The winners of the 2010 Ottawa International Animation Festival were announced this evening at an awards ceremony. David OReilly took home the grand prize for his new short The External World while Phil Mulloy won the feature film grand prize for Goodbye Mister Christie. The members of the 2010 International Jury for the Short Program, Student and Commissioned Films were Frances Leeming (Canada), Munro Ferguson (Canada), and Maya Yonesho (Japan). The members of the International Jury for the Feature Film Competition were Atsushi Wada (Japan), Torill Kove (Canada/Norway), and Michaela Pavlatova (Czech Republic). The complete list of winners is below:

The 2010 Nelvana GRAND PRIZE for Best Independent Short Animation ($3,000 CDN):
The External World by David OReilly (Ireland/Germany)

The 2010 GRAND PRIZE for Best Animated Feature:
Goodbye Mister Christie by Phil Mulloy (United Kingdom)

The 2010 Walt Disney Animation Studios GRAND PRIZE for Best Student Animation:
Prayers for Peace by Dustin Grella (U.S.A.)

The 2010 GRAND PRIZE for Best Commissioned Animation:
Going West by Martin Andersen and Line Andersen (New Zealand)

The 2010 Best Animation School Showreel:
Tokyo Arts University (Japan)

Honorable Mention:
Rhode Island School of Design (U.S.A.)

The 2010 Best Narrative Short:
This is love by Lei Lei (China)

The 2010 Best Experimental/Abstract Animation:
Little Deaths by Ruth Lingford

The 2010 Adobe Prize for Best High School Animation:
Where is the love by Dae Woen Yoon and Joe Woo Shin (South Korea)

The 2010 Best Undergraduate Animation:
LGFUAD by Kelsey Stark (U.S.A.)

The 2010 Best Graduate Animation:
Prayers for Peace by Dustin Grella (U.S.A.)

The 2010 Best Promotional Animation:
WWF ‘Heroes of the UAE’ by Josiah Newbolt and Ben Falk (United Kingdom)

The 2010 Best Music Video:
Blockhead ‘The Music Scene’ by Anthony Schepperd (U.S.A.)

The 2010 Best Television Animation for Adults:
Midtown Twist by Gary Leib (U.S.A.)

Special Mention:
Tord och Tord (Tord and Tord) by Niki Lindroth von Bahr (Sweden)

Special Mention:
Fumiko no Kokuhaku (Fumiko’s Confession) by Ishida Hiroyasu (Japan)

The 2010 Best Short Animation Made for Children:
Cul de bouteille (Specky Four Eyes) by Jean-Claude Rozec (France)

Honorable Mention:
Diversity by Anthony Dusko (U.S.A.)

The 2010 Best Television Animation Made for Children:
The Gruffalo by Jakob Schuh and Max Lang (United Kingdom)

Honorable Mention:
Spliced ‘Helen’ by Matt Ferguson (Canada)

The 2010 National Film Board of Canada PUBLIC PRIZE:
Sinna Mann (Angry Man) by Anita Killi (Norway)

The Canadian Film Institute (CFI) Award for Best Canadian Animation:
Lipsett Diaries by Theodore Ushev (Canada)

Honorable Mention:
Playtime by Steven Woloshen (Canada)

On Monday I’ll be just back from Ottawa and hung over from a week of watching great animation. To get me back into the swing of things I’ll be hosting Cartoon Dump, my monthly live comedy and cartoons showcase, in Hollywood. We will have guest comedian Andy Kindler and its our annual Halloween party. There’s nothing spookier than Mighty Mr. Titan… except maybe Moodsy, the Clinically Depressed Owl, Compost Brite, and Dumpster Diver Dan.

Wanna know more about Cartoon Dump? Frank Conniff (Moodsy), Erica Doering (Compost) and I recently recorded an hour-long podcast for Epic Magazine’s This American Wife that explains what its all about.

Join us Monday (10/25) at 8 PM, for an evening of hilarious comedy, demented songs, and really, really crappy cartoons. It’s again at the Steve Allen Theater, 4773 Hollywood Blvd. (two blocks west of Vermont). Map here, see you there!

If you couldn’t join us in Ottawa this week, you might consider hanging out in San Francisco in mid-November. The San Francisco Film Society will present its fifth annual San Francisco International Animation Festival (SFIAF) November 11–14 at Landmark’s Embarcadero Center Cinema. Highlights of this year’s event include Miyazaki protégé Sunao Katabuchi’s new feature Mai Mai Miracle, the North American Premiere of Jackboots In Whitehall, a screening of Brent Green’s Gravity Was Everywhere Back Then and a shorts program of The Best of Annecy. The complete schedule is posted here.

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The 2nd Los Angeles Animation Festival will take place Friday December 3rd through Tuesday December 6th at Cinefamily’s Silent Movie Theater on Fairfax Ave. in West Hollywood. This year events include an afternoon screening and interview with Pixar’s Teddy Newton (Day & Night) and two special programs from renowned writer/director/animator Will Vinton — one a program of his short films, specials and commercials and the other, a twenty-fifth anniversary screening of his feature The Adventures of Mark Twain (1986). In addition the festival will feature screenings of several international features including Chinese independent feature Piercing 4 and the Japanese feature Redline. There will also be panels, contest screenings, parties and awards. The festival is the brainchild of animation director Miles Flanagan and animation producer John Andrews (MTV, Klasky Csupo). Details and deadlines for entry in the festival’s three unique competitions are available on the festival website. Tickets and passes will be available in November at Cinefamily.org.

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Opposite the LA Animation Fest on December 3rd through 5th, and on Dec. 11th and Dec. 13th, the UCLA Film and Television Archive at the Hammer Museum in Westwood will hold A Celebration of French Animation. This will include several double bill screenings of contemporary animated features from France, including Chomet’s The Illusionist (2010) and The Tripletts of Belleville (2003), Rene Laloux’s Fantastic Planet (1973), Micel Ocelot’s Kirikou and the Wild Beasts (2005) and Azur and Asmur (2008) and Jacques-Remy Girerd’s Raining Cats and Dogs (2003). For more information, check the UCLA Archive website.

This week Cartoon Brew is traveling to the enchanted land of Canada, home of Officer Bubbles and many other magical creatures. Both Brewmasters will be attending the world-famous Ottawa International Animation Festival along with thousands of other animation folks. If you’re heading out, let us know in the comments and say hello to us.

This month my Animation Tuesdays screening at the Cinefamily/Silent Movie Theater is our third annual Halloween Spooktacular show. (Jeez, have I been doing these for three years already?) This year we have a double-bill, a “Cartoon Monster Mash”, if you will. First up, our pals Seamus Walsh and Mark Caballero from Screen Novelties are presenting a selection of classic horror-toons that have inspired their marvelous stop motion monstrosities. I will be supplementing the show with a few hideous new finds of my own.

Then, in the second half of the program, we’ll the screening of a 35mm studio print of The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad in 35mm (Thanks, Disney). Released exactly 61 years ago (on Oct. 5th 1949), Toad and Sleepy Hollow are two of my favorite Disney short films and, for me, mark a bittersweet end of an era. And of course, its a perfect way to usher in the Halloween season. Trick or treat? Check out the trailer below and you decide. Hope to see you there at 8pm.

Portland’s Floating World Comics store presents their fourth annual animation screening, DMTV, on October 13 at the Holocene club (1001 SE Morrison). Trailer is up top. The one-night event includes an intriguing line-up of experimental, abstract, psychedelic and digital animation, as well as live music performances by Nice Nice and Atole with visuals mixed by e*Rock and Yoshi Sodeoka. Tickets are an affordable $7 day of show or $5 in advance purchased at Floating World. More details at the Floating World Comics website. Needless to say if I lived in Portland, this is where you’d find me on Wednesday, October 13.

The DMTV line-up of films follow after the jump:
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The Academy just posted (as a tribute to Tony Curtis) a clip from the 1959 Oscar telcast with Curtis (and wife Janet Leigh) presenting the Best Cartoon Short award to producer John Burton for the Bugs Bunny short, Knighty Knight Bugs. Click here to see the video. And I believe that’s James Algar accepting for Walt Disney (for live action short, Grand Canyon).

(Thanks, Ed Himel)

If you are in NY tomorrow evening, there is only one place you should be: at MoMA to attend John Canemaker’s lecture about his new book Two Guys Named Joe: Master Animation Storytellers Joe Grant & Joe Ranft. The lecture begins at 7pm followed by a book signing. Tickets, which can be purchased at the door, are $10 for adults or $6 for students.

Also, on Saturday, October 2, there will be two screenings at MoMA themed around the book. The first screening at 2pm celebrates Ranft’s career and includes the super-rare 1982 Disney short Fun with Mr. Future, as well as Luxo Jr., Tin Toy, and Toy Story. The second screening at 5pm revolves around Grant’s work, and features Mickey’s Gala Premier, Who Killed Cock Robin?, Lorenzo, and Dumbo.

More details about the programs can be found on the MoMA website. Also, see our in-depth interview with John Canemaker on Cartoon Brew about the new book.