Peter Ramsey

Peter Ramsey
Ramsey at the 2018 San Diego Comic-Con
Born
Peter A. Ramsey

(1962-12-23) December 23, 1962
Alma materUniversity of California, Los Angeles
Los Angeles City College
Occupations
  • Illustrator
  • storyboard artist
  • filmmaker
Years active1988–present
Known forRise of the Guardians
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse

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.