[2] His adaptation of the children's book The Man Who Walked Between the Towers (2005) won the Audience Choice Award for Best Short Film at the 2005 Heartland Film Festival,[3] the award for Best Short Animation Made for Children at the 2006 Ottawa International Animation Festival, and was short-listed for an Oscar nomination.
[2] Sporn produced and directed more than 30 half-hour specials for broadcast outlets HBO, PBS, Showtime and CBS.
He created spots & shorts for Sesame Street, PBS stations such as WGBH, Scholastic, syndicated public service announcements such as those featuring Sport Billy and for UNICEF, and also music videos, documentary and film titles and inserts, commercial logos for Random House, industrial spots for companies like Goodyear.
It is included as an extra on the DVD of the Oscar-winning documentary Man on Wire (2008), directed by James Marsh, about this exploit.
[6] In 1988 Sporn was nominated for an Emmy Award for his TV film adapted from William Steig's Abel's Island.
[2] Sporn worked with many actors and musicians, including Billy Crystal, Ruby Dee, Ossie Davis, Madonna, Prudence Plummer, Christopher Reeve, Susan Sarandon, Eli Wallach, James Earl Jones, John Lithgow, Tim Curry and many others.
Sporn produced, animated or directed many films with messages of social commitment including the TV special Whitewash and entertaining short films such as Champagne and Morris's Disappearing Bag [7] alongside HBO Storybook Musicals such as Lyle, Lyle Crocodile, The Story of the Dancing Frog, Ira Sleeps Over, The Marzipan Pig, The Country Mouse and the City Mouse: A Christmas Tale, The Red Shoes (1990), the animated adaptation of the beloved 1939 Virginia Lee Burton book Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel[8] and Santa Bear's First Christmas.
Related to the election in 2008 of Barack Obama as the first African-American President of the United States, it explored the dreams and ambitions of children who aspire to that office.