Lee Mendelson - Awards & Nominations

Date of Birth	24-March-1933
Place of Birth	San Francisco (California, United States of America, San Francisco Bay Area, San Francisco Peninsula, Area code 415)
Nationality	United States of America
Profession	Television Producer, Screenwriter, Television Director
Lee Mendelson is an American television producer. He is best known as the executive producer of the many Peanuts animated specials. Mendelson, was born in San Francisco, California, grew up in San Mateo, and entered Stanford University in 1950, where he studied creative writing. After graduating in 1954, he spent three years in the Air Force where he served as a lieutenant. He then worked several years for his father, a vegetable grower and shipper. Mendelson's career in television began in 1961, when he started working at San Francisco's KPIX television station, where he created public service announcements. A fortunate find of some antique film footage of the 1915 San Francisco World's Fair led to Mendelson's first production, a documentary entitled The Innocent Fair. The documentary was the first in a series on the history of the city, San Francisco Pageant, for which Mendelson won a Peabody Award. Mendelson left KPIX in 1963 to form his own production company. His first work was a documentary on Willie Mays, A Man Named Mays. Shortly after the documentary aired, Mendelson came across a Peanuts comic strip that revolved around Charlie Brown's baseball team. Mendelson thought that since he'd just "done the world's greatest baseball player, now [he] should do the world's worst baseball player, Charlie Brown." Mendelson approached Peanuts creator Charles Schulz with the idea of producing a documentary on Schulz and his strip. Schulz, who had enjoyed the Mays documentary, readily agreed. The 1965 documentary, Charlie Brown & Charles Schulz, was the beginning of a 30-year collaboration between Schulz and Mendelson.

Awards by Lee Mendelson

Check all the awards nominated and won by Lee Mendelson.

2002

Nominations 2002 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Children's Program	The Making of 'A Charlie Brown Christmas'

2000

Nominations 2000 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Children's Program	Here's to You, Charlie Brown: 50 Great Years

1990

Nominations 1990 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Children's Program	You Don't Look 40, Charlie Brown
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Program (for Programming Less Than One Hour)	Why, Charlie Brown, Why?

1987

Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Program

Honored for : Cathy

Nominations 1987 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Program	Cathy

1986

Nominations 1986 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Children's Animated Program	The Charlie Brown and Snoopy Show

1985

Nominations 1985 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Program	Snoopy's Getting Married, Charlie Brown

1984

Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Program

Honored for : Garfield on the Town

Nominations 1984 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Program	Garfield on the Town
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Program	It's Flashbeagle, Charlie Brown

1983

Nominations 1983 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Program	What Have We Learned, Charlie Brown?
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Program	Is This Goodbye, Charlie Brown?
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Program	Here comes Garfield

1982

Nominations 1982 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Program	Someday You'll Find Her, Charlie Brown
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Program	A Charlie Brown Celebration

1981

Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Program

Honored for : Life Is a Circus, Charlie Brown

Nominations 1981 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Program	Life Is a Circus, Charlie Brown
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Program	It's Magic, Charlie Brown

1980

Nominations 1980 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Program	She's a Good Skate, Charlie Brown

1979

Nominations 1979 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Program	You're the Greatest, Charlie Brown
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Program	Happy Birthday, Charlie Brown

1977

Nominations 1977 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Children's Special	It's Arbor Day, Charlie Brown

1976

Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Children's Special

Honored for : You're a Good Sport, Charlie Brown

(Tied with Huckleberry Finn.)

Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Children's Informational Special

Honored for : Happy Anniversary, Charlie Brown

Nominations 1976 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Children's Informational Special	Happy Anniversary, Charlie Brown
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Children's Special	You're a Good Sport, Charlie Brown Tied with Huckleberry Finn.

1975

Nominations 1975 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Children's Special	It's the Easter Beagle, Charlie Brown
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Children's Special	Be My Valentine, Charlie Brown

1974

Nominations 1974 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Children's Special	A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving

1968

Nominations 1968 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Achievement in Children's Programming - Informational/Factual	You're in Love, Charlie Brown
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Achievement in Children's Programming - Informational/Factual	He's Your Dog, Charlie Brown

1967

Nominations 1967 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Children's Program	Charlie Brown's All-Stars
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Children's Program	It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown

1966

Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Children's Program

Honored for : A Charlie Brown Christmas

Nominations 1966 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Children's Program	A Charlie Brown Christmas

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