Ronnie del Carmen
Ronaldo del Carmen is a Filipino writer, director, storyboard artist, illustrator, and voice actor. He co-directed and co-wrote the story for the Pixar film Inside Out (2015), for which he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, the first Filipino to do so.
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- animator, screenwriter, film director, illustrator, comics artist, actor, graphic artist and artist.
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Ronaldo del Carmen is a Filipino writer, director, storyboard artist, illustrator, and voice actor. He co-directed and co-wrote the story for the Pixar film Inside Out (2015), for which he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, the first Filipino to do so.
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Early life and education
Early life and education
Del Carmen was born in the city of Cavite in the Philippines. After high school, he worked as a painter on the set of Francis Ford Coppola's 1979 film Apocalypse Now, which was filming in the Philippines. He graduated from the University of Santo Tomas with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Advertising.
Personal life
Personal life
Del Carmen is married and has two children. His brothers, Louie and Rick, also work in animation. After moving in the United States, he partially became a U.S. citizen in prior of working with animation studios for over two decades.
Life and career
Dated record
Life and career
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1959
Ronnie del Carmen was born on 31 December 1959.
Comic books
Del Carmen has illustrated several comic books, including Batman Adventures: Holiday Special, which won an Eisner Award for Best Single Issue in 1995, and the children's book My Name Is Dug, written by Kiki Thorpe. He has also written several comic books, including the Paper Biscuit series and And There You Are.
Film
After college, Del Carmen worked as an art director for print and television advertising campaigns before moving to the United States in 1989 to pursue a career in film. He worked for Warner Bros as a storyboard artist on Batman: The Animated Series, and as a story supervisor for DreamWorks on The Prince of Egypt (1998), The Road to El Dorado (2000), Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron (2002) and Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas (2003). He joined Pixar Animation Studios in 2000, working as story supervisor on Finding Nemo (2003), production designer on the Academy Award-nominated short film One Man Band (2005), storyboard artist on Ratatouille (2007) and WALL-E (2008), and story supervisor on Up (2009). He made his directorial debut with the animated short film Dug's Special Mission (2009), which accompanied Up on its DVD and Blu-ray release. He co-directed the animated film Inside Out with Pete Docter. The film premiered at the 68th Cannes Film Festival on May 18, 2015. In April 2021, it was revealed that Del Carmen had left Pixar and was set to write and direct an animated feature film based on Philippine folklore at Netflix.
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- Bibliothèque nationale de France authority file 17021051p
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- FAST authority file 1564446
Unverified · FAST
- GND (German National Library) authority file 136358489
Unverified · GND (German National Library)
- IdRef (French universities) authority file 190921153
Unverified · IdRef (French universities)
- ISNI authority file 0000000381977181
Unverified · ISNI
- Library of Congress authority file nr2001024964
Unverified · Library of Congress
reference work
- “Ronnie del Carmen”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading
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- Wikidata, structured authority record Q7366035: Ronnie del Carmen
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Awards and nominations
Eisner Award, Best Single Issue, Batman Adventures Holiday Special (with Paul Dini and Bruce Timm), 1995 Daytime Emmy Award Outstanding Special Class Animated Program: Director, Freakazoid, 1996 Annie Award, Storyboarding in an Animated Feature Production, Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron, 2003 Annie Award Nomination, Storyboarding in an Animated Feature Production, WALL-E, 2009 Annie Award Nomination, Storyboarding in an Animated Feature Production, Up, 2010 National Cartoonists Society, Animated Feature Division Award, Up, 2010 Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay Nomination, Inside Out (with Pete Docter, Meg LeFauve and Josh Cooley), 2015

Ronnie Del Carmen photographed on August 6, 2014.
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Ronnie Del Carmen photographed on August 6, 2014.
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- 1.Happily Ever After Hours with Academy Award®-Nominated Screenwriter Ronnie Del Carmen The Walt Disney Family Museum. www.waltdisney.org.
- 2.Janet R. Nepales, “Spotlight on Filipino Co-director Ronnie Del Carmen and His Much-talked-about Pixar Film, ‘Inside Out’,” Golden Globes, May 2015.
- 3.Jeramie Noyer, “Up: rising with Story Artist and Dug's Special Mission's Director Ronnie del Carmen!” Animated Views, November 26, 2009.
- 4.“Ronnie del Carmen,” Pixar Talk. Accessed July 12, 2015.
- 5.Ramin Zahed, “A Dug's Life: Ronnie del Carmen Chats About His New Pixar Short,” Animation Magazine, November 6, 2009.
- 6.Inside Out (2015). British Film Institute.
- 7.Sciretta, Peter. Pete Docter To Direct Pixar Movie Set Inside The Mind (D23 Expo). /Film. August 20, 2011.
- 8.Gettell, Oliver. Cannes 2015: Studios to drop in with 'Mad Max,' 'Inside Out'. Los Angeles Times. May 11, 2015.
- 9.Nepales, Ruben V. [Only IN Hollywood] Ronnie del Carmen on leaving Pixar to direct Philippine lore-based Netflix film. Rappler. April 7, 2021.
- 10.Chris Arrant, “Pixar & Comics – Ronnie del Carmen on ‘And There You Are’,” Newsarama.com, March 18, 2009.
- 11.Ruben V. Nepales, “Cavite-born UST alum co-directs Pixar film”, Philippine Daily Inquirer, September 3, 2011.
- 12.Oscar nominee Ronnie del Carmen, a UST grad, chronicles his journey as a filmmaker in the U.S. PEP.ph.
Bibliography printed in the source article · 9
- Fragments (Fragments Filigree Factory Production, 2003), illustrator
- Paper Biscuit (Half Life, 2003), writer, illustrator
- Paper Biscuit One Point Five (2003), writer, illustrator
- Batman: Black and White, Vol. 2 (DC Comics, 2003), illustrator
- Paper Biscuit 2 (2004), writer, illustrator
- Project: Superior (AdHouse Books, 2005), illustrator
- Three Trees Make a Forest (Gingko Press, 2006), illustrator
- My Name is Dug (Disney Press, 2009), illustrator
- And There You Are (AdHouse Books, 2009), writer, illustrator
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Bibliothèque nationale de France authority file 17021051pBibliothèque nationale de France
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GND (German National Library) authority file 136358489GND (German National Library)
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IdRef (French universities) authority file 190921153IdRef (French universities)
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Library of Congress authority file nr2001024964Library of Congress
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Bibliothèque nationale de France authority file 17021051p
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GND (German National Library) authority file 136358489
institutional register · Unverified · GND (German National Library)
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IdRef (French universities) authority file 190921153
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Library of Congress authority file nr2001024964
institutional register · Unverified · Library of Congress
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“Ronnie del Carmen”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading
reference work · Reputable secondary · Wikipedia
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Wikidata, structured authority record Q7366035: Ronnie del Carmen
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