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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
2010 Annie Award Nominations
1 December 2009 9:55 PM, PST | newsinfilm.com | See recent newsinfilm news »
Today the International Animated Film Society announced the nominations for the 2010 Annie Awards ceremony, and stop-motion feature Coraline lead the pack with 10 nominations. The ceremony is scheduled for February 6, 2010.
The Henry Selick creation will compete for best feature with another stop-motion movie, Wes Anderson’s Fantastic Mr. Fox, along with Pixar’s Up, Disney’s 2D The Princess and the Frog, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, and The Secret of Kells.
I was glad to see Disney’s A Christmas Carol get completely snubbed from the Annies, especially after Robert Zemeckis made a fool of himself by suggesting motion capture get its own Academy Award.
The Annie Award is usually a reliable indicator of which film will win the Oscar for “Best Animated Feature,” matching it seven of the nine years since the Academy category was created. Though, to be fair, last year Kung Fu Panda upset Wall-e for »
- Jeff Leins
"Up," "Coraline" Top 2009 Annie Award Nominees
1 December 2009 3:51 PM, PST | Manny the Movie Guy | See recent Manny the Movie Guy news »
The International Animated Film Society has announced the 2009 Annie Award nominations! "Up" and "Coraline" led the pack in the film categories.
Award recipients will claim their trophies at the 37th Annual Annie Awards scheduled for Saturday, February 6, 2010 at UCLA's Royce Hall in Los Angeles, California.
Here's the list of nominees of the 37th Annual Annie Awards:
Production Categories
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
Best Home Entertainment Production
* Curious George: A Very Monkey Christmas . Universal Animation Studios
* Futurama: Into the Wild Green Yonder . The Curiosity Company in association with 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
* Green Latern: First Flight . Warner Bros. Animation
* Open Season 2 . Sony Pictures Animation
* SpongeBob vs. The Big One . Nickelodeon
Best Animated Short Subject »
- Manny
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. »
'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
Oscar Watch: Coraline, Up Lead Annie Noms
1 December 2009 10:57 AM, PST | Thompson on Hollywood | See recent Thompson on Hollywood news »
Is CG animation on the decline? That’s unlikely, but Tuesday’s Annie nominations favored stop-motion and 2-D this year. And they lend some sense of direction as to where the Oscar animation category may be trending. The Annies are not historically as Pixar-friendly as the Oscars tend to be: they went with Happy Feet over Cars in 2006, and last year they shut out Wall-e to favor DreamWorks’ Kung Fu Panda. So even though Henry Selick’s tour-de-force 3-D stop-motion film Coraline dominated Tuesday’s Annie noms with ten, Up is still the Oscar fave in the animation category. But what will fill out the Oscar dance card’s five … »
'Coraline' Tops Annie Award Nominations
1 December 2009 10:06 AM, PST | The Wrap | See recent The Wrap news »
By Steve Pond
“Up” may be a prohibitive favorite in the Oscars' animated feature category, but the Annie Awards are not always enamored of Pixar’s critically acclaimed films.
Last year at the Annies -- which are presented by the International Animated Film Society -- the Pixar film “Wall-e” didn’t win a single award, while “Kung Fu Panda” swept nearly all the top prizes. (“Wall-e” went on to win the Oscar.)
And on Tuesday, when the 2009 nominations were announced, “Up” took second place to Henry Selick’s “C... »
- Steve Pond
'Up' and 'Coraline' lead the 2009 Annie Award Nominees
1 December 2009 9:24 AM, PST | Hitfix | See recent Hitfix news »
The International Animated Film Society announced the 2009 Annie Award nominations this morning. The most respected honors in feature and television animation will be handed out in a ceremony on Feb. 6. As expected, Pixar's "Up," Henry Selick's "Coraline" and Wes Anderson's "Fantastic Mr. Fox" dominated the film categoriest. The complete list of nominees are below. 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... »
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 »
Birthday Suits, Well Directed
30 November 2009 6:05 AM, PST | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »
Lights. Cameras. Birthday Action (for this, the 30th of November). Only one month left to go and it's 2010. How crazy is that?
Ridley, Terrence (in the 70s) and Marc
1835 Mark Twain's books have been adapted into movies ever since the movies began. Most notably The Prince and the Pauper and any tale of Huck Finn or Tom Sawyer
1920 Virginia Mayo 40s and 50s star, frequent Danny Kaye foil
1926 Richard Crenna, character actor
1927 Robert Guillaume, "Benson"
1929 Dick Clark, seemingly immortal creature who may finally be destroyed by the rise of his spiritual offspring Ryan Seacrest. It's all very Cronos vs. Zeus, only without the thunderbolts
1937 Ridley Scott, manly director whose movies are usually way better when they're shot through with a strong female presence. Consider the three classics: Blade Runner, Thelma & Louise, Alien. The rest of the filmography surely has its moments but that's the trinity right there.
1943 Terence Malick, »
- NATHANIEL R
Focus Features: Putting A Bad Year Behind Them
30 November 2009 1:32 AM, PST | ioncinema | See recent ioncinema news »
With all the studio arm indie divisions closing shop, I'm crossing my fingers for the folks at Focus Features - they actually give a sh*t about filmmakers. We don't need to mention what happened with the parent company, and today's press release sort of camouflages the mediocre 2009 year that is still unfolding. - With all the studio arm indie divisions closing shop, I'm crossing my fingers for the folks at Focus Features - they actually give a sh*t about filmmakers. We don't need to mention what happened with the parent company, and today's press release sort of camouflages the mediocre 2009 year that is still unfolding. When you add filmmaker Henry Selick and Shane Acker's numbers and subtract Ang Lee's and Sam Mendes' box office grosses and all the P&A costs, I'm sure that Focus' "eighth profitable year in a row since their inception" is »
- Ioncinema.com Staff
Fantastic Mr. Fox Review
29 November 2009 12:34 AM, PST | FilmJunk | See recent FilmJunk news »
Fantastic Mr. Fox Directed by: Wes Anderson Written by: Wes Anderson and Noah Baumbach (screenplay), Roald Dahl (book) Starring: George Clooney, Meryl Streep, Jason Schwartzman, Bill Murray, Eric Anderson, Michael Gambon, Willem Dafoe At the beginning of the decade, Wes Anderson was being praised as one of the most unique and talented emerging filmmakers in America. The Royal Tenenbaums was seen by many as his ultimate masterpiece, earning his only Academy Award nomination to date. However, since then, he has arguably become a victim of his own success. Surrounded by copycats and increasingly cynical audiences, he has struggled to break from the mold that he created for himself. Although I enjoyed both The Life Aquatic and The Darjeeling Limited a great deal, I can't deny that Wes Anderson's style was starting to feel more like a predictable checklist and less like the mark of an auteur. He was stuck in a rut, »
- Sean
Thanksgiving, movies, and reasons to be grateful
28 November 2009 7:31 PM, PST | EW.com - The Movie Critics | See recent EW.com - The Movie Critics news »
The gratitude lists emailed among friends and families this Thanksgiving are lovely and thoughtful, expressing heartfelt appreciation for food, shelter, health, friends, family, babies' smiles, rainbows, Mom's lasagna, all that good stuff. The only problem is, when mentioned in the same breath as Mom and rainbows, offering thanks for the genius of Netflix looks pretty puny. But not here: Here's where movie lovers can offer up movie love in the spirit of the holiday. I'll go first: 1. Thanks to great American actors whose appearances invigorate every movie they're in. My choice trio: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Catherine Keener, and Jeffrey Wright, »
- Lisa Schwarzbaum
Fantastic Mr. Fox Review
28 November 2009 11:57 AM, PST | newsinfilm.com | See recent newsinfilm news »
After a short scene in 2004’s The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou utilizing the stop motion animations of Henry Selick, filmmaker Wes Anderson aimed to combine the technique with his usual cleverness for a full-length narrative. Anderson’s first animated film and an adaptation of British author Roald Dahl’s beloved book is short of fantastic.
Fantastic Mr. Fox frolics somewhere in between Anderson’s signature style and a mainstream production, an awkward mix of dry humor and childlike whimsy that tiptoes the line between age groups. It’s not without its plucky delights, but the gags are scattered through a wholly self-indulgent farce.
Written with Life Aquatic co-writer Noah Baumbach, the eccentric tone and vibrant, artistic flourishes are characteristic Anderson, and it’s autumnal color scheme is a nice touch for the vintage look and indie feel.
The painstaking craftsmanship is to be appreciated. A crew assembled incredible sequences »
- Jeff Leins
Review: Fantastic Mr. Fox
25 November 2009 9:13 AM, PST | Twitch | See recent Twitch news »
[Our thanks to Peter Galvin for offering his review for the Twitch readership.]
How strange it must have been to be tasked with adapting Wes Anderson's eccentric and idiosyncratic live-action style to the animation required for Fantastic Mr. Fox. Mark Gustafson was the brave soul who took on that task when Henry Selick left the project to animate Coraline. During a Q&A session following the San Francisco International Animation Festival screening of Fantastic Mr. Fox, Animation Director Gustafson recalled how Anderson's unyielding dedication to his vision for the film made him very uncomfortable as a professional animator. Though out of his element, Anderson never allowed the once-accepted boundaries of stop-motion animation to compromise his vision. It's a good thing too, as it's Anderson's background in live-action film that most likely makes Fantastic Mr. Fox feel so different from other popular animated fare.
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Puppets and Precursors
21 November 2009 6:30 PM, PST | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »
Given that precursor season is nearly upon us and I've always believed in full disclosure you should know that I recently joined the Bfca. Yes, the same group I have taken to task in the past for their insistence on equating "best" with "Oscar predictions". I've never understood that as an operating agenda but then... it's hardly endemic to them. In fact, each year I have to underline the difference between predictions and preferences several times over when people start saying things like "you think that's better than that?" while holding their nose. So many people think it means the same thing but it never does. When the two crossover it's an accident... a happy accident. Best is your own perceived meritocracy. Prediction is what you suppose a random group of other people might collectively prefer. I promise to vote by way of Best.
Swag watch: Bad Lieutenant companion book »
- NATHANIEL R
Coraline (2009) Movie Review
21 November 2009 1:25 PM, PST | Beyond Hollywood | See recent Beyond Hollywood news »
(Guest Movie Review by Dedpool) I was looking forward to this as soon as it hit theatres. Unfortunately my busy schedule prevented me from getting to see it and oh how I regret it. Coraline, directed by Henry Selick (of Nightmare Before Christmas, and James and the Giant Peach fame)is an amazing journey of one lonely, misunderstood, and grossly ignored young lady, who find’s everything she’s ever wanted in “Other World.” “Other World” is a mirror image of our own world that Coraline finds one night behind a wallpapered door, which was formerly bricked up when she discovered it earlier in the day. In this world there are “Other” versions of all the people she has just recently met, except with one difference, they are overly attentive to Coraline (even getting her name right, which no one , save for her parents can seem to do), and they »
- Guest Movie Reviewer
'Fantastic Mr. Fox' - Appealing More; To Older Audience, Than Younger
20 November 2009 8:30 AM, PST | Arizona Reporter | See recent Arizona Reporter news »
By Susan Granger - Idiosyncratic filmmaker Wes Anderson has created a droll, delightful, stop-motion animated adaptation of Roald Dahl.s best-selling children.s book about an audacious, stubbornly determined fox who refuses to stop stealing chickens from infuriated farmers Boggs, Bunce and Bean, who are determined to capture him . at any cost.
"I'm a wild animal," suave, corduroy-clad Mr. Fox explains to conservative Mrs. Fox (Meryl Streep), their angst-ridden teenage son Ash (Jason Schwartzman), along with visiting cousin Kristofferson, (Eric Anderson), Kylie (Wally Wolodarsky) and lawyer Badger (Bill Murray) who join them in flight from the human predators.
Previously used in the .Wallace and Gromit. films, Tim Burton.s .Corpse Bride,. and Henry Selick.s .Coraline,. and tracing its roots back to the original .King Kong. and the work of Ray Harryhausen, stop-motion animation is an old-fashioned, painstaking process in which the figures - furry animals - are placed in an eye-catching, »
‘Precious,’ ‘Serious’ Oscar Campaigns Ramp ‘Up’
19 November 2009 10:34 AM, PST | FilmSchoolRejects.com | See recent FilmSchoolRejects news »
Earlier today, I was flexing some of my Oscar-predicting muscle by saying that Sandra Bullock might have placed herself in the Best Actress conversation with her role in The Blind Side. What I haven't talked about yet is the dearth of great female performances this year that might allow for a rather schmaltzy movie like The Blind Side to sneak in and get a nomination. Of course, this dearth does not include the two sensational ladies in Precious, lead Gabby Sibide and supporting star Mo'nique. Sibide is front and center in the new poster for Precious, which will serve as the film's first leap into this year's 'For Your Consideration' campaign. Our friends at HitFix debuted the first poster: Joining Precious in the early race to get the attention of Academy members is Pixar's Up, which recently bought a spot on the front page of Daily Variety to kick-off their campaign not only for Best »
- Neil Miller
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