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Mike B. Anderson

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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: 529
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 Flandshees of Innersimpson"
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"
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"

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


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