Rob Edwards

Rob Edwards born June 22 1963 is an American television and feature film screenwriter and producer His writing includes the Disney animated feature films Treasure Planet and The Princess and the Frog both of which were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature In 2009 along with Ron Clements and John Musker Edwards was awarded the Best Screenplay award from the AfricanAmerican Film Critics Association for The Princess and the Frog After graduating from the Cranbrook Schools in Bloomfield Hills Michigan Edwards attended Syracuse Universitys College of Visual and Performing Arts in the Transmedia Department4 Edwards moved to Los Angeles following graduation and gained success as a television writer After writing for the longrunning ABCTV series Full House Edwards went on to become a writer story editor and consultant for several primetime series including Bill Cosbys A Different World and the Golden Globenominated The Fresh Prince of BelAir Edwards was also an Emmy Award nominee for the longrunning sketch comedy show In Living Color Edwards is also credited with creating the NBC sitcom Out All Night which starred Patti LaBelle Morris Chestnut and Vivica A Fox Throughout the 1990s Edwards wrote and produced for television networks and on series including Roc The Parent Hood and In the House Edwards next shifted his focus to feature films and joined Walt Disney Animation Studios as a writer His first film Treasure Planet was released in 2002 and starred a voice cast that included Joseph GordonLevitt Martin Short Emma Thompson and Patrick McGoohan as well as famed voiceover actors Corey Burton and Tony Jay Though the film fared poorly at the box office it was a critical success for Edwards and went on to earn eight Annie Award nominations and an Academy Award nomination for Best Animated Feature Edwards returned to the screen with 2009s The Princess and the Frog a critical and box office success The film was nominated for three Oscars including the Best Animated Feature Oscar On both films Edwards worked with the Disney Animation team of Ron Clements and John Musker The Little Mermaid Aladdin In 2011 Variety reported that Edwards was collaborating on projects with producers Robert Zemeckis Bob Cooper and Jack Rapke and with Will Smith Dan Fogelman and Reggie Hudlin In October 2021 Edwards was announced to write the script and make his directorial debut on the animated film Sneaks Description above from the Wikipedia article Rob Edwards screenwriter licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia