Mike B. Anderson

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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 2000. 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), and is currently the supervising director for "The Simpsons" television series.

[edit] 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..."
• "Mona Leaves-a"

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Mike B. Anderson at the Internet Movie Database

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