Peter Lepeniotis is a Canadian animator, film director, screenwriter and producer. He is best known for his 2005 animated short ''Surly Squirrel''. He adapted the short into the full-length feature film, ''

The Nut Job ''The Nut Job'' is a 2014 computer-animated heist comedy film directed by Peter Lepeniotis, who also wrote the film with Lorne Cameron. It stars the voices of Will Arnett, Brendan Fraser, Liam Neeson, Katherine Heigl, Stephen Lang, Jeff Dunham ...

'', which Lepeniotis co-wrote and directed. It was released in 2014 by

Open Road Films Open Road Films, LLC (formerly Global Road Entertainment from 2017 to 2018) is an American film production and distribution company based in Los Angeles, California. It was founded by Eric Hohl on March 26, 2011 as a joint venture between the t ...

and

The Weinstein Company The Weinstein Company (usually credited or abbreviated as TWC) was an American independent film studio, founded in New York City by Bob and Harvey Weinstein in March 2005. TWC was one of the largest mini-major film studios in North America prior ...

. Due to the film's success at the box office, Lepeniotis and the team at

ToonBox Entertainment ToonBox Entertainment is a Canadian animation studio, founded in June 2008, and is best known for its 2014 animated feature and its first film, ''The Nut Job ''The Nut Job'' is a 2014 computer-animated heist comedy film directed by Peter L ...

(the studio that produced Lepeniotis' feature film) greenlit a sequel, '' The Nut Job 2: Nutty by Nature'', which was released in 2017.

Filmography

* ''

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'' (1995) (animator) * ''

Toy Story 2 ''Toy Story 2'' is a 1999 American computer-animated film produced by Pixar Animation Studios for Walt Disney Pictures. The second installment in the Toy Story (franchise), ''Toy Story'' franchise and the sequel to ''Toy Story'' (1995), it wa ...

'' (1999) (animator) * ''

Fantasia 2000 ''Fantasia 2000'' is a 1999 American animated musical anthology film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and released by Walt Disney Pictures. Produced by Roy E. Disney and Donald W. Ernst, it is the 38th Disney animated feature film and ...

'' (1999) (assistant animator) * ''

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'' (2000) (animator) * ''

Bless the Child ''Bless the Child'' is a 2000 supernatural horror film directed by Chuck Russell and starring Kim Basinger, Jimmy Smits, Angela Bettis, Rufus Sewell, Christina Ricci, and Holliston Coleman. It follows a woman who discovers that her niece, w ...

'' (2000) (visual effects animator) * '' Bait'' (2000) (animator) * '' 3-2-1 Penguins!'' (2002-2003) (animator) * ''

VeggieTales ''VeggieTales'' is an American Christian media, computer generated musical children's animation, and book franchise created by Phil Vischer and Mike Nawrocki under Big Idea Entertainment. The series sees fruit and vegetable characters retelling ...

'' (2004) (animator) * ''Surly Squirrel'' (2005, short film) (director, producer, and writer) * ''

Everyone's Hero ''Everyone's Hero'' is a 2006 American computer-animated sports comedy-drama film directed by Christopher Reeve (in his final directed film after his death in 2004), Daniel St. Pierre, and Colin Brady. Starring the voices of Jake T. Austin, Rob ...

'' (2006) (supervising animator) * ''Gotta Catch Santa Claus'' (2008) (director) * ''

Bolts and Blip ''Bolts and Blip'' is a computer-animated television series aired on Teletoon from 2010 to 2011. The show has also aired on 3net at 10:30 am on Sundays,3net and The CW's Saturday morning block, Vortexx, from July 13, 2013 at 8:30 a.m. ...

'' (2010, TV) (director) * ''Nuts And Robbers'' (2011, Short Film) (director, story, and storyboard artist) * ''

'' (2014) (director, co-writer, story, Adaptation from Short Film Surly Squirrel) * '' The Nut Job 2: Nutty by Nature'' (2017) (based on characters by, Executive Producer; uncredited) * ''

Gnome Alone ''Gnome Alone'' is a 2017 computer-animated fantasy comedy film directed by Peter Lepeniotis and written by Michael Schwartz and Zina Zaflow, from a story by Robert Moreland. The film was first released in November 2017 in Cyprus, Greece, Romania ...

'' (2018) (director) * '' PAW Patrol: The Movie'' (2021) (additional animator; uncredited) * '' Zombie Town'' (2023) (director) * ''Jill and Evan's Amazing Jungle Adventure'' (TBA) (director, co-writer) * ''War of their Worlds'' (TBA) (director)

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* Living people Canadian animated film directors Canadian animated film producers Year of birth missing (living people) The Nut Job {{Canada-animator-stub