John Canemaker’s Animated Film, The Moon and the Son, Wins Emmy Award

By Richard Pierce

Academy Award-winner John Canemaker, professor and director of animation in NYU’s Kanbar Institute of Film & Television at the Tisch School of the Arts, has added an Emmy to his list of honors for his autobiographical animated film The Moon and the Son: An Imagined Conversation. At the 28th annual News & Documentary Emmy Awards last month, the 28-minute documentary won an Emmy® for Outstanding Individual Achievement in a Craft: Graphic & Artistic Design. The film won an Oscar for Best Animated Short Film in 2005.
Earlier this month, Canemaker traveled to Italy to deliver the Jonathan Dennis Memorial Lecture at the 26th annual Giornate del Cinema Muto in Podernone. While there, he received the Jean Mitry Award, given for 21 years to an individual or institution for their “reclamation and appreciation of silent cinema.”