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Mike B. Anderson

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Mike B. Anderson
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Crew Information
Gender:
Male ♂
Job: Supervising director
Character layout artist
Director
Birth date: 1973 (age 50–51)
Status:
Active
Number of episodes: 550
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 Yellow Lotus"
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"


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