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name: "John Ashlee Prat"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/john-ashlee-prat"
fi1m_id: "john-ashlee-prat"
imdb_id: "nm0039000"
tmdb_id: 1687182
roles: ["Cinematographer"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-01T23:20:34.642638+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# John Ashlee Prat

## Identity

John Ashlee Prat

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/john-ashlee-prat
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** john-ashlee-prat
- **IMDb ID:** nm0039000
- **TMDB ID:** 1687182
- **Same entity:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0039000/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1687182

Cinematographer. Born in Los Angeles.

## Details

- **Work:** Cinematographer
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0039000/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1687182

## Streaming the US now

- **Disney+:** [*The Boxtrolls*](https://film.one/film/the-boxtrolls.md) (64)

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## Biography

John Ashlee Prat is a cinematographer and animator specialising in stop-motion work. He began his career as an animator at Will Vinton Studios and contributed to several claymation television specials in the 1980s and early 1990s.

Prat served as lighting cameraman on the Laika feature *Coraline* (2009) and lead lighting and camera on *ParaNorman* (2012). He was director of photography on the studio's *The Boxtrolls* (2014). He won a Primetime Emmy Award in 1992 for outstanding individual achievement in animation for the television special *Claymation Easter*.

*Sources: imdb.com, filmbooster.at, shotonwhat.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *The Boxtrolls* (2014), Fi1m 64, Cinematography, Director of Photography — [page](https://film.one/film/the-boxtrolls.md)

## Complete filmography (11)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *The Boxtrolls* (2014), Director of Photography — Fi1m 64, [page](https://film.one/film/the-boxtrolls.md)
- *Coraline* (2009), Lighting Camera — Fi1m 85, [page](https://film.one/film/coraline.md)
- *Joe Blow* (2004), Director of Photography
- *Día de los muertos* (2002), Cinematography
- *The Dirt on Mom* (1998), as Animator (uncredited)
- *Bride of Resistor* (1997), Director of Photography, Animation
- *Will Vinton's Claymation Easter* (1992), Animation
- *Will Vinton's Claymation Comedy of Horrors* (1991), Lead Animator
- *Wire We Here* (1991), as The Animator
- *Raisins Sold Out: The California Raisins II* (1990), Lead Animator
- *Claymation Christmas Celebration* (1987), Animation

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