The official kick-off to Awards Season begins today as the International Animated Film Society, ASIFA-Hollywood, announces its ‘Call for Entries’ for the 49th Annual Annie Awards. Honoring excellence in the field of animation, the 49th Annual Annie Awards will be presented in 36 categories including Animated Feature, Animated Feature-Independent, TV/Media Production, Sponsored Production, Short Subject, […]

In case you missed it – and it seems many did… This year’s Academy Award for Best Animated Feature went to Pixar’s Soul. Best Animated Short was awarded to “If Anything Happens I Love You”. Both films were indeed Oscar-worthy, but clearly the Academy adhered to its longtime traditions – favoring films that touch the […]

Pixar’s Soul received seven Annie Awards during the 48th virtual awards ceremony Friday evening, winning top honors for Best Feature, Character Animation (Michal Makarewicz), Music (Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross, Jon Batiste), Storyboarding (Trevor Jimenez), Writing (Pete Docter, Mike Jones, Kemp Powers), Best FX (Tolga Göktekin, Carl Kaphan, Hiroaki Narita, Enrique Vila, Kylie Wijsmuller) and Editorial […]

Asifa Hollywood is live streaming tonight’s Annie Awards ceremony – a virtual event this year – and you can watch or re-watch it here. The award ceremony’s multi-camera and audio set up covers the entire ceremony – the celebrations, the laughs, the flubs. You won’t miss a thing. It’s just like being there… only you […]

A Handy-Dandy Checklist of the Animated Features Released in the U.S. in 2020 (Due to the COVID-19 pandemic many features scheduled for this year were moved to 2021.) 1. WEATHERING WITH YOU (1/17/20) GKids. D: Makoto Shinkai 2. FARMAGEDDON: A SHAUN THE SHEEP MOVIE (2/14/20) Netflix. D: Will Becher, Richard Phelan 3. ONWARD (3/6/20) Pixar […]

ASIFA-Hollywood announced its slate of presenters today for the 48th Virtual Annie Awards to stream live courtesy of Variety on Friday, April 16 at 7 p.m. PST. Additional presenters to be announced. The virtual Annies link is here: http://annieawards.org/watch-it-live/. Presenters include actors Josh Gad, Matthew Rhys, Philippa Soo (Hamilton) and Eva Whittaker; Oscar winning composer, […]