Awards & Winners

Rusty Mills

Russell P. "Rusty" Mills was an American animator and director. A Primetime Emmy winner, Mills was best known for his work with Warner Bros. Animation, including Animaniacs, Tiny Toons Adventures, and Pinky and the Brain. Mills was a five time Emmy winner, receiving one Primetime Emmy and four Daytime Emmy awards. Mills, a native of Winston-Salem, North Carolina, graduated from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts high school in 1980. He then completed his studies at California Institute of the Arts in Los Angeles after high school. He worked as a freelance animator following college before joining Warner Bros. Animation, where he worked for approximately ten years. His production credits with Warner Bros. included Tiny Toon Adventures and Animaniacs, which he worked on directly with Steven Spielberg one of the show's producers. In 1996, Mills won a Primetime Emmy Award for his work on "A Pinky and the Brain Christmas," a Christmas episode of the animated television series, Pinky and the Brain, which aired in December 1995. Mills had directed that particular holiday episode of the series. During his career, Mills also won four Daytime Emmys and received eight Emmy nominations.

Awards by Rusty Mills

Check all the awards nominated and won by Rusty Mills.

2000


Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Children's Animated Program
Honored for : Pinky, Elmyra & the Brain

Nominations 2000 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Children's Animated Program Pinky, Elmyra & the Brain

1999


Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Special Class Animated Program
Honored for : Pinky and the Brain

Nominations 1999 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Children's Animated Program Animaniacs
Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Children's Animated Program Pinky, Elmyra & the Brain
Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Special Class Animated Program Pinky and the Brain

1998


Nominations 1998 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Children's Animated Program Pinky and the Brain
Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Children's Animated Program Animaniacs

1997


Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Children's Animated Program
Honored for : Animaniacs

Nominations 1997 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Children's Animated Program Animaniacs
Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Children's Animated Program Pinky and the Brain

1996


Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Children's Animated Program
Honored for : Animaniacs
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Program (for Programming Less Than One Hour)
Honored for : Pinky and the Brain
(A Pinky And The Brain Christmas)

Nominations 1996 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Program (for Programming Less Than One Hour) Pinky and the Brain
A Pinky And The Brain Christmas
Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Children's Animated Program Animaniacs

1995


Nominations 1995 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Program (for Programming Less Than One Hour) Tiny Toon Adventures
Night Ghoulery

1994


Nominations 1994 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Children's Animated Program Animaniacs