Tim Watts is a British short filmmaker and animator, best known for his work on the Academy Award nominated '' The Big Story'' and The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse for which he won an Annie Award. He is also known for his caricature work on TV's ''

Spitting Image ''Spitting Image'' is a television in the United Kingdom, British satire, satirical television puppet show, created by Peter Fluck, Roger Law and Martin Lambie-Nairn. First broadcast in 1984, the series was produced by 'Spitting Image Productio ...

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Career

Tim Watts began as a caricaturist and designer on the satirical puppet show Spitting Image where he met his now longtime collaborator,

David Stoten David Stoten (born in Luton, Bedfordshire) is a short film maker and director and caricaturist on TV's ''Spitting Image''. Stoten won the BAFTA award with longtime collaborator, Tim Watts in 1994 for '' The Big Story''. Since then, Stoten has pr ...

. It was at Spitting Image that Watts and Stoten had the idea to extend their caricature work to a full-figure puppet. After deciding on Kirk Douglas as the subject, the pair took the idea to Roger Law (executive producer for Spitting Image). Law was intrigued enough to fund the project that would become The Big Story. Watts went on to animate on The Thief and the Cobbler, The Tale of Despereaux, Rise of the Guardians and Home, storyboarded and animated on Corpse Bride and created character designs and animated on Arthur Christmas.

Accolades

Watts won the BAFTA award with

in 1994 for ''The Big Story''. In addition, he was nominated for an Academy Award for The Big Story at the

67th Academy Awards The 67th Academy Awards ceremony, organized by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) took place on March 27, 1995, at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles beginning at 6:00 p.m. PST / 9:00 p.m. EST. During the cer ...

. In 2023, Watts received the Annie Award for Character Animation in TV for his work on The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse at the 50th Annie Awards.50th Annie Award Winners
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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Watts, Tim Living people Spitting Image British film directors BAFTA winners (people) Place of birth missing (living people) 1965 births Annie Award winners