Happy Feet Gets Environmental Award

Thursday, October 25, 2007
By: Ryan Ball

Warner Bros./Village Roadshow’s animated feature film Happy Feet was a big winner at the 17th Annual Environmental Media Association (EMA) Awards held on Wednesday, Oct. 24 at the Ebell Club of Los Angeles. The award in the Feature Film category will go on a shelf with a host of other kudos received since the film debuted last year, including the Oscar for Best Animate Feature.

Directed by George Miller, Happy Feet works an environmental theme into its story of a young penguin who uses fancy footwork to make up for the fact that he can’t sing to attract a mate. The critically acclaimed family pic also claimed the BAFTA in the animated feature category and took home a number of awards from critics’ associations this year.

The EMA Awards recognize and honor the creative teams behind television, film and musical productions that expand public awareness of environmental issues. Other 2007 winners include the television shows My Name is Earl, NUMB3RS, Scrubs, Living with Ed, Bindi the Jungle Girl and Big Ideas for a Small Planet. Actress Sienna Miller was also honored with the Futures Award for her commitment to bringing attention to the harmful effects of global warming, and Al Gore and Kevin Wall were given an Outstanding Achievement award for their work to raise global awareness of the growing climate crisis through the Live Earth concert series.

The 2007 EMA awards ceremony will air on Wednesday, Nov, 7 at 8 p.m. on E! Entertainment Television. For more information go to www.ema-online.org.

Reader Comments

• Tony Smyles : Producer-Director : Rhapsody Entertainment

  Friday, October 26, 2007

  Oh great. Another \"award\" that doesn\'t mean anything other than PC feel-goodness. First the Academy Award goes to that bogus piece of science fiction/slideshow by Al Gore... discredited and proved to be almost completely factually wrong, and then the Nobel \"peace\" prize goes to the same moron, rather than to someone who actually did something important (risking her live to save some 2000 Jewish children during WWII).
  
  Now we\'re basing award worthiness on some misguided \"awareness\" issue.
  
  As has been evident for years, these awards simply do not mean anything other than who kissed the most amount of PC butt.