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Jared and Jerusha Hess

American filmmakers

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 24, 2026
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Jared Lawrence Hess and Jerusha Elizabeth Hess are husband-and-wife American filmmakers known for their work on Napoleon Dynamite (2004), Nacho Libre (2006) and Gentlemen Broncos (2009), all of which they co-wrote and which were directed by Jared. Jared also directed A Minecraft Movie (2025). For their film Ninety-Five Senses, they were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film.

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