Michael Sporn
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Michael Sporn (b. 23 April 1946) is an American animator who founded his New York-based company, Michael Sporn Animation in 1980, and has produced and directed numerous animated TV specials and short spots. He first made his mark with an animation for 99 Records release of Liquid Liquid's "Cavern".
Career
Sporn has produced and directed spots for Sesame Street, PBS stations such as WGBH, syndicated public service announcements such as the ones done with Sport Billy and for UNICEF, and also music videos, documentary and film titles and inserts, commercial logos, industrial spots for companies like Goodyear, and twelve 30-minute specials for broadcast outlets HBO, USA Network and CBS.
Sporn has also produced, directed or animated feature length TV specials or direct to video releases including The Night Before Christmas: A Mouse Tale and Whitewash. He is currently working on Poe, an animated feature film based on the life of Edgar Alan Poe. [1] It is due for release on October 23, 2008.
Awards and honors
The company's productions have had several nominations for various awards, and even won a few Emmy Awards, and even one Academy Awards nomination, as well as several more nominations with a few wins for the Cable ACE Awards and others. One such winner was the short film The Man Who Walked Between the Towers. (Heartland Film Festival 2005, "Crystal Heart Award"; Ottawa International Animation Festival, 2006, "Best Short Animation Made for Children").
