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Ernest Pintoff (December 15, 1931 in Watertown, Connecticut – January 12, 2002 in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles) was an American film and television director, screenwriter and film producer. He won the Oscar for Best Animated Short for The Critic (1963), a satire on modern art written and narrated by Mel Brooks.
Ernest Pintoff won the Oscar for best animated short for The Critic (1963), a satire on modern art written and narrated by Mel Brooks. Pintoff previously earned an Oscar nomination for his animated short The Violinist (1959), narrated by Carl Reiner.
- Director, Music Department, Producer
- December 15, 1931
- Ernest Pintoff
- January 12, 2002
Feb 7, 2002 · Ernest Pintoff, an Academy Award-winning animator and a film and television director, has died. He was 70. Pintoff died Jan. 12 at the Motion Picture and Television Country House and Hospital...
Feb 4, 2002 · Ernest Pintoff, a filmmaker who won an Academy Award in 1963 for ''The Critic,'' a short animated satire about modern art, died Jan. 12 at a hospital in Woodland Hills,...
Apr 10, 2015 · The Critic is a 1963 short animation by director/producer Ernest Pintoff and creator/narrator Mel Brooks, that won an Academy Award for Short Subjects (Cartoons) in 1964. The film was...
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The Critic is an American 1963 short animated film by director/producer Ernest Pintoff and creator/narrator Mel Brooks that won an Oscar for Short Subjects (Cartoons) in 1964.
Short animated film directed by Ernest Pintoff, based on an interview by Henry Jacobs and Woodrow Leafer (Lenny Bruce?).
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