Animation World News - Awards
Annie Awards. See
our coverage of the ASIFA-Hollywood's 25th
annual Annie Awards in this issue.
Liepzig. The 40th International Leipzig Festival for Documentary
and Animated Film took place October 28-November 2 in Leipzig, Germany.
An international jury selected three main winners in the animated films
and videos category:
The Golden Dove Award (cash prize DM6,000): Roshdestwo by Mikhail
Aldashin (Russia).
The Silver Dove Award (cash prize DM4,000): Pink Doll by Walentin
Olschwang (Russia).
Prize of Sparkasse Leipzig (cash prize DM3,000): How Wings are Attached
to the Backs of Angels by Craig Welch (Canada).
Mephisto 97, Audience Prize, decided by audience votes: Flatworld by
Daniel Greaves (Great Britain)
Daniel Greaves' Flatworld
won the audience prize
at the International Leipzig Festival for Documentary
and Animated Film. © Tandem Films.
Honorary Mention: The Mermaid by Alexander
Petrov (Russia).
Cable Ace Nominees and Winners. The nominees for the 19th Annual
National CableACE Awards were announced in October, and the winners were
announced in a non-televised ceremony on November 14.
In the Craft and International Categories, winners include one animated
production. In the category of Writing in a Children's Special or Series,
Rugrats writers Jon Cooksey, Ali Marie Matheson, J. David Stern,
Mark Palmer and David N. Weiss were recognized for their episode, "Mother's
Day" (Nickelodeon).
Out of 84 categories, 3 included animated productions as nominees. The
winners and nominees are:
Children's Special or Series - 8 and Younger: The winner is HBO's Mother
Goose: A Rappin' and Rhymin' Special..
Among the other animated nominees were Nickelodeon's Blues Clues,
and Nickelodeon's Little Bear.
Animated Programming Special or Series: The winner is Comedy Central's
South Park.
Additional nominees included Comedy Central's Dr. Katz: Professional
Therapist, Cartoon Network's Johnny Bravo, Nickelodeon's Kablam!,
and Cartoon Network's Steven Spielberg Presents Freakazoid!
Fictional Short-Form Programming Special or Series: The winner is Lifetime
Women's Festival: Undertaker, a live-action special from Lifetime,
but animated nominees for this category included Nickelodeon's The Girl
With Her Head Coming Off, and Nickelodeon's Short Films by Short
People: The Adventures of Sam Digital in the 21st Century.
Please note that some categories may also contain live-action nominees,
which were not listed here.
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