Biography
Mark Osborne is an American film director, producer, screenwriter and animator. Born on 17 September 1970 in Trenton, New Jersey, he studied foundation art at Pratt Institute before earning a BFA in experimental animation from the California Institute of the Arts in 1992.
Osborne is best known for co-directing the animated feature Kung Fu Panda (2008) with John Stevenson, which received an Academy Award nomination for Best Animated Feature. He directed the stop-motion short More (1998), also nominated for an Oscar, and the feature The Little Prince (2015). He contributed live-action sequences to The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie (2004). He is a Guggenheim Fellow and has a brother, Kent Osborne, who works in the industry.
