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2009 | 2008
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Annie Awards 2010 – Nominations
2 December 2009 2:38 PM, PST | Alternative Film Guide | See recent Alternative Film Guide news »
Phil Lord and Chris Miller’s Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, Henry Selick’s Coraline (above), Wes Anderson’s Fantastic Mr. Fox, Ron Clements and John Musker’s The Princess and the Frog, Tomm Moore’s The Secret of Kells, and Pete Docter’s Up are the six best animated feature nominees for the International Animated Film Society’s 2010 Annie Awards. The winner will be announced on Feb. 6, 2010. Four of the above films have also been shortlisted in the best director category; Tomm Moore and the duo Ron Clements and John Musker were replaced by one man: Japanese master Hayao Miyazaki, for Ponyo. Somewhat surprisingly, Coraline leads the pack with ten nods. Up, one of the year’s biggest box-office hits, came [...] »
- Anna Robinson
Coraline Leads 37th Annual Annie Award Nominees
2 December 2009 9:28 AM, PST | FilmJunk | See recent FilmJunk news »
Following yesterday's Independent Spirit Award Nominations [1], The Annie Awards have also revealed their full list of nominees for this year. This is the annual award ceremony for the International Animated Film Association, celebrating animation in all of its forms. Sometimes these awards can help predict what movie will win the Best Animated Feature at the Oscars, although it's not always entirely reliable (last year Kung Fu Panda swept Wall-e [2] in every category). As we discussed on this week's podcast [3], it's shaping up to be a pretty tight race for Best Animated Feature this year, and if the Annies are any indication, it looks like Henry Selick's Coraline may have the edge. It was nominated for a total of 10 Annie Awards, including Best Animated Feature, Character Design, Voice Acting, and Music. Check out the list of nominees in all the feature-length categories after the jump. Best Animated Feature Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs »
- Sean
Two Annie nominations to Giacchino
2 December 2009 8:01 AM, PST | MovieScore Magazine | See recent MovieScore Magazine news »
Michael Giacchino received two nominations when the Annie Award nominations were revealed today. Giacchino was, not surprisingly, nominated for his Up score in the ‘Music in a Feature Production’ category, but also for Disney’s Christmas special Prep and Landing in the ‘Music in a Television Production’ category. The other nominees in the Feature category are Bruno Coulais for Coraline, Joe Hisaishi for Ponyo and John Powell for Ice Age: Dawn ... »
- Mikael Carlsson
Princess & The Frog And Prep & Landing Lead Annie Awards Nominations
1 December 2009 2:06 PM, PST | WENN | See recent WENN news »
Disney animators are back on top of the cartoon world after dominating nominations for the 37th annual Annie Awards.
The family film studio's The Princess & the Frog landed eight nods and upcoming festive TV special Prep & Landing claimed nine in the TV awards categories.
The Princess & the Frog will compete with Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs, Coraline, Fantastic Mr. Fox, The Secret of Kells and Up for the Annie Awards' top honour, Best Film, while The Simpsons will be the major competition for Prep & Landing in the Best Animated TV Production category.
The coveted Best Animated Television Production for Children prize will be fought for by Mickey Mouse Clubhouse, SpongeBob Squarepants, The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack, The Mighty B! and The Penguins of Madagascar.
Wes Anderson (Fantastic Mr. Fox), Pete Docter (Up), Christopher Miller and Phil Lord (Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs), Hayao Miyazaki (Ponyo) and Henry Selick (Coraline) will compete for the Best Director award. Anderson and writing partner Noah Baumbach are also favourites to land the writing award for Fantastic Mr. Fox.
Meanwhile, John Leguizamo (Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaur), Dawn French (Coraline), Hugh Laurie (Monsters Vs. Aliens), Jennifer Lewis and Jen Cody (both The Princess & the Frog) are the nominees for the Voice Acting in a Feature Production category.
The Annie Awards will be presented by the International Animated Film Society at Royce Hall at UCLA in Los Angeles in February. »
Obscure, Gorgeous Secret of Kells Edges Out Ponyo, Ice Age 3 in Annie Awards Race
1 December 2009 1:30 PM, PST | Movieline | See recent Movieline news »
The International Animated Film Society's Annie Awards nominations are out. Here's the shortlist for Best Animated Feature:
· Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs -- Sony Pictures Animation
· Coraline -- Laika
· Fantastic Mr. Fox -- 20th Century Fox
· The Princess and the Frog -- Walt Disney Animation Studios
· The Secret of Kells -- Cartoon Saloon
· Up -- Pixar Animation Studios
Most notable here is the omission of Hayao Miyazaki's Ponyo and the $879 million-earning (not a typo) Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs, and the inclusion of The Secret of Kells.
The what? »
'Coraline' Tops the List with Ten Annie Award Nominations
1 December 2009 11:29 AM, PST | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »
The nominees for the 2010 Annie Awards were also announced today and Focus Features' Coraline topped the list of feature nominees with 10 with Pixar's Up following with 9 and Disney's Princess and the Frog scoring 8. All three films were included in the running for Best Animated feature along with Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, The Secret of Kells and Fantastic Mr. Fox.
Last year the Annie Awards came under some scrutiny as Kung Fu Panda blanked the soon-to-be Oscar winner Wall-e. The reason for the uproar being DreamWorks was one of the org's top sponsors (which they still are). This year Monsters vs. Aliens is the only DreamWorks Animated feature making any noise (4 nominations), but it looks like Sony Pictures Animation has bumped up their contributions to become a "Gold Sponsor". Will there again be uproar if Pixar's Up doesn't walk away with the top prizes or Disney's The Princess and the Frog. »
- Brad Brevet
Annie Awards Reveal the Best Animated Films of the Year
1 December 2009 5:28 AM, PST | movies.about.com | See recent movies.about.com news »
I thought for sure 9 would make the cut. It may not be the most entertaining animated film of 2009, but it's certainly one of the top 3 aesthetically speaking. 9's simply gorgeous, but it didn't make The International Animated Film Society's 37th Annual Annie Awards list of nominees for the Best Animated Feature this year. The Annie Award is the oldest and, in addition to the Academy Award, the most prestigious of all the awards honoring animated films. Whichever film wins the Annie usually takes home the Oscar.
The six films making the final cut in the Best Animated Feature category are:
Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs
Up The nominees for the best animated feature film directors are Wes Anderson (Fantastic Mr. Fox), Pete Docter (Up), Christopher Miller and Phil Lord (Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs), Hayao Miyazaki »
Tiff 2009 Day 8: Neil Jordan's Ondine
30 November 2009 1:32 AM, PST | ioncinema | See recent ioncinema news »
I can't quite wrap my head around Neil Jordan's latest offering - clearly a fairy tale for adults that could easily play well for children, Ondine sounds good (Sigur Ros) and looks good (Christopher Doyle), but I didn't much care for the end result. - I can't quite wrap my head around Neil Jordan's latest offering - clearly a fairy tale for adults that could easily play well for children, Ondine sounds good (Sigur Ros) and looks good (Christopher Doyle), but I didn't much care for the end result. Hayao Miyazaki's Ponyo did way more for me if we are going the direction. Full review coming soon. »
- Ioncinema.com Staff
This week's film event previews
20 November 2009 4:06 PM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
London Children's Film Festival, London
Is it wrong that the prospect of a Tim Burton Bedtime Stories Pyjama Party is as appealing to adults as it will be to movie-loving kids? With a sweet-making workshop and screenings of Charlie And The Chocolate Factory and Corpse Bride, it's just one of loads of great activities over the festival's two weekends, which also include a play-along musical session to two Buster Keaton classics. Adult fans will be dribbling with excitement at the UK premiere of Hayao Miyazaki's Ponyo, and there are scores of international features and retro TV treats.
Barbican, Sat to 29 Nov, visit lcff.org.uk
Andrea Hubert
German Film Festival, London
Modern German cinema continues to capture the same spirit of innovation pioneered by 1970s trailblazers Fassbinder and Herzog, with films such as The Lives Of Others gaining a swathe of international awards. And the subject matters at hand »
- Andrea Hubert, Phelim O'Neill
Film Weekly: Romola Garai and The Twilight Saga: New Moon
19 November 2009 4:37 AM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
This week Film Weekly goes from Britain on the eve of the second world war with Stephen Poliakoff's Glorious 39, to the American midwest in the 60s with the Coen brothers' A Serious Man, to the fangtastical environs of contemporary Washington state in The Twilight Saga: New Moon.
First up, Jason Solomons meets rising star Romola Garai, who adds to an impressive CV (Atonement, Angel, Vanity Fair) by appearing in almost every scene in Glorious 39, a conspiracy thriller based on true events in Chamberlain's government. She tells Jason how the film plays with the nature of the truth and why it's the "twisted sister" to her breakthrough film I Capture the Castle, plus how she can never live down Dirty Dancing 2.
Xan Brooks then joins Jason to review the week's key releases: the Coen brothers' fascinating, brilliantly acted A Serious Man, Matt Damon in Steven Soderbergh's "too clever" The Informant! »
- Jason Solomons, Xan Brooks, Jason Phipps, Observer
Does Up Have the Right Stuff? See Which Toons Are Oscar Eligible
11 November 2009 12:24 PM, PST | E! Online | See recent E! Online - Movies and Television news »
Now here's a Balloon Boy Hollywood can really get behind. As expected, Up leads the record 20 eligible films for the Best Animated Feature Oscar at the 82nd Academy Awards. Disney-Pixar's latest instant-classic, which is also aspiring for a Best Picture nod, seems a lock for one of the five animation slots when the nominations are announced on Feb. 2. Jockeying for the other four will be intense. Japanese master and previous Academy Award winner Hayao Miyazaki hopes for some Oscar bait with the acclaimed hand-drawn Ponyo, about a goldfish who wants to be a little girl. But he'll need to ward off a slew of big-budget, big-box-office, big-studio submissions, including DreamWorks Animation's... »
Does Up Have the Right Stuff? See Which Toons Are Oscar Eligible
11 November 2009 12:24 PM, PST | E! Online | See recent E! Online news »
Now here's a Balloon Boy Hollywood can really get behind. As expected, Up leads the record 20 eligible films for the Best Animated Feature Oscar at the 82nd Academy Awards. Disney-Pixar's latest instant-classic, which is also aspiring for a Best Picture nod, seems a lock for one of the five animation slots when the nominations are announced on Feb. 2. Jockeying for the other four will be intense. Japanese master and previous Academy Award winner Hayao Miyazaki hopes for some Oscar bait with the acclaimed hand-drawn Ponyo, about a goldfish who wants to be a little girl. But he'll need to ward off a slew of big-budget, big-box-office, big-studio submissions, including DreamWorks Animation's... »
Look for Five Animated Oscar Nominees This Year
11 November 2009 11:40 AM, PST | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »
It was long speculated and recently confirmed that enough titles would be submitted for consideration in the Best Animated Feature Film category for there to be five nominees this year. This is something that hasn't happened since 2003 when Hayao Miyazaki's Spirited Away took home the award and not only are there 16 contenders, which is the magic number needed to open the door for five nominees, but there are 20.
The Academy just released the list of 20 films submitted for consideration and they are: Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel Astro Boy Battle for Terra Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs Coraline Disney's A Christmas Carol The Dolphin - Story of a Dreamer Fantastic Mr. Fox Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs Mary and Max The Missing Lynx Monsters vs. Aliens 9 Planet 51 Ponyo The Princess and the Frog The Secret of Kells Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure A Town »
- Brad Brevet
Review: Ponyo Aka The Cutest Movie Ever
11 November 2009 2:33 AM, PST | doorQ.com | See recent doorQ.com news »
Okay, as the official anime nerd of DoorQ.com, it is my duty to bring to you the glory and wonders of Japanese animation. I've kinda been slacking on my blog posts for the past few months because of the new job and doing things even a censor bar couldn't protect you against with my boyfriend =)
No more, though! Back to my anime-gushing ways! I just spent a nice chunk of my raise (Can you believe it? People actually reward you for hard work and a good job) on some fabulous anime box sets spanning several different genres! This is gonna be Tight, Dawg!!!
*Ahem* Moving along... A few months ago, a bunch of friends of mine went with me to see Hayao Miyazaki's newest creation, Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea, as interpreted by Disney at a midnight showing on the big screen! The story of the »
Thn interviews the Film of the Month winner Sjors Vervoort for his film Cardboard
3 November 2009 1:50 PM, PST | The Hollywood News | See recent The Hollywood News news »
Every month here on The Hollywood News, we feature an interview with an up and coming student filmmaker, and we sponsor the Film of the Month contest over on ReelShowInt.com, the best place for online student film.
This past month Sjors Vervoort won the Film of the Month contest for his short Cardboard. Here, I sit down for a quick Q+A about his filmmaking process, his inspirations and future plans. You can watch Cardboard in full over here. Hi, tell me a little bit about your background. What got you into filmmaking, and who do you draw your inspiration from?
After graduating my multi media course I went to Disneyland Paris, and during my stay there I purchased a book called "the illusion of life", an animation book which explains all the aspects and principles of animation (I can definitely recommend it). I got really excited about traditional »
- Paul
Ponyo: Us Gift Set with Ponyo Plush
31 October 2009 1:37 AM, PDT | Affenheimtheater | See recent Affenheimtheater news »
Disney producer Frank Marshall announced some cuddly details for the Us video release of Hayao Miyazaki’s Ponyo. Perfectly fitting the missed Christmas sales, Walt Disney Home Entertainment will release Ponyo in a limited gift set that will include a plush toy of our favourite goldfish on March 2, 2010. The day-to-day Blu-ray Disc release will have to live without the fluffy companion.
The avid importers among you who pre-ordered the December Ponyo Blu-ray Disc releases from Japan or France don’t have to wait till march to get the Ponyo plush, J-List has the same plush toy in small and medium size ready to order.
[via The Blu-ray Blog, thanks to Brenden!] »
- Ulrik
"Matt Damon!" New Trailers for 'Invictus' and 'Green Zone'
27 October 2009 8:32 PM, PDT | Cinematical | See recent Cinematical news »
August gave us the voice of Matt Damon in Ponyo, September gave us the inner voice of Matt Damon in The Informant!, and now October has brought us a look at his next two performances.
Clint Eastwood's Invictus is one of the last big likely contenders of the awards season, though it is as of yet unseen (unless those very few who have seen it are very good at being very quiet). Damon plays real-life rugby captain Francois Pienaar, whose team saw the support of Nelson Mandela (Morgan Freeman) as a rallying point around which they might lift the spirits of South Africa in the wake of apartheid. It's political! It's underdog! It's opening in December! It's Oscar bait for certain, and Apple has the exclusive trailer.
Paul Greengrass' Green Zone, on the other hand, was shuffled out of the Oscar race once Universal decided to sort out »
- William Goss
Oscar Update: 'Precious' Backlash, 'An Education' Looms Large and New Predictions
22 October 2009 3:24 AM, PDT | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »
We shall begin with Amelia, a film I wrote about on Monday as it became the talk of the town with hardly a review in sight and a mere five days until its release. Well, that's all changed as I saw the film early Tuesday morning and it seems most everyone in Los Angeles and New York saw it for the first time as well. While I won't be joining David Poland on the train to completely disembowel Mira Nair's film of the famed aviatrix (and it seems Kris Tapley will also be doing the same), I will admit it's not a very good movie and would agree with Justin Chang's take at Variety when he says the film "offers snazzy aerial photography and inspirational platitudes in lieu of insight into Amelia Earhart's storied life and high-flying career."
What does this mean for the Best Actress race? Well, I »
- Brad Brevet
Oscar Contender: 'The Princess and the Frog' is a music frontrunner
21 October 2009 12:25 AM, PDT | Hitfix | See recent Hitfix news »
It's a busy year for animation at the Walt Disney Studios. The company's Pixar division has the critically acclaimed and box office smash "Up," it released Hayao Miyazaki released his third English-language dubbed masterpiece "Ponyo" and Richard Zemeckis has collaborated with the studio to bring Charles Dicken's "A Christmas Carol" to the world of motion-capture. Flying a tad under the radar, however, is Disney's long awaited return to traditional hand drawn animation, "The Princess and the Frog." After reviving the animation division in the early 1990s with such modern classics as "The Little Mermaid," "Beauty and the Beast" and "The Lion... »
Ponyo gets Us DVD & Blu-ray Disc release on the same day as Japan [Update]
19 October 2009 2:37 AM, PDT | Affenheimtheater | See recent Affenheimtheater news »
Good news for those of us who want to see Hayao Miyazaki’s latest Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea in glorious HD as soon as possible without paying a premium price for the Japanese Blu-ray Disc release.
According to Rope of Silicone, Walt Disney Home Entertainment will bring the significant cheaper Us DVD and Blu-ray Disc release on the same day as in Japan, meaning December 8th. So the October date mentioned back in July was (just as espected) just some retailer related date.
[Oct. 20] Update: According to Disney producer Frank Marshall, Ponyo will be released in the Us in March 2010! I asked him about the date Rope of Silicone stated but I didn’t receive an answer yet. Hard to believe that Disney won’t take advantage of the upcoming Christmas sales, especially since a French Bd release for December was announced two days ago. [via The Ghibli Blog] »
- Ulrik
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