J. G. Quintel
Year Award Category Work Result
2005 Nicktoons Film Festival Producers Choice Award The Naive Man from Lolliland Won
2005 Nicktoons Film Festival Student Animator Award The Naive Man from Lolliland Won
2010 Annie Award Directing in a Television Production The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack : Candy Casanova Nominated
2011 Emmy Award Outstanding Short-format Animated Program Regular Show : Mordecai and the Rigbys Nominated
2012 Emmy Award Outstanding Short-format Animated Program Regular Show : Eggscellent Won
2013 Emmy Award Outstanding Short-format Animated Program Regular Show : A Bunch of Full Grown Geese Nominated
2013 Emmy Award Outstanding Animated Program Regular Show : The Christmas Special Nominated
2014 Emmy Award Outstanding Short-format Animated Program Regular Show : The Last LaserDisc Player Nominated
Awards and nominations
James Garland Quintel (born September 13, 1982) is an American voice actor, animator, television writer, producer and director best known as the creator of Cartoon Network's Regular Show, in which he also voiced the characters Mordecai and High Five Ghost, and the forthcoming HBO Max series Close Enough. He was formerly the creative director for The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack, an animated series that aired on Cartoon Network from June 2008 to August 2010 and a writer and storyboard artist on Camp Lazlo from 2006-2008. In December 2009, ASIFA-Hollywood nominated Quintel for an Annie Award in the category of Directing in a Television Production for his directing work on an episode of The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack. In September 2011, the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences nominated Quintel for a Primetime Emmy Award in the Outstanding Short-format Animated Program category for Regular Show. He most recently worked for Cartoon Network Studios in Burbank, California developing episodes for Regular Show. Quintel got the inspiration for his work from Matt Groening, Mike Judge, and his old boss Joe Murray. In May 2017, it was announced that TBS has picked up a new animated series by Quintel, entitled Close Enough, a co-production of Cartoon Network Studios with the newly-established Studio T, which was later revealed to premiere on HBO Max.