John Kahrs (born 1967/1968) is an American actor, animator and

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. Kahrs attended

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, graduating with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 1990. He began his career at

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in New York, where he worked as an animator between 1990 and 1997. He later moved to

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, where he worked on such films as ''

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'', ''

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'', and ''

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''. After ten years at Pixar, he moved over to Disney, where he animated on ''

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'', ''

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'' and ''

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'', and was an animation supervisor on ''

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''. In 2013, he won an

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for his 2012 short film, '' Paperman''. In August 2013, he left

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to develop his own projects. In January 2014, it was reported that he will direct for

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an animated film ''Shedd''. In 2020, he co-directed '' Over the Moon'' with Glen Keane, which was released on

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the same year. The film was nominated for the

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the following year, but lost to ''

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''.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Kahrs, John American animated film directors 1960s births Animators from New York (state) Directors of Best Animated Short Academy Award winners Living people NSCAD University alumni Blue Sky Studios people Walt Disney Animation Studios people Pixar people Year of birth missing (living people)