---
name: "Mark Osborne"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/mark-osborne-57741"
fi1m_id: "mark-osborne-57741"
imdb_id: "nm0651706"
tmdb_id: 57741
wikidata_id: "Q1900331"
roles: ["Director"]
born: "17 September 1970"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "director"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-05T05:26:34.207059+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Mark Osborne

## Identity

Mark Osborne

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/mark-osborne-57741
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** mark-osborne-57741
- **IMDb ID:** nm0651706
- **TMDB ID:** 57741
- **Wikidata ID:** Q1900331
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Osborne_(filmmaker), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1900331, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0651706/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/57741

Director. Born 17 September 1970 in Trenton, New Jersey, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Director
- **Born:** 17 September 1970, Trenton, New Jersey, USA
- **Academy Awards:** 2 Oscar nominations
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Osborne_(filmmaker), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1900331, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0651706/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/57741

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*Kung Fu Panda*](https://film.one/film/kung-fu-panda.md) (77)

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## 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.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Kung Fu Panda* (2008), Fi1m 77, as Pig Patron (voice) — [page](https://film.one/film/kung-fu-panda.md)

## Complete filmography (17)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Klaus* (2019), Thanks — Fi1m 77, [page](https://film.one/film/klaus.md)
- *1985* (2018), Co-Producer
- *Invisible Essence: The Little Prince* (2018), Actor
- *Sausage Party* (2016), Thanks
- *The Little Prince* (2015), Writer, Director
- *The Exhibitionist* (2011), Director
- *SpongeBob's Truth or Square* (2009), Director
- *Kung Fu Panda* (2008), as Pig Patron (voice) · Director — Fi1m 77, [page](https://film.one/film/kung-fu-panda.md)
- *The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie* (2004), Consulting Producer, Co-Director, Sequence Lead
- *"Weird Al" Yankovic: The Ultimate Video Collection* (2003), Director
- *Dropping Out* (2000), Director
- *Herd* (1999), Producer
- *More* (1998), Cinematography, Editor, Director, Writer, Animation, CG Animator
- *Greener* (1994), Cinematography, Writer, Director, Editor
- *Juvenilia* (1993), Director
- *Wormholes* (1992), Thanks
- *No Neck Joe* (1991), Thanks

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 0 won, 2 nominated

- 2009: Best Animated Feature (nominated), for *Kung Fu Panda*
- 1999: Best Animated Short Film (nominated), for *More*

### Other awards — 1 won

- Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres 2022: Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres (won)

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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