John Canemaker

John Canemaker has won an Academy Award an Emmy and a Peabody Award for his animation and is an internationallyrenowned animation historian and teacher A key figure in American independent animation Canemakers work has a distinctive personal style emphasizing emotion personality and dynamic visual expression His film The Moon and the Son An Imagined Conversation won an Oscar in 2005 for Best Animated Short as well as an Emmy A 28minute autobiographical essay about a troubled fatherson relationship The Moon and the Son marked a personal and professional breakthrough in animation storytelling Canemaker is also a noted author who has written nine books on animation as well as numerous essays articles and monographs for The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal among other publications