Mike B. Anderson

Mike B. Anderson is a television director who works on The Simpsons and has directed numerous episodes of the show, and was animated in "The Secret War of Lisa Simpson" as cadet Anderson. He was also a Consulting Producer on the animated show, "The Oblongs" and Story Consultant on "Tripping the Rift". He also directed the feature films Alone in the T-Shirt Zone (1986) and Kamillions (1989). For "Homer's Phobia" he won the Annie Award for Best Individual Achievement: Directing in a TV Production, and the WAC Winner Best Director for Primetime Series at the 1998 World Animation Celebration. He has won two Emmy Awards for directing Simpsons episodes, "Homer's Phobia" in 1997 and "HOMR" in 2000. He is also a sequence director on "The Simpsons Movie".

The Simpsons episodes directed by Anderson

• "Lisa the Iconoclast"
• "Treehouse of Horror VII"
• "You Only Move Twice"
• "Homer's Phobia"
• "The Secret War of Lisa Simpson"
• "The Last Temptation of Krust"
• "Homer Simpson in: "Kidney Trouble"
• "Hello Gutter, Hello Fadder"
• "HOMR"
• "Trilogy of Error"
• "Tales from the Public Domain"
• "How I Spent My Strummer Vacation
• "The President Wore Pearls"
• "Margical History Tour"
• "The Way We Weren't"
• "Fat Man and Little Boy"
• "Pranksta Rap"
• "Marge's Son Poisoning"
• "Homer's Paternity Coot"
• "The Wettest Stories Ever Told"
• "Please Homer, Don't Hammer 'Em..."

Directors

Current directors Bob Anderson • Timothy Bailey • Chris Clements • Gabriel DeFrancesco • Matthew Faughnan • Lance Kramer • Debbie Bruce Mahan • Steven Dean Moore • Matthew Nastuk • Rob Oliver • Mike Frank Polcino Former directors Neil Affleck • Mike B. Anderson • Wes Archer • Carlos Baeza • Brad Bird • Kent Butterworth • Susie Dietter • Milton Gray • Jen Kamerman • Mark Kirkland • Nancy Kruse • Jeffrey Lynch • Lauren MacMullan • Michael Marcantel • Pete Michels • Jennifer Moeller • Rich Moore • Raymond S. Persi • Dominic Polcino • Jim Reardon • Matthew Schofield • Swinton O. Scott III • Chuck Sheetz • David Silverman • Ralph Sosa One time directors Shaun Cashman • Sang-Yong Eom • Klay Hall • Alan Smart • Gregg Vanzo Supervising directors Mike B. Anderson • Dominic Bianchi • Mark Kirkland • Pete Michels • James Purdum • Jim Reardon • David Silverman Second unit directors Timothy Bailey • Oscar Cervantes • Gabriel DeFrancesco • Karen Carnegie Johnson • Eric Koenig • Lance Kramer • Drew McPhail • Jennifer Moeller • Rob Oliver • Matthew Schofield • Shane K. Sowell Other directors Bill Brown • Stephen Chiodo • Sylvain Chomet • Guillermo del Toro • Bernard Derriman • David Green • John Harvatine IV • Garry Kitchen • Eric Koenig • Selina Mehta • Juan Meza-León • Chris Palmer • Bill Plympton • John Rice • Paul Robertson • Hal Rushton • Peter Shin • Bartek Socha • Jakob Socha • Jakub Socha • Kuba Socha • Michał Socha • Morgan Spurlock • Eric Towner