Lee is stepping down as Disney's animation chief and will return exclusively to filmmaking.

Lee is writing and directing “Frozen 3” and writing “Frozen 4” with Marc Smith — the sequels to Disney Animation’s 2013 “Snow Queen”-inspired cultural hit “Frozen,” for which she served as writer/director. The movie made $1.3 billion worldwide and earned two Oscars, for best animated feature and for earworm song “Let It Go.”

After a tumultuous six-year run as Walt Disney Animation Studio’s chief creative officer, Jennifer Lee is stepping down from the role. Her replacement is Academy Award-winning filmmaker Jared Bush, who has been involved in many of the studio’s non- Frozen hits over the last decade.