Tag: Academy Awards
From Norway to Nairobi: Torill Kove Discusses Her Acclaimed Short, ‘Maybe Elephants’
Oscar-winning animator Torill Kove explores memory, adolescence and the strength of familial bonds in Maybe Elephants, a sequel to her Oscar-nominated short Me and...
Loïc Espuche Explores the Horrors & Thrills of a First Kiss in the Oscar-Shortlisted ‘Yuck!’
As in real life, many of the kids featured in director Loïc Espuche’s Oscar-shortlisted and Annie-nominated short Yuck! (Beurk!) believe that a kiss between...
Bach to Basics: Why Anna Samo Used Toilet Paper to Animate Her Acclaimed Short, ‘The Wild-Tempered Clavier’
Great artists often take advantage of the unusual challenges in life. Take, for example, the case of Anna Samo, the resourceful director of the...
Oscar Watch: A Summary of the Year’s Top VFX Contenders
It’s no secret that the Oscar for Best Visual Effects is a particularly tough category to predict due to the fact that the nominees...
Daisuke ‘Dice’ Tsutsumi Discusses the Stop-Motion Magic of His Oscar-Shortlisted ‘Bottle George’
Ten years ago, Japanese-born director-producer-illustrator Daisuke “Dice” Tsutsumi’s The Dam Keeper was nominated for a Best Animated Short Oscar and received a slew of...
97th Oscars Shortlists: All about the Animation & VFX Contenders
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences today announced shortlists in 10 categories for the 97th Academy Awards, including Animated Short Film and...
‘Flow’ Selected as Best Animated Feature by the L.A. Film Critics Assoc. and the European Film Academy
Everyone seems to love Flow, Latvian director Gints Zilbalodis’ post-apocalyptic cat movie. The well-received feature picked up the Best Animated Feature prize at Saturday’s...
Lighthouse’s ‘Póg mo Pigeon’ Wins Oscar-Qualifying Award
Póg mo Pigeon, the debut short from Kilkenny’s Lighthouse Studios, has won the Best Animated Short at Derry’s Academy-Award qualifying Foyle Film Festival, the...
31 Animated Features Eligible for Academy Award This Year
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences today announced feature films eligible for consideration in the Animated Feature Film, Documentary Feature Film and...
‘Curiosa’ Director Tessa Moult-Milewska Takes Us Behind the Scenes of Her Acclaimed Short
Tessa Moult-Milewska’s Curiosa is a beautifully animated stop-motion short that centers on a young woman who learns a bit more than she asked for...
‘Memoir of a Snail,’ ‘I Died in Irpin’ Win Grand Prizes at BIAF 2024
The 26th Bucheon International Animation Festival (BIAF 2024 | biaf.or.kr) has announced the awards winners from the Korean event's competition, which ran from October...
Oscar Watch: The Long List of the 2024 Animated Short Award Contenders
Figuring out the very long list of many shorts that will qualify to land on the shortlist for the Best Animated Short Film Academy Award each...
LA Latino Film Fest Named Oscar-Qualifying Event for Animated & Live-Action Shorts
Latino Film Institute (LFI) has announced the dates for the 24th Edition of the Los Angeles Latino International Film Festival (LALIFF), which will take...
Medalists Announced for 2024 Student Academy Awards
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences tonight honored its student winners from colleges and universities around the world at the 51st Student...
Trailer: ‘The Colors Within’ Brings Naoko Yamada’s Story of Music and Friendship to Theaters in January
Academy Award-winning animation producer/distributor GKIDS, announced today it will bring The Colors Within to theaters nationwide on January 24. Prior to the nationwide expansion, the film...
Award-Winning NFB Animated Short ‘Boat People’ Coming to POV Shorts
Thao Lam and Kjell Boersma’s award-winning new National Film Board of Canada (NFB) animated short Boat People will be featured in season seven of...
How ‘Where Rabbits Come From’ Director Colin Racicot Conjured a Magical Bunny Tale
In the acclaimed new animated short Where Rabbits Come From by writer-director Colin Ludvic Racicot, a widowed rabbit father goes against the dystopian authorities of his...
Academy Investigates In-Camera VFX, Image-Based Lighting & More for Sci-Tech Awards
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced today that 11 distinct scientific and technical investigations have been launched for 2024 in the...
Seven Films Nominated for Student Academy Award for Animation
The Academy of Motion PIcture Arts and Sciences today announced the finalists for this year's Student Academy Awards across four categories, including Animation. Now...
Latvia Enters Animated Feature ‘Flow’ for Best International Oscar Category
The Latvian Selection Committee, a commission of film industry experts established by the National Film Center, has announced that Gints Zilbalodis’ Flow is the...
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