Mark Osborne (filmmaker)
| Mark Osborne | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Mark Randolph Osborne September 17, 1970 Trenton, New Jersey, U.S. |
| Occupation | Film director, film producer, screenwriter, animator |
| Years active | 1993-present |
| Notable work |
More Kung Fu Panda The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie The Little Prince |
| Children | Riley Maddie |
| Relatives | Kent Osborne (brother) |
Mark Randolph Osborne (September 17, 1970) is an American film director, writer, producer and animator.
Osborne began his career by studying Foundation Art at Pratt Institute in New York before receiving his Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree in Experimental Animation from the California Institute of the Arts in June 1992. His thesis film, Greener, won numerous awards and was screened at more than 40 film festivals worldwide. He has received two Academy Award nominations, including one for Best Animated Feature of the year for the 2008 critically acclaimed Kung Fu Panda which he directed alongside John Stevenson.Kung Fu Panda has netted more than $630 million worldwide to-date. The action-comedy was Osborne's first major studio project. It also won him and Stevenson the Annie Award for Directing in an Animated Feature Production.
Osborne's other most well-known work to date, award winning stop motion animated short, More, has been screened at over 150 film festivals worldwide. It was the first IMAX animation film to ever be nominated for an Academy Award (1999). More garnered an Oscar nomination for Best Animated Short, Special Jury Prize for Short Films at the Sundance Film Festival (1999), The SXSW Best Animated Short (1999), the ResFest Grand Prize (1999), the Critics Week selection for CANNES (1999), among many others.
Osborne has also directed a majority of the live-action material for the popular animated TV series SpongeBob SquarePants featuring Patchy the Pirate, as well as all of the live action sequences for The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie, featuring David Hasselhoff. He was classmates with the television show's creator, Stephen Hillenburg, while a student at CalArts. He worked as director on SpongeBob episodes such as "The Sponge Who Could Fly" and "SpongeBob B.C."
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