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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.
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
Ernest Pintoff. Director: The Violinist. 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.
- December 15, 1931
- January 12, 2002
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, Calif. He was 70 and...
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...
Sep 16, 2022 · And, in animation, the people in UPA’s orbit could be more knowing than we are today. Take Ernest Pintoff. Years before he won an Oscar for The Critic (1963), his cartoon with Mel Brooks, Pintoff worked at UPA. He started there in 1955, as an artist on The Boing-Boing Show.
Jan 30, 2002 · Oscar-winning animator Ernest Pintoff died Saturday, January 12, 2002 from complications related to a stroke. He was 70. Pintoff helped to define a new look for animation in the 1950's through his work at UPA and Terrytoons.
