High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Foster`s Home for Imaginary Friends (often abbreviated to Foster`s) is an American animated television series created by Craig McCracken that ran from August 13, 2004, to May 3, 2009, on Cartoon Network. Throughout its run, it was nominated for 33 television and animation industry awards and won 16 of them. It received 20 Annie Award nominations, including Best Animated Television Production in 2006, of which it won 5. Both one-hour specials ("Good Wilt Hunting" and "Destination: Imagination") were nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for "Outstanding Animated Program (For Programming One Hour or More)," which the latter won. Eight other nominations and six other wins were given to the series at other Emmy ceremonies.