# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/christopher-hinton
# Generated: 2026-08-13T01:58:16.215Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/christopher-hinton"
name: "Christopher Hinton"
slug: "christopher-hinton"
description: "Christopher Hinton is a Canadian filmmaker and professor, living in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. Hinton's films have won international awards and been twice nominated for an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film: in 1991 for the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) animated short film Blackfly and in 2003 for his independently made short Nibbles. Hinton won a Genie Award for his 2004 short film cNote. He began freelancing for the NFB in Winnipeg in the 1970s. He has written and directed over a dozen films for The National Film Board of Canada, CBC, & Sesame Street. Recent films, Flux, cNote, Chroma Concerto (2007), and Compression (2008), explore the boundaries of narrative and abstraction and the integration of contemporary media into the moving image. He was a full-time professor in the Animation Program at Concordia University."
tagline: "Canadian film animator and professor"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Canada"
  isoCode: "CA"
category:
  name: "Writers"
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profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1952-03-31"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             13.63636363636363
  historical:           6.338373333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0385975/"
    handle:    "nm0385975"
sources:
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    title: "كريستوفر هينتون"
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    title: "Christopher Hinton"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Hinton_(animator)"
    title: "Christopher Hinton (animator)"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Hinton"
    title: "Christopher Hinton"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump