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ANIMATION WORLD MAGAZINE - ISSUE 5.02 - MAY 2000
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Awards
The Old Man And His Oscar. At the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences Oscar Awards on Sunday, March 26, 2000, The Old Man And The Sea by Alexander Petrov won for best animated short film. "Having been nominated twice before, now I can look at this award without irony," Petrov said. "I'm very happy to have received the Oscar as it has given The Old Man And The Sea and my earlier films recognition. And like any artist I wanted to be first. I'm happy that the Academy has the category of animated short film, because it gives a chance to independent artists to show their work. This said, I think it's nonsense to dwell on the subject of awards. What is most important is that you do what you want to do for artistic expression and not worry about the prizes." Petrov’s Imax epic beat out Annecy and Cannes winner When The Day Breaks; Peter Peaks' humorous Humdrum; Torril Cove's first animated film My Grandmother Ironed The King's Shirts; and Paul Driessen's enigmatic 3 Misses for the Oscar. Even though Trey Parker and Matt Stone were decked out in lovely evening gowns, the song "Blame Canada" from their movie South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut was beaten by Phil Collins’ Tarzan tune "You’ll Be In My Heart." The speculation ended on Sunday as to what the producers of the ceremony were going to do with the curse-word laden song from Trey Parker and co-writer Marc Shaiman. With a chorus line behind him, comic cut-up Robin Williams belted out "bitch" and "fart" to the primetime audience, but turned to the gasping dancers to muffle the censors’ favorite f-word. The whole dance number was a fun and humorous way of handling the questionable lyrics. Another big winner was the special effects spectacle The Matrix, which took home four awards including best special effects beating out Stuart Little and The Phantom Menance. Other awards won by the sci-fi hit were best sound, best sound effects editing and best film editing. The Academy also recognized the amazing talent of Marc Davis in the "In Mermoriam" section of the broadcast. The animator behind such classics as Bambi died on January 12, 2000. The Scene At Stuttgart. The Stuttgart International Festival of Animated Film was celebrated March 16-21, marking its 20th year in existence. The biannual festival presented a wide ranging programme, giving prizes worth 142,000 German marks (70,000 euros or US dollars) and enjoying a growth of 25% in the number of spectators. With approximately 42,000 spectators and some 500 films in the programme, Stuttgart calls itself, "The second largest animated film event world wide," a definition which might well be true. A new competition category this year was for feature animations. The other three competition categories are: short films, children´s films and school films. The largest prize, worth 40,000 German marks (20,000 euros or US dollars) to be directed toward making a new film, was given to Daniel Nocke, for his dialog-based puppet animation Die Trösterkrise (Comforter´S Crises). The Audience Prize of 25,000 German marks went to Stefan Eling's beer drinking film Tony’s Playstation. The two 15,000 German mark prizes for the International Competition went to Andrej Ushakov for his The Socks Of The Big City and Jochen Kuhn for his Neulich 1 (Recently 1). Portugal's Jose Miguel Ribeiro received a 20,000 mark prize for his clay animation A Suspeita (The Suspect). The 2,000 mark prize for the Funniest Film went to Konstantin Bronzit for his At The Ends Of The Earth. Danish director Jannik Hastrup took the 10,000 mark prize for the Best Feature Film with his intelligent Hans Christian Andersen And The Long Shadow. Siri Melchior took the Student Film Prize of 5,000 marks with her Passport. Norwegian Pjotr Sapegin received the Children´s Film Prize of 10,000 marks with his folk tale Saltkverner (Salt Mill). |
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