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Golden Globes 2010: Five Best Animated Feature Nominees

Up by Pete Docter

The 2010 Golden Globes will feature five Best Animated Feature contenders, as members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association voted last week to expand this year’s number of nominations for that category.
The amended rule for the Best Animated Feature category now reads: "Eligible films must be feature-length (70 minutes or longer) with no more than 25% live action. If less than eight animated films qualify, the award will not be given, in which case the films would be eligible for Best Picture. If less than twelve animated films qualify, the category will be limited to three nominations per year."
(The Golden Globes press release doesn’t indicate the number of animated-feature submissions this year, but [...]

Oscar 2010: Animated Feature Semi-Finalists

Up by Pete Docter (top); A Town Called Panic by Stéphane Aubier and Vincent Patar (middle); Fantastic Mr. Fox by Wes Anderson (bottom)

Twenty features have been submitted for consideration in the Animated Feature Film category for the 2010 Academy Awards. They are:

Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel
Astro Boy
Battle for Terra
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
Coraline
Disney’s A Christmas Carol
The Dolphin – Story of a Dreamer
Fantastic Mr. Fox
Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs
Mary and Max
The Missing Lynx
Monsters vs. [...]

European Film Awards 2009: Best Animated Feature Nominations

Mia and the Migoo (top); Niko & the Way to the Stars (middle); The Secret of Kells (bottom)

The European Film Academy has announced the three nominees for the new European Film Award category "Best Animated Feature Film."
They are:

Mia and the Migoo (Mia et le Migou) (France 2008)
by Jacques-Rémy Girerd
A young girl sets out looking for her father, a worker at the building site of a luxury hotel in the middle of a hidden forest. Deep in the woods, she comes face to face with the mysterious creature Migoo.
Niko & the Way to the Stars (Niko – Lentäjän poika) (Finland / Germany / Denmark / Ireland 2008)
by Kari Juusonen & [...]

Oscar 2010: Early Predictions – Best Animated Feature

Best Animated Feature

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, Phil Lord and Chris Miller
As a scientist tries to solve world hunger, it starts raining food.

Coraline, Henry Selick
A young girl discovers a new world featuring an idealized version of her dysfunctional family life — and some spooky little secrets as well.

Fantastic Mr. Fox, Wes Anderson
Farmers band together to get rid of Mr. Fox (voiced by George Clooney) and his family (Meryl Streep is the Missus).

Ponyo, Hayao Miyazaki
A five-year-old boy and a goldfish princess develop a close bond.

Up, Pete Docter
A man in his late 70s takes his house and a young stowaway to the South American jungle.

In case there are 16 or more animated features being considered for the 2010 Academy [...]

“Perspectives on Editing”: Animation

Up by Pete Docter (top); Matt Groening’s The Simpsons Movie directed by David Silverman (middle); Surf’s Up by Ash Brannon, Chris Buck (bottom)

The art and craft of editing animated films will be explored in the second installment of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ four-part seminar series “Perspectives on Editing” on Tuesday, September 29, from 7 to 10 p.m. at the Academy’s Linwood Dunn Theater in Hollywood.
“Perspectives on Editing: Editing for Animation” will be hosted by Academy Film Editors Branch governors Donn Cambern (The Last Picture Show, The Bodyguard) and Mark Goldblatt (Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Starship Troopers).
Special guests will include Kent Beyda (Alien Nation, Scooby-Doo), John [...]

Sun Xun: The Dark Magician of New Chinese Animation

Requiem (top); Shock of Time (bottom)

The REDCAT in downtown Los Angeles will give a rare U.S. presentation of Chinese artist and filmmaker Sun Xun’s animation works on Mon., Oct 19, at 8:30 p.m. Sun Xun will be present at the screening.
According to the REDCAT’s press release, "Sun Xun: The Dark Magician of New Chinese Animation" will feature "a program of shorts ranging from a witty experiment in body art (Lie of Magician, 2005) to the creation of an expansive imagistic world that evokes China’s checkered voyage toward technological and political modernity."
The text below is from the REDCAT’s release:
After studying printmaking at the Academy of Fine Arts in Hangzhou, Sun founded the [...]

Adam Beckett Salute

Animator and visual effects artist Adam Beckett will be celebrated by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences with the special program “Infinite Animation: The Work of Adam Beckett” on Monday, August 17, at 8 p.m. at the Linwood Dunn Theater in Hollywood. The evening will include a screening of Life in the Atom, a short film that Beckett left unfinished when, at the age of 29, he died in a fire in 1979.
Presented by the Academy’s Science and Technology Council in conjunction with the iotaCenter, and hosted by visual effects artist Richard Winn Taylor and Beckett biographer Pamela Turner, “Infinite Animation: The Work of Adam Beckett” will [...]

Hayao Miyazaki Tribute

As part of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences‘ three-month celebration of anime, a screening of Hayao Miyazaki’s 2002 Oscar-winning animated feature Spirited Away will take place on Friday, July 17, at 7:30 p.m., at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills.
Then, on Tuesday, July 28, at 7:30 p.m., Oscar-winning animator and Academy governor John Lasseter will host "A Tribute to Animation Master Hayao Miyazaki" at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater. Both evenings will include extended gallery hours for the Academy’s ongoing exhibition "ANIME! High Art – Pop Culture."

The quirky Spirited Away is my favorite among the Miyazaki features I’ve seen. The tale of a young girl [...]

2009 Student Academy Award Winners

Alice’s Attic (top); Pajama Gladiator (2nd from top); Bohemibot (2nd from bottom); Elkland (bottom)

The 2009 Student Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, will be held on Saturday, June 13, at the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills.
Twelve students from eight U.S. colleges and universities have been named winners in the competition. One film student from Sweden has been voted the Honorary Foreign Film Award.
The U.S. winners know they will each receive an award, but their placement – Gold, Silver or Bronze – will be revealed only at the June 13 ceremony. Gold Medal winners receive cash grants of $5,000, Silver Medal winners receive $3,000, and Bronze Medal winners receive $2,000. The [...]

Student Academy Awards 2009 Finalists

Sebastian’s Voodoo (top), The Last Mermaids (middle), Bohemibot (bottom)

Thirty-six students from 20 US colleges and universities have been selected as finalists in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ 2009 Student Academy Awards competition. Academy members will pick the winners after watching the competing films at special screenings.
Gold, Silver and Bronze Medal awards, along with accompanying cash prizes of $5,000, $3,000 and $2,000, respectively, may be presented in each of the four categories below. The winners will later take part in a week of industry-related and social activities, including the awards ceremony on Saturday, June 13, at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills.
The finalists are (listed alphabetically by film title):

Alternative
Alice’s Attic, [...]

2009 Honorary Foreign Film Award Finalists

Five finalists will be vying for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences‘ 2009 Honorary Foreign Film award in the 36th Annual Student Academy Awards competition. The five finalists were selected from a record 57 entries representing 39 countries. The winning student filmmaker will be brought to Los Angeles to join U.S.-based Student Academy Award winners "for a week of industry-related activities and social events," including the awards ceremony on Saturday, June 13, in Beverly Hills.
The finalists are (listed alphabetically by film title):

Elkland (above, center photo), Per Hanefjord, Dramatiska Institutet, Sweden
Face-to-Face Confrontation, Igor Khomsky, Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography, Russia
The Incredible Story [...]

Babelgum Online Film Festival Awards 2009

2009 Babelgum Online Film Festival Awards
2009 Babelgum Online Film Festival Award winners: April 27, 2009 at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York City
 

In Francesco Sperandeo’s Bab Al Samah / The Door of Forgiveness, a man’s desire to get over past humiliations, symbolized by a heavy, old door, leads him on a life-changing journey.
 

Looking for Genius Award: BAB AL SAMAH / THE DOOR OF FORGIVENESS by Francesco Sperandeo (Italy)
Spike Lee Award / Short Film: MARADONA BABY by Nino Sabella (Italy)
Spike Lee Award / Animation: HEY ANIMATION MUSIC VIDEO by Guy Ben Shetrit (Israel)
Spike Lee Award / Documentary: THE LADIES by Christina Voros (United States)
Spike Lee Award / Mini Masterpiece: I HAD A DREAM I [...]

Joanna Priestley Screenings at the REDCAT

PRESS RELEASE
FILM AT REDCAT PRESENTS
Joanna Priestley: Fighting Gravity
Mon Apr 20 | 8:30 pm
Jack H. Skirball Series
$9 [students $7, CalArts $5]
Los Angeles premiere
Dubbed “the queen of independent animation” by Bill Plympton, Joanna Priestley unveils her new short Missed Aches, a humorous rant about the need for proofreading. This can’t-miss program for animation buffs also includes a series of animated gems representing the range of the artist’s techniques: Voices, Grown Up, All My Relations, Streetcar Named Perspire, Utopia Parkway, Candyjam, She-Bop, Pro and Con, and Dew Line. Mentored by Jules Engel at CalArts, Priestley had previously made 19 award-winning films about subjects as varied as relationships, plants, magic, menopause, abstraction and prison. [...]

Milt Kahl: The Animation Michelangelo, A Centennial Celebration

"Milt Kahl: The Animation Michelangelo, A Centennial Celebration," an homage to Disney animator Milt Kahl (right), will be presented on Monday, April 27, at 7:30 p.m. at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences‘ Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills. Animator Andreas Deja (creator of characters such as Gaston in Beauty and the Beast, Scar in The Lion King, and Lilo in Lilo & Stitch) will host the evening, which will include a panel discussion moderated by animation critic Charles Solomon.
Among the scheduled panelists are Kathryn Beaumont (the voice artist for Alice in Alice in Wonderland and Wendy in Peter Pan), Academy Award-winner Brad Bird (for The Incredibles and Ratatouille), [...]

Animacor 2009: Animation Film Festival Calls for Entries

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Prize-winnings totaling 39,000 € will be awarded. The winners will also receive the "Carrasquito" statue, which is in the shape of the festival logo.
The Association for the Development of the Animation Industry of Córdoba is announcing the call for entries with the publication of the rules and regulations of the 5th International Animation Film Festival of Córdoba, Animacor’09, which will be held from November 2nd to 7th of this year.
The internationally prestigious Animacor’09 Festival has gained in scope over the course of its lifetime, putting Córdoba on the international circuit of animation festivals. Each year the number of films has increased, not only from European and Latin American countries, but [...]

Andrew Stanton, Chris Williams, Byron Howard at Academy’s Animated Feature Symposium

Those images are from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences‘ symposium for the 2009 Oscar-nominated animated features on Thursday, February 19, 2009, at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills.
Above: Mark Osborne, John Stevenson, Tom Sito, Chris Williams, Byron Howard, Andrew Stanton
Click on the photos to enlarge them.
Photos: Richard Harbaugh / ©A.M.P.A.S.

Chris Williams, Byron Howard

Andrew Stanton

Mark Osborne, John Stevenson

 
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Oscar 2009: Animated and Live Action Short Film Screenings in New York City

"Shorts!," the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences program featuring the 2009 Oscar nominees in the Animated and Live Action Short Film categories, will be presented in New York City on Saturday, February 14, at the Academy Theater at Lighthouse International (111 East 59th Street). There will be two separate screenings of the nominated films, the first at noon and an encore presentation at 4 p.m.
Film historian Robert Osborne, who is a columnist for The Hollywood Reporter, host of Turner Classic Movies, and author of the new book 80 Years of the Oscar: The Official History of the Academy Awards, will act as host of the noon screening. Osborne will also be [...]

Animated Feature Symposium 2009

The first Animated Feature Symposium will be presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences on Thursday, February 19, at 7:30 p.m. at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills. Moderated by animator and animation historian Tom Sito, the evening will feature onstage discussions with the nominated filmmakers (subject to availability) and film clips.
The 2009 Animated Feature Film nominees are:

Bolt, Chris Williams and Byron Howard, directors
Kung Fu Panda, John Stevenson and Mark Osborne, directors
WALL-E, Andrew Stanton, director

Note: Admission is free, but advance tickets are required. Since the Animated Feature Symposium is already sold out, a standby line will be formed at the theater’s west doors on the day of [...]

Oscar 2009: Animated, Live-Action Shorts Screening

New Boy by Steph Green (top); Oktapodi by Emud Mokhberi and Thierry Marchand (bottom)

The 2009 Academy Award-nominated films in the Animated and Live Action Short Film categories will be screened as part of the program "Shorts!," presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences on Tuesday, February 17, at 7:30 p.m. at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills. The program will feature onstage discussions with the nominated filmmakers (subject to availability). Not to be missed…
The 2009 Animated Short Film and Live Action Short Film nominees are:

Animated Short Film
La Maison en Petits Cubes (above), Kunio Kato, director
Lavatory-Lovestory, Konstantin Bronzit, director
Oktapodi, Emud Mokhberi and [...]

Annie Awards 2009

2009 Annie Awards
2009 International Animated Film Society’s Annie Award nominations: December 1, 2008
2009 Annie Award winners: January 30, 2009
("*" denotes the winner in each category)
 

Kung Fu Panda was the surprising — shocking? — big winner at the 2009 Annie Awards. The animated feature won 10 Annies — in every single feature category — including best animated feature, best direction (John Stevenson and Mark Osborne), best screenplay (Jon Aibel and Glenn Berger), and best voice acting (Dustin Hoffman). Odds-on favorite WALL-E failed to win a single award. It should be noted that since 2001, when the Academy instituted the best animated feature category, only once has the Annie winner failed to nab the Academy Award. (Cars won the Annie; Happy Feet [...]

Oscar 2009 Predictions: Best Documentary, Animated Film

Encounters at the End of the World

BEST DOCUMENTARY, FEATURE
Encounters at the End of the World
I.O.U.S.A.
Man on Wire
Standard Operating Procedure
Trouble the Water
This is another specialty category that’s hard to hazard a guess.

The critically acclaimed Sundance winner Man on Wire is the only shoo-in, unless there’s another Hoop Dreams or The Thin Blue Line upset.
I.O.U.S.A. is quite relevant — the title says it all;
Standard Operating Procedure comes from the hands of Errol Morris, whose The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara won the 2003 Oscar in this category;
Trouble the Water is another doc that has been greeted by solid reviews and that has been [...]

MARY AND MAX to Open Sundance 2009

The 2009 Sundance Film Festival will open with Adam Elliot’s clay animation feature Mary and Max, the tale of an 8-year-old Australian girl who becomes the pen pal of an obese, 44-year-old male New Yorker. Throughout their two-decade exchanges, they discuss a wide range of subjects, from autism to taxidermy.
Written and directed by Elliot, who won an Academy Award for his 2002 animated short Harvie Krumpet, Mary and Max sounds like a quirky variation on the 84 Charing Cross Road theme, the James Roose-Evans play that became a 1984 movie directed by David Hugh Jones, and starring Anne Bancroft and Anthony Hopkins as long-term, pen-paling bookworms. She in New York; he in London.
Mary and Max features the voices of [...]

Oscar 2009: Animated Film Submissions

Fourteen features have been submitted for consideration in the Animated Feature Film category for the 81st Academy Awards®.
The 14 submitted features are:

“Bolt”
“Delgo”
“Dr. Seuss’ Horton Hears a Who!”
“Dragon Hunters”
“Fly Me to the Moon”
“Igor”
“Kung Fu Panda”
“Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa”
“$9.99”
“The Sky Crawlers”
“Sword of the Stranger”
“The Tale of Despereaux”
“WALL-E”
“Waltz with Bashir”

“Bolt,” “Delgo,” “Dragon Hunters,” “$9.99,” “The Sky Crawlers,” “The Tale of Despereaux” and “Waltz with Bashir” have not yet had [...]

MADAGASCAR: ESCAPE 2 AFRICA Trailer

 
Directed by Eric Darnell and Tom McGrath, Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa apparently revolves around culture clashes between New York City zoo animals and their African buddies. I’ll probably wait for the Samoyedan version to come out before I venture into a movie theater playing this film.
Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa voices: Ben Stiller, Chris Rock, David Schwimmer, Jada Pinkett Smith, Sacha Baron Cohen, Bernie Mac, Alec Baldwin.
Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa opens in the US on November 7.
Official Site.
Clip posted by morot172.
 
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FEAR(S) OF THE DARK Trailer

 
Peur(s) du noir / Fear(s) of the Dark features several intertwined stories focusing on nightmares, phobias, and the like. The Fear(s) of the Dark segments were written and directed by graphic artists Blutch, Charles Burns, Marie Caillou, Pierre di Sciullo, Lorenzo Mattotti, and Richard McGuire. Blutch, Burns, and di Sciullo also co-wrote the screenplay, along with Romain Slocombe, Jerry Kramsky, and Michel Pirus.
Among the voices featured in Fear(s) of the Dark are those of Guillaume Depardieu and Nicole Garcia.
Fear(s) of the Dark opens in the US on October 24. It opened in France on February 13.
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