Awards & Winners

Michael K. Frith

Date of Birth 08-July-1941
Place of Birth Bermuda
(United Kingdom, with Dependencies and Territories, Americas, DVD Region 1, Atlantic Ocean, North America)
Nationality United Kingdom
Also know as Michael Frith, Michael Kingsbury Frith, Mike Frith
Profession Puppeteer, Technician, Consultant, Writer, Illustrator, Television Producer, Production Designer
Michael Kingsbury Frith, is the former Executive Vice President and Creative Director for Jim Henson Productions. His contributions to Muppet projects have been extensive and varied. Frith began his career at Random House in 1963 as a children's book illustrator and editor. He was Editor-in-Chief of the Beginner Books series, the line of books created by Theodor Seuss Geisel Dr. Seuss. He was also Dr. Seuss's book editor and close personal friend. In 1971, when Random House began publishing Sesame Street books, Frith was named editor and art director of the Sesame series. He produced a series of five annual large-format Sesame Street Storybooks, and contributed artwork for four of them: The Sesame Street Storybook, The Sesame Street 1, 2, 3 Storybook, The Sesame Street ABC Storybook, and Big Bird's Busy Book. Appreciating Frith's talents as a designer, Jim Henson brought him on board his creative team. One of Frith's early projects was designing the Land of Gorch characters for Saturday Night Live. Frith recalled his beginnings with the Muppets in The Saturday Evening Post: "The first drawings I ever worked on were characters for Saturday Night Live. The Muppets did regular segments for a season featuring characters about as far removed from Sesame Street as you could get. Jim asked me to come over one day to talk about creating Muppet personalities—specifically, strange, mossy, warty creatures. Instead of traditional ones with cartoon eyes—round, white and black—he had become fascinated with taxidermist eyes: cow, camel and tiger eyes. Around this simple concept of a different eye evolved a whole new concept which led to the creation of the crazy-eyed loonies we enjoy today."

Awards by Michael K. Frith

Check all the awards nominated and won by Michael K. Frith.

2004


Nominations 2004 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Achievement in Art Direction/Set Decoration/Scenic Design Between the Lions
Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Achievement in Costume Design/Styling Between the Lions

2003


Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Achievement in Art Direction/Set Decoration/Scenic Design
Honored for : Between the Lions

Nominations 2003 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Achievement in Art Direction/Set Decoration/Scenic Design Between the Lions

2002


Nominations 2002 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Children's Series Between the Lions

2001


Nominations 2001 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing In A Children's Series Between the Lions
Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Children's Series Between the Lions

1998


Nominations 1998 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Children's Program The Wubbulous World of Dr. Seuss
Outstanding Children's Program - Area Award

1997


Nominations 1997 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Children's Program The Wubbulous World of Dr. Seuss

1996


Nominations 1996 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Gemini Award for Best Children's Program or Series Dog City

1980


Nominations 1980 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Creative Technical Crafts The Muppet Show