The Academy's Monday Nights With Oscar presents "An Animated Academy Salute To UPA."

Director and Executive Producer Alex Winter will be joined by cast members Ryan Kelley, Galadriel Stineman and Nathan Keyes.

When this year's Golden Globe Awards nominations are announced on Dec. 15 the selections will comprise an enlarged pool of five in the Best Animated Feature category, DEADLINE.COM reports.

Press Release from Chicago Comic & Entertainment Expo

The Art Institute of Vancouver will present ARTimation Media Arts Festival on Monday, Nov. 16, 2009.

The Los Angeles Professional Chapter of ACM SIGGRAPH and the Visual Effects Society present “Battlestar Galactica – Then and Now”.

The VIEW Conference 2009 [http://www.viewconference.it/] is the 10th International Computer Graphics Conference, which started on November 4th and will last until the 7th of November 2009.

Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin will serve as co-hosts of the 82nd Academy Awards, Oscar telecast producers Bill Mechanic and Adam Shankman announced today.

The 52nd International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film has closed with a new audience record: 34,200 visitors saw 330 productions in twelve cinemas, attended the industry events and took part in intensive discussions about the presented works as well as the future of documentary and animated film.

AniMazing Spotlight International Animation Festival is pleased to invite you to join us for our inaugural celebration, a "Weekend of Animated Shorts".

In recognition of the exciting developments in European animated feature films in recent years, the British Animation Awards (BAA) 2010 will feature a special category for Best European Animated Feature.

Game Developers Conference 2010, presented by Think Services, has announced that the call for submissions is open for GDC's suite of Summits, which take place on the first two days of GDC week in San Francisco, March 9th-10th 2010.

Dr. Eric Haseltine, Technology Futurist and formerly with Walt Disney Imagineering, gave a stirring keynote at the VES Production Summit on Saturday at the Ritz Carlton Hotel, Marina del Rey.

To coincide with the release of the Ice Age 3 Dawn of the Dinosaurs Blu-ray disc and DVD, Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment will attempt to break the Guinness World Record for Tallest Ice Sculpture at the opening of the ice skating rink, ICE at Santa Monica.

The initial VES Production Summit on Saturday at the Ritz Carlton Hotel, Marina del Rey, offered plenty of discussion about the changing nature of the industry.

Ricky Gervais has been tapped to host the 67th Annual Golden Globes on Jan. 17, PEOPLE reports.

The programme of the Holland Animation Film Festival 2009 is ready and online! The 13th edition of the festival takes place from 4 - 8 November in Utrecht.

VES is now accepting online submissions for the 8th Annual VES Awards Show on February 28, 2010 at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza Hotel in Beverly Hills.

Joe Rohde, Executive Designer and Senior Vice President of Walt Disney Imagineering, is the 3rd Featured Speaker for SIGGRAPH Asia 2009.

SMPTE is making 3-D a main focus at its annual conference on Oct. 27-29 at the Hollywood Renaissance Hotel in Hollywood, Calif.