Month: February 2010 (Page 3 of 3)
In theaters March 5, 2010.
Pixar Animation Studio’s Up wins the Best Animated Feature honor at the 37th Annual Annie Awards held at UCLA’s Royce Hall on Saturday, Feb. 6.
Walt Disney Animation Studios won six Annies overall including three for its feature The Princess and the Frog and three for its television production Prep and Landing.
DreamWorks Animation won five Annies including Best Television Production for Children and Directing/TV for The Penguins of Madagascar, Character Animation/TV and Storyboarding/Feature for Monsters vs. Aliens and Storyboarding/TV for Merry Madagascar.
Best Home Entertainment Production went to 20th Century Fox’s Futurama: Into the Wild Green Yonder; Best Animated Short Subject went to ShadowMachine’s Robot Chicken: Star Wars 2.5; Acme Filmworks won Best Animated Television Commercial for Spanish Lottery ‘Deportees’; Best Animated Television Production went to Disney’s Prep and Landing; and Best Animated Television Production for Children went to DreamWorks’ The Penguins of Madagascar.
The Winsor McCay award was given to three industry leaders – Tim Burton, Jeffrey Katzenberg and Bruce Timm. Named in honor of the prolific animator, Winsor McCay, this award stands as one of the highest honors given to an individual in the animation industry in recognition for career contributions to the art of animation.
The nominees for the 82nd annual Academy Awards (Oscars) were announced today. Here are the animation nominees:
Animated Feature Film
“Coraline†Henry Selick
“Fantastic Mr. Fox†Wes Anderson
“The Princess and the Frog†John Musker and Ron Clements
“The Secret of Kells†Tomm Moore
“Up†Pete Docter
Short Film (Animated)
“French Roast†Fabrice O. Joubert
“Granny O’Grimm’s Sleeping Beauty†Nicky Phelan and Darragh O’Connell
“The Lady and the Reaper (La Dama y la Muerte)†Javier Recio Gracia
“Logorama†Nicolas Schmerkin
“A Matter of Loaf and Death†Nick Park
More nominees after the break.
Check out this wonderful animated chidren’s TV pilot from Copa Studio, in co-production with two Brazilian public broadcasters. No word yet on whether or not the show has found distribution outside of Brazil, but we’ll keep you updated.
Synopsis: An elephant with no memory, a vegetarian anteater and a colony of termites that believe they have come from another planet, travel together in a steam train through Latin America. In each episode there is a stop, and we get to know a different place and a new character.
Synopsis: A cute little girl is banished from heaven straight into the fires of Hell. The Dark minions quickly learn that if nothing will be done about their new unwelcomed guest, Their lives will turn into a living Hell.
Pixar’s up was nominated for three Grammy awards this past Sunday; of which it won two: Best Score Soundtrack Album For Motion Picture, Television Or Other Visual Media and Best Instrumental Composition. Below are the complete list of nominees in both categories.
Best Score Soundtrack Album For Motion Picture, Television Or Other Visual Media:
The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button (Alexandre Desplat) [Concord Records]
Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince (Nicholas Hooper) [New Line Records]
Milk (Danny Elfman) [Decca]
Star Trek (Michael Giacchino) [Varèse Sarabande]
Winner: Up (Michael Giacchino) [Walt Disney Records]
Best Instrumental Composition:
“Borat In Syracuse†from “Jazz-Clazz†(Paquito D’Rivera) (Paquito D’Rivera Quintet) [Timba Records]
“Counting To Infinity†from “Dialmentia†(Tim Davies) (Tim Davies Big Band) [Origin Records]
“Fluffy†from “Legendary†(Bob Florence) (Bob Florence Limited Edition) [MAMA Records]
“Ice-Nine†from “Lab 2009″ (Steve Wiest) (University Of North Texas One O’Clock Lab Band) [North Texas Jazz]
Winner: “Married Life†from Up (Michael Giacchino) [Walt Disney Records]