Venice 2009: George Lucas Photos

Andrew Stanton, Lee Unkrich, George Lucas, John Lasseter, Brad Bird and Peter Docter at the Venice 2009 Lifetime Achievement Award ceremony for the Pixar filmmakers

George Lucas, John Lasseter

George Lucas
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John Lasseter at Venice 2009

Venice 2009: John Lasseter Photos

Andrew Stanton, Peter Docter, John Lasseter, George Lucas, Lee Unkrich and Brad Bird attend the Golden Lion Lifetime Achievement Award ceremony for the Pixar filmmakers at the Sala Grande during the 2009 Venice Film Festival on September 6.
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Andrew Stanton, Peter Docter, John Lasseter, Brad Bird and Lee Unkrich

John Lasseter

George Lucas at Venice 2009

Hayao Miyazaki Tribute Photos

John Lasseter, Hayao Miyazaki, and Matt Groening at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences‘ presentation of "The 13th Marc Davis Celebration of Animation: Hayao Miyazaki," on Tuesday, July 28, 2009, at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills.
Photos: Todd Wawrychuk / ©A.M.P.A.S.
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Hayao Miyazaki

June Foray, Leonard Maltin

Ron Clements, John Musker

Hayao Miyazaki, John Lasseter

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 [...]

Annie Awards 2007

2007 Annie Awards
2007 International Animated Film Society’s Annie Award nominations: December 4, 2006
2007 Annie Award winners: Alex Theatre in Glendale on February 11, 2007
("*" denotes the winner in each category)
 

Pixar’s Cars, directed by John Lasseter and Joe Ranft, won the 2007 Annie Award for best animated feature film at the 34th International Animated Film Society Awards. Additionally, Cars won the Annie for best music in an animated feature for Randy Newman’s score. Flushed Away, however, turned out to be the evening’s top winner. The DreamWorks Animation/Aardman Animations feature about life in the London sewers, won a total of five Annies including best animated effects and best "voice acting" for Ian McKellen, who plays the character Toad. Curiously, Flushed Away was [...]

2007 Annie Awards: Nominations

John Lasseter and Joe Ranft’s Cars (above, top photo), set in the back roads of the United States, and Flushed Away (above, lower photo), 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 2007 Annie Awards, announced Monday, Dec. 4.
Cars received a best animated feature nod, though Flushed Away was strangely absent from that category in spite of nominations for directors David Bowers and Sam Fell, and for screenwriter Will Davies.
George Miller’s Australia-U.S. co-production and box-office hit Happy Feet, about a genetically impaired penguin that tap dances, received two nods: best animated feature and writing in an [...]

Visual Effects Society Awards 2006

2006 Visual Effects Society Awards
2006 Visual Effects Society award nominations: January 9, 2006
2006 VES award winners: Hollywood Palladium in Los Angeles on February 15, 2006
("*" denotes the winner in each category)
 

 

FEATURE FILMS
Outstanding Visual Effects in a Visual Effects Driven Motion Picture
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch & the Wardrobe – Dean Wright, Randy Starr, Bill Westenhofer, Jim Berney
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire – Jim Mitchell, Theresa Corrao, Tim Alexander, Tim Webber
* King Kong – Eileen Moran, Joe Letteri, Christian Rivers, Eric Saindon
Star Wars: Episode III Revenge of the Sith – John Knoll, Roger Guyett, Rob Coleman, Denise Ream
Outstanding Supporting Visual Effects in a Motion Picture
Jarhead – Pablo Helman, Jeanie King, Grady Cofer, Brett Northcutt
* [...]