Co-created by Judge and Greg Daniels, the show aired from 1997 to 2010 and won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Program (For Programming One Hour or Less) in 1999, as well as five more Emmy nominations for the slyly subversive animated series in 1997, 1998, 2001, 2002, and 2008.įor his voice work as “Hank Hill,” Judge earned two Annie Awards nominations in 19. His next project was FOX’s long-running animated series, King of the Hill, the Southern domestic saga of no-nonsense propane salesman Hank Hill set in Arlen, Texas. In 2012, Mike resurrected Beavis and Butt-Head with twelve new episodes for MTV. Beavis and Butt-Head, which originally ran on MTV from 1993 to 1997, quickly became a pop-cultural juggernaut, earning a CableACE Award Comedy Series nomination in 1994 and peaking with 1996’s big-screen feature film, Beavis and Butt-Head Do America, which Judge co-wrote with Joe Stillman and directed. Following his earlier diverse job stints working as an engineer and playing bass professionally, MTV picked up Judge’s 1992 animated short, Frog Baseball, launching his career in animation.Ī year later, MTV made a move to spin-off Judge’s increasingly popular animated shorts featuring Beavis and Butt-Head – a pair of bored, teenage heavy metal fans with a penchant for uttering deadpan social critiques – into a TV series of their own, with Judge providing the voices of both lead characters and several others. Judge on behalf of all animation writers,” said WGAW Animation Writers Caucus Chair Charlotte (Fullerton) McDuffie.Ī WGAW member since 1998, Judge was born in 1962 in Ecuador, raised in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and attended University of California at San Diego, where he earned a degree in physics. “We applaud the risk he took to guarantee making King of the Hill a WGA-covered show, which to this day helps the Guild chip away at the precedents that keep writers who work in animation from receiving the guarantees and benefits of our union.” His contributions to the field of animation, among them the groundbreaking Beavis and Butt-Head, and the long-running hit King of the Hill, have advanced the form of animation storytelling and continue to be a benchmark for creators everywhere,” said WGAW Vice President David A. “We're very excited for Mike Judge to receive this long-overdue honor. LOS ANGELES – In recognition of his outstanding contributions to the craft of animation writing, as well as his role in helping organize animation writers within the entertainment industry, King of the Hill and Silicon Valley Co-Creator Mike Judge has been named the recipient of the Writers Guild of America West Animation Writers Caucus’ 2016 Animation Writing Award for lifetime achievement. Screenplays of the 21st Century (so far).
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