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TAG FOR “Annie Awards”Cartoon Brew's home for up-to-the-minute, unedited announcements and press releases direct from industry sources.
February 4, 2012 9:35 pm
Paramount’s Rango won the top feature film honors at the 39th Annual Annie Awards ceremony tonight at UCLA’s Royce Hall. The film also took honors in 4 award categories (others being character design, writing and editing). However, ASIFA voters spread the love by giving the Best Director prize to Jennifer Yuh Nelson for Dreamworks’ Kung Fu Panda 2. Best Animated Short Subject was presented to Minkyu Lee’s Adam and Dog. Other highlights: Michel Gagne’s Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet won for Best Video Game. Cartoon Network’s The Amazing World of Gumball was honored as Best Animated Television Production for Children. The Simpsons took the prize again for Best General Audience TV Production. Character Animation in a Live Action Production was presented to ILM’s work on The Transformers: Dark of The Moon. Awards were given in various categories to Winnie The Pooh, Arthur Christmas and Rise of The Planet of The Apes. Even Spielberg’s Tintin wasn’t overlooked… it won awards for Visual Effects and Music! A complete list of winners is after the jump. 46 Comments » posted in Awards, Annie Awards, Asifa Hollywood 
February 4, 2012 4:30 pm
UPDATE: We’re live-tweeting the event on Cartoon Brew’s Twitter. Get your popcorn ready, put on some clean underwear, and settle down. It’s the animation world’s biggest night—the ASIFA-Hollywood Annie Awards—and it’s being livestreamed for the first time ever! The live stream will begin at 7pm PST (10pm EST): Click HERE to view the 64-page ASIFA-Hollywood Annie Awards Program Book as a PDF file. The complete list of all Annie Award winners will be posted here following the the live event. 22 Comments » posted in Events, Annie Awards, Asifa Hollywood
January 27, 2012 12:05 am
This year’s Winsor McCay recipients are Walt Peregoy, Borge Ring and Ronald Searle. Searle’s award will be posthumous, as he passed late last year at the age of 91. Other animation luminaries and voice actors scheduled to present awards include Ty Burrell, JK Simmons, James Hong, Jib Jab founders Greg and Evan Spiridellis, Tara Strong, Daran Norris, Dee Bradley Baker and animation legend June Foray – among others to be announced. For complete ticket information and up-to-the minute details on the 39th Annual Annie Awards, please visit www.annieawards.org or the new Annie Awards Facebook page. And remember, if you can’t be there in person, Cartoon Brew will live-stream the ceremony from 7pm PST (10pm EST). Now you have no excuse to miss this event! 10 Comments » posted in Awards, Events, Annie Awards
December 5, 2011 8:00 am
The International Animated Film Society, ASIFA-Hollywood, has announced the nominations for its 39th Annual Annie Awards, recognizing the year’s best in the field of animation. The slate of nominations for Best Animated Features tops 10 this year and include: A Cat in Paris (Folimage), Arthur Christmas (Sony Pictures Animation, Aardman Animations), Arrugas (Wrinkles) (Perro Verde Films, S.L.), Cars 2 (Pixar Animation Studios), Chico & Rita (Chico & Rita Distribution), Kung Fu Panda 2 (DreamWorks Animation), Puss In Boots (DreamWorks Animation), Rango (Paramount Pictures, Nickelodeon Movies), Rio (Blue Sky Studios) and The Adventures of Tintin (Amblin Entertainment, Wingnut Films and Kennedy/Marshall). The Winsor McCay Award for lifetime achievement goes to color stylist and background painter Walt Peregoy, animator Borge Ring and artist Ronald Searle; and the June Foray Award will be given to animator Art Leonardi for his “significant and charitable impact on the art and industry of animation”. The 2011 Annie Award winners will be announced at the Annie Awards ceremony on Saturday, February 4th, 2012, at UCLA’s Royce Hall, in Los Angeles, CA. A pre-reception begins at 5:00 pm with the awards ceremony following at 7:00 pm. A post-show celebration immediately follows the ceremony. For ticket and event information, please visit annieawards.org. PRODUCTION CATEGORIES #1 – Best Animated Feature A Cat in Paris – Folimage #2 – Annie Award for Best Animated Special Production Adventure Time: Thank You – Cartoon Network Studios # 3 – Best Animated Short Subject Complete list of nominees follows the jump. 62 Comments » posted in Events, Annie Awards
February 6, 2011 11:00 pm
Brad Bird was honored with a Winsor McCay Award for Lifetime Achievement at ASIFA-Hollywood’s Annie Awards on Saturday night. Brad, unable to attend the ceremonies as he was on location in Vancouver filming the live-action Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol, sent a video-taped message to the animation community. The embed below includes the video tribute to Bird’s career, as screened at the Annies – created by award-winning editor Les Perkins – followed by Brad’s pre-recorded acceptance speech. 49 Comments » posted in Events, Annie Awards, Brad Bird
February 5, 2011 9:50 pm
Dreamworks’s How To Train Your Dragon swept the top honors at the 38th Annual Annie Awards ceremony tonight at UCLA’s Royce Hall. The studio won 15 of 24 award categories. Filmmaker Guillermo Del Toro announced Dragon as the Best Animated Feature. Best Animated Short Subject was presented to Pixar’s Day & Night – Tom Hatten, an influence on Teddy Newton’s animation career accepted the award on Newton’s behalf. (Pixar’s film won despite Disney and Pixar withdrawing their traditional support of the Annies this year, and did not enter any of its films or animators in the competition). Full list of winners after the jump. 91 Comments » posted in Events, Annie Awards, Carter Goodrich
December 6, 2010 8:00 am
ASIFA-Hollywood, the Los Angeles branch of the International Animated Film Society, announced its nominations this morning for the 38th Annual Annie Awards. The award recognizes the best in the field of animation, with categories including best animated feature, television production, commercials, short subjects, video games and outstanding individual achievements. The nominations for Best Animated Feature are Despicable Me (Illumination Entertainment); How to Train Your Dragon (DreamWorks Animation); Tangled (Disney); The Illusionist (Django Films); and Toy Story 3 (Disney/Pixar). Complete nominee list after the jump: 75 Comments » posted in Events, Annie Awards, Asifa Hollywood, Carter Goodrich
August 30, 2010 12:05 am
Last Wednesday we posted a link from Variety in our Industry Headlines column (at right), Disney Withdraws from Annie Awards, which clearly deserves further discussion on Cartoon Brew. The Variety piece, as far as I know, is essentially fair and accurate. But some of the secondary reporting on this, on such blogs as the Animation Guild and Michael Sporn to name two, are unintentionally spreading misinformation. So I thought we owed it to our readers to set a few things straight. First, Disney’s withdrawal does not mean Disney films will not be considered or nominated, and does not mean the studio has no chance to win future Annie Awards. They certainly will. Disney’s decision only affects the Annie Awards in two ways: Disney will not provide their traditional portion of co-sponsorship money (a role that dates back at least twenty years), funds that help mount the annual event at UCLA’s Royce Hall. And secondly, the company currently says they will not submit nominees from their feature animation studios. Disney and Pixar artists (and all animators, anywhere) should be aware that they can submit their own work for Annie nomination without studio assistance. Also, Annie nominating committees have the power to nominate work which was not submitted. Nominations are decided by peer-group committees, not studio execs, and winners are voted on by Asifa’s professional membership. So again, I predict Disney and Pixar to be well represented come award time. ASIFA was established by animation artists such as Norman McLaren, John Hubley, and John Halas in 1957. ASIFA’s Hollywood chapter, a non-profit organization, was started a few years later by Bill Scott, Stephen Bosustow, Ward Kimball, William T. Hurtz, Carl Bell, Les Goldman, June Foray, and Bill Littlejohn. The Annie Awards have always been presented by artists, for artists. Long before the Oscars and Golden Globes thought animated features worthy of their awards, the Annies recognized features, TV shows, direct-to-video movies and commercials, as well the animators, story artists, background painters, voice actors and other behind the scenes talent. It’s a wonderful thing when those who run the corporations that profit most from the artform support and celebrate the people who actually create the work. From what I know, the Annies will go on this year with strong support from Nickelodeon, Sony, Dreamworks, Warner Bros., Cartoon Network, Fox, Universal and Starz. Disney management, in an email sent to Disney/Pixar employees last week, encouraged its employees “to maintain their memberships and support for the Annies as they deem appropriate”. Somehow, someday, I suspect Disney will return to supporting the Annies – at a time they deem appropriate. |
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