Awards
Awards
Cartoonist Awards.
The National Cartoonists Society held its annual convention and awards
show last month in Pasadena, California. Dilbert creator Scott Adams
was honored with the Rueben award (named after Rube Goldberg), as well
as the award for best newspaper strip. Dilbert is currently being
produced as an animated series by Columbia TriStar Television. Also receiving
awards on Saturday night were Nik Ranieri (Disney) for feature animation,
David Feiss (Cartoon Network) for television animation, David Gantz for
newspaper panel, Bob Staake for newspaper illustration, Glenn McCoy for
editorial cartoons, Don Perlin for comic books, B.B. Sams for advertising
and illustration, Guy Gilchrist for magazine and book illustration, Mark
Tonra for gag cartoons and Dave Coverly for greeting cards.
Ankara. The tenth annual Ankara Film Festival recently took place
in Turkey. The jury included festival programmer and Animation World
Magazine contributor oTTo Alder. The animated films awarded are:
First Place: Flatworld by Daniel Greaves.
Second Place: Silence by Sylvie Bringas and Orly Yadin.
Third Place: The Chain by Phil Mulloy.
Special Mention: One by Lamia Karaali, for its combination of classical
animation and computer technology.
Final Emmy Winners. The animated series, Arthur took home
the Emmy Award for Best Children's Animated Program on May 15 at the 25th
Annual Daytime Emmy Awards ceremony. The series is produced by Boston-based
PBS affiliate WGBH and Canadian production company, Cinar Films. WGBH's
Carol Greenwald accepted the award. Additional award winners were announced
previously:
Special Class-Animated Program: Warner Bros.' The New Batman/Superman
Adventures.
Outstanding Sound Editing-Special Class: Nickelodeon's Angry Beavers.
Performer in an Animated Program: Louie Anderson, As Dad/Little Louie In
"Life With Louie," Fox.
Clios. The 1998 Clio Award winners were announced on May 15. Winners
in animation categories are listed below. Winners in other categories,
which include some animated productions, can be viewed on-line at www.clioawards.com.
Television/Cinema - AnimationFilm, Gold Awards:
Backstage for Lipton Brisk Iced Tea. Production Company: Loose Moose,
London.
Rocky for Lipton Brisk Iced Tea. Production Company: Loose Moose,
London.
Television/Cinema - AnimationFilm, Silver Award:
Heritage/Springfield for Converse. Production Company: The U Ground,
Los Angeles.
Television/Cinema - AnimationFilm, Bronze Awards:
Super Mom for Coca-Cola. Animation Company: Wild Brain, Inc., San
Francisco.
Young Guns II for Nike. Animation Company: Russell Brookes.
Special Selections for Campbell's. Production Company: Acme Filmworks,
Hollywood.
Television/Cinema - AnimationComputer, Gold Awards:
None in this category.
Television/Cinema - AnimationComputer, Silver Awards:
The Face of Technology for Comdisco. Animation Company: TOPIX/Mad
Dog, Toronto.
Cookie Jar for Diamond Walnuts. Production Company: Industrial Light
+ Magic, San Rafael.
Goose for Pepsi. Animation Company: Digital Domain, Venice
Television/Cinema - AnimationComputer, Bronze Awards:
The Battery Gym for Panasonic Alkaline Battery/Matsushita Elec.
Animation Company: Omnibus Japan, Tokyo.
Orkin Man for Orkin Exterminating Company. Animation Company: RG/A
Digital Studios, New York.
Launch for Dodge Intrepid. Animation Company: RG/A, New York.
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