Bill Plympton
Directing
Awards
Nominated for 2 Academy Awards
Academy Awards 2 nominated
Inkpot Award 1 won
- 2004 Inkpot Award Won
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Bill Plympton (born April 30, 1946) is an American animator, director, graphic designer, cartoonist, screenwriter and producer best known for his 1987 Academy Award-nominated animated short Your Face and his series of shorts Guard Dog, Guide Dog, Hot Dog and Horn Dog.
Plympton's illustrations and cartoons have been published in The New York Times and the weekly newspaper The Village Voice, as well as in the magazines Vogue, Rolling Stone, Vanity Fair, Penthouse, and National Lampoon. His political cartoon strip Plympton, which began in 1975 in the SoHo Weekly News, eventually was syndicated and appeared in over 20 newspapers. In 1988, his animated short Your Face was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film. He also became known for other animated short films, including 25 Ways to Quit Smoking (1989) and Enemies (1991), the latter of which was part of the Animania series on MTV, where many of his other shorts were shown.
In 1992, his self-financed, first feature-length animated film, The Tune debuted at the Sundance Film Festival. His work also appeared on the 1992–1993 Fox comedy series The Edge. In 1993, he made his first live action film, J. Lyle. In 1995, he contributed animation and graphics to a computer game collection, Take Your Best Shot. He also published a comic book in 2003, The Sleazy Cartoons of Bill Plympton. Plympton's 2008 80-minute feature, Idiots and Angels presented by Terry Gilliam, had no dialogue. Plympton directed the segment "On Eating and Drinking" in the 2014 animated film The Prophet, adapted from Kahlil Gibran's book The Prophet. In 2020, Plympton released a Kickstarter for his new animated comedy western, Slide. The funding was successful and Plympton had planned on finishing the film by 2022.
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Filmography
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Directing
48 credits
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Plymptoons: The Complete Early Works of Bill Plympton
Cartoon Sushi
Hair High
I Married a Strange Person!
Whale 52
Cop Dog
Revengeance
Slide
No Snow for Christmas
Hitler's Folly
Mutant Aliens
Guard Dog
Your Face
Dancing All Day
Idiots and Angels
Pubic Hair Transplants
Flooby Nooby
Sex & Violence
Hot Dog
The Loneliest Stoplight
The One-Minute Memoir
The Tune
Santa: The Fascist Years
Mexican Standoff
Spiral
Rudolfo the Gay Lion Tamer
General Chaos: Uncensored Animation
Animania
Guns on the Clackamas
The Fan and the Flower
Cheatin'
More Sex & Violence
Twisted Toons
Plymptoons
Tango Schmango
Boomtown
The Oscar Nominated Short Films 2011: Animation
Animated Self-Portraits
Summer Bummer
Plympmania
Tiffany the Whale: Death on the Runway
Tokyo OnlyPic 2008
Writing
32 credits
Random! Cartoons
Shuteye Hotel
Plymptoons: The Complete Early Works of Bill Plympton
Hair High
I Married a Strange Person!
Revengeance
Slide
No Snow for Christmas
Hitler's Folly
Mutant Aliens
Guard Dog
Your Face
Dancing All Day
Idiots and Angels
Sex & Violence
Hot Dog
The Loneliest Stoplight
The One-Minute Memoir
The Tune
Santa: The Fascist Years
Mexican Standoff
Spiral
Guns on the Clackamas
Cheatin'
More Sex & Violence
Plymptoons
Tango Schmango
The Winsor McCay Resurrection Project
Animated Self-Portraits
Summer Bummer
Plympmania
Tiffany the Whale: Death on the Runway
Acting
25 credits
The Simpsons
ChalkZone
Plymptoons: The Complete Early Works of Bill Plympton
Hair High
Fuck
I Married a Strange Person!
Whale 52
Claydream
Slide
Hitler's Folly
Mutant Aliens
Downwind
Adventures in Plymptoons!
Guard Dog
Animation Outlaws
Godass
Mexican Standoff
Spiral
More Sex & Violence
Twisted Toons
Plymptoons
Ingrid Pitt: Beyond the Forest
The Brainwashing of My Dad
Plympmania
Forging the Frame: The Roots of Animation, 1921-1930
Producing
15 credits
ABCs of Death 2
Plymptoons: The Complete Early Works of Bill Plympton
Hair High
Revengeance
Hitler's Folly
Mutant Aliens
Guard Dog
Your Face
Idiots and Angels
Sex & Violence
Spiral
Guns on the Clackamas
More Sex & Violence
Tango Schmango
Plympmania
Other credits
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