Jimmy Picker is an American stop-motion claymation filmmaker, screenwriter, producer, and director. He was claymation director for

The Electric Company ''The Electric Company'' is an American educational children's television series produced by the Children's Television Workshop (CTW, now known as Sesame Workshop). It was co-created by Paul Dooley, Joan Ganz Cooney, and Lloyd Morrisett. T ...

from 1976 to 1977 and produced several short movies and two longer films. He contributed the animated sequence to

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's '' Better Off Dead''. As a director, his short film ''Jimmy the C'' (1977) received a nomination for the

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. In 1983, he won the award for his short film ''

Sundae in New York ''Sundae in New York'' is a 1983 American animated short film directed by Jimmy Picker and starring Scott Record. Summary A variety show featuring caricatures of New York personalities including then mayor Ed Koch to the tune of ''Theme from Ne ...

''.

Career

In 1977, he co-produced the animated short ''

Jimmy the C Jimmy the C is a 1977 animated short film, directed by Jimmy Picker and co-produced by Picker (going by James), Robert Grossman and Craig Whitaker. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Animated Short Film. The film was preserved by the Academ ...

'' alongside

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, receiving a nomination for the

Selected filmography

* ''

'' (1977) * ''

'' (1983) * '' Μy Friend Liberty'' (1986) * '' The Age of Ignorance'' (2003)

References

External links

* Living people Directors of Best Animated Short Academy Award winners Producers who won the Best Animated Short Academy Award Year of birth missing (living people) Place of birth missing (living people) {{US-film-bio-stub