Kōji Yamamura
His animation spans a variety of media, his earliest independent works mixing clay painting and stop motion with cels, but has latterly come to concentrate on traditional animation. Two of his most famous and acclaimed films are the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film-nominated and "Cristal d'Annecy"–winning "Mount Head" and the Ottawa Grand Prize and Ōfuji Noburō Award–winning "A Country Doctor". His 2011 short film "Muybridge's Strings" was one of five animated shorts nominated for Genie Award. Biography. Yamamura was born in Nagoya and studied painting at Tokyo Zokei University. His 2002 movie "Mt.  Head" ("Atama Yama") won the short film award for the Annecy International Animated Film Festival, the Grand Prize at the 2004 World Festival of Animated Films - Animafest Zagreb and was nominated for the Academy Award for Animated Short Film. Yamamura won the 2007 Ottawa Grand Prix with his animated adaptation of Franz Kafka's "A Country Doctor." Both of the films were included in the Animation Show of Shows. Yamamura also held an exhibition at the Aichi Expo 2005.