Not to be confused with Jennifer Nelson (filmmaker).
Jennifer Yuh Nelson
Jennifer Yuh Nelson in May 2012 at the C2-MTL business conference
Born
Jennifer Yuh
(1972-05-07) May 7, 1972 (age 52)[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 (néeYuh; born May 7, 1972) is an American story artist, character designer, television director, illustrator, and film 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.
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^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.
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