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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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== Credits ==
 
== Credits ==
 
=== Directed by ===
 
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*{{ep|3 Scenes Plus a Tag from a Marriage}}
 
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*{{ep|No Good Read Goes Unpunished}}
 
*{{ep|King Leer}}
 
*{{ep|Lisa Gets the Blues}}
 
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*{{ep|Left Behind}}
 
*{{ep|Throw Grampa from the Dane}}
 
*{{ep|Flanders' Ladder}}
 
*{{ep|Bart's Not Dead}}
 
*{{ep|Heartbreak Hotel}}
 
*{{ep|My Way or the Highway to Heaven}}
 
*{{THOH|Treehouse of Horror XXIX|(as Mike Hallow Weenie Anderson)}}
 
*{{ep|Baby You Can't Drive My Car}}
 
*{{ep|From Russia Without Love}}
 
*{{ep|Werking Mom}}
 
*{{ep|Krusty the Clown (episode)|pipe=yes|3=Krusty the Clown}}
 
*{{ep|Daddicus Finch}}
 
*{{ep|'Tis the 30th Season}}
 
*{{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}}
 
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*{{ep|The Incredible Lightness of Being a Baby}}
 
*{{ep|Warrin' Priests: Part One}}
 
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*{{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}}
 
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=== Special thanks ===
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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 50–51)
Status:
Active
Number of episodes: 554
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: "Women in Shorts"
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[edit]

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[edit]

Directed by[edit]

Character layout[edit]

Animation timer[edit]

Storyboard[edit]

Artist supervisor[edit]

Assistant director[edit]

Storyboard consultant[edit]

Additional timer[edit]

Storyboard revisions[edit]

Supervising director[edit]

Animation director[edit]

Sequence Director[edit]

Special thanks[edit]

Inks[edit]

Simpsons Comics and Stories:

Production art and character designs[edit]

Character art by[edit]

Interviewee[edit]

References[edit]

  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[edit]