UP Wins Annie Award for Best Animated Feature
Pete Docter’s Up was the best picture winner and Docter was the best director at the Annie Awards ceremony held Saturday evening at UCLA’s Royce Hall in Los Angeles. The favorite movie did win the top two prizes — but that was it. With three awards each, Coraline and The Princess and the Frog were the evening’s top animated feature winners.
But at least Up’s best picture victory avoided a repeat of last year’s outrage following the Kung Fu Panda sweep when WALL-E was the odds-on favorite. Up is the favorite to win this year’s Best Animated Feature Academy Award. It’s also the second ever animated feature to be nominated for a Best Picture Academy Award. Beauty and the Beast [...]
by Andre Soares | February 7, 2010
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Tags: Animation, Annie Awards, Coraline, Film Awards, Pete Docter, The Princess and the Frog, Up
Annie Awards 2010
2010 Annie Awards
International Animated Film Society’s 2010 Annie Award nominations: Dec. 1, 2009
2010 Annie Award winners: UCLA’s Royce Hall in Los Angeles on Feb. 6, 2010
("*" denotes the winner in each category)
Up by Pete Docter
PRODUCTION CATEGORIES
Best Animated Feature
Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs — Sony Pictures Animation
Coraline — Laika
Fantastic Mr. Fox — 20th Century Fox
The Princess and the Frog — Walt Disney Animation Studios
The Secret of Kells — Cartoon Saloon
* Up — Pixar Animation Studios
Best Home Entertainment Production
Curious George: A Very Monkey Christmas — Universal Animation Studios
* Futurama: Into the Wild Green Yonder — The Curiosity Company in association with 20th Century [...]
by Anna Robinson | February 7, 2010
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Tags: 9, Animation, Annie Awards, Astro Boy, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, Coraline, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Film Awards, The Princess and the Frog, The Secret of Kells, Up
UP, FANTASTIC MR. FOX: US Critics’ Top Animated Features
Pete Docter’s Up (Disney / Pixar) (top); Wes Anderson’s Fantastic Mr. Fox (Fox Searchlight Pictures) (bottom)
Although Pete Docter’s Up was expected to have the animation year-end awards field all to itself, it ultimately had to face tough competition from Wes Anderson’s Fantastic Mr. Fox, which features the voices of George Clooney, Meryl Streep, and Jason Schwartzman, among others.
Up has won awards from at least 14 US-based groups, while Fantastic Mr. Fox has won 7. Both are up for a Golden Globe and for a best animated feature Annie Award. Coraline is the only other animated feature to win an award this season, from the San Francisco film critics. It’s also up for a Golden Globe and an Annie Award.
Tomm Moore’s [...]
by Andre Soares | December 30, 2009
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Tags: Animation, Coraline, Critics Choices, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Film Awards, George Clooney, Meryl Streep, Pete Docter, Up, Wes Anderson
Henry Selick Mini-Retrospective in Hollywood
James and the Giant Peach (above, top), Coraline (middle), and The Nightmare Before Christmas (bottom) will be screened at a mini-retrospective on the films of animator Henry Selick presented by the American Film Institute at the ArcLight Hollywood tomorrow, Dec. 10, beginning at 5:00 pm.
Coraline is one of 20 animated features vying for an Oscar nomination this year. Additionally, Selick’s 3-D fantasy received 10 Annie Award nominations from the International Animated Film Society — more than any other film this year. (Pete Docter’s Up came in second, with nine nods.)
Photos: Courtesy of the AFI
Schedule and film info from the AFI website:
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 10, 5:00 PM
JAMES AND THE GIANT PEACH
1996 79 MIN 35MM Rated PG
DIR [...]
by Andre Soares | December 9, 2009
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Tags: American Film Institute, Animation, Coraline, Henry Selick, James and the Giant Peach, Los Angeles Screenings, The Nightmare Before Christmas
Golden Globes 2010: Best Animated Feature Semi-Finalists
Coraline (top); Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (middle); Jim Carrey in A Christmas Carol (bottom)
Fifteen animated features are up for consideration in the Best Animated Feature category for 2010 Golden Globe Awards, Hollywood Foreign Press Association president Philip Berk has announced. They are:
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Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel
Battle for Terra
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
Coraline
A Christmas Carol
Fantastic Mr. Fox
Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs
Mary and Max
The Missing Lynx
Monsters vs. Aliens
Planet 51
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by Anna Robinson | December 3, 2009
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Tags: A Christmas Carol, Animation, Coraline, Film Awards, Golden Globes, Golden Globes 2010, Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs