Rob Minkoff

11 films directed

Biography

Robert R. "Rob" Minkoff (born August 11, 1962) is an American filmmaker. He is known for directing the Academy Award-winning animated feature The Lion King.

Minkoff was born in Palo Alto, California. He studied at California Institute of the Arts in the early 1980s in the Character Animation department. He has directed several films for Walt Disney Feature Animation, including The Lion King (1994) and two of the Roger Rabbit shorts: Tummy Trouble (1989) and Roller Coaster Rabbit (1990).

While working at Disney he wrote the song "Good Company" for Oliver & Company. He also made the films Stuart Little (1999), Stuart Little 2 (2002), The Haunted Mansion (2003) and The Forbidden Kingdom (2008). Minkoff also participates as a member of the jury for the NYICFF, a local New York City Film Festival dedicated to screening films for children between the ages of 3 and 18. He is currently working on two films: Flypaper, which is set to release in 2011 and the announced Chinese Odyssey. He married Crystal Kung on September 29, 2007. Minkoff is the brother-in-law of Jeffrey Kung, a Chinese singer and radio VJ.

Most directed genres

Recurring actors

The career in numbers

US$ 640 mi Total budget from 9 film(s) with data
US$ 1.9 bi Total box office from 8 film(s) with data
US$ 71 mi Average budget from 9 film(s) with data
US$ 233 mi Average box office from 8 film(s) with data
6.6 Average rating from 10 film(s) with data
2.9× Return on investment from 8 film(s) with data

Budget and box office do not exist for every film in our records. Averages are computed over the films that carry the figure, and the count beside each one says how many.

Films directed

Film	Year	Budget	Box office	Rating
Paws of Fury: The Legend of Hank	2022	US$ 45 mi	US$ 43 mi	6.6
Mr. Peabody & Sherman	2014	US$ 145 mi	US$ 273 mi	6.7
Flypaper	2011	US$ 5 mi	US$ 3 mi	6.4
The Forbidden Kingdom	2008	US$ 55 mi	US$ 128 mi	6.7
The Haunted Mansion	2003	US$ 90 mi	US$ 182 mi	5.7
Stuart Little 2	2002	US$ 120 mi	US$ 170 mi	5.8
Stuart Little	1999	US$ 133 mi	US$ 300 mi	6.1
The Lion King	1994	US$ 45 mi	US$ 763 mi	8.3
Mickey's Audition	1992	US$ 2 mi	—	4.0
Roller Coaster Rabbit	1990	—	—	6.7
Tummy Trouble	1989	—	—	6.7