MARY & MAX won the AniMovi prize at Stuttgart Festival of Animated Film, which concluded Sunday in Germany. Italian production MUTO won the Grand Prix. The complete list of winners is as follows:
International Competition
State of Baden-Wuerttemberg and City of Stuttgart Grand Award of Animated Film with a cash prize of 15,000 EurosMUTOby Blu Italy 2008Production: Mercurio Film SRLWorld Sale: Mercurio Film SRL
Bitfilm Festival is looking for the world's best digital films
Deadline: July 1Opening event in Hamburg on August 13Online voting from August 13 to September 24Closing event and award show in Tel Aviv on October 110,000 Euros prize moneyNew category for digital animations with a political message
Stars Beyonce, Will Smith, Vanessa Hudgens, Jack Black, Selena Gomez, The Jonas Brothers, Jesse McCartney and Miley Cyrus captured the coveted orange Blimp trophies at Nickelodeon's 22nd Annual Kids' Choice Awards live telecast, Saturday, March 28.
Bethesda Softworks' epic post-apocalyptic open-world adventure, FALLOUT 3, received the Game of the Year Award at the 9th annual Game Developers Choice Awards, presented at a ceremony Wednesday evening the 2009 Game Developers Conference. Bethesda also received the Best Writing award for the game.
Media Molecule's imaginative user creation-centric platform game LITTLEBIGPLANET, which was first unveiled at GDC 2007, was the recipient of the most awards of the evening, taking four awards for Best Game Design, Best Technology, Best Debut Game and Innovation Award.
WALLACE & GROMIT: A MATTER OF LOAF AND DEATH from Aardman Animations has won the NYICFF Grand Prize at the New York International Children's Film Festival.
Animated ASTON'S STONES from Sweden won the Audience Award: Ages 3-6. LOAF AND DEATH also walked away with the Audience Award: Ages 5-10. U.K.'s FUGGY FUGGY won the Audience Award: Ages 8-14. And the Audience Award: Ages 12-18 went to KEITH REYNOLDS CAN'T MAKE IT TONIGHT from the U.K.
An unforgettable edition of Anima has come to an end, as much for the quality of its program and guests as for its profusion of spectators. The organizers have estimated a 30 percent rise in attendance this year compared to last year's figures.
Prime Focus won the prestigious Filmfare award for Best Visual Effects for its work on Bollywood sci-fi movie LOVE STORY 2050. The award was given to Merzin Tavaria, creative head for VFX/Animation at Prime Focus and vfx supervisor on LOVE STORY 2050 at the 54th Filmfare awards night held in Mumbai on February 28, 2009.
Congratulations to everyone that worked on THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON for winning the visual effects Oscar, particularly Eric Barba, Steve Preeg, Burt Dalton and Craig Barron, who accepted the award at the Academy Awards on Sunday.
The FICCI Best Animated Frames Awards (BAF), hosted by the Federation Of Indian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (FICCI), is now in its sixth year. FICCI BAF Award is the biggest award in India recognizing talent in animation, gaming and vfx.
Anthony Dod Mantle, BSC, DFF, Nelson Cragg and David Stockton earned top honors in the three competitive categories at the 23rd Annual American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) Outstanding Achievement Awards held Sunday at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza Hotel. Dod Mantle won the feature film competition for SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE. Cragg topped the episodic TV competition for CSI: CRIME SCENE INVESTIGATION/"For Gedda" (CBS). Stockton won the movie/miniseries/pilot category for the pilot of ELEVENTH HOUR (CBS).
The American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) will host their annual open house here on Saturday, February 14, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Mole Richardson (925 North La Brea Avenue, Hollywood). The open house is held in conjunction with the ASC Outstanding Achievement Awards celebration on February 15, at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza Hotel.
Nickelodeon's DORA THE EXPLORER was honored by the NAACP at the 40th NAACP Image Awards in Los Angeles on Feb. 12.
DORA THE EXPLORER took home the award for Outstanding Children's Program, while THE SIMPSONS and THE BOONDOCKS lost out to THE GAME for best comedy writing.
THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON won the BAFTA award for Special Visual Effects over THE DARK KNIGHT, INDIANA JONES AND THE KINGDOM OF THE CRYSTAL SKULL, IRON MAN and QUANTUM OF SOLACE.
The 2009 BAFTA Film Awards were held on February 8 at London's Royal Opera House.
WALL-E beat out PERSEPOLIS and WALTZ WITH BASHIR for the BAFTA award for Animated Film.
The Pixar film lost out to SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE in the Music and Sound categories.
WALTZ WITH BASHIR won the Writers Guild Award for Documentary Screenplay. Ari Folman's film is also up for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film, not qualifying for the Oscar for best doc.
The winners were announced at the 2009 Writers Guild Awards held on Saturday, February 7, 2009, at simultaneous ceremonies in New York and Los Angeles.
MILK won for Original Screenplay (Dustin Lance Black, Focus Features) and SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE won for Adapted Screenplay (Simon Beaufoy, Based on the Novel Q & A by Vikas Swarup, Fox Searchlight Pictures).
The American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) will host their annual open house on Saturday, February 14, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Mole Richardson (925 North La Brea Avenue, Hollywood). The open house is held in conjunction with the ASC Outstanding Achievement Awards celebration on February 15, at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza Hotel.
Ari Folman, writer and director of animated documentary WALTZ WITH BASHIR, got his first Directors Guild of America Award, presented Saturday, for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Documentary.
WALTZ WITH BASHIR was shut out of the Annie Awards on Friday, but is nominated for the Oscar for Best Foreign Film.
The 15th annual Slamdance Film Festival has announced 16 film and screenplay prize winners in four categories who will share more than $100,000 in cash and prizes, including UNDONE for the Grand Jury Award for Best Animated Short.
The just-concluded Festival in Park City, Utah, received over 3,000 submissions from 25 countries for 120 programming slots. 2009 marked the 15th anniversary of the Slamdance Film Festival, one of the few remaining movie showcases whose sole mission is to nurture, support and introduce truly independent works from first-time filmmakers.
Warner Bros. Pictures is bringing THE DARK KNIGHT back for a return engagement in IMAX and conventional theaters on January 23, 2009, giving audiences one more chance to see the film on the big screen. The film will re-open nationwide in 500 screens, 143 of them IMAX.
Ari Folman, writer and director of animated documentary WALTZ WITH BASHIR, got his first Directors Guild of America Award nomination, announced Friday, for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Documentary.
Winners will be announced January 31 at the 61st annual DGA Awards dinner at the Century Plaza Hotel.
Ed Catmull, co-founder of Pixar Animation Studios and president of Walt Disney and Pixar Animation Studios, will receive the Gordon E. Sawyer Award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for his lifetime of technical contributions and leadership in the field of computer graphics for the motion picture industry.
The award, an Oscar statuette, will be presented to Catmull at the Scientific and Technical Awards Presentations on Saturday, February 7, 2009, at the Beverly Wilshire.
U.S. movie critics say the animated documentary WALTZ WITH BASHIR was the best film of 2008, giving it a National Society of Film Critics award.
The LOS ANGELES TIMES reported Sunday the movie from Ari Folman details the Israeli director's struggles with repressed memories that date back to his experience in the 1982 Lebanon War.
The doc beat out HAPPY-GO-LUCKY and WALL-E, among others.
The Encounters Short Film Festival announced Saturday the winners of its 14th annual international competition to find the world's best new live action or animated films of under 30 minutes length.
At a gala ceremony -- held before a capacity audience -- the five-month long judging process, with the submission of 1,183 entries from 63 countries, reached its finale with presentations of the festival's principal prizes.
International Jury Award, for the best entry overall
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Bitfilm has released the first issue of its new BITFILM COLLECTION. It contains 12 groundbreaking digital animations, voted on the first ranks by the international audience of the Bitfilm Festival -- including all six winners of the Bitfilm Awards. Once a month, the digital film experts will select 12 films that they consider state of the art of digital animation.
This gathering of VIEW Conference will take place November 11-14, with the theme of "Digital Transformations." Will Wright, the universally acclaimed creator of SIMCITY, THE SIMS, and SPORE, and Brad Lewis, producer of the Academy Award winning film RATATOUILLE and director of the upcoming Pixar film CARS 2, will both be speaking at VIEW Conference.
