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UPDATED! Finding Nemo earns nine Annie Awards, \\The Simpsons\\ earns four
…Last year’s winner, Spirited Away, went on to capture the Oscar for Best Animated Feature”. Posters at Animation Nation are posting pictures and discussing the highlights of the evening. A… |
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Barbara Walters to interview Shrek
Yahoo! Movies reveals that Barbara Walters will interview the Oscar-winning ogre, during her annual pre-Oscars interview show, set to air February 29th on ABC…. |
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Aardman exhibition hits Bristol
…a new exhibition, Aardman At-Bristol, providing a glimpse of studio’s history and Oscar-winning fimmaking. Featuring everything from storyboards to set design, this exhibition is free with a ticket to Explore…. |
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Belleville's Triplets triumph again!
…competition in two categories at this year’s Oscar awards, Best Animated Film and Best Original Song”, reports today’s {{link http://www.imdb.com/StudioBrief/#1 IMDB Studio Brief}}. “The Lumières winners are selected by 200… |
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DreamWorks playing "stand off" with Disney/Pixar again?
…for the same Oscar prize. Now, following the fact that October’s SharkTale will try to swim into Nemo‘s waters, and that Disney is working on their own Madagascar-type tale, comes… |
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A Duo of Triplets News…
The National Public Radio, via Cartoon Research, has a great article about the music of The Triplets of Belleville, and speculates about the film’s chances at the Oscars this year…. |
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THE 76th ANNUAL ACADEMY AWARDS – Nemo wins, Rings is King and Krumpet amazes!
The voting is over, the numbers are in, and it’s Oscar night not only in Los Angeles’ capital of film itself, Hollywood, but the world over, with an estimated one… |
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Just who is Sylvain Chomet?
…Best Animated Feature Oscar right up until Andrew Stanton’s name was announced. In addition, animation historian {{link http://www.michaelbarrier.com/Commentary/Belleville/Belleville.htm Michael Barrier writes}} about Belleville and its channelling of “The Ghost Of… |
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Universal announces animation project to follow Curious George
…in the Oscar race, Seabuscuit, is getting into animation. “Universal Pictures has optioned Kate DiCamillo’s Newberry Medal-winning novel The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess,… |
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Sir Peter Ustinov dies
Celebrated raconteur and Oscar winning actor Sir Peter Ustinov has died at the age of 82. He won one of his two Academy Awards for his role in Stanley Kubrick’s… |
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\\Home on the Range\\ reviews mild, but critics love music
…songs were created by lyricist Glenn Slater and 8-time Academy Award winning composer Alan Menken, the most honored living Oscar winner. “I can easily imagine Gene Autry performing any of… |
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Upcoming DVD: Poppins to include new animation
…live action and animated sequence [this new musical number is exclusive to the DVD] reuniting the film’s stars, Julie Andrews and Dick Van Dyke, with music by Oscar-winner Richard Sherman”!… |
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Shark Tale at the Tribeca Film Festival
…the film which were really great. Will’s character, Oscar is great. After the show, Jeffrey ran out, as did the other stars. I caught Mr. Imperioli outside the back door,… |
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The Animated Games of E3
…anime series, this game is a card battling RPG adventure. Shark Tale – ACTIVISION – PS2/GC/XBOX/PC The upcoming Dreamworks movie becomes a 3D platform game in which you control Oscar,… |
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Shrek 2: number 1
…of Mike Myers as Shrek, Eddie Murphy as Donkey and Cameron Diaz as Princess Fiona. Joining the all-star voice cast are: Academy Award® winner Julie Andrews (Mary Poppins) and Oscar®… |
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Poppins DVD looking good
…watching the film again while recording an audio commentary. “It’s not at all creaky; it’s not at all dated. It holds up brilliantly,” Andrews says of the Oscar-winning special effects…. |
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A quick 2D Expo report: Debunking a Pixar rumor and more
…at hand-drawn animation. We also learned that their Oscar-nominated short Boundin’ is likely to be shown in front of The Incredibles this fall. Something cool we found out about at… |
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Brando's last "animated" role…
Oscar-winning Marlon Brando, who died last week in Hollywood aged 80, had just finished recording his lines for what will eventually be his final screen outing, Big Bug Man. {{link… |
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\\Spider-Man 2\\ heading to IMAX
…Dunst, James Franco, Alfred Molina, Rosemary Harris, Donna Murphy and J.K. Simmons. The film is directed by Sam Raimi (\\Spider-Man\\, \\The Evil Dead\\). The screenplay is by two-time Oscar® winner… |
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Muppets stamped!
…Harburg, probably best known for his Oscar-winning Wizard Of Oz song Somewhere Over The Rainbow, and How Are Things In Glocca Morra and Old Devil Moon, both from Finian’s Rainbow…. |
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Jim Rygiel to direct Bunyan And Babe; first look at Igor
…of a demented circus owner. Press release, with initial art for Bunyan and Babe and Exodus’ previosuly announced project Igor, here: THREE-TIME OSCAR WINNER JIM RYGIEL TO DIRECT EXODUS’ BUNYAN… |
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Return Of The King: extended announced
New Line Cinema has at last made official an announcement that the extended edition of Peter Jackson’s Oscar-winning epic fantasy The Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King… |
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CINEME 2004 Official Winners
…Commercial Adventures of Seinfeld and Superman – Unplugged Studio American Express, its agency-Ogilvy&Mather, Radical Media, world-reknowned comedian Jerry Seinfeld, and Oscar-winning director Barry Levinson teamed up to create two short… |
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Squarepants Movie soundtrack listing; Hasselhoff joins movie's cast; Wedge on Williams' Robots character
…lifeguard. [warning: USA Today article contains spoilers]. The story also briefly speaks on Robin Williams’ return to voicing an animated character, as the Oscar-winning actor voices Fender from Robots. In… |
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Shrek headed to Broadway
Oscar– and Tony-winning director Sam Mendes is teaming up with DreamWorks Animation and one of the masterminds behind the puppet-powered hit production Avenue Q to bring Shrek–The Musical to Broadway…. |
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Fallen Art website now online
Following his Oscar-nominated 2003 short The Cathedral, Tomek Baginski’s second short animated film, Fallen Art, now has a new, redesigned, and updated website. Although using the same technique as in… |
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The Incredibles production notes excerpt: Part II
…Oscar® winning filmmaker in his own right—heard Bird’s pitch, he knew he had found one. “It was a like a homecoming to have Brad here to pitch the story because… |
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The Incredibles production notes excerpts: Parts V and VI
…for its pioneering work in cloth motion. The advances made with Boo’s T-shirt in “Monsters, Inc.” and the clothing in the Oscar® winning Pixar short, “Geri’s Game,” served as research… |
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\\Harvie Krumpet\\ DVD review
…Sky’s \\Gone Nutty\\) to win the Oscar for Best Animated Short. Doogan says the film has “plenty of heart and soul” and that the DVD has a “very nice full… |
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Cover art for the Shark Tale DVD
DVD Answers has the cover art for the Shark Tale DVD. Available in both full screen and widescreen versions, the DVD’s bonus features include a new “Club Oscar” sequence with… |

