Tag: Robert Zemeckis
CreateVR Wins at Digital Hollywood, Clios
CreateVR -- the virtual reality production house parented by Create Advertising -- has been doubly honored in recent days with top awards at two...
Ridley Scott Earns VES Lifetime Achievement Honor
The Visual Effects Society will honor multiple award-winning director-producer Sir Ridley Scott with the VES Lifetime Achievement Award in recognition of his enormous contributions...
Student Academy Awards Winners Announced
The 15 winners of the 42nd Student Academy Awards competition have been announced, including three Animation prize takers. The Academy received a record number...
USC Film School Opts for OptiTrack
The USC School of Cinematic Arts has installed state-of-the-art OptiTrack motion capture and tracking systems in three locations within the Robert Zemeckis Center for...
Atomic Fiction Opens Montreal Studio
Award-winning visual effects studio Atomic Fiction has announced the opening of a new flagship facility in Montreal. The location's first project is Robert Zemeckis'...
BYU Students’ ‘Owned’ Tops Student Academy Awards
Owned, an animated film by BYU students Daniel Clark and Wesley Tippetts, won the gold medal placement in the animation category at the 2014...
Student Oscars Winners Announced
The three winning animated films in the 2014 Student Academy Awards have been announced.
The filmmakers of the three winning animated films — plus the...
9 Toon Finalists for Student Academy Awards
Nine animated films have been nominated as finalists for the 2014 Student Academy Awards.
Academy members will now vote to determine up to three winning...
‘Roger Rabbit’ Star Bob Hoskins Dies at 71
Prolific British actor Bob Hoskins, best known in the toon world for his role as private eye Eddie Valiant in Robert Zemeckis' groundbreaking 1988...
Academy Events Spotlight Animator Richard Williams
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will present This Amazing Medium, an animation master class and retrospective tour with Oscar-winning animator Richard...
Ringling Duo Nab Toon Gold Medal at Student Oscars
Ringling College of Art and Design students Lindsey St. Pierre and Ashley Graham won the gold medal in the animation category at the 40th...
Academy Announces Student Animation Oscars Finalists
The 47 finalists in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' Student Academy Awards competition were announced on Wednesday. The winners will come...
Animation Stars Drawn to ‘Roger Rabbit’ Reunion
A special screening and 25th Anniversary Reunion of the cast and crew of Robert Zemeckis’ seminal feature Who Framed Roger Rabbit packed the house...
Academy Plans ‘Roger Rabbit’s’ 25th Anniversary Reunion
The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences is planning a special evening to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Robert Zemeckis’ Oscar-winning feature, Who...
Credit Where Credit is Due?
One of the tasks of a cartoon historian is to research and identify as accurately as possible which artists and artisans worked on what...
The Red Planet Revisited!
Pixar alum Andrew Stanton’s first live-action feature John Carter delivers a stunning blend of cutting-edge CG visual effects and gritty images that are grounded...
Stan Lee to Receive VES Lifetime Achievement Award
Entrepreneurial comic-book legend Stan Lee has been selected by the Visual Effects Society’s board of directors as the 2012 Lifetime Achievement Award recipient. Lee...
Zemeckis and ImageMovers Move to Universal
After being unceremoniously dropped by Disney, director Robert Zemeckis and his ImageMovers production entity have made a two-year first-look producing deal with Universal. Zermeckis...
Zemeckis to Oversee ‘Gnome Attack’ at Sony
Robert Zemeckis has re-emerged at Sony Pictures Animation, which has optioned the book How to Survive a Garden Gnome Attack for him to produce...
Disney Sinks Zemeckis’ ‘Yellow Submarine’ Plans
With Mars Needs Moms flopping at the box office, Disney has decided to officially pass on producer/director Robert Zemeckis' planned mo-cap remake of The...
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