# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-canemaker
# Generated: 2026-08-12T17:23:28.812Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-canemaker"
name: "John Canemaker"
slug: "john-canemaker"
description: "John Cannizzaro Jr., better known as John Canemaker, is an American independent animator, animation historian, author, teacher and lecturer. In 1980, he began teaching and developing the animation program at New York University, Tisch School of the Arts', Kanbar Institute of Film and Television Department. Since 1988 he has directed the program and is currently a tenured full professor. From 2001-2002 he was Acting Chair of the NYU Undergraduate Film and Television Department. In 2006, his film The Moon and the Son: An Imagined Conversation, a 28-minute animated piece about Canemaker's relationship with his father, won the Academy Award for best animated short. In 2007 the same piece picked up an Emmy award for its graphic and artistic design."
tagline: "American animator"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/lDISpeXQ1ZA0odIYzVAtLcPebYG.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1943-05-28"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           41.93
  momentum:             0.04434589800443459
  historical:           7.016308
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0133866/"
    handle:    "nm0133866"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.johncanemaker.com/"
sources:
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    title: "约翰·凯恩梅克"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "John Canemaker"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Canemaker"
    title: "John Canemaker"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Canemaker"
    title: "John Canemaker"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Canemaker"
    title: "John Canemaker"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Canemaker"
    title: "John Canemaker"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Canemaker"
    title: "John Canemaker"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1699538"
    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump