Tag: Academy Awards
Latvia’s ‘Flow’ and Iran’s ‘In the Shadow of the Cypress’ Win Best Animated Feature and Short Oscars
The Latvian animated feature Flow has won the Oscar for Best Animated Feature. The dialogue-free feature by Gints Zilbalodis, which debuted at the Cannes...
SHORTS Presents 20th Annual Oscar-Nominated Shorts Theatrical Release Friday
SHORTS, the presenter of the Oscar Nominated Short Films theatrical release, announced today that tickets for its 20th anniversary of the theatrical release are...
Double Oscar Nominee ‘Flow’ Joins Criterion Collection, Floats Past Box Office Milestone
Sideshow and Janus Films are excited to announce that Gints Zilbalodis’ award-winning, box office indie animated hit Flow will join The Criterion Collection later...
Oscars Animation Nominees React to the Good News
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The talented directors and producers behind the animated nominees for the 97th Academy Awards, announced this morning, share their reactions to receiving one of...
Academy Reveals 2025 Animation and VFX Oscar Nominees
This morning, the nominations for the 97th Academy Awards were announced in 24 categories at 5:30 a.m. Here are this year’s animation and visual...
Gallery: New ‘Flow’ Images Set Sail
New images have been released for Gints Zilbalodis' Golden Globe-winning animated feature Flow. Released theatrically in the U.S. by Sideshow and Janus Films, the...
Academy Updates 97th Oscar Season Dates
The Academy announces updates to its 97th Oscars key dates and schedule of events due to the impact of the Los Angeles-area fires.
Academy CEO...
‘Magic Candies’ Producer Takashi Washio Shares the Sweet Surprises of His Oscar-Shortlisted Short
A loner kid opens up a new social reality when he discovers that the colorful candies he has bought give him the ability to...
L.A. Fires: Resources, Closures & Event Cancellations
As multiple fires rage across the Los Angeles area with limited containment, the animation industry is affected by studio closures and event cancellations. More...
Award-Winning Animated Feature ‘Flow’ Makes Digital Debut
Gints Zilbalodis' independent animated feature effort Flow, which this week stunned awards watchers by snagging the Golden Globe amid competition from Pixar, DreamWorks and Aardman,...
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...
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