Patrick Osborne (animator)
Patrick Osborne is an American animator, screenwriter and film director. He won the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film for Feast (2014).
Osborne grew up in Green Township, a suburb of Cincinnati. He attended Our Lady of the Visitation School and graduated from St. Xavier High School in 1999. He earned a computer animation degree from Ringling College of Art and Design in 2003.
His directorial debut, Feast (2014), tells the story of a Boston Terrier who loves junk food. The Disney short premiered before Big Hero 6 in theaters and won the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film in 2015. Earlier in his career, he worked as an animator on Wreck-It Ralph (2012) and Bolt (2008).
Osborne directed Pearl for Google’s Spotlight Stories, a car-set short about a father and daughter. The film uses distinctive cuts and more than forty sets. It earned him another Academy Award nomination for Best Animated Short Film in 2017.
He served as animation director for the ABC comedy Imaginary Mary, which he co-created with Adam F. Goldberg; the show was canceled in 2017. He has been involved in several future projects, including a film version of Monument Valley, a video game by Ustwo, with Paramount Pictures and Weed Road. In July 2022, it was announced he would write and direct a Netflix adaptation of The Goon. He is also attached to direct Battling Boy, based on Paul Pope’s graphic novel.
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