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Combustible Heats up Japan Media Arts Festival

Hi No Yojin (Combustible)

Kat­suhiro Ohiro’s short film Hi No Yôjin (Com­bustible) has won the Grand Prize in the Ani­ma­tion Divi­sion of the 16th Japan Media Arts Fes­ti­val, orga­niz­ers announced Thursday.

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Five Animated Feature Films Up For Golden Globes

Golden Globes

Five movies each have been nom­i­nated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Ani­mated Fea­ture Film, the Hol­ly­wood For­eign Press Asso­ci­a­tion announced Thursday.

Three of the five were dis­trib­uted by Walt Dis­ney Pictures.

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Washington, D.C.-area Film Critics Like ParaNorman


ParaNorman

Para­Nor­man” was named Best Ani­mated Fea­ture of 2012 by the Wash­ing­ton, D.C. Area Film Crit­ics Asso­ci­a­tion on Mon­day morning.

The movie defeated fel­low nom­i­nees Brave, Franken­wee­nie, Rise of the Guardians and Wreck-It Ralph.

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L.A. Critics Name “Frankenweenie” Best Animation


Frankenweenie

Franken­wee­nie,” directed by Tim Bur­ton, has been named the Best Ani­ma­tion of 2012 by the Los Ange­les Film Crit­ics Association.

Don Hertzfeldt’s It’s Such a Beau­ti­ful Day was declared runner-up in the category.

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Three “Simpsons” Episodes Nominated for WGA Award

The Simpsons

Three episodes of “The Simp­sons” are among the five nom­i­nees for the Writ­ers Guild of Amer­ica Award in the cat­e­gory of animation.

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Brave, Muppets Animated Film Music Nominated For ’13 Grammys

Grammy

Tunes from such ani­mated or partly ani­mated films as Pixar’s Brave and Disney’s The Mup­pets are up for the 55th Annual Grammy Awards. Nom­i­na­tions were announced Wednes­day night by The Record­ing Academy.

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Bydlo Named One of Canada’s 10 Best Short Animated Films

Bydlo

Bydlo,” an ani­ma­tion directed by Patrick Bouchard for the National Film Board of Canada, was named Tues­day evening as one of Canada’s top short films of 2012.

The 12th annual Canada’s Top Ten list was announced at a Toronto gala orga­nized by the Toronto Inter­na­tional Film Fes­ti­val Group. Actors Sarah Gadon and Don McKel­lar were the hosts.

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Brave, Guardians, Ralph each up for 10 Animation Annies

Annie Awards

Three fea­ture films each have received 10 nom­i­na­tions for the 49th Annual Annie Awards, rec­og­niz­ing the year’s best in the field of ani­ma­tion. The three are Brave (Pixar Ani­ma­tion Stu­dios), Rise of the Guardians (Dream­Works Ani­ma­tion) and Wreck-It Ralph (Walt Dis­ney Ani­ma­tion Stu­dios). All three are among the eight nom­i­nees for Best Ani­mated Feature.

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Phineas and Ferb Up for Producers Guild Award

Phineas and Ferb

Dis­ney Channel’s “Phineas and Ferb” was the sole ani­mated pro­gram announced Wednes­day as a nom­i­nee for the 24th Annual Pro­duc­ers Guild Awards.

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Gumball Gets Two British Academy Kids’ Animation Awards

Brian Cosgrove

Car­toon Net­work Europe series “The Amaz­ing World Of Gum­ball” was the win­ner in both the Ani­ma­tion and Writ­ing cat­e­gories Sun­day at the British Acad­emy Children’s Awards.

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My Little Pony’s Andrea Libman Wins Animation Voice Award

Andrea Libman

For her por­tray­als of Pinkie Pie and Flut­ter­shy in My Lit­tle Pony: Friend­ship is Magic, Toronto-born Van­cou­ver per­former Andrea Lib­man, 28, won the Award for Best Voice at the inau­gural UBCP/ACTRA Awards.

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One Boy’s Story Cartoon PSA Wins Two Regional Emmy Awards

One Boy'€™s Story

Blend­ing 3D ani­ma­tion with live action, the pub­lic ser­vice announce­ment One Boy’s Story has won two Emmy awards from the National Acad­emy of Tele­vi­sion Arts & Sci­ences, Chicago/Midwest Chapter.

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Boy With Autism Wins Animation Award For 2nd Time


Young PK Keith of Val­ley Vil­lage, Cal­i­for­nia, who was diag­nosed with autism spec­trum dis­or­der at age two, and whose bud­ding inter­est in ani­ma­tion and film was evi­dent at an early age, received a Best Ele­men­tary School Ani­ma­tion award Sun­day from Inter­na­tional Stu­dent Film Fes­ti­val Hol­ly­wood in recog­ni­tion of his ani­mated short Ani­mal Birth­day Party.

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Live Outside the Box Wins at Oregon Film Awards

Live Outside The Box

Directed by Shu-Hsuan Lin of Tai­wan, “Live Out­side the Box” was named the Grand Win­ner for Best Ani­ma­tion on Wednes­day at the Ore­gon Film Awards.

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Ten Animated Shorts Move Ahead in 2012 Oscar Race

Oscar Statuette, Academy Awards

The Acad­emy of Motion Pic­ture Arts and Sci­ences announced Fri­day that 10 ani­mated short films will advance in the vot­ing process for the 85th Acad­emy Awards.

Fifty-six pic­tures had orig­i­nally qual­i­fied in the category.

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