Lloyd Taylor grew up in Bronxville and graduated from Bronxville High School ('90). He went on to Middlebury College ('95) where he majored in Studio Art and minored in Psychology.
Ever since he was a child, Lloyd knew he wanted to do something creative. After graduating from college, he tried to figure out how to make a living "being creative" and worked in film, as an artist and then as a graphic designer for an internet company but lost his job during the dot.com crash of 2000.
As Lloyd says, with no clear career prospects, he decided to go to business school at Georgetown University. He earned his MBA from Georgetown but decided that business wasn't for him. He started writing screenplays in his spare time and, as he says, wrote many until he finally wrote a screenplay that he was "proud of."
Lloyd then decided to move to Hollywood to pursue a career as a screenwriter. He got an agent, a manager and an attorney, who started circulating his script to film producers and studio executives. He was then hired by Walt Disney Pictures to be one of five in-house writers.
While at Disney, Lloyd worked on several Disney movies, including The Wild, Race to Witch Mountain, and Enchanted. During this time, he also wrote scripts for
Paramount, Sony, Fox, Alcon Pictures, Warner Brothers and DreamWorks. The first one to get made into an animated movie was Spies in Disguise for Fox/Blue Sky Studios, starring Will Smith and Tom Holland and directed by Nick Bruno and Troy Quane.
Following the success of Spies in Disguise, Lloyd was hired to co-write Fox/Blue Sky Studios' next film, Nimona, with Robert L. Baird, adapting the Eisner Award winning graphic novel of the same name by ND Stevenson.
Then the global pandemic hit, and Disney, which owned Fox/Blue Sky Studios, decided to shut it down. Annapurna Pictures then bought Nimona from Disney, and Netflix decided to co-finance, co-produce and release Nimona.
Nimona, starring Chloe Grace Moretz, Riz Ahmed and Eugene Lee Lang, and directed by Spies in Disguise directors Nick Bruno and Troy Quane, was finally released on Netflix on June 30, 2023, to rave reviews.
It was also nominated for a total of nine Annie Awards, the most of any film, and won two. Chloe Grace Moretz won for "Best Voice Acting in an Animated Feature."
Lloyd Taylor and his co-writer Robert L. Baird won for "Best Writing in an Animated Feature."
Nimona was also nominated for an Academy Award for "Best Animated Feature Film," where it competed against Spider-Man: Across the Spider-verse and the ultimate winner The Boy and The Heron by Hayao Miyazaku. Lloyd and the Nimona team were at the Academy Awards rooting for their movie.
Most recently Lloyd was a "script doctor" on DreamWorks' Trolls Band Together and DreamWorks/Netflix's Orion and The Dark.
He is currently writing the screenplay for a new DreamWorks movie that has not yet been announced.
