Jim Reardon

American animator, director, and screenwriter

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Jim Reardon

Occupation(s)| Animator, storyboard artist, screenwriter, film and television director
Years active| 1986–present

Jim Reardon is an American animator, storyboard artist, screenwriter, and film and television director. He is best known for his work on the animated TV series The Simpsons. He has directed over 30 episodes of the series and was credited as a supervising director for seasons 9 through 15. He has been described by Ralph Bakshi as "one of the best cartoon writers in the business".[1]

## Career

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### Early career

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Reardon attended the Character Animation program at the California Institute of the Arts in 1982, where one of his student projects, the satirical cartoon Bring Me the Head of Charlie Brown (1986), has become a cult classic through the likes of YouTube. He was hired by John Kricfalusi as a writer on Mighty Mouse: The New Adventures and later worked on Tiny Toon Adventures.

Reardon worked for Walt Disney Animation Studios for nearly a decade. Prior to that, he briefly supervised the storyboard department at Pixar and co-wrote the studio's ninth feature film WALL-E with Andrew Stanton, which was released on June 27, 2008.[2] He was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for WALL-E at the 81st Academy Awards.[3]

### Filmography

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* Bring Me the Head of Charlie Brown (1986) – director
* Mighty Mouse: The New Adventures (1987–88) – writer, storyboard artist, director
* Christmas in Tattertown (1988) – writer, layout artist
* The Butter Battle Book (1989) - storyboard artist
* Tiny Toon Adventures (1990) – writer
* The Simpsons (1990–2004) – director (seasons 2–15), supervising director (seasons 9–15), storyboard consultant (seasons 16–20)
* List of The Simpsons episodes
* "Itchy & Scratchy & Marge"
* "Bart's Dog Gets an "F""
* "Brush with Greatness"
* "When Flanders Failed"
* "Treehouse of Horror II"
* "Saturdays of Thunder"
* "Homer at the Bat"
* "Dog of Death"
* "Bart's Friend Falls in Love"
* "Homer the Heretic"
* "Mr. Plow"
* "Duffless"
* "Marge in Chains"
* "Homer Goes to College"
* "Homer the Vigilante"
* "Bart Gets an Elephant"
* "Bart of Darkness"
* "Treehouse of Horror V"
* "Homer the Great"
* "Lisa's Wedding"
* "Lemon of Troy"
* "King-Size Homer"
* "Bart the Fink"
* "22 Short Films About Springfield"
* "Burns, Baby Burns"
* "El Viaje Misterioso de Nuestro Jomer (The Mysterious Voyage of Homer)"
* "My Sister, My Sitter"
* "Homer's Enemy"
* "The City of New York vs. Homer Simpson"
* "Trash of the Titans"
* "Thirty Minutes over Tokyo"
* "Alone Again, Natura-Diddily"
* "Treehouse of Horror XII"
* "Large Marge"
* "Simple Simpson"
* WALL-E (2008) – screenwriter, story supervisor
* Wreck-It Ralph (2012) – writer, head of story[4]
* Zootopia (2016) – writer, co-head of story
* Ralph Breaks the Internet (2018) – characters, writer, director of story

## References

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1. ^ Animato! Magazine Issue #17
2. ^ McCarthy, Todd (2008-06-26). "Wall-E". Variety. Retrieved 2008-07-30.
3. ^ "Nominees for the 81st Academy Awards". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. 2009-01-22. Retrieved 2009-01-22.
4. ^ Frye, Jim (Spring 2012). "Ralph's Wrecking Crew". Disney Twenty-three. 4 (1). Disney Enterprises, Inc.: 43.

## External links

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* Jim Reardon at IMDb
* Video of Bring Me the Head of Charlie Brown

Awards for Jim Reardon

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Annie Award for Outstanding Achievement for Directing in an Animated Television/Broadcast Production

* Mike B. Anderson (1997)
* Jim Reardon (1998)
* Mark Gustafson (1999)
* Brian Sheesley (2000)
* Butch Lukic (2001)
* Rich Moore (2002)
* Steven Dean Moore (2003)
* Shaun Cashman and Phil Cummings (2004)
* Peter Shin (2005)
* Giancarlo Volpe (2006)
* Seth Green (2007)
* Joaquim Dos Santos (2008)
* Bret Haaland (2009)
* Tim Johnson (2010)
* Matthew Nastuk (2011)
* John Eng (2012)
* Angus MacLane (2013)
* Aaron Springer (2014)
* Matt Braly (2015)
* Patrick Osborne (2016)
* Dave Wasson, Eddie Trigueros and Alonso Ramirez-Ramos (2017)
* Eddie Trigueros (2018)
* Alonso Ramirez Ramos (2019)
* Genndy Tartakovsky (2020)
* Pascal Charue, Arnaud Delord and Barthelemy Maunoury (2021)
* Peter Baynton and Charlie Mackesy (2022)
* Paul Young (2023)

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Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Original Screenplay

* Peter Morgan (2006)
* Diablo Cody (2007)
* Andrew Stanton and Jim Reardon (2008)
* Mark Boal (2009)
* Christopher Nolan (2010)
* Michel Hazanavicius (2011)
* Mark Boal (2012)
* Spike Jonze (2013)
* Wes Anderson (2014)
* Tom McCarthy and Josh Singer (2015)
* Kenneth Lonergan (2016)
* Jordan Peele (2017)
* Paul Schrader (2018)
* Bong Joon-ho and Han Jin-won (2019)
* Eliza Hittman (2020)
* Paul Thomas Anderson (2021)
* Martin McDonagh (2022)
* Samy Burch (2023)

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Nebula Award for Best Script/Ray Bradbury Award

Nebula Award
for Best Script|

* Soylent Green – Stanley R. Greenberg (1973)
* Sleeper – Woody Allen (1974)
* Young Frankenstein – Mel Brooks and Gene Wilder (1975)
* Star Wars – George Lucas (1977)
* The Sixth Sense – M. Night Shyamalan (1999)
* Galaxy Quest – David Howard and Robert Gordon (2000)
* Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon – James Schamus, Kuo Jung Tsai, and Hui-Ling Wang (2001)
* The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring – Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens, and Peter Jackson (2002)
* The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers – Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens, Stephen Sinclair, and Peter Jackson (2003)
* The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King – Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens, and Peter Jackson (2004)
* Serenity – Joss Whedon (2005)
* Howl's Moving Castle – Hayao Miyazaki, Cindy Davis Hewitt, and Donald H. Hewitt (2006)
* Pan's Labyrinth – Guillermo del Toro (2007)
* WALL-E – Andrew Stanton, Jim Reardon, and Pete Docter (2008)

Ray Bradbury Award
for Outstanding
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* Terminator 2: Judgment Day – James Cameron (1992)
* Babylon 5 – J. Michael Straczynski (1999)
* 2000X – Tales of the Next Millennia – Yuri Rasovsky and Harlan Ellison (2001)
* Joss Whedon (2008)
* District 9 – Neill Blomkamp and Terri Tatchell (2009)
* Inception – Christopher Nolan (2010)
* Doctor Who: "The Doctor's Wife" – Richard Clark and Neil Gaiman (2011)
* Beasts of the Southern Wild – Benh Zeitlin and Lucy Alibar (2012)
* Gravity – Alfonso Cuarón and Jonás Cuarón (2013)
* Guardians of the Galaxy – James Gunn and Nicole Perlman (2014)
* Mad Max: Fury Road – George Miller, Brendan McCarthy, and Nico Lathouris (2015)
* Arrival – Denis Villeneuve and Eric Heisserer (2016)
* Get Out – Jordan Peele (2017)
* Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse – Phil Lord and Rodney Rothman (2018)
* Good Omens: "Hard Times" – Neil Gaiman (2019)
* The Good Place: "Whenever You're Ready" – Michael Schur (2020)
* WandaVision – Jac Schaeffer and writing staff (2021)
* Everything Everywhere All at Once \- Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert (2022)
* Barbie \- Greta Gerwig and Noah Baumbach (2023)

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Online Film Critics Society Award for Best Original Screenplay

* Paul Thomas Anderson (1997)
* Andrew Niccol (1998)
* Charlie Kaufman (1999)
* Cameron Crowe (2000)
* Alejandro Amenábar / David Lynch (2001)
* Todd Haynes (2002)
* Sofia Coppola (2003)
* Charlie Kaufman (2004)
* George Clooney and Grant Heslov (2005)
* Guillermo del Toro (2006)
* Diablo Cody (2007)
* Jim Reardon and Andrew Stanton (2008)
* Quentin Tarantino (2009)
* Christopher Nolan (2010)
* Woody Allen (2011)
* Wes Anderson and Roman Coppola (2012)
* Spike Jonze (2013)
* Wes Anderson (2014)
* Tom McCarthy and Josh Singer (2015)
* Taylor Sheridan (2016)
* Jordan Peele (2017)
* Boots Riley (2018)
* Bong Joon-ho and Han Jin-won (2019)
* Emerald Fennell (2020)
* Michael Sarnoski and Vanessa Block (2021)
* Martin McDonagh (2022)
* David Hemingson (2023)

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