ASIFA-Hollywood announced nominees today for its 47th Annual Annie Awards recognizing the year’s best in the field of animation. For a complete list of nominations visit www.annieawards.org. This year’s Best Animated Feature nominations include: Missing Link (Laika Studios), Klaus (Netflix/SPA Studios/Atresmedia Cine), Frozen 2 (Walt Disney Animation Studios), How To Train Your Dragon: The Hidden […]

More than 400 guests and celebrities filled the Beverly Hilton Hotel to support lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) students at Point Honors Los Angeles. Point Foundation (Point), the evening’s beneficiary, is the nation’s largest scholarship-granting organization for LGBTQ students of merit; currently assisting 85 scholarship recipients. At the gala, the award-winning stop-motion animation […]

Women in Animation (WIA) is proud to announce the third annual WIA Diversity Awards recipients, presented in partnership with the Spark Computer Graphics Society (Spark CG). The recipients of this year’s awards are: Sony Pictures Animation; Melissa Cobb, Vice President, Original Animation, Netflix; and filmmaker Brenda Lopez for her short film ABEO. The awards will […]

Thirty-two features – a record – have been submitted for consideration in the Animated Feature Film category for the 92nd Academy Awards. Several of the films have not yet had their required Los Angeles seven-day qualifying run. Interestingly enough SHAUN THE SHEEP FARMAGEDDON was not submitted. Also of note: Genndy Tartakovsky’s PRIMAL (a series on […]

ASIFA-Hollywood announced today that VIP tickets for the 47th Annual Annie Awards are on sale now at annieawards.org/tickets. The 47th Annual Annie Awards ceremony will be held on Saturday, January 25, 2020 at UCLA’s Royce Hall. The price of a VIP ticket admits you to the pre- and post- receptions beginning at 4:30 p.m., and […]

With awards season underway, the contenders for Oscar and Annie Awards Best Animated Short Film honors are emerging. One of them is Coaster, the tale of a young man beginning adulthood. Director Amos Sussigan and co-writer Dan Lund take us on the short’s unpredictable journey. Jackson Murphy: Have you been on a lot of theme […]