John Kahrs

John Kahrs

Visual Effects
1967-09-18
Cornwall, New York, USA

Biography

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.

Known For & Full Filmography3 Titles

#1Over the Moon

Movie - 2020, 2h 15m as Additional Voices (voice)

7.2 / 10
AnimationAdventureFamily

Fueled by memories of her mother, resourceful Fei Fei builds a rocket to the moon on a mission to prove the existence of a legendary moon goddess.

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#2Paperman

Movie - 2012, 2h 15m as George (voice)

8.0 / 10
AnimationFamilyRomance

An urban office worker finds that paper airplanes are instrumental in meeting a girl in ways he never expected.

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#3The Making of 'The Incredibles'

Movie - 2005, 2h 15m as Self

6.3 / 10
Documentary

The production of the movie, "The Incredibles," shot behind the scenes at Pixar Animation Studios.

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