Mike Reiss
Birth Name:
Michael Louis Reiss
Birth Place:
Bristol, Connecticut, United States
Profession
Writer, Producer, Soundtrack, Animation department, Actor, Music department, Camera department, Script department
Fast Facts
- His mystery story "Cro-Magnon P․I․" won him the Robert L․ Fish Memorial Award in the 2000 Edgar Awards
- Studied English at Harvard University, graduating in 1981
- National Lampoon hired him right after he graduated from college
- Independently created and produced several flash animation cartoons for Icebox․com, one of which "Queer Duck," was picked up by Showtime
- Known for collaborating with writer Al Jean on such animated comedies as "The Simpsons" and "The Critic․"
- Though he has criticized Harvard as an educational institution, he claims that he attends all of the University's fundraisers that he can to get free meals in order to slowly reclaim his tuition money
- Though he went on to write fiction for a living, he was rejected from an expository writing class about fiction writing at Harvard
Awards
- 1984ACE - Writing a Comedy or Music Program:Nominated
- 1985ACE - Writing a Comedy Series:Nominated
- 1990Primetime Emmy - Outstanding Animated Program (For Programming One Hour or Less):Nominated
- 1990Primetime Emmy - Outstanding Animated Program (For Programming One Hour or Less):Winner
- 1991ACE - Writing a Comedy Series:Winner
- 1991Primetime Emmy - Outstanding Animated Program (For Programming One Hour or Less):Winner
- 1992Primetime Emmy - Outstanding Animated Program (For Programming One Hour or Less):Nominated
- 1995Annie - Best Individual Achievement for Creative Supervision in the Field of Animation:Nominated
- 1995Primetime Emmy - Outstanding Animated Program (For Programming One Hour or Less):Winner
- 1996Primetime Emmy - Outstanding Animated Program (For Programming One Hour or Less):Nominated
- 1997Annie - Best Individual Achievement: Producing in a TV Production:Winner
- 1999Primetime Emmy - Outstanding Animated Program (For Programming One Hour or Less):Nominated
- 2001Primetime Emmy - Outstanding Animated Program (For Programming Less Than One Hour):Winner
- 2002Primetime Emmy - Outstanding Animated Program (For Programming Less Than One Hour):Nominated
- 2008Annie - Best Writing in an Animated Feature Production:Nominated
- 2009WGA Award (TV) - Comedy Series:Nominated
- 2015International Film Award - Best Animated Feature Film:Winner
- 2015Primetime Emmy - Outstanding Original Music and Lyrics:Nominated