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‘Family Guy,’ ‘Simpsons,’ ‘Robot Chicken’ Lead Toon Emmy Noms
Fox’s Family Guy leads animated contenders in the nominations for the 63rd annual Primetime Emmy Awards with four nominations, even as it missed being nominated for Outstanding Animated Program. The Fox series earned three music-related nominations: two for Outstanding Music Composition in a Series and one for Outstanding Original Music [...]
SIGGRAPH Names Computer Animation Festival Winners
SIGGRAPH has announced the Computer Animation Festival’s Best in Show, Jury Award, and Best Student Project recipients for SIGGRAPH 2011 in Vancouver, set for Aug. 7-11. A total of 77 films will be shown during the festival. Nominees were chosen by an expert panel of jury members from 891 submissions [...]
Rule Revisions Affect Animation, VFX Oscar Noms
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has revised its rules for animated features, visual effects and best picture for the 84th annual Oscars ceremony. In the animated feature film category, the need for the Board of Governors to vote to “activate” the category each year was eliminated, though [...]
UCLA Festival to Present Crystal Anvil Award to June Foray
Legendary animation voice actress June Foray will be honored with the Outstanding Contribution in Animation Award, also known as The Crystal Anvil Award, at the UCLA School of Theater, Film & Television’s Festival of New Creative Work. Foray will be presented the award at the festival’s Animation Prom, set for June 4 [...]
‘Toy Story 3′ Wins Golden Globe for Best Animated Feature
Disney-Pixar’s Toy Story 3 has won the best animated feature award at the Golden Globes. The film beat out challengers Despicable Me, How to Train Your Dragon, The Illusionist and Tangled for the top honor. The award was presented by teen singing star Justin Beiber and True Grit star Hailee [...]
PGA Double Nominates ‘Toy Story 3′; ‘Despicable Me,’ ‘Dragon’ Also in Hunt
The Producer’s Guild of America has announced three nominees for its best animated feature honor, in what may be a preview of the eventual Oscars showdown. It also chose Toy Story 3 as one of ten nominees for the best picture of the year. The nominees for the Award for [...]
Online Film Critics Give Another Nod to ‘Toy Story 3′
The Online Film Critics Society clicked with Toy Story 3, naming the film the best animated feature of 2010 though passing up on making it their best film of the year. In the animated feature category of the group’s annual awards, Toy Story 3 beat out Despicable Me, How to [...]
WGA Animation Writers Honor Simpsons’ Scully
Mike Scully, a veteran TV writer who has worked on The Simpsons since 1993, receives tonight the 13th annual Animation Writing Award for lifetime achievement from the WGA West Animation Writers’ Caucus. In addition to 17 seasons on The Simpsons and co-writing The Simpsons Movie, Scully has extensive live-action TV [...]
SIGGRAPH Asia Fest Bestows Three Awards
The jury in SIGGRAPH Asia’s Computer Animation Festival has named winners in three categories: Best of Show, Best Technical and Best Student. The Best of Show award goes to Poppy, a short film about two soldiers who find a baby on the battlefield. The film is directed by James Cunningham [...]
Disney, D&AD Awards Seek EMEA Toon Ideas
The Walt Disney Co. EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) has teamed up with the 2011 D&AD Student Awards to search for new animation talent and content. The world-renowned creative awards, in conjunction with Disney Channels’ Original Programming team, is asking students to create a lead character for a narrative-driven [...]
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