Will Vinton

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Will Vinton (born November 17, 1947 in McMinnville , Oregon , † October 4, 2018 in Portland , Oregon) was an American film producer , director and animator .

Will Vinton (2015)

Life

Vinton studied film and architecture at the University of California at Berkeley . In the early 1970s he met plasticine animator Bob Gardiner , whereupon they made their first animated short film together called Wobbly Wino , which was completed in 1973. It was Vinton's task to animate Gardiner's modeling clay works with his camera. Their second short film together was made between 1973 and 1974. The eight-minute animated film called Closed Mondays won an Oscar in 1975 . After completing their next film, Mountain Music , in 1976, Gardiner and Vinton split.

Vinton then founded his own animation studio. The there from the late 1970s and animation productions received further Oscar nominations, but he could not win another Oscar award. In addition to his own animated films, Vinton was also involved in other productions, such as the direction of the Speed ​​Demon segment in Michael Jackson's Moonwalker . He also shot the music video for John Fogerty's Vanz Kant Danz and produced the title sequences for the feature films Divine Madness and Drei lahme Enten . He received his last Oscar nomination in 1986 for the animation effects for the Disney film Oz - A Fantastic World . Another mainstay of his studio was the production of animated television commercials. His promotion of the raisins on behalf of the California Raisin Advisory Board was so successful that several television specials were later produced with the characters. In 1988 and 1992 he received an Emmy Award for this .

In the late 1990s, Philip Knight , the founder of Nike , joined the animation studio as an investor . In 2002 he became majority shareholder and pushed Vinton out of the company. He then founded a new company, Will Vinton's Freewill Entertainment , with which he could not build on his earlier successes.

Awards

  • 1975: Oscar for Closed Mondays
  • 1979: Oscar nomination for Rip Van Winkle
  • 1982: Oscar nomination for The Creation
  • 1983: Oscar nomination for The Great Cognito
  • 1986: Oscar nomination for Oz - A Fantastic World
  • 1988: Emmy for A Claymation Christmas Celebration
  • 1989: Emmy nomination for Meet the Raisins!
  • 1990: Saturn Award nomination for Moonwalker
  • 1991: Emmy nomination for Claymation Comedy of Horrors Show
  • 1992: Emmy for Claymation Easter
  • 1999: Emmy nomination for Caretaker Stubbs

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Joseph Gallivan: As animated as it gets. In: The Portland Tribune . October 30, 2009, accessed January 29, 2011 .
personal data
SURNAME Vinton, Will
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American film producer, director and animator
DATE OF BIRTH November 17, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH McMinnville , Oregon
DATE OF DEATH 4th October 2018
Place of death Portland , Oregon