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 & [...]

Los Angeles Irish Film Festival 2009

Kisses by Lance Daly

The Los Angeles Irish Film Festival is currently being held at the American Cinematheque’s Aero Theatre in Santa Monica.
Gabriel Byrne will be present tonight for a screening of Gabriel Byrne: Stories from Home, directed by Pat Collins.
Upcoming films include Vittoria Colonna Di Stigliano’s Identities, about Ireland’s transgender denizens; Tomm Moore and Nora Twomey’s animated adventure tale The Secret of Kells; and Lance Daly’s Kisses, about two pre-teens who run away from home and end up in the streets of Dublin.
The Aero is located at 1328 Montana Avenue (at 14th Street) in Santa Monica.
The schedule and synopses below are from the American Cinematheque’s press release:
Friday, September 25 – 7:30 PM
Double Feature:
CHERRYBOMB, 2009, Little Film Company, [...]