Duke Johnson

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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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ team. Starburns Industries, accessed February 8, 2016 .
  2. ↑ Calvin Wilson: Charlie Kaufman teams up with St. Louis native Duke Johnson for 'Anomalisa'. St. Louis Today, January 10, 2016; accessed February 8, 2016 .
  3. ^ 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 .
  4. ^ Kristopher Tapley: Charlie Kaufman and Duke Johnson On Passion Project 'Anomalisa'. Variety , September 8, 2015, accessed February 8, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Johnson, Duke
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American film producer and director
DATE OF BIRTH March 20, 1979
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Louis , Missouri , United States