Animation
World Magazine, Issue 3.2, May 1998
Awards
British Academy Award winner, Stage
Fright.
© Aardman.
British Academy Awards.
The British Academy of Film and Television Arts held its 50th British Academy
Film Awards in London on Sunday, April 19. The winner for Best Short Animated
Film is Aardman's Stage Fright, by Helen Nabarro, Michael Rose and
Steve Box. In the category, Best Achievement in Special Visual Effects,
the winner is The Fifth Element.
Stuttgart. Winners are included in the festival
review in this issue.
AEAF. The
Australian Effects and Animation Festival (AEAF) Awards were held at the
Sydney Convention Centre on Wednesday, March 18, 1998. Sydney-based design
and post house Garner MacLennan Design won in the "Titles, Idents
and Stings" category for their work on the Joey feature titles.
The feature film award went to The Lost World, with effects by Industrial
Light and Magic (ILM). Tim Cheung's Gabola the Great won in the
short film category. Winners of the other categories were:
Student: Channel Hopping by Fiona Burnell (U.K.).
Commercials: PPP: X-Ray by Smoke and Mirrors (U.K.).
Simulation: Opel - Astra Ride by Electric Image (U.K.).
Education: Walking the Dinosaurs by Framestore (U.K.).
Music Video: Underwater Love: Smoke City by Red Post Production
(U.K.).
Un Jour. by Marie Paccou. © 2001.
Animation Takes On Tampere. The 28th Tampere International Short Film Festival, which took place March 4-8, 1998 in Finland, awarded the Grand Prize to Marie Paccou's animated film, Un Jour. In addition, the award for Best Animated Film went to Czech animator Michaela Pavlatova's new film, For Ever and Ever.
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