Name Sheldon Cohen | Role Animator | |
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Movies I Want a Dog, Snow Cat, The Sweater, Pies, Bossa Bop Education McGill University, Sheridan College Awards BAFTA Award for Best Animated Film Nominations Gemini Award for Best Animated Program or Series Similar People Roch Carrier, Sheila Fischman, Dayal Kaur Khalsa, Normand Roger, Caroline Leaf | ||
Sheldon Cohen (born 1949) is a Montreal-based animator and children's book illustrator whose film animation work includes the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) productions The Sweater, a 1980 film adaptation of Roch Carrier's classic short story, the 2002 work I Want a Dog, based on the children's book of the same title by Dayal Kaur Khalsa and My Heart Attack (2015).
The Sweater received 15 international prizes, including a BAFTA Award for Best Animation. Cohen followed this success with a picture book version of the film as well a sequel, Un champion, which won him the Governor General's Award for French-language children's illustration.
Cohen received a Bachelor of Science from McGill University and then studied art at Sheridan College. He joined the NFB as a student trainee in 1972.