Matt Groening
  • Birthplace

    Portland, Oregon, U.S.

  • Birthday
    February 15, 1954

    Deathday
    N/A

Matt Groening

Matthew Abram "Matt" Groening (born February 15, 1954) is an American cartoonist, screenwriter, and producer. He is the creator of the comic strip Life in Hell as well as two successful television series, The Simpsons and Futurama.

Groening made his first professional cartoon sale of Life in Hell to the avant-garde Wet magazine in 1978. The cartoon is still carried in 250 weekly newspapers. Life in Hell caught the attention of James L. Brooks. In 1985, Brooks contacted Groening with the proposition of working in animation for the Fox variety show The Tracey Ullman Show. Originally, Brooks wanted Groening to adapt his Life in Hell characters for the show. Fearing the loss of ownership rights, Groening decided to create something new and came up with a cartoon family, The Simpsons, and named the members after his own parents and sisters — while Bart was an anagram of the word brat. The shorts would be spun off into their own series: The Simpsons, which has since aired over 480 episodes. In 1997, Groening, along with former Simpsons writer David X. Cohen, developed Futurama, an animated series about life in the year 3000, which premiered in 1999. After four years on the air, the show was canceled by Fox in 2003, but Comedy Central commissioned 16 new episodes from four direct-to-DVD movies in 2008. Then, in June 2009, Comedy Central ordered 26 new episodes of Futurama, to be aired over two seasons.

Groening has won 11 Primetime Emmy Awards, ten for The Simpsons and one for Futurama as well as a British Comedy Award for "outstanding contribution to comedy" in 2004. In 2002, he won the National Cartoonist Society Reuben Award for his work on Life in Hell.

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Matt Groening awards and nominations
Year Category Subcategory Info Movie/Tv Series
2014 Primetime Emmy Awards Winner Primetime Emmy Outstanding Animated Program (Claudia Katz, Peter Avanzino, Ken Keeler, Eric Horsted, Lee Supercinski, David X. Cohen, Michael Rowe, Josh Weinstein, Ira Sherak, Matt Groening, Gregg Vanzo, Patric M. Verrone, Lew Morton, Dan Vebber, Scott Vanzo) Futurama
2014 Primetime Emmy Awards Winner Primetime Emmy Outstanding Animated Program (For Programming Less Than One Hour) (Matt Groening, David X. Cohen, Ken Keeler, Eric Horsted, Lew Morton, Patric M. Verrone, J. Stewart Burns, Bill Odenkirk, Eric Kaplan, Brian J. Cowan, Claudia Katz, Rich Moore, Gregg Vanzo) Futurama
Year Category Subcategory Info Movie/Tv Series
2021 Primetime Emmy Awards Nominee Primetime Emmy Outstanding Short Form Animated Program (James L. Brooks, Matt Groening, Matt Selman, Richard Sakai, Denise Sirkot, Richard Raynis, Tom Klein, Joel H. Cohen, Al Jean, Michael Price, David Silverman, Acacia Caputo, Karen Carnegie Johnson, Mike Frank Polcino, Disney+) Maggie Simpson in "The Force Awakens from Its Nap"
2014 Primetime Emmy Awards Nominee Primetime Emmy Outstanding Animated Program (Matt Groening, David X. Cohen, Ken Keeler, Josh Weinstein, Eric Horsted, Dan Vebber, Michael Rowe, Patric M. Verrone, Lee Supercinski, Claudia Katz, Gregg Vanzo, Scott Vanzo, Peter Avanzino, David D. Au) Futurama
2014 Primetime Emmy Awards Nominee Primetime Emmy Outstanding Animated Program (Matt Groening, David X. Cohen, Ken Keeler, Patric M. Verrone, Josh Weinstein, Eric Horsted, Michael Rowe, Dan Vebber, Lee Supercinski, Claudia Katz, Gregg Vanzo, Peter Avanzino, Raymie Muzquiz, Aldin Baroza, Scott Vanzo) Futurama
2014 Primetime Emmy Awards Nominee Primetime Emmy Outstanding Animated Program (For Programming Less Than One Hour) (Matt Groening, David X. Cohen, Ken Keeler, David A. Goodman, Patric M. Verrone, Eric Kaplan, Bill Odenkirk, Michael Rowe, Brian J. Cowan, Claudia Katz, Gregg Vanzo, Rich Moore, Scott Vanzo, Brian Sheesley, Stephanie Arnett) Futurama
2014 Primetime Emmy Awards Nominee Primetime Emmy Outstanding Animated Program (For Programming Less Than One Hour) (Matt Groening, David X. Cohen, Ken Keeler, David A. Goodman, Patric M. Verrone, Bill Odenkirk, Eric Kaplan, Eric Horsted, Michael Rowe, Brian J. Cowan, Claudia Katz, Gregg Vanzo, Swinton O. Scott III, Rich Moore, Scott Vanzo, Celeste Mari Williams) Futurama
2014 Primetime Emmy Awards Nominee Primetime Emmy Outstanding Animated Program (For Programming Less Than One Hour) (Matt Groening, David X. Cohen, Ken Keeler, Eric Horsted, Lew Morton, Patric M. Verrone, J. Stewart Burns, Bill Odenkirk, Eric Kaplan, Brian J. Cowan, Claudia Katz, Gregg Vanzo, Rich Moore, Brian Sheesley) Futurama
2014 Primetime Emmy Awards Nominee Primetime Emmy Outstanding Animated Program (For Programming One Hour or Less) (Matt Groening, David X. Cohen, Ken Keeler, Eric Horsted, Brian J. Cowan, J. Stewart Burns, Patric M. Verrone, Jason Grode, Tom Gammill, Max Pross, Richard Raynis, Claudia Katz, Lew Morton, Susie Dietter, Mili Smythe, Alex Johns, Gregg Vanzo, Rich Moore) Futurama
1999 Television Critics Association Awards Nominee TCA Award Individual Achievement in Comedy (Matt Groening) Futurama
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