Peter Ramsey

Peter A. Ramsey (born December 23, 1962) is an American illustrator, storyboard artist, and filmmaker. He is best known for directing DreamWorks Animation's Rise of the Guardians(2012), becoming the first African American to direct a computer-animated film and the second to direct a major American animated film (Bruce W. Smith was the first African-American director with Paramount Pictures' Bebe's Kids [1992]), and co-directing Sony Pictures Animation's Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018). For Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, he became the first African American to be nominated for and win an Academy Award for Best Animated Feature. Description above from the Wikipedia article Peter Ramsey, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Rise of the Guardians

When an evil spirit known as Pitch lays down the gauntlet to take over the world, the immortal Guardians must join forces for the first time to protect the hopes, beliefs and imagination of children all over the world.

Release Date2012-11-21

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Charactersd Burgess Pedestrian #2 (voice)

Vote Count6987

Mutant Pumpkins from Outer Space

Susan Murphy (a.k.a. Ginormica) and the Monsters are now working with the US government as special ops. So when an alien presence is detected in Susan's hometown of Modesto, California -- right before Halloween -- the team is dispatched to investigate. Everything appears normal, right down to the jack-o-lanterns peering out from every doorstep and windowsill. But when Halloween arrives, those innocent-looking carved pumpkins reveal themselves for what they really are mutant aliens. The altered pumpkins then start to implement their fiendish plan to take over Earth. The Monsters are there to combat the mutant gourds and try to smash their wicked scheme!

Release Date2009-04-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Charactersd Dad / Farmer Jeb (voice)

Vote Count272

Method and Madness: Visualizing 'Dracula'

Behind the scenes of the 1992 masterpiece with director Francis Ford Coppola.

Release Date2007-10-02

Charactersd Self

Vote Count2

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse - Creating the Ultimate Spider-Man Movie

Writing, pre-production and the challenges of crafting a sequel to a game-changing film, as told by the filmmakers who worked so hard to push Across the Spider-Verse several steps farther without losing the magic of the first entry in the series.

Release Date2023-05-09

Charactersd Self

The Mandalorian

After the fall of the Galactic Empire, lawlessness has spread throughout the galaxy. A lone gunfighter makes his way through the outer reaches, earning his keep as a bounty hunter.

Release Date2019-11-12

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count1

Vote Count10624

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

After reuniting with Gwen Stacy, Brooklyn’s full-time, friendly neighborhood Spider-Man is catapulted across the Multiverse, where he encounters the Spider Society, a team of Spider-People charged with protecting the Multiverse's very existence. But when the heroes clash on how to handle a new threat, Miles finds himself pitted against the other Spiders and must set out on his own to save those he loves most.

Release Date2023-05-31

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Vote Count8097

Fight Club

A ticking-time-bomb insomniac and a slippery soap salesman channel primal male aggression into a shocking new form of therapy. Their concept catches on, with underground "fight clubs" forming in every town, until an eccentric gets in the way and ignites an out-of-control spiral toward oblivion.

Release Date1999-10-15

DepartmentArt

JobStoryboard Artist

Vote Count31114

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse

Struggling to find his place in the world while juggling school and family, Brooklyn teenager Miles Morales is unexpectedly bitten by a radioactive spider and develops unfathomable powers just like the one and only Spider-Man. While wrestling with the implications of his new abilities, Miles discovers a super collider created by the madman Wilson "Kingpin" Fisk, causing others from across the Spider-Verse to be inadvertently transported to his dimension.

Release Date2018-12-06

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count16675

Predator 2

A police chief in the war-torn streets of Los Angeles discovers that an extraterrestrial creature is hunting down residents - and that he is the next target.

Release Date1990-11-21

DepartmentArt

JobStoryboard Artist

Vote Count3622

Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu

The evil Empire has fallen, and Imperial warlords remain scattered throughout the galaxy. As the fledgling New Republic works to protect everything the Rebellion fought for, they have enlisted the help of legendary Mandalorian bounty hunter Din Djarin and his young apprentice Grogu.

Release Date2026-05-20

DepartmentDirecting

JobSecond Unit Director

Ahsoka

Former Jedi Knight Ahsoka Tano investigates an emerging threat to a vulnerable galaxy.

Release Date2023-08-22

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count1

Vote Count1108

Minority Report

John Anderton is a top 'Precrime' cop in the late-21st century, when technology can predict crimes before they're committed. But Anderton becomes the quarry when another investigator targets him for a murder charge.

Release Date2002-06-20

DepartmentArt

JobStoryboard Artist

Vote Count9287

Men in Black

After a police chase with an otherworldly being, a New York City cop is recruited as an agent in a top-secret organization established to monitor and police alien activity on Earth: the Men in Black. Agent K and new recruit Agent J find themselves in the middle of a deadly plot by an intergalactic terrorist who has arrived on Earth to assassinate two ambassadors from opposing galaxies.

Release Date1997-07-02

DepartmentArt

JobStoryboard Artist

Vote Count14439

Godzilla

French nuclear tests irradiate an iguana into a giant monster that viciously attacks freighter ships in the Pacific Ocean. A team of experts, including Niko Tatopoulos, conclude that the oversized reptile is the culprit. Before long, the giant lizard is loose in Manhattan as the US military races to destroy the monster before it reproduces and it's spawn takes over the world.

Release Date1998-05-20

DepartmentDirecting

JobSecond Unit Director

Vote Count4097

Puss in Boots

Long before he even met Shrek, the notorious fighter, lover and outlaw Puss in Boots becomes a hero when he sets off on an adventure with the tough and street smart Kitty Softpaws and the mastermind Humpty Dumpty to save his town. This is the true story of The Cat, The Myth, The Legend... The Boots.

Release Date2011-10-27

DepartmentCrew

JobCreative Consultant

Vote Count4362

A.I. Artificial Intelligence

David, a robotic boy—the first of his kind programmed to love—is adopted as a test case by a Cybertronics employee and his wife. Though he gradually becomes their child, a series of unexpected circumstances make this life impossible for David.

Release Date2001-06-29

DepartmentArt

JobStoryboard Artist

Vote Count6474

Backdraft

Two feuding siblings carrying on a heroic family tradition as Chicago firefighters. But when a puzzling series of arson attacks is reported, they are forced to set aside their differences to solve the mystery surrounding these crimes.

Release Date1991-05-24

DepartmentArt

JobProduction Illustrator

Vote Count1509

House Party

Young Kid has been invited to a party at his friend Play's house. But after a fight at school, Kid's father grounds him. None the less, Kid sneaks out when his father falls asleep. But Kid doesn't know that three of the thugs at school have decided to give him a lesson in behavior.

Release Date1990-01-20

DepartmentArt

JobStoryboard Artist

Vote Count249

Hair Love

When dad has to unexpectedly step in for mom to do his daughter Zuri’s hair before a big event, what seems like a simple task is anything but as these locks have a mind of their own!

Release Date2019-08-14

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Vote Count479

Panic Room

Trapped in their New York brownstone's panic room, a hidden chamber built as a sanctuary in the event of break-ins, newly divorced Meg Altman and her young daughter Sarah play a deadly game of cat-and-mouse with three intruders - Burnham, Raoul and Junior - during a brutal home invasion. But the room itself is the focal point because what the intruders really want is inside it.

Release Date2002-03-29

DepartmentArt

JobStoryboard Artist

Vote Count5251

Being John Malkovich

One day at work, unsuccessful puppeteer Craig finds a portal into the head of actor John Malkovich. The portal soon becomes a passion for anybody who enters its mad and controlling world of overtaking another human body.

Release Date1999-10-29

DepartmentArt

JobStoryboard Artist

Vote Count4630

The Core

Geophysicist Dr. Josh Keyes discovers that an unknown force has caused the earth's inner core to stop rotating. With the planet's magnetic field rapidly deteriorating, our atmosphere literally starts to come apart at the seams with catastrophic consequences. To resolve the crisis, Keyes, along with a team of the world's most gifted scientists, travel into the earth's core. Their mission: detonate a device that will reactivate the core.

Release Date2003-03-28

DepartmentArt

JobStoryboard Artist

Vote Count2062

Far and Away

A young couple escapes Ireland, dreaming of a new life during the land giveaway in Oklahoma. As they struggle to survive against betrayal and harsh winter conditions, they must fend off her parents who are determined to bring her back home.

Release Date1992-05-22

DepartmentArt

JobProduction Illustrator

Vote Count1268

A Nightmare on Elm Street: The Dream Child

The pregnant Alice finds Freddy Krueger striking through the sleeping mind of her unborn child, hoping to be reborn into the real world.

Release Date1989-08-11

DepartmentArt

JobStoryboard Artist

Vote Count1374

We the People

Learn the basics of rights and citizenship with upbeat songs by popular artists like Janelle Monáe, H.E.R., Adam Lambert, Brandi Carlile and more.

Release Date2021-07-04

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count2

Vote Count9

A Wrinkle in Time

After the disappearance of her scientist father, three peculiar beings send Meg, her brother, and her friend to space in order to find him.

Release Date2018-03-08

DepartmentArt

JobStoryboard Artist

Vote Count1834

EDtv

Video store clerk Ed agrees to have his life filmed by a camera crew for a tv network.

Release Date1999-03-26

DepartmentArt

JobProduction Illustrator

Vote Count668

Lost Ollie

A patchwork rabbit with floppy ears and fuzzy memories embarks on an epic quest to find his best friend — the young boy he desperately loves.

Release Date2022-08-24

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count4

Vote Count68

Blood Count

Details are being kept in the coffin, but it is described as a film noir social thriller set in 1950s L.A. with supernatural elements. Intriguingly, it is also said to be loosely inspired by the life of Ramsey’s father, a jazz musician.

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

DreamWorks 6 Spooky Stories Collection

Get into the spirit with DreamWorks 6 Spooky Stories Collection, a creepy assortment of animated tales starring some of your favorite characters including Shrek, Donkey, B.O.B. and many more. Featuring Scared Shrekless, The Ghost of Lord Farquaad, Thriller Night, The Pig Who Cried Werewolf, Monsters vs. Aliens: Mutant Pumpkins from Outer Space and The Night of the Living Carrots, it is the perfect mix of frights and fun. Lock your doors, turn down the lights and prepare to be scared silly!

Release Date2003-05-23

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count1

Vote Count1

Love in Vain

The story of blues music pioneer Robert Johnson

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Spartan

U.S. government agent Scott is assigned to rescue the daughter of a high-ranking government official. As willing as he is to bend the rules to get things done, though, Scott is shocked to find that others are willing to go even further to protect a political career.

Release Date2004-03-12

DepartmentArt

JobStoryboard Artist

Vote Count402

Kizazi Moto: Generation Fire

This action-packed animated sci-fi anthology presents ten futuristic visions from Africa inspired by the continent's diverse histories and cultures. Executive produced by Oscar-winning director Peter Ramsey, these ten short films made by a new generation of animation creators draw on uniquely African perspectives to imagine brave new worlds of advanced technology, aliens, spirits, and monsters. This is Africa as you've never seen it before.

Release Date2023-07-05

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Episode Count10

Vote Count15

Monsters vs Aliens Stories

Join B.O.B. and your favorite mega-monster squad — including Susan (aka Ginormica), Link and Dr. Cockroach — as they battle mutant pumpkins and zombie carrots in Monsters vs. Aliens: Mutant Pumpkins from Outer Space and Night of the Living Carrots. Watch as B.O.B. hatches a no-brainer plan to escape in B.O.B.'s Big Break, and Megamind finds out there are just some buttons that should never be pushed in Megamind: The Button of Doom.

Release Date2013-01-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count14

Ripper

In post-WWII Japan, two detectives hunt down a serial killer who took the lives of the women that each of them loved.

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Crocodile Dance

When an ancient water goddess threatens her town, Roukia, a silenced musician must reclaim her voice to break a generational curse and save herself and her family.

DepartmentProduction

JobConsulting Producer

Master

Olivia, a once promising martial arts champion endowed with superpowers, goes on a journey to guide her family to what she believes is a better life. Along the way, she discovers that the life she is leaving behind is the one she should be fighting for.

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Spider-Man & the Spider-Verse Revolution (To Be Continued)

Celebrate the films that redefined animation, influenced culture and brought Spider-Man into all new dimensions as the filmmakers, journalists and fans share their love of the Spider-verse films.

Release Date2023-12-22

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count1

Webe: Spirit Detective

An amateur sleuth with a penchant for the paranormal travels to the deep south to solve a string of murders that have awakened a vengeful Boo Hag spirit seeking justice.

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Hotaru

A swashbuckling sci-fi/fantasy adventure series about two star-crossed magic-wielding warriors bound by love and grief.

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer