Tag: Academy Awards
Oscars 2024: ‘The Boy and the Heron,’ ‘War Is Over!’ Win Top Animation Awards
The closely watched race for the top animation Oscar of the year came to an end on Sunday night as Hayao Miyazaki’s The Boy...
Academy Splits Animated Features & Shorts into Their Own Branch; Sets Animation Nominees Panels
The Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) voted Monday, Feb. 26 to separate the existing "Short Films...
VIEW Conference & VFX Festival Present Virtual Panels with Oscar-Nominated Animated Feature & Short Film Creatives
With the 96th Academy Awards around the corner, VIEW Conference (viewconference.it) in partnership with The VFX Festival (thevfxfestival.com) is has announced exclusive virtual panels featuring...
Watch: ‘The Boy and the Heron’ Producer Toshio Suzuki Talks Miyazaki and the Future of Animation
GKIDS has released a new clip featuring Studio Ghibli Co-Founder Toshio Suzuki speaking about his longtime colleague, writer-director Hayao Miyazaki, their latest Oscar-nominated film The...
Animation Oscars Nominees React to the Good News (Updating)
Following the nominations announcement for the 96th Academy Awards early this morning, reactions from this year's esteemed nominees for the best animated feature and...
Animation and VFX Nominees for the 96th Academy Awards Are Announced
This morning, the nominations for the 96th Academy Awards were announced at 5:30 in 24 categories. Here are this year’s animation and VFX nominees:
Best...
Sony Pictures Classics Opens ‘The Peasants’ in L.A. Feb. 2
The Peasants, the new hand-painted animated feature from Loving Vincent filmmakers DK Welchman and Hugh Welchman, will make its U.S. public exhibition debut on February...
How Director Priit Tender Unleashed His Imagination in the Oscar Short-listed ‘Dog Apartment’
Estonian director Priit Tender’s animated short Dog Apartment is one of 15 titles that landed on the Academy Awards’ Best Animated Short shortlist this...
Animated Features Score Big: The Talented Composers Behind Some of the Year’s Hits Discuss Their Craft
Forget The Bachelor ─ the actual perfect marriage of 2023 has been that between stirring, moving music and groundbreaking visual imagery in this year’s...
The Animation Showcase Stocks Up on Oscar-Shortlisted Shorts, Animated Feature Making-ofs
While members of the Academy have access to their own screening supply for the 96th Oscars-eligible films for nomination voting (Jan. 11-16), it can...
Partners from HyperObject, New Native Board ‘Wild Summon’ as Exec Producers
A fresh batch of executive producers have dipped their toes into the animated waters of Wild Summon, the Oscar- and BAFTA-shortlisted short film from spouses...
265 Films Eligible for Best Picture Oscar — Which Animated Titles Made the Cut?
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced today that 321 feature films are in contention for the 96th Academy Awards, including 265 eligible for...
Tal Kantor’s Oscar-Shortlisted ‘Letter to a Pig’ Makes Online Debut
Today, film lovers are treated to the online, free-to-view release of Letter to a Pig, the Oscar shortlisted animated short from acclaimed Israeli animation filmmaker...
Exclusive: Watch ‘Robot Dreams’ Director Pablo Berger in Conversation with Jonas Poher Rasmussen
A lonely urban dog constructs a robot companion, booting up a curious and beautiful friendship against the backdrop of 1980s New York City. This...
Animation at the Oscars: Intro to the Shortlisted Shorts
The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences on Thursday announced the 96th Academy Awards shortlisted films in 10 categories, including Animated Short Film....
96th Oscars Shortlists Announced for Animated Shorts, VFX & Music
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences today announced shortlists in 10 categories for the 96th Academy Awards: Documentary Feature Film, Documentary Short...
‘Worry World’ Director Jess Patterson Shares Thoughts on Her Oscar-Qualified Short
How would you navigate a world where everyone can see what you're thinking, all the time? This is the reality for the protagonist of Worry...
Awards Updates: Oscars Eligible Animated Features, ‘Boy and the Heron,’ ‘Spider-Verse’ Divide Critics Prizes,’Nimona’ Named Best Queer Film of 2023
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences on Thursday unveiled the films eligible for consideration for the 2024 Oscars in the categories of...
The Director and Animator of ‘Sunflower Field’ Discuss Their Short About the Impact of War on Children
A young Ukrainian girl waits for a call from her father in the powerful 2D-animated short Sunflower Field, directed by Polina Buchak (Pool Party)...
‘Misaligned’ Director Marta Magnuska Takes Us Behind the Scenes of Her Debut Short
Marta Magnuska’s animated short Misaligned finds parallels between the relationship between a man and a woman, and a gecko and several flies circling a...
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