11 Facts About Sharon Calahan

Sharon Calahan is an American cinematographer who was director of photography on the Pixar films A Bug's Life, Toy Story 2, and Finding Nemo, and was lighting director for Ratatouille, Cars 2, and The Good Dinosaur .

Sharon Calahan's took part in the early rise of computer animated feature filmmaking and the acceptance of that medium as cinematography.

Sharon Calahan is the first member of the American Society of Cinematographers who was invited to join on the basis of a career entirely in animated film.

Sharon Calahan's was nominated, with Bill Reeves, Eben Ostby, and Rick Sayre, for a 2000 BAFTA Award for Best Achievement in Special Visual Effects for A Bug's Life.

Sharon Calahan is a graduate of Othello High School, in Othello, Washington, and of the art program at Spokane Falls Community College .

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Sharon Calahan's "stumbled into computer animation by accident", eventually leading to her career in feature film cinematography.

Sharon Calahan worked in Spokane as an art director at KXLY-TV, KREM, and at documentary film company Pinnacle Productions.

Sharon Calahan was part of the early years of the computer-generated imagery industry's expansion into television and feature films, as lighting director making commercials and TV programs for Pacific Data Images, until she joined Pixar in 1994, first as a lighting supervisor on Toy Story .

Sharon Calahan had often vacationed in the mountains to do landscape painting.

In 2007, Sharon Calahan was invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences .

Sharon Calahan's became a member of the American Society of Cinematographers in 2014, as the first member to be elected to that professional group who had worked only in animation, without having done live action film.