and an Academy Award winner.

Rich Moore studied film and video at the California Institute of the Arts, graduating with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 1987.

Rich Moore won a 1991 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Program for The Simpsons: Homer vs Lisa and the 8th Commandment, and later return as one of the sequence directors on The Simpsons Movie in 2007.

In 1994, Rich Moore became a producer and supervising director for the animated series The Critic.

Rich Moore then oversaw the creative development and production of Futurama as the show's supervising director.

Rich Moore directed several episodes of the animated series from 1999 to 2001, including the classic "Roswell That Ends Well", for which he won the Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Program.

Rich Moore served as supervising director on the 2009 animated Fox television series Sit Down, Shut Up.

Rich Moore supplied the voices for the film's characters Sour Bill and Zangief.

Wreck-It Ralph won five Annie Awards, including Best Animated Feature and a Best Director award for Rich Moore, and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature.

On March 16,2022, Rich Moore revealed that he has entered into an exclusive, multi-year overall deal with Skydance Animation.

On October 18,2023, it was revealed that Rich Moore is directing an untitled Jack and the Beanstalk project at Skydance.