After honoring Michel Gondry, Joanna Quinn and Matt Groening last year, the Annecy Animation Film Festival has unveiled its first 2026 Honorary Cristal recipient.
Prolific producer, writer and animator Mike Judge, co-creator of “King of the Hill” and creator of “Beavis and Butt-Head,” will receive the Honorary Award during this year’s edition, which takes place June 21–27.
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Born in 1962 in Ecuador and raised in New Mexico, Mike Judge graduated from UCSD in 1985 where he studied physics. But as he lost interest in building his career in science, he started to dabble with animation in the late 1980s, a perfect setting
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