John Canemaker

A renowned animation historian, John Canemaker has written twelve books on subjects ranging from Winsor McCay, Felix the Cat, Tex Avery and numerous Disney and Pixar artists. His most recent book is The Lost Notebook: Herman Schultheis and the Secrets of Walt Disney’s Movie Magic.
His articles and reviews have appeared in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Print Magazine, and Esopus. He has curated animation art exhibitions for the Walt Disney Family Museum in San Francisco and the Katonah (N.Y.) Museum of Art. For television’s Turner Classic Movies in 2014, Canemaker co-hosted, with Robert Osborne, a special hour on the films of Winsor McCay. ASIFA-Hollywood honored John Canemaker with the prestigious Winsor McCay Award in recognition of his career contributions to the art of animation. He has received two residency grants from the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Study Center in Italy, and an honorary Doctor of Fine Arts degree from Marymount Manhattan College. For his work as an animation historian, he was awarded Italy’s 2007 Jean Mitry Award from Le Giornate Del Cinema Muto, and a special “Animation Theory” award from the 2006 Zagreb Animation Festival.