Jim Capobianco (born 1969) is an American film director, animator and screenwriter. He has worked as a

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and storyboard artist for films such as '' The Lion King'' (1994), ''

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'' (1996), '' A Bug's Life'' (1998), '' Toy Story 2'' (1999), ''

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'' (2001), ''

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'' (2003), '' Up'' (2009), ''

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'' (2015), and '' Finding Dory'' (2016). In 2008, he was nominated for an

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for '' Ratatouille'' (2007). In 2023, he wrote and directed the animated feature film ''

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'', about Leonardo da Vinci's life in France.

Career

Raised in Saddle Brook, New Jersey, Capobianco attended

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. A graduate of the California Institute of the Arts, Capobianco started in the story department at Walt Disney Feature Animation on '' The Lion King'' (1994). He then worked on the storyboards for ''

'' (1999) and '' Fantasia 2000'' (1999). Capobianco has also worked for Pixar, on storyboards for films such as '' A Bug's Life'' (1998), '' Toy Story 2'' (1999), ''

'' (2001), ''

'' (2003), '' Up'' (2009), ''

'' (2015), and '' Finding Dory'' (2016). In 2007, he wrote and directed the animated short film '' Your Friend the Rat'', and co-wrote the screenplay for the feature film '' Ratatouille'', which earned him a nomination for the

. In 2009, Capobianco co-founded with Shelley Trott the Bay Area International Children's Film Festival. That same year, he directed ''Leonardo'', a short film about Leonardo da Vinci, now in the permanent collection of the MoMA NYC. With Aerial Contrivance Workshop, Capobianco was the 2D animation sequence director for Walt Disney Motion Pictures' '' Mary Poppins Returns'' (2018), and also wrote and directed the 2023 stop-motion animated feature film ''

'', a continuation of his short ''Leonardo'', focused on the end of Leonardo da Vinci's life in France.

Filmography

Aerial Contrivance Workshop

2009 File:2009 Events Collage V2.png, From top left, clockwise: The vertical stabilizer of Air France Flight 447 is pulled out from the Atlantic Ocean; Barack Obama becomes the first African American to become President of the United States; 2009 Iran ...

: ''Leonardo'' (short film) - writer, director and producer *

: ''How To be a Good Bagger'' - writer and director *

2018 File:2018 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: The 2018 Winter Olympics opening ceremony in PyeongChang, South Korea; Protests erupt following the Assassination of Jamal Khashoggi; March for Our Lives protests take place across the United ...

: '' Mary Poppins Returns'' - Animation Sequence Director *

2022 File:2022 collage V1.png, Clockwise, from top left: Road junction at Yamato-Saidaiji Station several hours after the assassination of Shinzo Abe; 2022 Sri Lankan protests, Anti-government protest in Sri Lanka in front of the Presidential Secretari ...

: ''Philharmonia Fantastique'' - story and animation director *

2023 Events Predicted and scheduled events * January 1 ** In the United States, books, films, and other works published in 1927 will enter the public domain, assuming there are no changes made to copyright law. ** Croatia will adopt the eu ...

: ''

'' - writer, director and producer

As animator

1989 File:1989 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The Cypress Street Viaduct, Cypress structure collapses as a result of the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, killing motorists below; The proposal document for the World Wide Web is submitted; The Exxo ...

: ''Baby's Bedtime''

Netflix Animation

2020 2020 was heavily defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, which led to global Social impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, social and Economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, economic disruption, mass cancellations and postponements of events, COVID- ...

: '' Go Go Cory Carson'' - voice of Gary Garbage Truck

Pixar

1998 1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''. Events January * January 6 – The '' Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for frozen water, in soil in permanently ...

: '' A Bug's Life'' - story artist *

1999 File:1999 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The funeral procession of King Hussein of Jordan in Amman; the 1999 İzmit earthquake kills over 17,000 people in Turkey; the Columbine High School massacre, one of the first major school shootin ...

: '' Toy Story 2'' - story artist *

2001 The September 11 attacks against the United States by Al-Qaeda, which Casualties of the September 11 attacks, killed 2,977 people and instigated the global war on terror, were a defining event of 2001. The United States led a Participants in ...

: ''

'' - story artist *

2003 File:2003 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: The crew of STS-107 perished when the Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated during reentry into Earth's atmosphere; SARS became an epidemic in China, and was a precursor to SARS-CoV-2; A des ...

: ''

'' - story artist *

2007 File:2007 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: Steve Jobs unveils Apple's first iPhone; TAM Airlines Flight 3054 overruns a runway and crashes into a gas station, killing almost 200 people; Former Pakistani Prime Minister of Pakistan, Pr ...

: '' Ratatouille'' - writer / story-supervisor *

: '' Your Friend the Rat'' - writer / director *

2008 File:2008 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Lehman Brothers went bankrupt following the Subprime mortgage crisis; Cyclone Nargis killed more than 138,000 in Myanmar; A scene from the opening ceremony of the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing; ...

: '' Wall•E'' - directed the end credits *

: '' Up'' - story artist *

2015 File:2015 Events Collage new.png, From top left, clockwise: Civil service in remembrance of November 2015 Paris attacks; Germanwings Flight 9525 was purposely crashed into the French Alps; the rubble of residences in Kathmandu following the Apri ...

: ''

'' - story artist *

2016 File:2016 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: Bombed-out buildings in Ankara following the 2016 Turkish coup d'état attempt; the impeachment trial of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff; Damaged houses during the 2016 Nagorno-Karabakh ...

: '' Finding Dory'' - story artist *

2017 File:2017 Events Collage V2.png, From top left, clockwise: The War Against ISIS at the Battle of Mosul (2016-2017); aftermath of the Manchester Arena bombing; The Solar eclipse of August 21, 2017 ("Great American Eclipse"); North Korea tests a ser ...

: '' Coco'' - storyboards

Cartoon Saloon

2014 File:2014 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: Stocking up supplies and personal protective equipment (PPE) for the Western African Ebola virus epidemic; Citizens examining the ruins after the Chibok schoolgirls kidnapping; Bundles of wat ...

: '' Song of the Sea'' - story consultant *

: '' Breadwinner'' - story consultant *

: '' Wolfwalkers'' - story consultant

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1994 File:1994 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 1994 Winter Olympics are held in Lillehammer, Norway; The Kaiser Permanente building after the 1994 Northridge earthquake; A model of the MS Estonia, which Sinking of the MS Estonia, sank in ...

: '' The Lion King'' - storyboards *

1996 File:1996 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: A Centennial Olympic Park bombing, bomb explodes at Centennial Olympic Park in Atlanta, set off by a radical Anti-abortion violence, anti-abortionist; The center fuel tank explodes on TWA Flight 8 ...

: ''

'' - storyboards *

: '' Fantasia 2000'' - storyboards

Awards and nominations

References

External links

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