Directing
John Canemaker
1943-05-28
John Canemaker has won an Academy Award, an Emmy and a Peabody Award for his animation and is an internationally-renowned animation historian and teacher. A key figure in American independent animation, Canemaker’s work has a distinctive personal style emphasizing emotion, personality and dynamic visual expression. His film, The Moon and the Son: An Imagined Conversation, won an Oscar in 2005 for Best Animated Short, as well as an Emmy. A 28-minute autobiographical essay about a troubled father/son relationship, The Moon and the Son marked a personal and professional breakthrough in animation storytelling. Canemaker is also a noted author who has written nine books on animation, as well as numerous essays, articles and monographs for The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal, among other publications.
Known for
Frank and Ollie
Walt & El Grupo
The Moon and the Son: An Imagined Conversation
Dalí & Disney: A Date with Destino
You Don't Have to Die
Tyrus
Disney's 'Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs': Still the Fairest of Them All
Camera Three
Cartoon Carnival
Lady's Pedigree: The Making of Lady and the Tramp
From Rags to Riches: The Making of Cinderella
Cartoon Logic
Celebrating Dumbo
Santabear's High Flying Adventure
Bottom's Dream
Remembering Winsor McCay
Movie credits · 36
Cartoon Carnival
Hands
Tyrus
King-Size Comedy: Tex Avery and the Looney Tunes Revolution
Dalí & Disney: A Date with Destino
Taking Flight: The Making of Dumbo
Chuck Jones: Memories of Childhood
Forging the Frame: The Roots of Animation, 1921-1930
Walt & El Grupo
Forging the Frame: The Roots of Animation, 1900-1920
Lady's Pedigree: The Making of Lady and the Tramp
From Rags to Riches: The Making of Cinderella
Cartoon Logic
She She She She's a Bombshell
The Moon and the Son: An Imagined Conversation
The Art of Mary Blair
Shadowplay
Celebrating Dumbo
Disney's 'Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs': Still the Fairest of Them All
The Fantasia Legacy: The Concert Feature
A Letter from the Western Front
Bridgehampton
Frank and Ollie
Earthday Birthday
You Don't Have to Die
Santabear's High Flying Adventure
Lyle, Lyle Crocodile: The Musical - The House on East 88th Street
The John Lennon Sketchbook
Bottom's Dream
Byron B. Blackbear and the Scientific Method
Confessions of a Stardreamer
Otto Messmer and Felix the Cat
Remembering Winsor McCay
The 40s
Street Freaks
Felix the Cat Through the Ages
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