Jan Lachauer

{{Short description|German filmmaker and animator}}

Jan Lachauer (born 1983 in Munich) is a film maker and animator from Germany. Lachauer and fellow producer Max Lang were nominated for an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film for the film Room on the Broom.{{Cite news|url=http://www.oscars.org/awards/academyawards/legacy/ceremony/86th-winners.html |title=The 86th Academy Awards (2013) Nominees and Winners |accessdate=August 30, 2014 |work=Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences |publisher=AMPAS |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20141001025332/http://www.oscars.org/awards/academyawards/legacy/ceremony/86th-winners.html |archivedate=October 1, 2014 }} He was nominated a second time in the same category in 2017 for the film Revolting Rhymes, alongside his co-director & co-writer Jakob Schuh.{{cite news|url=https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/2018 |title=2018 Oscars.org Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences}}