Duke Johnson
Duke Johnson (born March 20, 1979 in St. Louis , Missouri ) is an American film producer and director . He is particularly active in the stop-motion sector and currently works as a director and junior partner for the Starburns Industries production studio of Dino Stamatopoulos and Dan Harmon .
Life
Duke Johnson grew up in St. Louis and attended St. John Vianney High School in Kirkwood . Shortly before his senior year, he took a film course at Columbia College Chicago . After graduating, he studied at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University with a semester abroad in Prague . He then moved to the American Film Institute , where he did his Master of Fine Arts . He received several awards for his graduation film Marrying God .
Johnson's career kicked off in 2008 with an episode of the snappy, sarcastic adult swim animation series Moral Orel . In 2010 he joined the Starburns Industries team and directed several episodes of Mary Shelley's Frankenhole . In 2010, Johnson directed a special animated episode of Dan Harmon's comedy series Community . The episode won a Creative Arts Emmy in the Individual Achievement in Animation category in 2011 . In the same year, Johnson shot a short animated segment of another community episode. Together with Charlie Kaufman he directed the film Anomalisa (2015) for which the two received an Oscar nomination in 2016 . He was also nominated four times for an Annie Award .
Filmography
- 2006: Marrying God (short film)
- 2008: Moral Orel , Episode: Help
- 2010: Community , Episode 2x11 Christmas on Planet Abed
- 2010–2012: Mary Shelley's Frankenhole
- 2012: Before Orel: Trust (short film)
- 2015: Anomalisa
Web links
- Duke Johnson in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ team. Starburns Industries, accessed February 8, 2016 .
- ↑ Calvin Wilson: Charlie Kaufman teams up with St. Louis native Duke Johnson for 'Anomalisa'. St. Louis Today, January 10, 2016; accessed February 8, 2016 .
- ^ A b Peter Debruge: 10 Directors to Watch: How Duke Johnson Came to Co-Direct Charlie Kaufman's 'Anomalisa'. Variety , December 29, 2015, accessed February 8, 2016 .
- ^ Kristopher Tapley: Charlie Kaufman and Duke Johnson On Passion Project 'Anomalisa'. Variety , September 8, 2015, accessed February 8, 2016 .
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SURNAME | Johnson, Duke |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American film producer and director |
DATE OF BIRTH | March 20, 1979 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | St. Louis , Missouri , United States |