John Kahrs
- Known for
- Visual Effects
- Born
- September 18, 1967
- Birthplace
- Cornwall, New York, USA
John Kahrs (born September 18, 1967) is an American actor, animator and film director. Kahrs attended NSCAD University, graduating with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 1990. He began his career at Blue Sky Studios in New York, where he worked as an animator between 1990 and 1997. He later moved to Pixar, where he worked on such films as A Bug's Life, The Incredibles, and Ratatouille. After ten years at Pixar, he moved over to Disney, where he animated on Bolt, Wreck-It Ralph and Frozen, and was an animation supervisor on Tangled. In 2013, he won an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film for his 2012 short film, Paperman. In August 2013, he left Walt Disney Animation Studios to develop his own projects. In January 2014, it was reported that he will direct for Paramount Animation an animated film Shedd. In 2020, he co-directed Over the Moon with Glen Keane, which was released on Netflix the same year. The film was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature the following year, but lost to Soul. Description above from the Wikipedia article John Kahrs, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
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100 Years of Disney Animation: A Shorts Celebration 2023
Director
Over the Moon 2020
as Additional Voices (voice), Co-Director
Age of Sail 2018
Director, Writer
June 2016
Director
Frozen 2013
Animation
Paperman 2012
as George (voice), Director
Wreck-It Ralph 2012
Animation
Tangled 2010
Animation Supervisor
Bolt 2008
Animation
Ratatouille 2007
Animation
The Making of 'The Incredibles' 2005
as Self
The Incredibles 2004
Animation
Mike's New Car 2002
Animation
Monsters, Inc. 2001
Animation
Toy Story 2 1999
Animation
A Bug's Life 1998
Animation
Bunny 1998
Modeling
Joe's Apartment 1996
Lighting Design
Credits from TMDB.