Lindsey Pollard

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Lindsey Pollard
Born
Known for Animation
Notable work Camp Lazlo , The Chain Letter, Family Guy , The Simpsons Movie , Summer Camp Island
AwardsEmmy Award
2007
Pulcinella Award
2007
Norman McLaren Award
1994 Grand Prize
Montreal World Film Festival
1994 Best Animation
Emily Award
2008 Recognition of Outstanding Achievement

Lindsey Pollard is an animator from Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, now residing in Los Angeles, California. Her work as an animation director on the children's Cartoon Network series Camp Lazlo garnered three Pulcinella awards, [1] two Emmy nominations, and a 2007 Emmy win. [2] In 1994, she received The Grand Prize Norman McLaren Award and won "Best Animation" in the Montreal World Film Festival for her student film The Chain Letter. As a member of The Emily Carr Institute Alumni, she received The Emily Award in Recognition of Outstanding Achievement in 2008. Lindsey was an assistant director on The Simpsons Movie and a timer on My Gym Partner's a Monkey , The Simpsons , Drawn Together , The Fairly OddParents , The Oblongs , Baby Blues , The Cramp Twins , and Mission Hill . She is currently a retake director on the Emmy award-winning hit series Family Guy . [3]

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References

  1. "The big winner in the Pulcinella Awards was frosh series, Camp Lazlo". Animation World Network. 2005. Archived from the original on 2013-01-17. Retrieved 2012-08-01. The big winner in the Pulcinella Awards was frosh series, Camp Lazlo, created by Joe Murray. The show was honored with best TV series, best series for children and best character for Lazlo.
  2. "lindsey pollard receives emmy award". Emily Carr University of Art + Design. 2012. Retrieved 2012-08-01. Lindsey Pollard (94) received an Emmy from the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences at the 59th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards, September 8, 2007. Pollard was nominated in the category Outstanding Animated Program for her work on Where's Lazlo? (Camp Lazlo) on the Cartoon Network.
  3. "lindsey pollard (94), director". Emily Carr University of Art + Design. 2012. Retrieved 2012-08-01. Since graduating from Emily Carr in 1994, and moving to Los Angeles, CA, Lindsey has worked on a variety of animated primetime and children's programs. For eight seasons, she was a timer for the television show, The Simpsons and also worked on the feature film, The Simpsons Movie as an assistant director. Her work as a director on the children's television series Camp Lazlo for the Cartoon Network, garnered three Pulcinella awards and two Emmy nominations. In 2008, a second nomination for Lazlo, netted her first Emmy win. Lindsey currently works as the Retakes Director on the television show Family Guy and received an Emily Carr "Emily" Alumni Award in 2009.