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'''Michael "Mike" B. Anderson''' (born 1973) is an American television director. He currently serves as a supervising director for ''[[The Simpsons]]'' and previously served as a director, character layout artist, storyboard artist, assistant director, and storyboard consultant.
 
'''Michael "Mike" B. Anderson''' (born 1973) is an American television director. He currently serves as a supervising director for ''[[The Simpsons]]'' and previously served as a director, character layout artist, storyboard artist, assistant director, and storyboard consultant.
  
For "[[Homer's Phobia]]" he won the ''Annie Award for Best Individual Achievement: Directing in a TV Production'',<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.annieawards.com/25thannieawardwinners.htm|title=25th Annual Annie Award Nominees and Winners|accessdate=2007-04-10|publisher=AnnieAwards.com}}</ref> and the ''WAC Winner Best Director for Primetime Series'' at the 1998 World Animation Celebration.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.imdb.com/Sections/Awards/World_Animation_Celebration/1998|title=World Animation Celebration: 1998|accessdate=2007-04-10|publisher=Internet Movie Database}}</ref> He has won two Emmy Awards for directing Simpsons episodes, "Homer's Phobia" in 1997 and "[[HOMЯ]]" in 2000. He is also a sequence director on ''[[The Simpsons Movie]]''. He was also interviewed in ''[[The Simpsons: Access All Areas]]''.
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He also served as a sequence director on ''[[The Simpsons Movie]]'' and was interviewed in ''[[The Simpsons: Access All Areas]]''.
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== Awards ==
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{{TBT|{{W|Annie Award for Outstanding Achievement for Directing in an Animated Television/Broadcast Production|Annie Award for Best Individual Achievement: Directing in a TV Production}}}}
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{{TB|[[1997]]<ref name="Annie1997">[https://web.archive.org/web/20110808193725/http://annieawards.org/25thwinners.html The Annie Awards - "Legacy: 25th Annual Annie Award Nominees and Winners (1997)"] (archived on {{W|Wayback Machine}})</ref>}}
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{{TB|"[[Homer's Phobia]]"}}
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{{TB|'''Won'''}}
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{{TRsT|{{W|Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Program}}|10}}
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{{TB|[[1997]]<ref>[https://www.emmys.com/awards/nominees-winners/1997/outstanding-short-format-animated-program Television Academy - "Outstanding Animated Program (for Programming One Hour or Less.) – 1997"]</ref>}}
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{{TB|"[[Homer's Phobia]]"}}
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{{TRs|'''Won'''|2}}
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{{TBT|[[2001]]<ref>[https://www.emmys.com/awards/nominees-winners/2001/outstanding-short-format-animated-program Television Academy - "Outstanding Animated Program (for Programming Less than One Hour) – 2001"]</ref>}}
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{{TB|"[[HOMЯ]]"}}
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{{TBT|[[2004]]<ref>[https://www.emmys.com/awards/nominees-winners/2004/outstanding-short-format-animated-program Television Academy - "Outstanding Animated Program (for programming less than one hour) - 2004"]</ref>}}
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{{TB|"[[The Way We Weren't]]"}}
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{{TRs|Nominated|2}}
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{{TBT|[[2005]]<ref>[https://www.emmys.com/awards/nominees-winners/2005/outstanding-short-format-animated-program Television Academy - "Outstanding Animated Program (for programming less than one hour) - 2005"]</ref>}}
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{{TB|"[[Future-Drama]]"}}
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{{TBT|[[2009]]<ref>[https://www.emmys.com/awards/nominees-winners/2009/outstanding-short-format-animated-program Television Academy - "Outstanding Animated Program (for programming less than one hour) - 2009"]</ref>}}
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{{TB|"[[Gone Maggie Gone]]"}}
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{{TRs|Nominated|9}}
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{{TBT|[[2010]]<ref>[https://www.emmys.com/awards/nominees-winners/2010/outstanding-animated-program Television Academy - "Outstanding Animated Program - 2010"]</ref>}}
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{{TB|"[[Once Upon a Time in Springfield]]"}}
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{{TBT|[[2011]]<ref>[https://www.emmys.com/awards/nominees-winners/2011/outstanding-animated-program Television Academy - "Outstanding Animated Program - 2011"]</ref>}}
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{{TB|"[[Angry Dad: The Movie]]"}}
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{{TBT|[[2012]]<ref>[https://www.emmys.com/awards/nominees-winners/2012/outstanding-animated-program Television Academy - "Outstanding Animated Program - 2012"]</ref>}}
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{{TB|"[[Holidays of Future Passed]]"}}
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{{TBT|[[2013]]<ref>[https://www.emmys.com/awards/nominees-winners/2013/outstanding-animated-program Television Academy - "Outstanding Animated Program - 2013"]</ref>}}
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{{TB|"[[Treehouse of Horror XXIII]]"}}
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{{TBT|[[2015]]<ref>[https://www.emmys.com/awards/nominees-winners/2015/outstanding-animated-program Television Academy - "Outstanding Animated Program - 2015"]</ref>}}
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{{TB|"[[Treehouse of Horror XXV]]"}}
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{{TRsT|{{W|Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Program}}|9}}
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{{TB|[[2016]]<ref>[https://www.emmys.com/awards/nominees-winners/2016/outstanding-animated-program Television Academy - "Outstanding Animated Program - 2016"]</ref>}}
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{{TB|"[[Halloween of Horror]]"}}
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{{TBT|[[2017]]<ref>[https://www.emmys.com/awards/nominees-winners/2017/outstanding-animated-program Television Academy - "Outstanding Animated Program - 2017"]</ref>}}
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{{TB|"[[The Town]]"}}
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{{TBT|[[2018]]<ref>[https://www.emmys.com/awards/nominees-winners/2018/outstanding-animated-program Television Academy - "Outstanding Animated Program - 2018"]</ref>}}
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{{TB|"[[Gone Boy]]"}}
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{{TBT|[[2019]]<ref>[https://www.emmys.com/awards/nominees-winners/2019/outstanding-animated-program Television Academy - "Outstanding Animated Program - 2019"]</ref>}}
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{{TB|"[[Mad About the Toy]]"}}
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{{TB|'''Won'''}}
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{{TBT|[[2020]]<ref>[https://www.emmys.com/awards/nominees-winners/2020/outstanding-animated-program Television Academy - "Outstanding Animated Program - 2020"]</ref>}}
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{{TB|"[[Thanksgiving of Horror]]"}}
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{{TRs|Nominated|3}}
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{{TBT|[[2021]]<ref>[https://www.emmys.com/awards/nominees-winners/2021/outstanding-animated-program Television Academy - "Outstanding Animated Program - 2021"]</ref>}}
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{{TB|"[[The Dad-Feelings Limited]]"}}
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{{TBT|[[2022]]<ref>[https://www.emmys.com/awards/nominees-winners/2022/outstanding-animated-program Television Academy - "Outstanding Animated Program - 2022"]</ref>}}
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{{TB|"[[Pixelated and Afraid]]"}}
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{{TBT|[[2023]]<ref>[https://www.emmys.com/awards/nominees-winners/2023/outstanding-animated-program Television Academy - "Outstanding Animated Program - 2023"]</ref>}}
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{{TB|"[[Treehouse of Horror XXXIII]]"}}
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{{TB|'''Won'''}}
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{{TBT|[[2024]]<ref>[https://www.emmys.com/awards/nominees-winners/2024/outstanding-animated-program Television Academy - "Outstanding Animated Program - 2024"]</ref>}}
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{{TB|"[[Night of the Living Wage]]"}}
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{{TB|Nominated}}
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== Credits ==
 
== Credits ==
 
=== Directed by ===
 
=== Directed by ===
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{{Season29A|all=yes|E4n=as Mike B. Head on Fire}}
 
{{Season29A|all=yes|E4n=as Mike B. Head on Fire}}
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{{Season30A|all=yes|E4n=as Mike Hallow Weenie Anderson}}
*{{ep|Heartbreak Hotel}}
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{{Season31A|all=yes|E4n=as Destroy All Monsters B. Anderson|E8n=as Mike Pecan-derson}}
*{{ep|My Way or the Highway to Heaven}}
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{{Season32A|all=yes|E4n=as Might B. Alien}}
*{{THOH|Treehouse of Horror XXIX|(as Mike Hallow Weenie Anderson)}}
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{{Season33A|all=yes|E3n=as Mike BRAiiiiiiNS Anderson}}
*{{ep|Baby You Can't Drive My Car}}
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{{Season34A|all=yes|E6n=as My Bloody Anderson}}
*{{ep|From Russia Without Love}}
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{{Season35A|all=yes|E5n=as Maul, Bite, Eat, Repeat}}
*{{ep|Werking Mom}}
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{{Season36A|all=yes|E5n=as Death by Steamed Ham Anderson}}
*{{ep|Krusty the Clown (episode)|pipe=yes|3=Krusty the Clown}}
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{{SpecialsA
*{{ep|Daddicus Finch}}
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*{{ep|'Tis the 30th Season}}
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*{{ep|Mad About the Toy}}
 
*{{ep|The Girl on the Bus}}
 
*{{ep|I'm Dancing as Fat as I Can}}
 
*{{ep|The Clown Stays in the Picture}}
 
*{{ep|101 Mitigations}}
 
*{{ep|I Want You (She's So Heavy)}}
 
*{{ep|E My Sports}}
 
*{{ep|Bart vs. Itchy & Scratchy}}
 
*{{ep|Girl's in the Band}}
 
*{{ep|I'm Just a Girl Who Can't Say D'oh}}
 
*{{ep|D'oh Canada}}
 
*{{ep|Woo-hoo Dunnit?}}
 
*{{ep|Crystal Blue-Haired Persuasion}}
 
*{{ep|The Winter of Our Monetized Content}}
 
*{{ep|Go Big or Go Homer}}
 
*{{ep|The Fat Blue Line}}
 
*{{THOH|Treehouse of Horror XXX|(as Destroy All Monsters B. Anderson)}}
 
*{{ep|Gorillas on the Mast}}
 
*{{ep|Marge the Lumberjill}}
 
*{{ep|Livin La Pura Vida}}
 
*{{ep|Thanksgiving of Horror|(as Mike Pecan-derson)}}
 
*{{ep|Todd, Todd, Why Hast Thou Forsaken Me?}}
 
*{{ep|Bobby, It's Cold Outside}}
 
*{{ep|Hail to the Teeth}}
 
*{{ep|The Miseducation of Lisa Simpson}}
 
*{{ep|Frinkcoin}}
 
*{{ep|Bart the Bad Guy}}
 
*{{ep|Screenless}}
 
*{{ep|Better Off Ned}}
 
*{{ep|Highway to Well}}
 
*{{ep|The Incredible Lightness of Being a Baby}}
 
*{{ep|Warrin' Priests: Part One}}
 
*{{ep|Warrin' Priests: Part Two}}
 
*{{ep|The Hateful Eight-Year-Olds}}
 
*{{ep|The Way of the Dog}}
 
*{{ep|Undercover Burns}}
 
*{{ep|I, Carumbus}}
 
*{{ep|Now Museum, Now You Don't}}
 
*{{THOH|Treehouse of Horror XXXI}}
 
*{{ep|The 7 Beer Itch}}
 
*{{ep|Podcast News}}
 
*{{ep|Three Dreams Denied}}
 
*{{ep|The Road to Cincinnati}}
 
*{{ep|Sorry Not Sorry}}
 
*{{ep|A Springfield Summer Christmas for Christmas}}
 
*{{ep|The Dad-Feelings Limited}}
 
*{{ep|Diary Queen}}
 
*{{ep|Wad Goals}}
 
*{{ep|Yokel Hero}}
 
*{{ep|Do PizzaBots Dream of Electric Guitars?}}
 
*{{ep|Manger Things}}
 
*{{ep|Uncut Femmes}}
 
*{{ep|Burger Kings}}
 
*{{ep|Panic on the Streets of Springfield}}
 
*{{ep|Mother and Child Reunion}}
 
*{{ep|The Man from G.R.A.M.P.A.}}
 
*{{ep|The Last Barfighter}}
 
*{{ep|The Star of the Backstage}}
 
*{{ep|Bart's in Jail!}}
 
*{{THOH|Treehouse of Horror XXXII|(as Mike BRAiiiiiiNS Anderson)}}
 
*{{ep|The Wayz We Were}}
 
*{{ep|Lisa's Belly}}
 
*{{ep|A Serious Flanders (Part 1)}}
 
*{{ep|A Serious Flanders (Part 2)}}
 
*{{ep|Portrait of a Lackey on Fire}}
 
*{{ep|Mothers and Other Strangers}}
 
*{{ep|A Made Maggie}}
 
*{{ep|The Longest Marge}}
 
*{{ep|Pixelated and Afraid}}
 
*{{ep|Boyz N the Highlands}}
 
*{{ep|You Won't Believe What This Episode Is About – Act Three Will Shock You!}}
 
*{{ep|Bart the Cool Kid}}
 
*{{ep|Pretty Whittle Liar}}
 
*{{ep|The Sound of Bleeding Gums}}
 
*{{ep|My Octopus and a Teacher}}
 
*{{ep|Girls Just Shauna Have Fun}}
 
*{{ep|Marge the Meanie}}
 
*{{ep|Meat Is Murder}}
 
*{{ep|Poorhouse Rock}}
 
*{{ep|Habeas Tortoise}}
 
*{{ep|One Angry Lisa}}
 
*{{ep|Lisa the Boy Scout}}
 
*{{ep|The King of Nice}}
 
*{{THOH|Not It}}
 
*{{THOH|Treehouse of Horror XXXIII|(as My Bloody Anderson)}}
 
*{{ep|From Beer to Paternity}}
 
*{{ep|Step Brother from the Same Planet}}
 
*{{spec|The Simpsons Take the Bowl}}
 
 
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=== Special thanks ===
 
=== Special thanks ===
*{{spec|Playdate with Destiny}}
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*{{spec|The Force Awakens from Its Nap}}
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=== Inks ===
 
=== Inks ===
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'''Simpsons Comics and Stories:'''
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=== Production art and character designs ===
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*{{bk|The Simpsons Beyond Forever!}}
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*{{bk|The Simpsons Handbook}}
  
 
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Mike B. Anderson
Mike B. Anderson.jpg
Crew Information
Gender:
Male ♂
Job: Supervising director
Character layout artist
Director
Birth date: 1973 (age 51–52)
Status:
Active
Number of episodes: 562
Seasons active: Season 1 - Present
First short: The Longest Daycare
Most recent short: The Force Awakens from Its Nap
First episode: "Simpson and Delilah"
Most recent episode: "The Past and the Furious"
Movie: The Simpsons Movie
Comic: Lo, There Shall Come... A Bartman!!
First book: The Simpsons Beyond Forever!
Most recent book: The Simpsons Handbook
Music video: Do the Bartman


Michael "Mike" B. Anderson (born 1973) is an American television director. He currently serves as a supervising director for The Simpsons and previously served as a director, character layout artist, storyboard artist, assistant director, and storyboard consultant.

He also served as a sequence director on The Simpsons Movie and was interviewed in The Simpsons: Access All Areas.

Awards

Award Year Episode Result
Annie Award for Best Individual Achievement: Directing in a TV Production 1997[1] "Homer's Phobia" Won
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Program 1997[2] "Homer's Phobia" Won
2001[3] "HOMЯ"
2004[4] "The Way We Weren't" Nominated
2005[5] "Future-Drama"
2009[6] "Gone Maggie Gone" Nominated
2010[7] "Once Upon a Time in Springfield"
2011[8] "Angry Dad: The Movie"
2012[9] "Holidays of Future Passed"
2013[10] "Treehouse of Horror XXIII"
2015[11] "Treehouse of Horror XXV"
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Program 2016[12] "Halloween of Horror"
2017[13] "The Town"
2018[14] "Gone Boy"
2019[15] "Mad About the Toy" Won
2020[16] "Thanksgiving of Horror" Nominated
2021[17] "The Dad-Feelings Limited"
2022[18] "Pixelated and Afraid"
2023[19] "Treehouse of Horror XXXIII" Won
2024[20] "Night of the Living Wage" Nominated

Credits

Directed by

Character layout

Animation timer

Storyboard

Artist supervisor

Assistant director

Storyboard consultant

Additional timer

Storyboard revisions

Supervising director

Animation director

Sequence Director

Special thanks

Inks

Simpsons Comics and Stories:

Production art and character designs

Character art by

Interviewee

References

  1. The Annie Awards - "Legacy: 25th Annual Annie Award Nominees and Winners (1997)" (archived on Wayback Machine)
  2. Television Academy - "Outstanding Animated Program (for Programming One Hour or Less.) – 1997"
  3. Television Academy - "Outstanding Animated Program (for Programming Less than One Hour) – 2001"
  4. Television Academy - "Outstanding Animated Program (for programming less than one hour) - 2004"
  5. Television Academy - "Outstanding Animated Program (for programming less than one hour) - 2005"
  6. Television Academy - "Outstanding Animated Program (for programming less than one hour) - 2009"
  7. Television Academy - "Outstanding Animated Program - 2010"
  8. Television Academy - "Outstanding Animated Program - 2011"
  9. Television Academy - "Outstanding Animated Program - 2012"
  10. Television Academy - "Outstanding Animated Program - 2013"
  11. Television Academy - "Outstanding Animated Program - 2015"
  12. Television Academy - "Outstanding Animated Program - 2016"
  13. Television Academy - "Outstanding Animated Program - 2017"
  14. Television Academy - "Outstanding Animated Program - 2018"
  15. Television Academy - "Outstanding Animated Program - 2019"
  16. Television Academy - "Outstanding Animated Program - 2020"
  17. Television Academy - "Outstanding Animated Program - 2021"
  18. Television Academy - "Outstanding Animated Program - 2022"
  19. Television Academy - "Outstanding Animated Program - 2023"
  20. Television Academy - "Outstanding Animated Program - 2024"


External links