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Academy Award nominations announced

The nominations for the 76th Academy Awards were {{link http://www.oscar.com/nominees/index.html announced}} on Tuesday. \\Finding Nemo\\ leads animated films with 4 nominations, including the third ever screenplay nomination and the fourth…

Jim Hill Updates: The Destino Dilemma, Collecting Tips, and . . . Garbage?

Jim Hill Media has got three thought-provoking new articles today. The first article is all about the dilemma the Disney company is finding itself in over the Oscar nomination that…

John Hench dead at 95

…Dali on the short film \\Destino\\ (completed recently and nominated for an Academy Award this year). He won an Oscar in 1955 for his special effects work on \\20,000 Leagues…

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…

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…

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…

Dykstra to helm Tortoise and Hippo

Two-time Oscar-winning visual effects supervisor John Dykstra will make his directorial debut with Walden Media and Relevant Entertainment’s Tortoise and Hippo, reports The Hollywood Reporter. The film is based on…

Academy announces Visual Effects shortlist

{{link http://www.oscars.org/press/pressreleases/2005/05.12.16b.html The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences}} has announced the 7 feature films released in 2005 up for consideration for the Best Visual Effects Oscar: \\Batman Begins\\…

DreamWorks Animation SKG announces changes in key personnel

…also been involved in the productions of the Oscar®-winning hit Shrek and its box office record-breaking sequel Shrek 2; Madagascar, which has grossed more than $500 million worldwide making it…

Bambi II DVD cover artwork; Details on soundtrack

Early cover artwork for the Bambi II DVD is at DVD Answers. Meanwhile, SoundtrackNet takes a look at the making of the sequel’s soundtrack. Oscar-nominated composer Bruce Broughton has blended…

Counting Sheep at MIPCOM 2005

After starring in the Oscar-winning short Wallace & Gromit: A Close Shave, Shaun the Sheep is getting his own television show, tells the Animation World Network. At MIPCOM 2005, the…

Brad Bird to receive first ever Texas Avery Animation Award

Brad Bird, director of animated films The Incredibles and Iron Giant has been selected to receive the first Texas Avery Animation Award. AWN reports that the Oscar-winner will be honored…

Listen to Polar Express sountrack

Included in a healthy offering of Holiday projects at AOL Music, the Polar Express sountrack, featuring the Oscar-nominated ballad “Believe,” may be heard for free….

Pat Morita, dead at 73

Oscar nomination in 1985. On the animation front, Morita voiced the Emperor in both Mulan films, in addition to playing himself in an episode of Cartoon Network’s Robot Chicken. He…

School of Visual Arts presents “Which Way Did They Go?” exhibit

…was nominated for a 2002 Annie Award (the animation industry’s Oscar). He was supervising animator for the bear cub Koda in the animated feature Brother Bear (2003); supervising animator for…

"Consider" another Corpse Bride ad

Another “For Your Consideration” poster promoting Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride has appeared at Oscar Watch. This time, the award categories being pushed include: Best Animated Picture, Best Director, Best Adapted…

First season of Creature Comforts coming to DVD

…be included in the release. Included as a bonus feature for the DVD will be the original Creature Comforts Oscar-winning short. DVD Answers has the cover art for the set….

Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit takes top animation honors at Critcs' Choice Awards

…Animated Feature category Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit recorded a victory over other nominees Chicken Little, Corpse Bride, Howl’s Moving Castle, and Madagascar. As the Oscar season…

Sarandon hailed as Enchanted queen

…the supervising animator for Belle in Beauty and the Beast, will conduct the animated side of Narissa, while Oscar-winning makeup effects artist Rick Baker will treat the queen’s live-action likeness….

More on iTunes Disney shorts

…their Oscar-nominated shorts from Three Little Pigs up to Lorenzo. Their report also mentions a pending DVD box set of said shorts and a brand new short, Hans Christian Andersen’s…

Monsters, Inc. ride press release and pics

…voice talents including Billy Crystal and John Goodman. Additionally, the musical soundtrack for the attraction is derived from the Academy Award® nominated “Monsters, Inc.” film score by noted Oscar® winner…

Schwartz is with Enchanted?

Movie Musicals writes that Oscar-winning composer Stephen Schwartz (Pocahontas, The Prince of Egypt) has joined Alan Menken for Disney’s Enchanted. Interestingly, the site notes that lyricist Glenn Slater is still…

CBS gets Comfort-ed by Creature

…subjects on the show.” Coming Soon and The Hollywood Reporter have more on this story, while one may view the Oscar-winning Creature Comforts short that started it all at AtomFilms….

Keener keen for Wild Things

At the blog Better Than Fudge, an excerpt from The Charlie Rose Show reveals that Oscar-nominee Catherine Keener has a role in Spike Jonze’s adaptation of Where the Wild Things…

Broadway Goes Ape for Tarzan

…Phil Collins will return to create the score for the musical. His song “You’ll be in my Heart” from Tarzan earned him an Oscar in 2000. A casting search is…

Joe Grant Life Celebration

…print of Joe’s Oscar-nominated, Annie Award-winning short Lorenzo and the “Baby Mine” clip from Dumbo served as a one-two punch at the end of this life celebration. The idea for…

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….

Gopher Broke Teaser

Blur Studio’s home page has a teaser for their Oscar nominated short Gopher Broke (Jeff Fowler, director; Tim Miller, executive producer). The short features a hungry gopher that tries to…

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…

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…