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John Canemaker

John Canemaker

Director · Born 1943-05-28

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Biography

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.

Directed

  1. The Moon and the Son: An Imagined Conversation (2005) — Director
  2. Bottom's Dream (1984) — Director
  3. Remembering Winsor McCay (1976) — Director
  4. Street Freaks (1974) — Director
  5. Otto Messmer and Felix the Cat (1977) — Director
  6. The John Lennon Sketchbook (1986) — Director
  7. Hands (2019) — Director
  8. The 40s (1974) — Director
  9. Bridgehampton (1998) — Director
  10. Confessions of a Stardreamer (1979) — Director

Also appeared in

  1. Frank and Ollie (1995) — Himself
  2. Walt & El Grupo (2008) — Self
  3. Dalí & Disney: A Date with Destino (2010) — Self
  4. Tyrus (2015) — Self
  5. Camera Three — Self/Host
  6. Disney's 'Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs': Still the Fairest of Them All (2001) — Himself
  7. Cartoon Carnival (2021) — Self
  8. The Fantasia Legacy: The Concert Feature (2000) — Self
  9. Lady's Pedigree: The Making of Lady and the Tramp (2006) — Self
  10. Earthday Birthday (1990) — (voice)
  11. From Rags to Riches: The Making of Cinderella (2005) — Self
  12. Celebrating Dumbo (2001) — Self
  13. Cartoon Logic (2005) — Self
  14. Forging the Frame: The Roots of Animation, 1921-1930 (2008) — Self
  15. Forging the Frame: The Roots of Animation, 1900-1920 (2007) — Himself
  16. Byron B. Blackbear and the Scientific Method (1980) — (voice)
  17. Felix the Cat Through the Ages — Himself
  18. The Art of Mary Blair (2005) — Self
  19. Otto Messmer and Felix the Cat (1977) — Narrator
  20. Taking Flight: The Making of Dumbo (2010) — Himself
  21. King-Size Comedy: Tex Avery and the Looney Tunes Revolution (2012) — Self
  22. Secrets of New York (2005) — Self