John Kahrs

John Kahrs (born 1967/1968) is an American actor, animator and film director.
Kahrs attended NSCAD University, graduating with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 1990.
He began his career at Blue Sky Studios in New York, where he worked as an animator between 1990 and 1997. He later moved to Pixar, where he worked on such films as A Bug's Life, Monsters, Inc., The Incredibles, and Ratatouille. After ten years at Pixar, he moved over to Disney, where he animated on Bolt, Wreck-It Ralph and Frozen, and was an animation supervisor on Tangled.
In 2013, he won an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film for his 2012 short film, Paperman.
In August 2013, he left Walt Disney Animation Studios to develop his own projects. In January 2014, it was reported that he will direct for Paramount Animation an animated film Shedd.
He was currently co-directing Over the Moon with Glen Keane.
 
==Filmography==
Year	Title 	Director	Animator	Actor	Role 	Notes
1998	A Bug's Life 	 	 	 	 	
1999	Toy Story 2 	 	 	 	 	
2001	Monsters, Inc. 	 	 	 	 	Also character developer
2002	Mike's New Car 	 	 	 	 	Short film
2004	The Incredibles	 	 	 	 	Also character developer
2007	Ratatouille 	 	 	 	 	
2008	Bolt 	 	 	 	 	
2010	Tangled 	 	 	 	 	Animation supervisor
2012	Paperman 	 	 	 	George	Short film
2012	Wreck-It Ralph 	 	 	 	 	
2013	Frozen 	 	 	 	 	
2016	June 	 	 	 	 	
2018	Age of Sail 	 	 	 	 	VR short film
2020	Over the Moon 	 	 	 	 	Co-director with Glen Keane
Category:American animated film directors
Category:1960s births
Category:Animators from New York (state)
Category:Directors of Best Animated Short Academy Award winners
Category:Living people
Category:NSCAD University alumni
Category:Blue Sky Studios people
Category:Walt Disney Animation Studios people
Category:Pixar people
Category:Year of birth missing (living people)