Mike B. Anderson

Mike B. Anderson
Mike Anderson at the 2009 Comic Con in San Diego.
Born	Michael B. Anderson Burbank, California
Other names	Mikel B. Anderson
Occupation	Television director
Known for	The Simpsons

Mike B. Anderson, sometimes credited as Mikel 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. While a college student, he directed the live action feature films Alone in the T-Shirt Zone (1986) and Kamillions (1989). Since 1990, he has worked primarily in animation including being a consulting producer on the series, "The Oblongs", and story consultant on "Tripping the Rift". He has won two Emmy Awards for directing Simpsons episodes, "Homer's Phobia" in 1997 and "HOMR" in 2001. For "Homer's Phobia" he won the Annie Award for Best Individual Achievement: Directing in a TV Production,^[1] and the WAC Winner Best Director for Primetime Series at the 1998 World Animation Celebration.^[2] Mike was also a sequence director on "The Simpsons Movie" (2007), was the supervising director on "The Simpsons Ride" at Universal Studios and is currently the supervising director for "The Simpsons" television series.

The Simpsons episodes directed by Anderson

Season Seven

• "Lisa the Iconoclast"

Season Eight

• "Treehouse of Horror VII"
• "You Only Move Twice"
• "Homer's Phobia"
• "The Secret War of Lisa Simpson"

Season Nine

• "The Last Temptation of Krust"

Season Ten

• "Homer Simpson in: "Kidney Trouble"

Season Eleven

• "Hello Gutter, Hello Fadder"

Season Twelve

• "HOMR"
• "Trilogy of Error"

Season Thirteen

• "Tales from the Public Domain"

Season Fourteen

• "How I Spent My Strummer Vacation"
• "C.E. D'oh"

Season Fifteen

• "The President Wore Pearls"
• "Margical History Tour"
• "The Way We Weren't"

Season Sixteen

• "Fat Man and Little Boy"
• "Pranksta Rap"

Season Seventeen

• "Marge's Son Poisoning"
• "Homer's Paternity Coot"
• "The Wettest Stories Ever Told"

Season Eighteen

• "Please Homer, Don't Hammer 'Em..."

Season Nineteen

• "Mona Leaves-a"

Season Twenty-One

• "Treehouse of Horror XX"

References

1. ^ "25th Annual Annie Award Nominees and Winners". AnnieAwards.com. http://www.annieawards.com/25thannieawardwinners.htm. Retrieved 2007-04-10. 
2. ^ "World Animation Celebration: 1998". Internet Movie Database. http://www.imdb.com/Sections/Awards/World_Animation_Celebration/1998. Retrieved 2007-04-10. 

External links

• Mike B. Anderson at the Internet Movie Database

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