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Oscar-Nominated Director Timothy Reckart
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Oscar-Nominated Director Timothy Reckart

How Tim Reckart took a student film from England all the way to the Academy Awards

Today on The Call Sheet, we're talking with animation director Timothy Reckart.

Tim tells us about the experience of being nominated for an Oscar for his stop motion short film, Head Over Heels, and then having to go back to work as an animator on the Charlie Kaufman film Anomalisa, as well as the Amazon series Tumble Leaf. Later, he made his feature directing debut with the animated Christmas movie The Star.

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