Pixar Animation Studios was the big winner at this year’s 45th Annie Awards as Coco won Best Animated Feature, and garnered top honors across 11 categories. The Best Animated Feature-Independent trophy was awarded to The Breadwinner (Cartoon Saloon/Aircraft Pictures/ Melusine Productions). Complete list of winners below. Best Animated Special Production was awarded to Revolting Rhymes […]
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Annie Awards Live Stream Here
February 3rd, 2018 
Jerry Beck Asifa Hollywood live streamed Saturday night’s Annie Awards and you can watch it here. The award ceremony’s multi-camera and audio set up covered the entire ceremony – the celebrations, the laughs, the flubs, even the audience reactions. You won’t miss a thing. It’s just like being there… only you didn’t have to dress up! Here’s […]
Annie Awards Announce Its Presenters
January 30th, 2018 Jerry Beck ASIFA-Hollywood announced its slate of presenters today for the 45th Annie Awards this Saturday, February 3 from UCLA’s Royce Hall. Presenters include actress Wendie Malick; Coco’s Anthony Gonzalez; Director Nora Twomey and actress Saara Chaudry from The Breadwinner; Disney voice talent Russi Taylor; SpongeBob himself, Tom Kenny; Animators Mark Henn and Floyd Norman, and other […]
EXCLUSIVE CLIP: “Puss In Boots” Season 6
January 25th, 2018 Jerry Beck Lest you’ve forgotten, DreamWorks Animation’s very funny The Adventures of Puss in Boots Season 6 will premiere Friday, January 26th on Netflix. The Emmy-winning series stars the voices of Eric Bauza (TurboFAST, Uncle Grandpa, Woody Woodpecker) as Puss and Jayma Mays (The Millers) as Dulciena. Here’s an exclusive first look at Puss – in slippers?
Academy Award Nominations
January 23rd, 2018 Jerry Beck The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences today announced that nominations for its 90th Annual Academy Awards. The 5 films are listed below in alphabetical order by title, with their directors: Best Animated Feature nominees were: THE BOSS BABY Dreamworks-20th Century Fox. – Tom McGrath. THE BREADWINNER GKids/Cartoon Saloon – Nora Twomey COCO Disney/Pixar […]
45th Annie Awards To Live Stream
January 22nd, 2018 Jerry Beck ASIFA-Hollywood announced today that although VIP tickets to the 45th Annie Awards are sold out, you can watch the ceremony live on our Annies streaming channel – http://annieawards.org/watch-it-live/. The fun starts at 7:00 p.m. on Saturday, February 3rd. The award ceremony’s multi-camera and audio set up will cover the entire ceremony – the celebrations, the […]
Silent Cartoon Restorations highlight “Animatus Eventus”
January 20th, 2018 Jerry Beck On Saturday, February 10th, 2018 at 7:30pm and Sunday, February 11th, 2018 at 2:00pm the Riverside Philharmonic Presents “Animatus Eventus” – an all animation program with live musical accompaniment by the Riverside Philharmonic. It will feature the premiere of Mark Watters’ original score for a newly restored Walt Disney’s silent short, Alice’s Little Parade (1926). […]
GLAS Animation Festival 2018 Signal Film by Ori Toor
January 16th, 2018 Jerry Beck Put down your coffee and plug in your ear buds. Check out this friggin’ cool signal film for the 2018 GLAS Animation Festival. The event takes place March 22-25 in Berkeley, CA – and they’ll soon be announcing competition selections, curated programs, special guests, and the complete festival schedule. In the meantime, feast your eyes […]
TEASER: Warner Bros. “Teen Titans Go! To The Movies”
January 10th, 2018 Jerry Beck When the Teen Titans go to the big screen, they go big! Teen Titans GO! to the Movies finds the egocentric, wildly satirical Super Heroes in their first feature film extravaganza — a gleefully clever, tongue-in-cheek play on the super hero genre – complete with musical numbers. The theatrical film is being directed by Aaron […]
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Pixar’s “Coco” Wins Golden Globe Award
January 7th, 2018 Jerry Beck The infamous Hollywood Foreign Press Association announced their winners tonight – and included in the mix was the winner for Best Animated Feature. Pixar’s Coco won the top honor. Director Lee Unkrich accepted the award and spoke – accompanied on stage by producer Darla K. Anderson and co-director Adrian Molina. The Golden Globes were awarded […]
Asifa’s Animation Educators Forum Accepting Applications for 2018 Faculty Grants
January 5th, 2018 Jerry Beck ASIFA-Hollywood and the Animation Educators Forum (AEF) announce they are now accepting applications for the 2018 Faculty Grant program. The Faculty Grant program is designed to provide support for individuals or groups with reasonable expenditures associated with research, scholarly activity or creative projects in the field of animation. Applications must be submitted online at http://grants.animationeducatorsforum.org […]
Gkids Acquires Three Features by Masaaki Yuasa for 2018 US Release
January 2nd, 2018 Jerry Beck GKIDS announced today that it has acquired the North American distribution rights for a slate of films from internationally acclaimed director Masaaki Yuasa. The deal includes the cult classic Mind Game as well as Yuasa’s two new feature films, Lu Over The Wall and Night Is Short, Walk On Girl. GKIDS will release all three […]
A Merry Jerry Christmas!
December 23rd, 2017 Jerry Beck Some people take the holidays off – I, however, enjoy Christmas vacation by spreading classic cartoon joy all over my Southern California home base. On Christmas Day, December 25th, I will be back with another one hour radio broadcast at 6pm on KPFK (90.7 FM) Southern California. I call the show CARTOONS IN STEREO, and […]
TRAILER #2: Aardman’s “Early Man”
December 20th, 2017 Jerry Beck Set at the dawn of time, when dinosaurs and wooly mammoths roamed the earth, Early Man tells the story of how one plucky caveman unites his tribe against a mighty enemy and saves the day! Prioduced by Aardman Animation, directed by Nick Park and starring Eddie Redmayne, Tom Hiddleston, Maisie Williams and Timothy Spall, a […]
Ron Clements & John Musker To Receive Art Directors Award For Championing The Art Of Animation
December 19th, 2017 Jerry Beck Ron Clements and John Musker, Oscar-nominated Walt Disney Animation Studios filmmaking partners behind such animated features as Moana and The Princess and the Frog, will receive the William Cameron Menzies Award from the Art Directors Guild (ADG, IATSE Local 800) at the 22nd Annual Excellence in Production Design Awards on Jan. 27th at the Ray […]
