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ANIMATION WORLD MAGAZINE - ISSUE 4.4 - JULY 1999
Awards
Day-Time Emmy Award Winners. The 26th annual Daytime Emmy Awards were announced on May 21st at New York's Madison Square Garden Theatre. Arthur won Outstanding Children's Animated Program; Rob Paulsen, the voice of "Pinky" on Steven Spielberg Presents: Pinky And The Brain, won for Outstanding Performer in an Animated Series; Pinky And The Brain won for Outstanding Special Class/Animated Program; Voltron won for Outstanding Sound Editing; The New Batman/Superman Adventures won for Outstanding Sound Mixing - Special Class; Steven Spielberg Presents: Animaniacs won for Outstanding Music Direction and Composition.
The Clios Have Been Announced. The 40th Annual Clios, which are given in recognition of outstanding achievement in the advertising industry, have been announced for 1999. The following list includes only animation related awards. For a complete list of winners, visit www.clioawards.com.
ENTRY TYPE: TELEVISION/CINEMA
CATEGORY: ANIMATION-COMPUTER
BRONZE AWARDS:
Advertiser/Product/Service: Nature's Resource
Title: 'Echinacea'
Advertising Agency: Leo Burnett, Chicago
Production Company: Blue Sky/VIFX, Harrison
Advertiser/Product/Service: First Union Bank
Title: 'Noise'
Advertising Agency: Publicis & Hal Riney, San Francisco
Animation and Production Company: Industrial Light + Magic, San Rafael
Advertiser/Product/Service: Chevy Tahoe
Title: 'Drifts'
Advertising Agency: Campbell Ewald, Detroit
Animation Company: In Sight Pix, Venice Beach
Production Company: Plum Productions, Los Angeles
Advertiser/Product/Service: STARDOX High Performance Braces
Title: 'Trophomotion'
Advertising Agency: White Rhino Productions, Burlington
Production Company: Kleiser-Walczak Construction, New York
Advertiser/Product/Service: Banking Services
Title: 'Pinball'
Advertising Agency: Leo Burnett, Warsaw
Production Company: The End, London
SILVER AWARD:
Advertiser/Product/Service: Hollywood Gum
Title: 'Gnome'
Advertising Agency: Euro RSCG, Paris
Animation Company: Ring of Fire Advanced Media, West Hollywood
Production Company: A Band Apart, Los Angeles; Hamster Publicite, Paris
GOLD AWARDS:
Advertiser/Product/Service: Tennent's Lager
Title: 'Re-incarnaTed'
Advertising Agency: The Leith Agency, Edinburgh
Animation Company: Blue Sky/VIFX, Harrison
Production Company: Culture Films, London; Blue Sky/VIFX, Harrison
Advertiser/Product/Service: Hooch
Title: 'Mosquito'
Advertising Agency: Euro RSCG Wnek Gosper, London
Animation Company: Buf Company, Paris
Production Company: Partizan Midi Minuit, London
Advertiser/Product/Service: Coca-Cola
Title: 'Jitterbug'
Advertising Agency: Edge Creative, LLC, Santa Monica
Animation Company: Digital Domain, Venice
Production Company: Bruce Dowad Associates, Hollywood
ENTRY TYPE: TELEVISION/CINEMA
CATEGORY: ANIMATIONFILM
BRONZE AWARDS:
Advertiser/Product/Service: Old Navy Jeans
Title: 'Big Pocket Jeans'
Advertising Agency: Old Navy, San Francisco
Animation Company: Chuck Gammage Animation, Inc., Oakdale
Production Company: Spumco, Glendale; (Colossal) Pictures, San Francisco
Advertiser/Product/Service: Maryland Lottery
Title: 'Diner'
Advertising Agency: Eisner & Associates, Baltimore
Agency Producer: Mary Holland
Animation and Production Company: Will Vinton Studios, Portland
SILVER AWARDS:
Advertiser/Product/Service: Mazda
Title: 'Cool World'
Advertising Agency: Doner, Southfield
Production Company: Rhythm & Hues, Los Angeles
Advertiser/Product/Service: BBC
Title: 'Future Generations'
Advertising Agency: Leagas Delaney , London
Animation Company: Passion Pictures, London
Production Company: BBC, London
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When the Day Breaks by Wendy
Tilby and Amanda Forbis. Courtesy of and © 1999 National Film Board
of Canada.
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Wendy Tilby Wins At Cannes! Wendy Tilby and Amanda Forbis' short film, When The Day Breaks (The National Film Board of Canada), won the Palme d'Or at the recently concluded 52nd Cannes International Film Festival in Cannes, France. It took four years for Forbis and Tilby to finish the softly colored, wordless, but musical, story of a pig whose world shifts after a car accident kills a stranger (a chicken) on her block. Forbis and Tilby began the production of When the Day Breaks by shooting High-8 video of the action using real people. Forbis put on a cardboard chicken beak, and Tilby shot it! Then the footage was divided into individual frames and photocopied. The two filmmakers penciled and colored each image, turning people into pigs and chickens. The only other animated film in this year's short film competition, which groups animated and live-action films together, was Don Hertzfeld's comedy Billy's Balloon.
Deviant! Wins At New York Animation Festival. The first New York Animation Festival presented a diverse international program of film and video animation from May 13-15 in New York City. Over 2500 attended the three-day event which was held in Greenwich Village at The New School for Social Research's Tishman Auditorium. Here is the complete list of winners: Best of Festival: Deviant! by Eoin Clarke; Honorable Mention: One Self: Fish Girl by Emily Hubley; Level 13 Entertainment Skidmore Award for Best Overall Short: Billy's Balloon by Don Hertzfeldt; Best Experimental Film: Golden Shoes by Adam Gravois and Dame Darcy; Student 1st Prize: Organ Cranker by Jon Foulk; Student 2nd Prize: The Itch by Guy Harlap; Student 3rd Prize: Leashlessness by Stefan Gruber; Best New York Film (sponsored by Kim's Video): The Bats by Jim Trainor; Judges' Citation for Humor: Call Me Fishmael by Steven Dovas; Judges' Citation for Humor: Untalkative Bunny by Graham Falk; Judges' Citation for Art Direction/Sound & Design: Hail Mary by Maureen Selwood; Judges' Citation for Direction: Lily & Jim by Don Hertzfeldt; Director's Citation for Technique: Buckstop by Rhian Hinkley and The Secret Story by Janie Geiser. The Digital Program Awards were as follows: Best Digital Film: Bunny by Christ Wedge; Honorable Mention: The Smell Of Horror by Mitch Butler; Best Character Animation (Student): Letter From The Western Front by Daniel M. Kanemoto; Honorable Mention: Plum by Mui Shokouhi; Judges' Citation for Most Promising Student Animator: Java Noir by Raf Anzovin; Director's Citation: Wanted by Milla Moilanen.
In "From Small Potatoes to SIGGRAPH Smash: My Odyssey" Mitch Butler talks about his film, The Smell Of Horror, in the January 1999 issue of Animation World Magazine.
A QuickTime movie clip and more of Bunny is featured in The AWN 1999 Oscar Showcase.
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Max and His Special Problem.
© Nickelodeon.
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Joyce, Wasson, Zoeller Win Daytime Emmys. On May 15, 1999 the 26th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards were presented in 43 categories during ceremonies held at the Marriott Marquis Hotel, New York City, and the Beverly Hilton Hotel, Beverly Hills. Outstanding Achievement in Animation Emmy Awards were presented to William Joyce, Production Designer for Nelvana's Rolie Polie Olie, Dave Wasson, Production Designer for "Max and His Special Problem," part of Nickelodeon's Oh Yeah! Cartoons series, and Mark Zoeller, Storyboard Artist for DreamWorks' Toonsylvania. The Animation Emmy is a juried award for a single episode of a series or a special, and honors exceptional contributions made by individuals. The Daytime Emmy Awards are presented to daytime television programs broadcast between the hours of 2:00 A.M. and 6:00 P.M. The eligibility period for all Awards was January 1, 1998, through December 31, 1998.
Read Jerry Beck's review of "Max and His Special Problem" in the October 1998 issue of Animation World Magazine.
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Kampung Boy by Frank Saperstein
won a special prize for TV series at Annecy. © 1998 Matinee Entertainment.
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Wendy Tilby Wins At Annecy! Two weeks after winning for best short film at the Cannes Film Festival, Wendy Tilby and Amanda Forbis' short film, When The Day Breaks (The National Film Board of Canada), has won the Grand Prix for best animated short film at Annecy '99, which concluded on Saturday, June 5. The film is about a pig whose world shifts after a car accident kills a stranger (a chicken) on her block. The complete list of award winners is as follows: The special Jury Prize went to Au Bout Du Monde/At The End Of The Earth by Konstantin Bronzit (France); The Jean-Luc Xiberras Prize For The Best First Film went to Chudovische by Alexey Antonov (Russia); awards for Distinction For Script, Backgrounds, Quality of Animation, or a Combination Of The Above Features went to Humdrum by Peter Peake (Great Britain) and Jolly Roger by Mark Baker (Great Britain); a Special Mention For Soundtrack went to Feuerhaus/Firehouse by Bärbel Neubauer (Germany); The Grand Prix For Best Animated Feature went to Kirikou Et La Sorciere/Kirikou And The Sorceress by Michel Ocelot (France, Belgium, Luxembourg); Grand Prix For Best TV Animation Program went to A Viagem/Le Voyage/The Voyage by Christian Boustani (Portugal); Special Prizes For Best TV Series went to Les Cailloux De Tempoire/Stumpytrunk's Pebbles by Frédéric Clémençon and Christophe Barrier (France) and The Buddy System: It's A Comic Strip by Daniel Kramer and Doug Vitarelli (USA); Special Prize For Best TV Series (13-26 mins) went to Kampung Boy by Frank Saperstein (Malaysia/USA); Special Prize For TV Special Up To 52 mins. went to The Bear by Hilary Audus (Great Britain); TV Prize For A Pilot Series Or TV Special went to Capelito de Rodolfo Pastor (Spain); Prize for Educational, Scientific Or Industrial Film went to Le Mal Des Mers/Sea Sick by Greet Boey (Belgium); Prize for Advertising Film went to Festival Leader/Vallodolid by Maarten Koopman (The Netherlands); Prize For The Best Animated Sequence went to Multiculti/Sally Nyolo by Aline Ahond (France); Prizes For Best Student Film went to Gazoon by Romain Villemaine (France), Masks by Piotr Karwas (Germany), and Bouf by Vincent Bierrewaerts (Belgium); the Public's Prize went to Au Bout Du Monde/At The End Of The Earth by Konstantin Bronzit (France); the UNICEF Prize went to Tic Tac Toc, Mines Antipersonnel/Tik Tak Tok, Antipersonnel Land Mines by Gilles Macchia and Paul Gueutal (France); the Children's Jury Prize For TV Films went to Kouzelnem Zvonu/La Cloche Enchantée/The Enchanted Bell by Aurel Klimt (Czech Republic); Children's Jury Prize For Short Fiction Films went to Jolly Roger by Mark Baker (Great Britain); the Fipresci Prize went to When The Day Breaks by Wendy Tilby and Amanda Forbis (Canada); Special Mention for the Fipresci Prize went to Vares Ja Hiired/The Crow And The Mice by Mikk Rand and Priit Tender (Estonia); and the Mike Gribble Prize went to Au Bout Du Monde/At The End Of The Earth de Konstantin Bronzit (France).
Bärbel Neubauer wrote about "The Influence of Sound and Music on Images" in the June 1999 issue of Animation World Magazine; and about her film, ROOTS, in the September 1998 issue of Animation World Magzine in "Roots: An Experiment in Images and Music."
Phillipe Moins reviewed Kirikou And The Sorceress in the May 1999 issue of Animation World Magazine. The article is available in French and in English.
The Bear was featured, with a QuickTime clip, in "The Oscar Short List" in the April 1999 issue of Animation World Magazine.
Jolly Roger was also featured in "The AWN 1999 Oscar Showcase," which includes a QuickTime clip.
Also for a full report on Annecy '99 read Don Duga's "The
Annecy International Animation Film Festival '99" and Christian Davin's
"Annecy's 1999 MIFA: Business is Good, But Changing..."
in this issue.
Note: Readers may contact any Animation World Magazine contributor by sending an e-mail to editor@awn.com.
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