Nathan Greno (born March 22, 1975) is an American film director, story artist, and writer best known as the co-director of Walt Disney Animation Studios' film, Tangled (2010). Inspired by Disney films since the first grade, Greno started as a young boy writing and drawing comic books and strips. In 1996, during his junior year at Columbus College of Art and Design, he was hired by Walt Disney Feature Animation. He started there as an animation clean-up artist on Mulan (1998). Being creatively unfulfilled, he switched to story development. He then contributed as a story artist on Brother Bear (2003), wrote a screenplay and worked as a story artist on Meet the Robinsons (2007), and supervised the story on Bolt (2008). With the short film Super Rhino (2009), he made his directorial debut. In 2006, he took over a long-in-development project Tangled, based on the fairy tale Rapunzel and chose Byron Howard, with whom he had collaborated on Bolt and Super Rhino, as a directing partner. The film was released in 2010 to a great critical and financial reception, and was followed in 2012 by Greno and Howard-directed short film Tangled Ever After. Greno had most recently been directing an animated film titled Gigantic. Loosely based on the fairy tale of Jack and the Beanstalk, it was scheduled for a 2020 release. However, in October 2017, it was announced that the film had been shelved. In February 2018, it was announced that Greno had signed a multi-year contract with Skydance Animation to write and direct an animated film titled Swapped, as well as consult on projects in development. Description above from the Wikipedia article Nathan Greno, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Biography from TMDB.
- March 22, 1975 (51)
- Kenosha, Wisconsin, USA
- Actor, director and writer
- 11 on MovieCove · 13 credits in all
What are Nathan Greno's films like?
Across their 7 MovieCove titles with a thematic analysis, their films lean Bonds and Self.
Themes
What they feel like to watch
Ironic 0 · Wry 1 · Earnest 5
Light 6 · Serious 0 · Dark 0
A split, not a type: Grounded 0 · Stylized 2 · Heightened 4
Gentle 2 · Charged 3 · Intense 1
Steady 3 · Shifting 3 · Whiplash 0
Straight-faced 0 · Some laughs 3 · Funny 3
A split, not a type: Slow burn 1 · Even-paced 2 · Relentless 3
Casual 5 · Engaged 1 · Full focus 0
Easy watch 6 · Affecting 0 · Heavy 0
Resolved 6 · Open-ended 0 · Ambiguous 0
Moods and endings
- Happy7
AI-generated from each title's plot synopsis and cast list, with extra plot summaries, reviews and Parents Guide notes for titles the model may not know, and the model's own knowledge of the ones it recognizes. Only analyzed titles count, so this covers part of the filmography; the feel axes count films only for now.
Where can I watch Nathan Greno's films?
As of October 24, 2026, all 11 MovieCove titles stream on a subscription or free service, most on Disney+ (8).
Subscription and free streaming for Nathan Greno's titles on MovieCove; rent and buy are not counted. Titles are listed by Midcredits score, highest first, at most 12 per service; a dashed chip is a producer credit or a minor one, such as a thanks. A service opens the browse page, which counts movies only, so its number can differ.
Filmography
13 credits, 11 with a MovieCove page; 1 appearance as themselves is hidden until asked for.
Swapped(2026)
Midcredits score: 92nd percentile of all films
Spellbound(2024)
Midcredits score: 32nd percentile of all films
Blush(2021)
Midcredits score: 93rd percentile of all films
Tangled: Short Cuts(2017)
Midcredits score: 15th percentile of all shows
Prep & Landing: Totally Tinsel Collection (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2012)
Tangled Ever After(2012)
Midcredits score: 91st percentile of all films
Tangled(2010)
Midcredits score: 97th percentile of all films
Prep & Landing(2009)
Midcredits score: 90th percentile of all films
Super Rhino(2009)
Midcredits score: 45th percentile of all films
Bolt(2008)
Midcredits score: 72nd percentile of all films
Meet the Robinsons(2007)
Midcredits score: 78th percentile of all films
Brother Bear(2003)
Midcredits score: 81st percentile of all filmsUntitled Nathan Greno Animated Movie (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)
Career shape
A full career of 12 titles, 11 of them dated from 2003 to 2026.
Film career
- 2007Screen debut· Meet the Robinsons
Billing
Counts from TMDB across their full career, self appearances out; a title counts in every role they held on it. The ring is the typical Midcredits score (the median percentile) of the role's titles that are on MovieCove, shown from 5 scored. Billing is TMDB cast order for roles with 25+ votes, billed in the top 30.
Awards
Nominated for a Critics Choice Award in 2011, Best Animated Feature.
Major bodies only: the Oscars, Primetime Emmys, Golden Globes, BAFTAs and Screen Actors Guild Awards are named; Cannes, Venice, the Berlinale, Sundance, the directors', writers' and producers' guilds, the Grammys, Critics Choice and the Independent Spirit Awards count as other major bodies. Festival and regional prizes are not counted. Source: IMDb.
How do Nathan Greno's films land?
Their typical MovieCove film has a Midcredits score in the 86th percentile, the median of all 10; across their 6 films with reception data, the typical film sits in the 87th percentile for acclaim.
- 75th and up7
- 50th to 74th1
- 25th to 49th2
- Below 25th1
Shape of the crowd
5 of their 11 titles are Universally Loved.
- Universally Loved5
- Crowd Pleaser3
- Mixed3
Reviewers score the acting 71/100 in their films, across 4 reviewed titles; fans 76, detractors 40. The element that speaks to their work as an actor.
Percentiles are each film's standing among all films on MovieCove; the typical film is the median, so one outlier cannot drag it. Percentiles and reviewer scores count the films IMDb credits them on, for now; the Midcredits score bands, the shape of the crowd and the two cards count their MovieCove titles, shows included (a show ranked among shows), appearances as themselves left out. A descriptor is the shape of a title's IMDb rating distribution against the catalog; "most divisive" needs a spread wider than half of all titles, and a card names only a principal credit: a craft role, and on a show a crew role or a run of episodes, never a courtesy credit or a one-off guest spot.
Is Nathan Greno's work okay for kids?
Across a limited sample of up to 3 MovieCove titles with content scores.
Severity 0–100 from the Content Guide. Categories with under 10 votes on a title are not counted.
Who does Nathan Greno work with?
People who share at least 2 of Nathan Greno's MovieCove titles, grouped by what they did on them; John Lasseter shares the most, 6.
Directors
- Byron HowardShared titles: Tangled Ever After (2012), Tangled (2010), Super Rhino (2009)See all 3 shared titles with Byron Howard
Writers
- Daniel GersonShared titles: Tangled Ever After (2012), Prep & Landing (2009)See all 2 shared titles with Daniel Gerson
- Jacob GrimmShared titles: Tangled Ever After (2012), Tangled (2010)See all 2 shared titles with Jacob Grimm
- Robert L. BairdShared titles: Tangled Ever After (2012), Prep & Landing (2009)See all 2 shared titles with Robert L. Baird
- Wilhelm GrimmShared titles: Tangled Ever After (2012), Tangled (2010)See all 2 shared titles with Wilhelm Grimm
Actors
- Mandy MooreShared titles: Tangled: Short Cuts (2017), Tangled Ever After (2012), Tangled (2010)See all 3 shared titles with Mandy Moore
- Paul F. TompkinsShared titles: Tangled: Short Cuts (2017), Tangled Ever After (2012), Tangled (2010)See all 3 shared titles with Paul F. Tompkins
- Zachary LeviShared titles: Tangled: Short Cuts (2017), Tangled Ever After (2012), Tangled (2010)See all 3 shared titles with Zachary Levi
Editors
- Tim MertensShared titles: Tangled Ever After (2012), Tangled (2010)See all 2 shared titles with Tim Mertens
Producers
- John LasseterShared titles: Swapped (2026), Tangled Ever After (2012), Tangled (2010), Prep & Landing (2009), Super Rhino (2009), Meet the Robinsons (2007)See all 6 shared titles with John Lasseter
- Aimee ScribnerShared titles: Tangled Ever After (2012), Tangled (2010)See all 2 shared titles with Aimee Scribner
- Chris WilliamsShared titles: Prep & Landing (2009), Super Rhino (2009)See all 2 shared titles with Chris Williams
- Clark SpencerShared titles: Super Rhino (2009), Meet the Robinsons (2007)See all 2 shared titles with Clark Spencer
