Mark Osborne (filmmaker)
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Mark Randolph Osborne is an American film director
, writer
, producer
, animator
and Guggenheim Fellow (2004).
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 screened at more than 40 film festival worldwide.
Osborne has received two Academy Award nominations. Most recently for Best Animated Feature of the year for the 2008 critically acclaimed animated film Kung Fu Panda
, which he directed alongside John Stevenson. Kung Fu Panda
has netted a worldwide box office of more than $630 million to-date and features the voice talents of Jack Black
, Dustin Hoffman
, Angelina Jolie
, Lucy Liu
and Seth Rogen
. The DreamWorks
family-friendly action-comedy was Osborne's first major studio project.
Osborne's other most well-known work to date, award winning stop motion
animated short, More
, has screened in 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 also worked as director on SpongeBob episodes such as "The Sponge Who Could Fly" and "SpongeBob B.C.".
His other live action directing credits include his independent feature film Dropping Out, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival
in 2000, and has developed a cult following. Written by and starring Osborne's brother Kent, the darkly satirical comedy features David Koechner
, John Stamos
, Adam Arkin
and Fred Willard
. Bachelor Pad was also a short live-action comedy Mark did with his brother Kent Osborne and Dylan Haggerty in the late 1980s. Parts of Bachelor Pad can be seen in the unaired second episode of Taterhole, which was a spin-off to The Rudy and Gogo World Famous Cartoon Show
in 1997. The entire episode can be viewed at rudyandgogo.com. Osborne's short, Greener was also broadcast on TNT
's "Rudy and GoGo's New Year's Eve Flaming Cheese Ball" special on New Year's Eve 1995/1996.
In October 2010, Osborne was hired to direct The Little Prince
for Gallic S3D.
For a while, Osborne taught stop-motion at his alma mater, CalArts. He later left to pursue his professional aspirations.
In 2004 Osborne was awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship to assist in the production of another personal stop-motion short film, The Better Half.
He is the brother of TV writer and producer, Kent Osborne.
Recently Tenacious D
created a new song for Osborne to use in a comedy segment of the potential David Fincher
produced film Heavy Metal
.
Film director
A film director is a person who directs the actors and film crew in filmmaking. They control a film's artistic and dramatic nathan roach, while guiding the technical crew and actors.-Responsibilities:...
, writer
Writer
A writer is a person who produces literature, such as novels, short stories, plays, screenplays, poetry, or other literary art. Skilled writers are able to use language to portray ideas and images....
, producer
Film producer
A film producer oversees and delivers a film project to all relevant parties while preserving the integrity, voice and vision of the film. They will also often take on some financial risk by using their own money, especially during the pre-production period, before a film is fully financed.The...
, animator
Animator
An animator is an artist who creates multiple images that give an illusion of movement called animation when displayed in rapid sequence; the images are called frames and key frames. Animators can work in a variety of fields including film, television, video games, and the internet. Usually, an...
and Guggenheim Fellow (2004).
Biography
He got his start by studying Foundation Art at Pratt InstitutePratt Institute
Pratt Institute is a private art college in New York City located in Brooklyn, New York, with satellite campuses in Manhattan and Utica. Pratt is one of the leading undergraduate art schools in the United States and offers programs in Architecture, Graphic Design, History of Art and Design,...
in New York before receiving his Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree in Experimental Animation from the California Institute of the Arts
California Institute of the Arts
The California Institute of the Arts, commonly referred to as CalArts, is located in Valencia, in Los Angeles County, California. It was incorporated in 1961 as the first degree-granting institution of higher learning in the United States created specifically for students of both the visual and the...
in June 1992. His thesis film, Greener, won numerous awards and screened at more than 40 film festival worldwide.
Osborne has received two Academy Award nominations. Most recently for Best Animated Feature of the year for the 2008 critically acclaimed animated film Kung Fu Panda
Kung Fu Panda
Kung Fu Panda is a 2008 American computer-animated action comedy film produced by DreamWorks Animation and distributed by Paramount Pictures...
, which he directed alongside John Stevenson. Kung Fu Panda
Kung Fu Panda
Kung Fu Panda is a 2008 American computer-animated action comedy film produced by DreamWorks Animation and distributed by Paramount Pictures...
has netted a worldwide box office of more than $630 million to-date and features the voice talents of Jack Black
Jack Black
Jack Black , is an American actor and musician, notably of Tenacious D.Jack Black may also refer to:* Jack Black , late 19th - early 20th Century author and hobo* Jack Black , drummer for 1970s UK punk band The Boys...
, Dustin Hoffman
Dustin Hoffman
Dustin Lee Hoffman is an American actor with a career in film, television, and theatre since 1960. He has been known for his versatile portrayals of antiheroes and vulnerable characters....
, Angelina Jolie
Angelina Jolie
Angelina Jolie is an American actress. She has received an Academy Award, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, and three Golden Globe Awards, and was named Hollywood's highest-paid actress by Forbes in 2009 and 2011. Jolie is noted for promoting humanitarian causes as a Goodwill Ambassador for the...
, Lucy Liu
Lucy Liu
Lucy Alexis Liu is an American actress and film producer. She became known for playing the role of the vicious and ill-mannered Ling Woo in the television series Ally McBeal , and has also appeared in several Hollywood films including Charlie's Angels, Chicago, Kill Bill, and Kung Fu Panda.-Early...
and Seth Rogen
Seth Rogen
Seth Rogen is a Canadian stand-up comedian, actor, producer, screenwriter, and voice artist. Rogen began his career doing stand-up comedy during his teen years, winning the Vancouver Amateur Comedy Contest in 1998. While still living in his native Vancouver, he landed a small part in Freaks and...
. The DreamWorks
DreamWorks
DreamWorks Pictures, also known as DreamWorks, LLC, DreamWorks SKG, DreamWorks II Distribution Co., LLC, DreamWorks Studios or DW Studios, LLC, is an American film studio which develops, produces, and distributes films, video games and television programming...
family-friendly action-comedy was Osborne's first major studio project.
Osborne's other most well-known work to date, award winning stop motion
Stop motion
Stop motion is an animation technique to make a physically manipulated object appear to move on its own. The object is moved in small increments between individually photographed frames, creating the illusion of movement when the series of frames is played as a continuous sequence...
animated short, More
More (short)
More is a 1998 short film created by Mark Osborne using stop motion animation. More has won several awards, and was nominated for an Academy Award as Best Animated Short Film in 1998.- Plot :...
, has screened in over 150 film festivals worldwide. It was the first IMAX
IMAX
IMAX is a motion picture film format and a set of proprietary cinema projection standards created by the Canadian company IMAX Corporation. IMAX has the capacity to record and display images of far greater size and resolution than conventional film systems...
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
Sundance Film Festival
The Sundance Film Festival is a film festival that takes place annually in Utah, in the United States. It is the largest independent cinema festival in the United States. Held in January in Park City, Salt Lake City, and Ogden, as well as at the Sundance Resort, the festival is a showcase for new...
(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
SpongeBob SquarePants
SpongeBob SquarePants is an American animated television series, created by marine biologist and animator Stephen Hillenburg. Much of the series centers on the exploits and adventures of the title character and his various friends in the underwater city of "Bikini Bottom"...
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
Stephen Hillenburg
Stephen McDannell Hillenburg is an American animator, writer, producer, actor, voice actor, and director best known for creating the animated series SpongeBob SquarePants. He currently owns his own production company, United Plankton Pictures...
, while a student at CalArts. He also worked as director on SpongeBob episodes such as "The Sponge Who Could Fly" and "SpongeBob B.C.".
His other live action directing credits include his independent feature film Dropping Out, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival
Sundance Film Festival
The Sundance Film Festival is a film festival that takes place annually in Utah, in the United States. It is the largest independent cinema festival in the United States. Held in January in Park City, Salt Lake City, and Ogden, as well as at the Sundance Resort, the festival is a showcase for new...
in 2000, and has developed a cult following. Written by and starring Osborne's brother Kent, the darkly satirical comedy features David Koechner
David Koechner
David Michael Koechner is an American comedian, musician, and character actor. Koechner began studying improvisational comedy in Chicago at the ImprovOlympic, under the teachings of Del Close, before joining the Second City Northwest...
, John Stamos
John Stamos
John Phillip Stamos is an American actor, singer and musician best known for his work in television, especially in his starring role as Jesse Katsopolis on the ABC sitcom Full House. Since the cancellation of that show in 1995, Stamos has appeared in numerous television films and series. From 2006...
, Adam Arkin
Adam Arkin
Adam Arkin is an American television, film and stage actor and director. He played the role of Aaron Shutt on Chicago Hope. He has been nominated for numerous awards, including a Tony as well as 3 primetime Emmys, 4 SAG Awards , and a DGA Award...
and Fred Willard
Fred Willard
Fred Willard is an American actor, comedian, and voice over actor, best known for his improvisational comedy skills. He is known for his roles in the Christopher Guest mockumentary films This is Spinal Tap, Waiting for Guffman, Best in Show, A Mighty Wind, and For Your Consideration as well as...
. Bachelor Pad was also a short live-action comedy Mark did with his brother Kent Osborne and Dylan Haggerty in the late 1980s. Parts of Bachelor Pad can be seen in the unaired second episode of Taterhole, which was a spin-off to The Rudy and Gogo World Famous Cartoon Show
The Rudy and Gogo World Famous Cartoon Show
The Rudy and GoGo World Famous Cartoon Show was a programming block of cartoons for TNT during the mid 1990s. Hosted by "Rowdy" Rudy R. Moore , and his pet goat Gogo , the show featured a variety of cartoon short subjects from Turner Entertainment's library, including pre-July 1948...
in 1997. The entire episode can be viewed at rudyandgogo.com. Osborne's short, Greener was also broadcast on TNT
Turner Network Television
Turner Network Television is an American cable television channel created by media mogul Ted Turner and currently owned by the Turner Broadcasting System division of Time Warner...
's "Rudy and GoGo's New Year's Eve Flaming Cheese Ball" special on New Year's Eve 1995/1996.
In October 2010, Osborne was hired to direct The Little Prince
The Little Prince
The Little Prince , first published in 1943, is a novella and the most famous work of the French aristocrat writer, poet and pioneering aviator Antoine de Saint-Exupéry ....
for Gallic S3D.
For a while, Osborne taught stop-motion at his alma mater, CalArts. He later left to pursue his professional aspirations.
In 2004 Osborne was awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship to assist in the production of another personal stop-motion short film, The Better Half.
He is the brother of TV writer and producer, Kent Osborne.
Recently Tenacious D
Tenacious D
Tenacious D is an American rock band that was formed in Los Angeles, California in 1994. Composed of lead vocalist and guitarist Jack Black and lead guitarist and vocalist Kyle Gass, the band has released two albums – Tenacious D and The Pick of Destiny...
created a new song for Osborne to use in a comedy segment of the potential David Fincher
David Fincher
David Andrew Leo Fincher is an American film and music video director. Known for his dark and stylish thrillers, such as Seven , The Game , Fight Club , Panic Room , and Zodiac , Fincher received Academy Award nominations for Best Director for his 2008 film The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and...
produced film Heavy Metal
Heavy Metal (film)
Heavy Metal is a 1981 Canadian fantasy-animated film directed by Gerald Potterton and produced by Ivan Reitman and Leonard Mogel, who also was the publisher of Heavy Metal magazine....
.
Filmography
- The Little Prince (2014) (director)
- Sausage Party (2013) (director)
- Heavy Metal (2012) (segmant director)
- SpongeBob SquigglePantsSpongeBob SquigglePantsSpongeBob SquigglePants is an action video game based on the SpongeBob SquarePants television series, developed by WayForward Technologies and published by THQ. The game was first announced on March 23, 2011 and was released for Wii in North America on April 12, 2011, April 14, 2011 in Australia,...
(2011) (director of Patchy the Pirate cutscenes) - Kung Fu PandaKung Fu PandaKung Fu Panda is a 2008 American computer-animated action comedy film produced by DreamWorks Animation and distributed by Paramount Pictures...
(2008) (director, voice of Pig Patron) - The Better Half (2004) (director)
- The SpongeBob SquarePants MovieThe SpongeBob SquarePants MovieThe SpongeBob SquarePants Movie is a 2004 American animated film based on the popular Nickelodeon television series SpongeBob SquarePants. The film stars the voices of Tom Kenny, Bill Fagerbakke, Clancy Brown, Rodger Bumpass, Doug Lawrence, Scarlett Johansson, Alec Baldwin, Jeffrey Tambor, and...
(2004) (director: live-action sequence) - Channel ChasersChannel ChasersChannel Chasers is the second television film of the animated series The Fairly OddParents. It first aired on Nickelodeon in the United States on July 23, 2004. The film centers on the series' main character 10-year-old Timmy Turner with his fairy godparents Cosmo and Wanda who grant his wishes....
(2004) (director: "Channel 295" scene) - SpongeBob SquarePantsSpongeBob SquarePantsSpongeBob SquarePants is an American animated television series, created by marine biologist and animator Stephen Hillenburg. Much of the series centers on the exploits and adventures of the title character and his various friends in the underwater city of "Bikini Bottom"...
(1999-2004) (director, live-action director, consulting producer) - Caffeine Headache (2003) (special thanks)
- "Weird Al" Yankovic: The Ultimate Video Collection (2003) (director: video "Jurassic Park")
- Dropping Out (2000) (director, 'Thank You' Guy)
- Short 7: Utopia (2000) (director)
- Herd (1999) (Fed #2, Producer)
- MoreMore (short)More is a 1998 short film created by Mark Osborne using stop motion animation. More has won several awards, and was nominated for an Academy Award as Best Animated Short Film in 1998.- Plot :...
(1998) (director, producer, writer, cinematographer, editor, digital effects artist, stop-motion animator) - "Weird Al" Yankovic: The Videos (1998) (director: video "Jurassic Park")
- Greener (1994) (director, writer, cinematographer, editor)
- Alapalooza: The VideosAlapalooza: The VideosAlapalooza: The Videos is a VHS release of four of "Weird Al" Yankovic's music videos.The VHS includes:*"Jurassic Park"*"Bedrock Anthem"*"UHF"*"You Don't Love Me Anymore"...
(1993) (director: video "Jurassic Park") - Jurassic ParkJurassic Park (song)"Jurassic Park" is a song by "Weird Al" Yankovic. It is a parody of "MacArthur Park" by Jimmy Webb , and is written as a humorous take on the film of the same name.-Track listing:The following tracks are on the single:...
(1993) (director)