John Korty
| John Korty | |
|---|---|
| Born |
July 22, 1936 Lafayette, Indiana |
| Occupation | Director, producer, writer, animator |
| Years active | c. 1957–present |
| Awards |
Who Are the DeBolts? And Where Did They Get Nineteen Kids? (Academy Award) The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman (Emmy Award) |
| Website | www |
John Korty (born June 22, 1936) is an American film director and animator, best known for the television film The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman and the documentary Who Are the DeBolts? And Where Did They Get Nineteen Kids?, as well as the theatrical animated feature Twice Upon a Time. He has won an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature (for Who Are the DeBolts?) and several other major awards. He is described by the film critic Leonard Maltin as "a principled filmmaker who has worked both outside and within the mainstream, attempting to find projects that support his humanistic beliefs".
Born in Lafayette, Indiana, he began making amateur films while still in his teens. He took a liberal arts education at Antioch College in Ohio and obtained work as an animator for television commercials while still in school. He graduated in 1959. In a 1963 article he wrote for the Bolex Reporter he notes that he first took an interest in animation during his second year at Antioch. He developed a cut-out technique and also used various other imaging methods including scratching the film stock, painting, and using objects such as photographs, string, cloth and scissors. He would continue to develop these techniques in projects through his career, culminating in his 1983 animated feature Twice Upon a Time. Using a Bolex H-16 camera, his television commercial work amounted to more than 30 spots, which he made with four other students at Antioch.
His 1964 short Breaking the Habit was nominated for the Academy Award for Documentary Short Subject.
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