Awards

Toy Story 2 Grabs The Globe. The Hollywood Foreign Press Association's Golden Globes Awards shocked the world by naming Toy Story 2 the best comedy or musical picture of 1999. The Woody and Buzz Lightyear feature beat out heavy-weight live-action films like: favored best flick, Being John Malkovich; Robert DeNiro and Billy Crystal's Analyze This; the Andy Kaufman bio-pic, Man On The Moon; and mega-hit Julia Roberts-vehicle, Notting Hill. However, even though Toy Story 2 took home the honors, the television broadcast producers didn't give the toon titans any respect. When accepting the award, producers, Helene Plotkin and Karen Robert Jackson, where given the musical hook on their acceptance speeches. They were the only recipients to have their speech interrupted by the musical queue to cut their thanks short. In less surprising news, the song "You'll Be In My Heart" by Phil Collins from Disney's Tarzan won the best original song award. The 57th annual awards honors excellence in film and television each year. This year's television broadcast averaged 21.3 million viewers, down 3 million from last year according to preliminary figures from Nielsen Media Research. In the U.S., the event aired on NBC at 8 pm Sunday, January 23, 2000.

Imagina Makes Toy Story 2 Grand. Walt Disney and Pixar have yet another trophy on their mantle, this time it's the grand prix at Imagina 2000. The computer conference and festival, which started in Monaco on January 31 and then continued in Paris on February 2, finishing Friday, February 4, is often referred to as the European equivalent to SIGGRAPH. The events in Monaco included the "Prix Pixel-INA" awards competition, the Innovation Space, and various conferences and panel discussions such as "2D/3D Animation," a discussion moderated by AWN; "Special Effects: Invisible or Explosive;" "From Game Design to Interactive Filming;" "From Web Pages to Web Programs;" and more. Panel participants represented leading companies such as Digital Domain, Duboi, Kleiser-Walzack, Silicon Graphics, Sony Pictures Imageworks, Tippet Studio, Walt Disney Feature Animation, and ZA Productions. A new feature at Imagina 2000 was FIFI (Festival International du Film de l'Internet), a competition for animation created specifically for the Internet. FIFI is one of the first festivals dedicated to films made for the Web. The theme of the competition was "Love in the Year 2000." Below is a complete list of winners as provided by Imagina.

Grand Prix Imagina 2000
Toy Story 2; directed by John Lasseter; produced by Walt Disney and Pixar Animation Studios.

Prix Pixel-Ina 3D Relief
Voyage Inside The Cell; directed by Laurent Larsonneur; and produced by Digital Studio SA.

Prix Pixel-INA Best Light
Le Puits; directed by Jérôme Boulbes; and produced by Lardux Films.

Prix Pixel-Ina Best Virtual Character
Jersey; directed by Joe Alter; and produced by Joe Alter Inc.

Prix Pixel-INA Research
Invisible Ocean; directed by François Garnier; and produced by Ex Machina.

Prix Media Internet
Bechamel.com directed by Guillaume Joire, Sophie Estival, Phong, Rocco, Laurent Laborie & Dessimira Manolova.

With graphics by 3D Artists and produced by Black Dog, Chris Cunningham's Bjork video "All Is Full Of Love" had to settle for second prize. Courtesy of Imagina 2000.

Prix Pixel-INA Best Script:
First Prize: Alex Gopher "The Child;" directed by Antoine Bardou-Jacquet; and produced by Le Village.

Second Prize: Björk "All is Full of Love;" directed by Chris Cunningham; and produced by Black Dog.

Third Prize: Chemical Brothers "Let Forever Be;" directed by Big TV & Michel Gondry; and produced by Partizan & Virgin.

The Matrix takes top prize for special effects.© Warner Bros. No other uses are permitted without the prior written consent of owner. Use of the material in violation of the foregoing may result in civil and/or criminal penalties.

Prix Pixel-INA Special Effects:
First Prize: The Matrix; directed by Andy & Larry Wachowski; and produced by MVFX.

Second Prize: Walking With Dinosaurs; directed by Mike Milne; and produced by FrameStore.

Third Prize: Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Menace; directed by George Lucas; and produced by Industrial Light & Magic.

Prix Pixel-INA Advertising:
First Prize: Alaris "Martiens;" directed by Victor Garcia; and produced by Daiquiri Digital Pictures & Lee Films.

Second Prize: Levi's "Invisible Man;" directed by Michael Bay; and produced by TBWA/Chiat-Day & Propaganda Films/Bay Films.

Third Prize: Gervais Extréme "La Télévision;" directed by Enda McCallion; and produced by Movie Box & Publicis.

Prix Pixel-INA Schools & Universities:
First Prize: Bsss; directed by Felix Gönnert; and produced at Hochschule Für Film und Fernsehen.

Second Prize: Stationen; directed by Christian Sawade-Meyer; and produced at FH Hannover.

Third Prize: Headless; directed by Wojtek Wawszczyk; and produced at Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg.

Paf Le Moustique; directed by Jean-François Bourrel; computer graphics by Jérôme Calvet; and produced by Jean-François Bourrel & Jérôme Calvet. Courtesy of Imagina 2000.

Prix Pixel-INA Fiction:
First Prize: Paf Le Moustique; directed by Jean-François Bourrel & Jérôme Calvet; and produced by Jean-François Bourrel & Jérôme Calvet.

Second Prize: Le Puits; directed by Jérôme Boulbes; and produced by Lardux Films.

Third Prize: Sentinelles; directed by Guy Lampron; and produced by Pygmée Productions.

Prix Pixel-INA Sciences:
First Prize: Le Relief De L'invisible (II); directed by Pierre Oscar Levy, Jean-Michel Sanchez & Gabriel Turkieh; and produced by Alto Media, Cite Des Sciences, Ex Nihilo & Aune Production.

Second Prize: Fiat Lux; directed and produced by Paul Debevec.

Third Prize: The Palace Of Soviets; directed by Takehiko Nagakura & Shinsuke Baba; and produced by MIT.

Protest; directed by Steve Katz; computer graphics by Pitch Inc.'s Russel Debe; and produced by Pitch Inc. Courtesy of Imagina 2000.

Prix Pixel Art Special Jury Prize:
First Prize: Protest; directed by Steve Katz; and produced by Pitch Inc.

Second Prize: Faux Plafond; directed by François Vogel; and produced by Mikros Image.

Third Prize: Captives "2nd Mouvement;" directed by Nicole et Norbet Corsino; and produced by Danse 34 Production, Canal+, CNC & Societe Animare.

Prix SCAM 3D
Carcasses Et Crustacés; directed by Zoltan Horvath; and produced by Alda Studio.

Prix SCAM 3D New Talent
A Escala Do Tempo; directed by Nuno Teixeira-Maya; and produced by Centre National De La Bande Dessinee Et De L'image.

Prix SACD
Homo; directed by Cesar Cabanas; and produced by Kamikaze.

253 B; directed by Carlos Eduardo Nogueira; computer graphics by Eduardo Nogueira; and produced by Universidade de Sao Paulo. Courtesy of Imagina 2000.

Prix Imagina FIFI
First Prize: 253 B; directed by Carlos Eduardo Nogueira; and produced by Universidade de Sao Paulo.

Second Prize: Edison Patent N· 2,238,998; directed by Minh Nguyen; and produced by FH Wiesbaden.

Third Prize: Alternative Way Of Life; directed by Yann Bassani; and produced by Ecole Superieure De L'image De Poitiers.

Fourth Prize: Trilogie; directed and produced by Miguel Almiron.

Fifth Prize: Mouse; directed by Antoine Charreyron, Benoît Martinez & Quentin Reyre; and produced by Supinfo.com.

Sixth Prize: Lucie; directed by Nicolas DeContes, Jérôme Lesage, Laurent Makowski & Renaud Roulet; and produced by Supinfo.com.

Read Jeff Kleiser's reaction to Imagina 2000 in this issue!

Oscar Nominations Announced. When the day broke on February 15, 2000, an old man wasn't humdrum about joining a list of Oscar nominees that included three misses and my grandmother who irons shirts! The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences has released its list of nominations for this year's Oscar competition. In the category of animated short films the nominees are: Aardman Animations' Peter Peaks' Humdrum; Torril Cove's My Grandmother Ironed The King's Shirts; Alexander Petrov's oil paint on glass in IMAX format The Old Man And The Sea; Paul Driessen's enigmatic 3 Misses; and Wendy Tilby and Amanda Forbis' When The Day Breaks, which has won first place at both the Annecy and Cannes film festivals. The other five films that were shortlisted but

Oscar Moore had both his films The Indescribable Nth and The Phox, the Box and the Lox shortlisted for the Academy Award, but unfortunately didn't receive a nomination.

not nominated are: Character Builders' Oscar Moore has two short listed films with The Indescribable Nth and The Phox, the Box and the Lox, which screened earlier this year with feature Dudley Do-Right; Oscar Grillo's Monsieur Pett; Orly Yadin and Sylvie Bringas' Holocaust drama, Silence; and Eugene Federinko and Rose Newlove's Village Of Idiots. Visual effects nominations went to Imagina first prize winner The Matrix; the second highest grossing film in the history of the world Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Menace; and Sony's hit flick Stuart Little. In the often toon friendly category of best original song the animated nominees are "Blame Canada" from South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut, "When She Loved Me" from Toy Story 2 and "You'll Be In My Heart" from Tarzan. Special effects also appear in over fifty percent of the best picture nominees this year with nods going to American Beauty, The Green Mile and The Sixth Sense. The 72nd annual Academy Awards will be broadcast live on ABC March 26, 2000.

Now that you know the animated short nominees, you can watch clips, hear from the filmmakers, and then vote for your favorite, by visiting Animation World Network's Third Annual Oscar Showcase!