Born in Galt (now Cambridge), Manitoba, Canada. Multi-award-winning animator who has worked extensively for the National Film Board as well as for the CBC and several commercial animation studios. Hinton has animated, written, directed and produced over a dozen NFB films, including the award-winning BLOWHARD (1977), CANADA VIGNETTES: LADY FRANCES SIMPSON (1978), GIORDANO (1986), BLACKFLY (1991) -- which was nominated for an Oscar® -- and WATCHING TV (1994). As an independent filmmaker, he has animated and directed several films including THE GIFT (1981), FIPRECAN (1983), A PIECE OF THE ACTION (1983) and A NICE DAY IN THE COUNTRY (1988). In addition to FLUX (2002) -- a whimsical animated short about life, entropy and the inexorable march of time -- and TWANG (2002) -- a startling and ambiguous visual twang for connoisseurs of the World Wide Web -- other recent NFB animations include NIBBLES (2003), and cNOTE (2005), an assembly of digitized elements arranged to contemporary classical musical.    Nominated for Achievement in Animated Short Films 1991: BLACKFLY - Director    Nominated for Achievement in Animated Short Films 2003: NIBBLES - Director 2 nominations