2000 in animation is an overview of notable events, including notable awards, list of films released, television show debuts and endings, and notable deaths.
Events
January
February
March
April
May
June
July
August
September
October
November
- November 1: Season 12 of The Simpsons begins on Fox with the premiere of the latest Treehouse of Horror installment "Treehouse of Horror XI", which was seen by over 13.2 million viewers that night.
- November 5: The Simpsons<nowiki/>' 250th episode "A Tale of Two Springfields" premiered on Fox, featuring the following guest stars: Roger Daltrey, John Entwistle, Paul Townshend (playing his brother Pete Townshend) & Gary Coleman. The episode was seen by over 16.1 million viewers that night.
- November 7: The film ' is released, a sequel to The Prince of Egypt.
- November 7âÂÂ9: The three-part Rugrats special "Acorn Nuts & Diapey Butts" premiered on Nickelodeon, these episodes serve as the prologue to '.
- November 13: The Arthur episode "Bitzi's Beau" airs. This marks the earliest depiction of Mr. Ratburn getting married, but only in a fantasy sequence as being straight. His actual marriage occurs in the later episode "Mr. Ratburn and the Special Someone", over 20 years of being closeted.
- November 14: 3-2-1 Penguins! is released in direct-to-video format.
- November 17:
- Paramount Pictures and Nickelodeon's Rugrats in Paris: The Movie, is released. It marks the debuts of Kimi Watanabe her mother Kira and their dog Fifi who will all become part of the show's cast. It received positive reviews over its predecessor.
- Cartoon NetworkâÂÂs Sheep in the Big City airs. This program became coveted long after its cancellation in 2002.
- November 25: The CatDog made-for-TV movie "CatDog and the Great Parent Mystery", premieres on Nickelodeon.
December
- December 7: The SpongeBob SquarePants holiday special episode "Christmas Who?" premieres on Nickelodeon.
- December 12: ' is released direct-to-video. The film caused controversy for its violent content, including the Joker's death. As a result, the film was censored and the uncut version was not released until 2002.
- December 14: The film The Magic Pudding is first released.
- December 15: The Walt Disney Company releases The Emperor's New Groove.
- December 20: South Park concludes its fourth season on Comedy Central with the Christmas special "A Very Crappy Christmas", this was the last episode to premiere during the 20th century. It was seen by over 3 million viewers that night.
- December 21: Cartoon Network began airing adult oriented programs during 4am and 5am, including Sealab 2021, Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, and The Brak Show, all were unannounced and continued to air for ten nights. Cartoon Network would launch Adult Swim later in the following year.
- December 23: ', the first Indian computer animated film, is released.
- December 27: Let's All Go to the Lobby and Porky in Wackyland are added to the National Film Registry.
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Films released
Television series debuts
Television series endings
Television season premieres
Television season finales
Births
January
- January 7: Marcus Scribner, American actor (voice of Buck in The Good Dinosaur, Smudge in ', Bow in She-Ra and the Princesses of Power, Alex in Ron's Gone Wrong, D'Angelo Baker in ', Movie Goer in the American Dad! episode "Garfield and Friends").
- January 8: Noah Cyrus, American singer, songwriter, and actress (voice of the title character in Ponyo, Kid in The Emperor's New School episode "Guaka Rules").
February
March
May
- May 18: Addison Holley, Canadian actress (voice of Owlette in PJ Masks, Lili in My Big Big Friend, Miss Elaina in Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood, the title character in Ella the Elephant, Kate Persky in Grojband, Katie in Wild Kratts, Julia and The Cheetah in PAW Patrol, Tessa in Peg + Cat, Bianca in Wishenpoof!, Hazel in Little Charmers, Jessica Beeker in The ZhuZhus, Alice in the Doodlebops Rockin' Road Show episode "The Trumpet That Roared", Layla in the Caillou episode "The New Girl", Sally in the Monster Math Squad episode "Special Delivery").
June
July
August
September
October
November
- November 10: Mackenzie Foy, American actress (voice of Celestine in Ernest & Celestine, Violet in The Boxcar Children).
- November 15: Coco Grayson, American actress (voice of Princess Hildegard in Sofia the First, Maynar in ').
- November 22: Auliûi Cravalho, American actress and singer (voice of Moana in the Moana franchise, Ralph Breaks the Internet, ', ', and Once Upon a Studio, Hailey Banks in Hailey's On It!, Veronica in the Elena of Avalor episode "The Last Laugh", Muse in the Krapopolis episode "Muse Your Illusion").
December
- December 22: Joshua Bassett, American actor, singer and songwriter (voice of Nick Daley in ').
Deaths
January
February
- February 10: Jim Varney, American actor and comedian (voice of Slinky Dog in Toy Story and Toy Story 2, Cookie in ', Mr. Gus Holder in Annabelle's Wish, Walt Evergreen in the Duckman episode "You've Come a Wrong Way, Baby", Cooder in The Simpsons episode "Bart Carny", Ephialtes in the Hercules episode "Hercules and the Muse of Dance"), dies at age 50.
- February 12: Charles M. Schulz, American cartoonist (creator of Peanuts), dies at age 77.
- February 13: J. Robert Harris, American composer (theme from Spider-Man), dies at age 74.
- February 23: Ofra Haza, Israeli singer, actress, recording artist, writer and journalist (voice of Yocheved and performed the song "Deliver Us" in The Prince of Egypt), dies at age 42.
March
- March 3: Nicole Van Goethem, Belgian cartoonist, animator and film director (A Greek Tragedy), dies at the age of 58.
- March 6: John Colicos, Canadian actor (voice of Apocalypse in '), dies at age 71.
- March 13: Rex Everhart, American actor (voice of Maurice in Beauty and the Beast), dies at age 79.
- March 16: Stanley Ralph Ross, American writer (Wait Till Your Father Gets Home, '), and actor (voice of Gorilla Grodd and Brainiac in Super Friends), dies at age 64.
- March 24: Kazuo Komatsubara, Japanese animator, character designer and director (Toei Animation, Oh! Production), dies at age 59.
April
- April 3: Félix Nakamura, Peruvian animator and film director, dies from cancer at age 59.
May
June
- June 1: Tito Puente, American musician, songwriter, bandleader and record producer (voiced himself in The Simpsons episode "Who Shot Mr. Burns?"), dies from a heart attack at age 77.
- June 13: Yefim Gamburg, Russian film director (Passion of Spies, Ograblenie po..., Blue Puppy, Dog in Boots), dies at age 75.
- June 24: David Tomlinson, English actor, singer and comedian (portrayed George Banks in Mary Poppins, Professor Emelius Brown in Bedknobs and Broomsticks, Sir John and voice of Polar Bear in The Water Babies), dies at age 83.
- June 30: Robert L. Manahan, American actor (second voice of Zordon in Power Rangers) and re-recording mixer (McGee and Me!, Beakman's World, Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, King of the Hill, Dilbert), dies at age 43.
July
August
- August 8: Glenn Schmitz, American animator and comics artist (Walt Disney Animation, Hanna-Barbera, Ruby-Spears), dies at age 70.
- August 24: Tatiana Riabouchinska, Russian ballerina (Fantasia, Make Mine Music), dies at age 83.
- August 25: Carl Barks, American animator and comics artist (Walt Disney Company), dies at age 99.
- August 27: Ante Zaninovic, Croatian animator, film director and comics artist (Professor Balthazar), dies at age 65.
September
- September 3: Walt Stanchfield, American animator, writer and teacher (Walt Disney Studios), dies at age 81.
- September 10:
- Ben Wicks, English-born Canadian cartoonist, illustrator, journalist and author (co-creator of Katie and Orbie), dies from cancer at age 73.
- Lester Novros, American animator, art director, and teacher of filmmaking (Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Fantasia), dies at age 91.
- September 13: Rolf Kauka, German comics artist and film director (Fix and Foxi), dies at age 83.
- September 26: Richard Mulligan, American actor (voice of Einstein in Oliver & Company, Old Gramps in The Angry Beavers episode "Fish and Dips", Jimmy Kafka in the Hey Arnold! episode "Old Iron Man"), dies from colon cancer at age 67.
October
- October 16: Ed Nofziger, American animator and comics artist (UPA), dies at age 87.
- October 30: Steve Allen, American television personality, radio personality, musician, composer, actor, comedian and writer (voice of Bart Simpson's Electronically Altered Voice in The Simpsons episode "Separate Vocations", himself in The Critic episode "A Day at the Races and a Night at the Opera", The Simpsons episode "'Round Springfield", and the Pinky and the Brain episode "The Pinky and the Brain Reunion Special"), dies from hemopericardium at age 78.
November
- November 1: Bernard Erhard, American actor (voice of Cy-Kill in Challenge of the GoBots, Timber Smurf in The Smurfs, Cryotek in ', King Morpheus in ', Wolf in Rover Dangerfield), dies at age 66.
- November 16: Joe C., American rapper and musician (voice of Kidney Rock in Osmosis Jones, and himself in The Simpsons episode "Kill the Alligator and Run"), dies from celiac disease at age 26.
- November 20: Vyacheslav Kotyonochkin, Russian animator and comics artist (Nu, pogodi!, aka Well, Just You Wait!), dies at age 73.
- November 28: Robert Bentley, American animator (Warner Bros. Cartoons, Fleischer Studios, MGM, Walter Lantz Productions, UPA, Hanna-Barbera, Filmation), dies at age 93.
December
- December 3: Hoyt Curtin, American composer (Hanna-Barbera), dies at age 78.
- December 6: Werner Klemperer, German-American actor, stage entertainer and singer (voice of Haman in ' episode "Queen Esther", Colonel Klink in The Simpsons episode "The Last Temptation of Homer"), dies from cancer at age 80.
- December 18: Nick Stewart, American actor (voice of Specks Crow in Dumbo and Br'er Bear in Song of the South), dies at age 90.
- December 23: Billy Barty, American actor (voice of Figment in Language Arts Through Imagination, Dweedle in Wildfire, Baitmouse in The Rescuers Down Under, Hips McManus in The New Batman Adventures episode "Double Talk"), dies at age 76.
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