Jim Capobianco

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Jim Capobianco
Born1969 (age 54–55) [1]
Saddle Brook, New Jersey, United States [1]
Alma mater California Institute of the Arts
Occupations
  • Film director
  • screenwriter
  • animator
  • story artist
  • storyboard artist
Years active1989–present
Website www.jimcapobianco.com

Jim Capobianco (born 1969) is an American film director, animator and screenwriter. [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] He has worked as a story artist and storyboard artist [7] for films such as The Lion King (1994), Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996), A Bug's Life (1998), Toy Story 2 (1999), Monsters, Inc. (2001), Finding Nemo (2003), Up (2009), Inside Out (2015), and Finding Dory (2016).

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In 2008, he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for Ratatouille (2007). In 2023, he wrote and directed the animated feature film The Inventor , about Leonardo da Vinci's life in France. [8]

Career

Raised in Saddle Brook, New Jersey, Capobianco attended Saddle Brook High School. [9]

A graduate of the California Institute of the Arts, [10] Capobianco started in the story department at Walt Disney Feature Animation on The Lion King (1994). [10] [3] He then worked on the storyboards for Hunchback of Notre Dame (1999) and Fantasia 2000 (1999). [1] Capobianco has also worked for Pixar, [11] on storyboards for films such as A Bug's Life (1998), Toy Story 2 (1999), Monsters, Inc. (2001), Finding Nemo (2003), Up (2009), Inside Out (2015), and Finding Dory (2016). [12] [13]

In 2007, he wrote and directed the animated short film Your Friend the Rat , [12] and co-wrote the screenplay for the feature film Ratatouille , [12] which earned him a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. [14]

In 2009, Capobianco co-founded with Shelley Trott the Bay Area International Children's Film Festival. [6] That same year, he directed Leonardo, a short film about Leonardo da Vinci, [15] now in the permanent collection of the MoMA NYC. [10]

With Aerial Contrivance Workshop, Capobianco was the 2D animation sequence director for Walt Disney Motion Pictures' Mary Poppins Returns (2018), [10] and also wrote and directed the 2023 stop-motion animated feature film The Inventor , [16] [17] a continuation of his short Leonardo, focused on the end of Leonardo da Vinci's life in France. [18] [19]

Filmography

Aerial Contrivance Workshop

As animator

Netflix Animation

Pixar

Cartoon Saloon

Disney Feature Animation

Awards and nominations

Award / FestivalYearCategoryNominated workResultRef(s)
Online Film & Television Association Awards2007Best Original Screenplay Ratatouille Nominated [23]
Academy Awards 2008 Best Original Screenplay Nominated [14]
Annie Awards 2008 Best Animated Short Subject Your Friend the Rat Won [24]
Latino Entertainment Journalists Association Awards 2019Best Visual Effects Mary Poppins Returns Nominated [25]
Annecy International Animation Film Festival 2023Best Feature Film The Inventor Nominated [26]

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