Jan Pinkava

Jan Jaroslav Pinkava, PhD (born 21 June 1963, in Prague) is the director and writer of the Pixar Oscar-winning 1997 short film Geri's Game and the originator and co-director of Pixar's Oscar-winning 2007 film Ratatouille.

He is the third-born of four children of the Czech polymath Václav Pinkava alias Jan Křesadlo. The family emigrated to Britain in 1969, where he obtained British citizenship.

He attended Colchester Royal Grammar School from 1974 to 1982 showing interest and talent in the arts, music, drama and sculpture. (One of his juvenile sculptures 'Big Cat' was acquired by Essex University and put on permanent display outside the library.)

After obtaining an 8mm movie camera for Christmas in 1975, he began experimenting with pixilation, stop-motion plasticine, paper-drawn and cel animation. He had some early prize-winning successes in animation competitions. Most notably, he won the Young Film-Maker's Competition of the Year Award 1980 on the long-running (1969 to 1984) BBC children's quiz series Screen Test for his animated short "The Rainbow". This was hailed in 2001 on Channel 4's "100 Greatest Kids' TV shows" by ex-Screen Test presenters Michael Rodd and Brian Trueman as "the only occasion in the history of the competition where we came across a piece of film that was spectacularly professional", a clip of him receiving the award is shown in the 2007 film Son of Rambow.

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The 200 Freshest Movies of the Last 20 Years

Rotten Tomatoes 17 Aug 2018

The 200 Freshest Movies of the Last 20 Years. Can you remember a time without Rotten Tomatoes? Those sightless days of people reaching out and bumping into movies at random, like wandering through a Blockbuster with all the lights off. Those were dark and undirected times ... to get you watching the best kind of movies you want to see ... So ... #200 ... #200 ... Jan Pinkava, Brad Bird ... Jan Bijvoet, Brionne Davis, Nilbio Torres, Antonio Bolívar Salvador ... ....

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Why the incredibly long wait for ‘Incredibles 2’ and other talk about Pixar’s super sequel

GB Tribune 15 Jun 2018

A lot has changed in the 14 years since Pixar’s “The Incredibles” first landed in theaters back in 2004. It’s not exaggerating to say it was a different era then ... And things were just as different at Disney and Pixar back then, too ... And it drove me insane.” ... He first stepped in for “Geri’s Game” director Jan Pinkava on Pixar’s 2007 release “Ratatouille,” and then took a break from animation altogether for his next two projects, “Mission....

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Annecy: Google Spotlight Stories’ VR Project ‘Age Of Sail’ Receives Sneak Peek

Variety 14 Jun 2018

ANNECY, France — John Kahrs’ “Age Of Sail” and Jan Pinkava and Mark Oftedal’s “Piggy” are two of the four state-of-the art-animated VR projects that Google Spotlight Stories (GSS) has brought this year to Annecy. For the third year running, GSS – a division of Google’s Advanced Technology and Projects (ATAP) group – and Google VR […] ... ....

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Why the incredibly long wait for ‘Incredibles 2’

Deseret News 14 Jun 2018

A lot has changed in the 14 years since Pixar's "The Incredibles" first landed in theaters back in 2004. It's not exaggerating to say it was a different era then ... And things were just as different at Disney and Pixar back then, too ... Disney-Pixar ... Incredible ... He first stepped in for "Geri's Game" director Jan Pinkava on Pixar's 2007 release "Ratatouille," and then took a break from animation altogether for his next two projects, "Mission....

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All Pixar Movies Ranked From Best to Worst

Rotten Tomatoes 15 May 2018

Once upon a time, animation could be neatly divided into two eras. BD and AD, or before and after Disney ... not only was the studio working on a movie with a rather unappetizing protagonist — a rat who wanted to be a gourmet chef — but the movie itself had something of a troubled journey to the screen, including a Pixar-mandated director swap that ousted the film’s creator, Jan Pinkava, and replaced him with Brad Bird ... ....

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9 Things We Learned at Pixar's 'Incredibles 2' Presentation

Moviefone 17 Apr 2018

Nelson and Helen Hunt) as they face off against villainous foes and work to maintain the family dynamic that really makes them so special ... 1 ... Bird was also quick to point out that when he inherited "Ratatouille," a feature that was set to be the directorial debut of Oscar-winning Pixar animator Jan Pinkava -- and also the first movie released outside of their distribution deal with Disney -- he had even less time to get the movie done....

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TheGrill 2017: Exclusive Speaker Portraits From John Singleton to Lena Waithe (Photos)

The Wrap 04 Oct 2017

Director and producer John Singleton. Photographed by Shayan Asgharnia for TheWrap. Photographed at The Montage Beverly Hills. Emmy-winning writer-actress Lena Waithe ("Master of None"). Photographed by Shayan Asgharnia for TheWrap. Photographed at The Montage Beverly Hills. Lena Waithe. Photographed by Shayan Asgharnia for TheWrap. Photographed at The Montage Beverly Hills ... Jeff Weber ... Jan Pinkava, creative director, Google Spotlight Series....

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The Scene at TheGrill 2017: TheWrap’s Media Leadership Conference (Updating Photos)

The Wrap 03 Oct 2017

TheWrap’s annual TheGrill media conference took place at the Montage Beverly Hills on Oct. 2 and Oct. 3 ... Audience members listen to panels on the first day of TheGrill ... Vicki Beck and Jan Pinkava speak with Sharon Waxman on stage. The Montage in Beverly Hills ... ....

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TheGrill 2017: Why VR Is Hard to Monetize

The Wrap 03 Oct 2017

As more and more studios are taking the plunge into virtual reality and theater owners like AMC making bets that it’s going to drive growth, some aspects of VR are still difficult to monetize ... Also Read ... Beck and Jan Pinkava, the creative director of the Google Spotlight, spoke on a panel at TheGrill titled “VR/AR ... Pinkava added, “People don’t like to wear something on their face, so we have to figure that out....

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TheGrill Starts Today: See John Singleton, Grace Helbig and Fox TV Bosses Dana Walden and ...

The Wrap 02 Oct 2017

TheWrap’s annual Grill conference kicks off at 11 a.m ... Also Read ... That will be followed by two panels about the direction of AR/VR, featuring Vicki Beck, Executive in Charge, ILMxLAB; Robert Lister, Chief Legal Officer and Chief Business Development Officer, IMAX; Jan Pinkava, Creative Director, Google Spotlight Series; Peter Akemann, President, Skydance Interactive; and Ted Schilowitz, Futurist, Paramount Pictures ... Also Read....

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Century's Top 20 movies: Part One

Arkansas Online 30 Jun 2017

Pixar has made a handful of truly brilliant kids' films -- I would include Toy Story 2 & 3, most of Up, and the genius Inside Out -- but for my money, they never did it better or more satisfyingly than with this Brad Bird and Jan Pinkava-directed film about an extraordinary rat whose culinary genius causes a sensation in food-mad Paris right up until people realize just who has been behind their heavenly plates....

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Why 'Ratatouille' Is the Greatest Pixar Movie Ever

Moviefone 28 Jun 2017

Pixar's "Ratatouille," which came out 10 years ago (June 29, 2007), is undeniably a classic ... You know, that old story ... That victor is "Ratatouille." ... Development began in 2000, under the direction of Jan Pinkava, who had won an Oscar for his 1997 Pixar short film "Geri's Game" (you probably saw it ahead of "A Bug's Life"). But after characters and sets had been modeled, the story of the film reached and impasse and Pinkava was removed ... ....

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Thomas Middleditch & Nick Kroll on How ‘Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie’ Changed Through Production

Collider 01 Jun 2017

Please enable Javascript to watch this video. -. More than any other film type, animation is constantly changing and shifting during production. The Emperor’s New Groove was originally a musical titled Kingdom of the Sun. Toy Story 2 began life as a planned straight-to-DVD sequel. Brad Bird replaced Jan Pinkava as director on Ratatouille with less than a year until release ... Image via DreamWorks Animation....

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