Nicolas Alan Barillaro is a Canadian director, animator and writer at Pixar best known for his work on the animated short film Piper, that earned him widespread acclaim and an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film which he shared with the film's producer Marc Sondheimer.
Barillaro also attended Sheridan College in Oakville.
In 2023 Barillaro published the middle grade novel Where the Water Takes Us."Where the Water Takes Us by Alan Barillaro". CBC Books, August 9, 2023. The book was a shortlisted finalist for the Canadian Children's Book Centre's Jean Little First-Novel Award in 2024.Natalie Vilkoff, "Jack Wong, Sydney Smith and Liselle Sambury among finalists for top Canadian children's book awards". CBC Books, October 8, 2024.
In 2025 Barillaro published the middle grade novel Bunns Rabbit.
Piper Alan Barillaro used new, cutting-edge technology to create the six-minute short over three years. In order to give the sanderlings and other birds visible in the background a realistic look, Barillaro and the Piper animation team visited beaches in the San Francisco Bay Area, as well as the Monterey Bay Aquarium to study their appearance and behaviour. The sanderlings' feathers in particular were rendered in minute detail.
Filmography Year Film Role 1998 A Bug's Life Additional animator 1999Toy Story 2 Animator 2001 Monsters, Inc. Animation character developer 2003 Finding Nemo Directing animator 2004 The Incredibles Supervising animator 2005 Jack-Jack Attack Video short, animator 2006 Lifted Short, animator 2007 Ratatouille Pixar Productions 2008 WALL-E Supervising animator 2012 Brave Supervising animator 2013 Monsters University Additional animator 2016 Piper Short, Director/writer 2018 Incredibles 2 Supervising animator 2019 Toy Story 4 Custom Animation Production2020 Lamp Life Short, Animator2020SoulAnimator2020BurrowShort, Additional Animator2021Pixar PopcornDirector (Chore Day - The Incredibles Way)2022LightyearCharacter Developer, Animator
Accolades Award Date of ceremony Category Recipient(s) Result Academy Awards February 26, 2017 Best Animated Short FilmAlan Barillaro and Marc Sondheimer for Piper Annie Awards February 4, 2017 Best Animated Short Subject
See also List of Pixar staff List of Canadian Academy Award winners and nominees
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