Disney’s Ink & Paint Department, 1957. Photo courtesy of Ann Guenther.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences‘ new exhibition "Ink & Paint: The Art of Hand-Drawn Animation" will showcase more than 125 hand-drawn artwork pieces from such classics as Alice in Wonderland, 101 Dalmatians, and The Lion King. The exhibition will open on [...]
The 12th Marc Davis Celebration of Animation, "Drawing on the Future: Mentorship in Animation," will be presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences on Friday, May 9, at 7:30 p.m. at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills.
Animation critic Charles Solomon will moderate an onstage panel discussion featuring James Baxter, Andreas Deja, [...]
One dozen cartoons, including Porky’s Duck Hunt (1937), Heckling Hare (1941), and What’s Opera, Doc? (1957), will be screened at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences‘ "Monday Nights with Oscar" presentation of "Putting Looney in the Toons," on Monday, May 5, at 7:30 p.m. at the Academy Theater in New York City.
Animator John [...]
Since March 6, the American Cinematheque has been screening the 2008 Oscar nominated shorts (both live action and animated — but no documentaries). The screenings continue until Thursday, March 13.
Schedules and brief synopses are from the Cinematheque’s press release. (All films have English subtitles if in another language.)
OSCAR NOMINATED LIVE ACTION SHORTS
Screens nightly at [...]
Looney Tunes collaborators Tex Avery and Michael Maltese will be honored in a double centennial tribute by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences on Monday, March 24, at 7:30 p.m. at the Linwood Dunn Theater at the Academy’s Pickford Center for Motion Picture Study in Hollywood.
"Putting Looney in the Toons" will showcase several [...]
2007 Annie Awards
2007 International Animated Film Society’s Annie Award nominations: December 3, 2007.
2007 Annie Award winners: February 8, 2008.
("*" denotes the winner in each category)
PRODUCTION CATEGORIES
Best Animated Feature
Bee Movie - DreamWorks Animation
Persepolis - Sony Pictures Classics
* Ratatouille - Pixar Animation Studios
Surf’s Up - Sony Pictures Animation
The Simpsons Movie - Twentieth Century Fox
Best Home [...]
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will screen the 2007 Academy Award-nominated films in the Animated and Live Action Short Film categories, on Tuesday, February 19, at 7 p.m. at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills. The program will feature onstage discussions with the nominated filmmakers (subject to availability).
They are:
Animated [...]
Erica Abeel interviews Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud at indieWIRE, where they discuss family, politics, non-politics, and cartoon voices.
Satrapi and Paronnaud’s Persepolis will be screened in the US in a dubbed version — though I do hope that a print with the original French-dialogue track will be available somewhere here in Los Angeles. Catherine Deneuve, [...]
Posted in Animation, Film Awards on November 10th, 2007 No Comments »
Twelve features have been submitted for consideration in the Animated Feature Film category for the 80th Academy Awards.
They are:
Alvin and the Chipmunks
Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters
Bee Movie
Beowulf (see trailer below)
Meet the Robinsons
Persepolis (top photo)
Ratatouille
Shrek the Third
The Simpsons Movie
Surf’s Up
Tekkonkinkreet
TMNT
Only [...]
Posted in Animation, Film Awards on October 24th, 2007 No Comments »
To qualify in the Animated Feature Film category for the 80th Academy Awards, filmmakers must submit entry forms and supporting materials to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences by 5 p.m. PT Thursday, November 1.
The deadline to submit accompanying film prints is Friday, November 16.
Complete 80th Academy Awards rules are available at www.oscars.org/80academyawards/rules. [...]
When most people think of animation, the words "Disney" and "Pixar" are the first that pop up in their heads.
Since I’m not most people, when I think of animation what pops up in my head is the National Film Board of Canada (NFB).
So, I’m happy to report that the NFB and the Academy of Motion [...]
Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud’s Persepolis is the French entry for the upcoming Academy Award for best foreign-language film.
Based on Satrapi’s autobiographical graphic novels, the black-and-white animated film follows a young girl growing up in Iran during the Islamic Revolution of the late 1970s.
Chiara Mastroianni (as Marjane), her mother Catherine Deneuve, veteran Danielle Darrieux, [...]
Angela Doland interviews Persepolis co-director Marjane Satrapi (right) for The Associated Press. Via the Kansas City Star:
"’What we wanted to say is, if these people [Iranians, Muslims] scare you, look closer: They have parents, they have lovers, they have hope, they have stories,’ Marjane Satrapi told The Associated Press in an interview at a [...]
Meet the Robinsons (2007)
Director: Stephen J. Anderson. Screenplay: John Bernstein, Michelle Spitz, Don Hall, Nathan Greno, Aurian Redson, Joe Mateo, Stephen J. Anderson, based on the book A Day with Wilbur Robinson by William Joyce. Cast: Daniel Hansen, Jordan Fry, Wesley Singerman, Angela Bassett, Tom Selleck, Ethan Sandler, Stephen J. Anderson, Laurie Metcalf, Adam West
The [...]
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will present the program "Shorts!," featuring the ten Academy Award nominees in the Animated and Live Action Short Film categories. The screening will be held on Tuesday, February 20, at 7:30 p.m. at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills.
Hosted by Academy Award-winning producer-director Taylor Hackford*, "Shorts!" [...]
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has announced that 56 songs will be considered in the Original Song category for the 2006 Academy Awards.
On Tuesday, January 16, the Academy will screen clips featuring each song, in random order, for Music Branch voting members in both Beverly Hills and New York City.
According to [...]
John Lasseter’s animated film Cars, set in the back roads of the United States, and Flushed Away, the story of an upscale rat who gets flushed down into the sewers of London, received the most nominations — nine in all — for the International Animated Film Society’s Annie Awards, announced Monday, Dec. 4.
Cars received a [...]
34th Annie Awards - 2006
The 34th International Animated Film Society’s Annie Award winners were announced on December 4, 2006.
The 34th International Animated Film Society’s Annie Award winners were announced at the Alex Theatre in Glendale on February 11, 2007.
Annie Awards 2006 Nominations - Brief Article
("*" denotes the winner in each category)
Pixar’s Cars, directed by John [...]
Posted in American Cinema, Animation, Australian / New Zealand Cinema, British Cinema, Documentary, European Cinema, Film, French Cinema, Shorts, Silent Films, World Cinema on November 17th, 2006 No Comments »
“A Century Ago: The Films of 1906″ will have a New York City screening, presented by Randy Haberkamp. Among the scheduled films are Humorous Phases of Funny Faces by J. Stuart Blackton, Voyage autour d’une etoile / Trip Around a Star by Gaston Velle, Skyscrapers, Dream of a Rarebit Fiend, and footage from the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.
Posted in American Cinema, Animation, Australian / New Zealand Cinema, British Cinema, Documentary, European Cinema, Film, French Cinema, Shorts, Silent Films, World Cinema on November 16th, 2006 No Comments »
A Century Ago: The Films of 1906 is a special screening of short films from 1906, including Dream of a Rarebit Fiend, Voyage autour d’une etoile / Voyage Around a Star, In the Haunts of Rip Van Winkle, The Impossible Convicts, Humorous Phases of Funny Faces, and others. Organized by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Press Release:
Beverly Hills, CA — With 16 animated features submitted for consideration in 2006, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences anticipates that its Animated Feature Film category, for the first time since 2002, may include a full slate of five nominees.
The 16 features expected to compete for 79th Academy Awards® nominations are:
The Ant [...]
"I want to take a little care of my fellow citizens. I want to take a little care of my planet. I want to act in favor of the inner cities, in favor of the environment. I want to do lots of things." That’s Luc Besson, 47, explaining today that his tenth film as a [...]
The biting drama Den Brysomme mannen / The Bothersome Man, the apparent favorite at Norway’s 2006 Amanda Film Awards, did win three of the six top awards this past Friday, Aug. 18: Best Director (Jens Lien), Best Actor (Trond Fausa Aurvåg, who also directed the winning short film, Alene menn sammen / Lonely Together), and [...]
33th Annie Awards - 2005
The 33th International Animated Film Society’s Annie Award winners were announced on February 4, 2006.
("*" denotes the winner in each category)
In Nick Park and Steve Box’s Wallace & Gromit - The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, Wallace and his dog Gromit investigate the mystery behind garden sabotages that threaten their village’s annual [...]
Posted in Animation, Film, Film Awards on November 17th, 2005 No Comments »
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has announced the ten films deemed eligible by the executive committee of the short films and feature animation branch of the Academy to compete in the Best Animated Feature Film category. As per Academy rules, a maximum of three animated films can be nominated in a year [...]
