Kabir Akhtar

Kabir Akhtar (born January 11, 1975) is an American television director and editor, who won an Emmy Award in 2016. Akhtar is also the creator of The Tool Page [1], the oldest website about the band Tool. He ran the website (also known as "toolshed") from 1994 to 2016; it predated many popular sites, including mainstays Google, YouTube, and Yahoo!. Akhtar was an early innovator on the web, and gained some notoriety for being the source of several April Fools' Day pranks. 2Career Akhtar's credits include work for Arrested Development, New Girl, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, Behind the Music, and the Academy Awards. He has edited ten pilots which were made into series, including Speechless and Alex, Inc. He also directed the pilot episodes of the MTV series 8th & Ocean and the relaunched edition of Unsolved Mysteries.In 2005, while directing for Comedy Central's The Showbiz Show with David Spade, he directed a short film at the Skywalker Ranch. The short, which starred Brian Posehn alongside Star Wars characters Darth Vader and Chewbacca, was reviewed favorably by StarWars.com as being "like nothing you've ever seen." Akhtar also directed a series of shorts for Comedy Central starring Adam Sandler and Kate Beckinsale, which aired in 2006. Later that year, Akhtar was a guest on The Mediocre Show, where he was interviewed about his work and his association with Tool (see below). He also edited the opening film and several short films for the 78th Annual Academy Awards, which were well-reviewed.In 2007, NBC listed Akhtar as one of the entertainment industry's "People to Watch", for his work as an emerging directo