Rob Oliver

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Rob Oliver

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Crew Information

Gender:	Male ♂
Job:	Character layout artist Director Storyboard artist Technical director
Birth date:	March 25, 1977 (1977-03-25) (age 48)
Status:	Active
Number of episodes:	197
Seasons active:	Season 8 - Present
First short:	The Force Awakens from Its Nap
Most recent short:	The Most Wonderful Time of the Year
First episode:	"The Old Man and the Lisa"
Most recent episode:	"Abe League of Their Moe"
Movie:	The Simpsons Movie
First book:	Bart Simpson's Treehouse of Horror: Heebie-Jeebie Hullabaloo
Most recent book:	The Simpsons Treehouse of Horror Ominous Omnibus Vol. 3: Fiendish Fables of Devilish Delicacies

Robert Douglas "Rob" Oliver (born March 25, 1977) is an American animator and director. He currently serves as a director and previously served as a character layout artist, storyboard artist, second unit director and technical director for The Simpsons.

Awards[edit]

Award	Year	Episode	Result
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Program	2012^[1]	"Holidays of Future Passed"	Nominated
2017^[2]	"The Town"
2018^[3]	"Gone Boy"
2019^[4]	"Mad About the Toy"	Won
2020^[5]	"Thanksgiving of Horror"	Nominated
2023^[6]	"Treehouse of Horror XXXIII"	Won
2025^[7]	"Bart's Birthday"	Nominated

Credits[edit]

Directed by[edit]

Episode – "The Boys of Bummer"

Episode – "Funeral for a Fiend"

Episode – "The Good, the Sad, and the Drugly"

Episode – "Rednecks and Broomsticks"

Episode – "Holidays of Future Passed"

Episode – "Adventures in Baby-Getting"

THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XXIV" (as The Thing That Ate Rob Oliver)

Episode – "Blazed and Confused"

Episode – "Sky Police"

Episode – "Puffless"

Episode – "Barthood"

Episode – "The Burns Cage"

Episode – "The Town"

Episode – "The Nightmare After Krustmas"

Episode – "Kamp Krustier"

Episode – "The Serfsons"

Episode – "Gone Boy"

Episode – "Forgive and Regret"

Episode – "My Way or the Highway to Heaven"

Episode – "Mad About the Toy"

Episode – "E My Sports"

Episode – "Marge the Lumberjill"

Episode – "Thanksgiving of Horror" (as Corn on the Cob Oliver)

Episode – "Better Off Ned"

Episode – "I, Carumbus"

Episode – "Sorry Not Sorry"

Episode – "Yokel Hero"

Episode – "The Star of the Backstage"

Episode – "Mothers and Other Strangers"

Episode – "My Octopus and a Teacher"

THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XXXIII" (as Grave Rob-ber Oliver)
Episode – "From Beer to Paternity"

Episode – "Bartless"

THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XXXIV" (as Rob Aaaaah!!!!liver)

Episode – "Do the Wrong Thing"

Episode – "Clan of the Cave Mom"

Episode – "Bart's Birthday"

Episode – "Convenience Airways"

Episode – "Abe League of Their Moe"

Character layout[edit]

Episode – "The Old Man and the Lisa"

THOH – "Treehouse of Horror VIII"

Episode – "Bart Carny"

Episode – "Dumbbell Indemnity"
Episode – "Lisa the Simpson"

Episode – "Natural Born Kissers"

Episode – "The Wizard of Evergreen Terrace"

THOH – "Treehouse of Horror IX"

Episode – "Homer Simpson in: "Kidney Trouble""

Episode – "I'm with Cupid"

Episode – "Make Room for Lisa"

Episode – "They Saved Lisa's Brain"

Episode – "Brother's Little Helper"

THOH – "Treehouse of Horror X"

Episode – "Hello Gutter, Hello Fadder"

Episode – "Little Big Mom"

Episode – "Saddlesore Galactica"

Episode – "Kill the Alligator and Run"

THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XI"
Episode – "A Tale of Two Springfields"

Episode – "The Great Money Caper"

Episode – "Bye, Bye, Nerdie"

THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XII"

Episode – "She of Little Faith"

Episode – "Jaws Wired Shut"

Episode – "Gump Roast"

THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XIII"

Episode – "The Great Louse Detective"

Episode – "A Star Is Born Again"

Episode – "Brake My Wife, Please"

Episode – "The Regina Monologues"

Episode – "Today I Am a Clown"

Episode – "I, (Annoyed Grunt)-bot"

Episode – "The Ziff Who Came to Dinner"

THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XV"

Episode – "Fat Man and Little Boy"
Episode – "Midnight Rx"

Episode – "Brick Like Me"

THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XXV"

Episode – "There Will Be Buds"

Episode – "Lisa Gets the Blues"

Episode – "Throw Grampa from the Dane"

Episode – "Werking Mom"

Episode – "D'oh Canada"

Episode – "Frinkcoin"

Episode – "The 7 Beer Itch"

Episode – "Boyz N the Highlands"

Episode – "Girls Just Shauna Have Fun"
Episode – "Marge the Meanie"

Episode – "The Many Saints of Springfield"

Episode – "Pin Gal"
Episode – "Fan-ily Feud"

Episode – "Homer's Adventures Through the Windshield Glass"

Episode – "McMansion & Wife"

Episode – "Night of the Living Wage"

Episode – "The Tipping Point"

Episode – "Shoddy Heat"

Episode – "The Past and the Furious"

Episode – "The Last Man Expanding"

Special – The Force Awakens from Its Nap

Special – When Billie Met Lisa
Special – Welcome to the Club

Special – The Most Wonderful Time of the Year

Assistant director[edit]

Episode – "The Father, the Son and the Holy Guest Star"

THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XVI"

Episode – "Simpsons Christmas Stories"

Episode – "Bart Has Two Mommies"

Episode – "Regarding Margie"

Episode – "Revenge Is a Dish Best Served Three Times"

Storyboard revisions[edit]

Episode – "Regarding Margie"

Episode – "The Boys of Bummer"

Episode – "Boy Meets Curl"

Episode – "The Kid Is All Right"

Storyboard[edit]

Episode – "Revenge Is a Dish Best Served Three Times"
Episode – "Little Big Girl"

Episode – "No Loan Again, Naturally"

Episode – "The Good, the Sad, and the Drugly"

Episode – "A Midsummer's Nice Dreams"

Episode – "Holidays of Future Passed"

Episode – "Homer Goes to Prep School"

Episode – "The Changing of the Guardian"

Episode – "Gorgeous Grampa"

Episode – "The Saga of Carl"

THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XXIV"

Episode – "Diggs"

Episode – "The Wreck of the Relationship"

Episode – "Blazed and Confused"

Episode – "Sky Police"

Episode – "Barthood"

Episode – "Better Off Ned"

Episode – "The Star of the Backstage"

Episode – "Mothers and Other Strangers"

Episode – "Clan of the Cave Mom"

Episode – "Bart's Birthday"

Episode – "Convenience Airways"

Additional sequence director[edit]

– The Simpsons Movie

Technical director[edit]

Episode – "Oh Brother, Where Bart Thou?"
Episode – "Thursdays with Abie"

Episode – "Million Dollar Maybe"
Episode – "Boy Meets Curl"

Episode – "The Greatest Story Ever D'ohed"
Episode – "American History X-cellent"
Episode – "Chief of Hearts"
Episode – "The Squirt and the Whale"
Episode – "To Surveil with Love"
Episode – "Moe Letter Blues"

Episode – "The Bob Next Door"
Episode – "Judge Me Tender"

Episode – "Elementary School Musical"
Episode – "Loan-a Lisa"
Episode – "MoneyBart"
THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XXI"
Episode – "Lisa Simpson, This Isn't Your Life"
Episode – "The Fool Monty"
Episode – "How Munched Is That Birdie in the Window?"
Episode – "The Fight Before Christmas"
Episode – "Donnie Fatso"
Episode – "Moms I'd Like to Forget"
Episode – "Flaming Moe"
Episode – "Homer the Father"
Episode – "The Blue and the Gray"
Episode – "Angry Dad: The Movie"
Episode – "The Scorpion's Tale"
Episode – "A Midsummer's Nice Dreams"
Episode – "Love Is a Many-Strangled Thing"
Episode – "The Great Simpsina"
Episode – "The Real Housewives of Fat Tony"
Episode – "Homer Scissorhands"
Episode – "500 Keys"
Episode – "The Ned-liest Catch"

Episode – "The Falcon and the D'ohman"
Episode – "Bart Stops to Smell the Roosevelts"

Episode – "Replaceable You"
Episode – "The Food Wife"

Episode – "The Man in the Blue Flannel Pants"
Episode – "The Ten-Per-Cent Solution"

Episode – "Politically Inept, with Homer Simpson"

Episode – "The D'oh-cial Network"

Episode – "Moe Goes from Rags to Riches"

Episode – "The Daughter Also Rises"

Episode – "At Long Last Leave"

Episode – "Exit Through the Kwik-E-Mart"

Episode – "How I Wet Your Mother"
Episode – "Them, Robot"

Episode – "Beware My Cheating Bart"
Episode – "A Totally Fun Thing Bart Will Never Do Again"
Episode – "The Spy Who Learned Me"
Episode – "Ned 'n Edna's Blend Agenda"
Episode – "Lisa Goes Gaga"

Episode – "Moonshine River"
THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XXIII"

Episode – "Gone Abie Gone"
Episode – "Penny-Wiseguys"
Episode – "A Tree Grows in Springfield"
Episode – "The Day the Earth Stood Cool"

Animatic layout[edit]

Episode – "Married to the Blob"

Episode – "Days of Future Future"

Episode – "Pay Pal"

Episode – "The Wreck of the Relationship"

Episode – "Opposites A-Frack"
Episode – "Simpsorama"

Second unit director[edit]

Episode – "The Changing of the Guardian"
Episode – "Love Is a Many-Splintered Thing"
Episode – "Hardly Kirk-ing"
Episode – "Gorgeous Grampa"
Episode – "Black-Eyed, Please"

Episode – "What Animated Women Want"

Episode – "Dangers on a Train"

Episode – "Four Regrettings and a Funeral"

Episode – "Diggs"
Episode – "The Man Who Grew Too Much"

Episode – "The War of Art"
Episode – "You Don't Have to Live Like a Referee"

Episode – "Pay Pal"

Episode – "Super Franchise Me"

Episode – "The Man Who Came to Be Dinner"

Episode – "Bull-E"
Episode – "Mathlete's Feat"

Episode – "Every Man's Dream"

Episode – "The Man from G.R.A.M.P.A."

Animation director[edit]

Special – The Simpsons Take the Bowl

Opening sequence assistant director[edit]

Episode – "The Winter of His Content"

Character design[edit]

Episode – "My Way or the Highway to Heaven"

Episode – "Mad About the Toy"

Episode – "The Star of the Backstage"

Episode – "My Octopus and a Teacher"

Episode – "From Beer to Paternity"

Additional storyboards[edit]

THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XXXIV"

Lead character layout[edit]

Episode – "Lisa Gets an F1"

Contributing artist[edit]

Book – Bart Simpson's Treehouse of Horror: Heebie-Jeebie Hullabaloo

Book – Bart Simpson's Treehouse of Horror: Spine-Tingling Spooktacular

Character art by[edit]

Book – The Simpsons Handbook

References[edit]

See also[edit]

Episodes directed by Rob Oliver

External links[edit]

Rob Oliver at the Internet Movie Database
Rob Oliver at Wikipedia
Rob Oliver at Twitter

Directors

Assistant directors

Animatic layout artists and Animatic editors

Character designers

Character layout artists

Storyboard artists and Storyboard revisionists

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