Patrick Osborne (animator)

Patrick Osborne
Osborne at San Diego Comic-Con 2016
Occupation	animator and film director
Years active	2005-present

Patrick Osborne is an American animator and film director. He won the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film for his 2014 film Feast.

Osborne grew up in the Cincinnati suburb of Green Township, and graduated from St. Xavier High School in Cincinnati in 1999. He earned a degree in computer animation from the Ringling College of Art and Design in 2003.

Osborne's directorial debut was the short film Feast (2014), about a Boston Terrier who loves getting fed junk food. The short was produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios and premiered in front of Big Hero 6 (2014) in theaters. It won the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film in 2015.

Osborne had previously worked as an animator on films such as Wreck-It Ralph (2012) and Bolt (2008).

Osborne directed Pearl for Google's Spotlight Stories, a short film about the relationship between a father and his daughter. The film is set entirely in a car and shows the decay of the car and the structure of the film reflects the song which plays throughout it. It uses cuts, which were previously unexplored, and over forty sets, which is more than any other of the Google Spotlight shorts.

He is also currently directing the cinematic adaptations of Noelle Stevenson's online comic Nimona and Paul Pope's graphic novel Battling Boy.

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