ANIMATION WORLD MAGAZINE - ISSUE 3.9 - December 1998


Awards

Castle Crowns Geri's Game. The Castelli Animati (Animated Castles) International Animated Film Festival held its second edition, October 15 - 17, 1998 in Rome, Italy. The prize winners were selected by an international jury: painter Carla Accardi (Italy), cartoonist and director Oscar Grillo (Argentina), director Daniele Luchetti (Italy), cartoonist and director Sergio Staino and director Pal Toth (Hungary).
Grand Prize and Audience Prize: Geri's Game by Jan Pinkava (U.S.A.).
First Film Prize: Sientje by Christa Moesker (Netherlands).
Special Jury Prize: Everybody's Pregnant by Debra Solomon (U.S.A.).

ASIFA Annie Awards To Be Televised! For the first time in the 26-year history of the Annie Awards, the show will be nationally televised. Fox Family Channel will air the presentation honoring the best of the animation industry at a yet-to-be-announced date in December. Presenters for this year's show include voice artists Nancy Cartwright (Bart Simpson) and the legendary June Foray, as well as actress T'keyah Krystal Keymaa (Cosby, In Living Color, Waynehead).

Leipzig Festival Results. Five thousand spectators attended the animation programs during the five day 41st annual Leipzig International Festival for Documentary and Animated Film which wrapped up on October 31 in Leipzig Germany. The prize for Outstanding Film went to Underground by Matti Kütt (Estonia), and the Audience Prize went to Hoelenangst by Benjamin Quabeck (Germany). For more information about next year's festival, email dock-leipzig@t-online.de.

Sitges Selects Un Jour. The Sitges Fantasy Film Festival wrapped up on October 16 in Barcelona, Spain. The international jury for the Animat animation festival within a festival was comprised of Jerry Beck (U.S.A.), Mercedes Gaspar (Spain) and Giorgio Valentini (Italy). They selected Un Jour by Marie Paccou (France) as Best Film, and gave an Honorable Mention to Glassy Ocean by Shigeru Tamura (Japan). In the main festival, Bill Plympton's film, More Sex & Violence, won the Best Short Film award.

Visit the December 1997 issue of Animation World Magazine to read Sitges: Horror and Animation in Barcelona, a review of last year's Sitges festival, by Bill Plympton.

Mulan swept the Annies taking home one-third of all the awards. © Disney. All Rights Reserved.

Disney And Warners Dominate The Annies. The 26th annual Annie Awards ceremony, ASIFA-Hollywood's honoring of the best in animation, took place Friday, November 13, at the historic Alex Theatre in Glendale, California. Disney's Mulan finished at the top of the pack winning ten out of the thirty categories, while Warner Bros. Television Animation was honored with six Annies. The awards, hosted by comedian Jay Thomas, will be televised on the Fox Family Channel sometime in December. The complete list of winners is as follows:

Outstanding Achievement Awards

Animated Short Subject:
Geri's Game, Pixar Animation Studios.

Animated Interactive Production:
The Curse of Monkey Island, LucasArts Entertainment Company LLC.

Animated Television Commercial:
Flares/Big Pockets, Old Navy, Spumco, Inc.

Animated Interstitial, Promotional Production or Title Sequence:
Late Night Black and White, Cartoon Network, Ink Biscuits.

Animated Daytime Television Program:
The New Batman/Superman Adventures, Warner Bros. Television Animation.

Animated Primetime or Late Night Television Program:
The Simpsons, Gracie Films in association with 20th Century Fox Television.

Animated Home Video Production:
Batman & Mr. Freeze: SubZero, Warner Bros. Animation.

Animated Theatrical Feature:
Mulan, Walt Disney Feature Animation.

Character Animation:
Ruben Aquino, Mulan, Walt Disney Feature Animation.

Effects Animation:
David Tidgwell, Mulan, Walt Disney Feature Animation.

Production Design in an Animated Television Production:
Carlos Ramos, "ChalkZone," Oh Yeah! Cartoons, Nickelodeon Animation Studio.

Production Design in an Animated Feature Production:
Hans Bacher, Mulan, Walt Disney Feature Animation.

Storyboarding in an Animated Television Production:
Barry Caldwell, "Brain Acres," Steven Spielberg Presents Pinky & The Brain, Warner Bros. Television Animation.

Storyboarding in an Animated Feature Production:
Christopher Sanders, Mulan, Walt Disney Feature Animation.

Writing in an Animated Television Production:
Charles M. Howell IV, Earl Kress and John Ludin, "The Family That Poits Together Narfs Together," Steven Spielberg Presents Pinky & The Brain, Warner Bros. Television Animation.

Writing in an Animated Feature Production:
Rita Hsiao, Christopher Sanders, Philip LaZebnik, Raymond Singer, and Eugenia Bostwick-Singer, Mulan, Walt Disney Feature Animation.

Voice Acting by a Male Performer in an Animated Television Production:
Maurice LaMarche, as the voice of The Brain, Steven Spielberg Presents Pinky & The Brain, Warner Bros. Television Animation.

Voice Acting by a Male Performer in an Animated Feature Production:
Hank Azaria, as the voice of Bartok, Anastasia, Fox Animation Studios.

Voice Acting by a Female Performer in an Animated Television Production:
June Foray, as the voice of Granny, The Sylvester & Tweety Mysteries, Warner Bros. Television Animation.

Voice Acting by a Female Performer in an Animated Feature Production:
Ming-Na Wen, as the voice of Mulan, Mulan, Walt Disney Feature Animation.

Music in an Animated Television Production:
Alf Clausen (Music) and Ken Keeler (Lyrics), You're Checkin' In (A Musical Tribute to the Betty Ford Center) (Song), "The City of New York vs. Homer Simpson," The Simpsons, Gracie Films in association with 20th Century Fox Television.

Music in an Animated Feature Production:
Matthew Wilder and David Zippel (Songs), Jerry Goldsmith (Score), Mulan, Walt Disney Feature Animation.

Directing in an Animated Television Production:
Jim Reardon, "Trash of the Titans," The Simpsons, Film Roman, Inc. in association with 20th Century Fox Television.

Directing in an Animated Feature Production:
Barry Cook and Tony Bancroft, Mulan, Walt Disney Feature Animation.

Producing in an Animated Television Production:
Vincent Davis, Cow and Chicken, Hanna-Barbera Cartoons.

Producing in an Animated Feature Production:
Pam Coats, Mulan, Walt Disney Feature Animation.

Technical Achievement in the Field of Animation:
Digital Domain Inc., Titanic.

June Foray Award (Significant and Benevolent Impact):
Antran Manoogian

Winsor McCay Award (Lifetime Achievement) Recipients:

Eyvind Earle - Known today for his fine art paintings, Earle worked for the Walt Disney Studios as background artist, color stylist and production designer for such classic films as Lady and the Tramp and Sleeping Beauty. Later he created art films of his own.

Hayao Miyazaki - One of the world's most influential animation filmmakers, Miyazaki is the director of many Japanese features, including My Neighbor Totoro, Kiki's Delivery Service, and Princess Mononoke, the highest-grossing film ever released in Japan.

Ernie Pintoff - A veteran animation teacher, director and producer of both theatrical shorts (including the Oscar-winning The Critic ) and commercials, Pintoff helped to define a new look for animation in the 1950s through his work at UPA and Terrytoons.

Certificate of Merit Recipients:
Max Howard
B. Paul Husband
Media City Center
Jean Ann Wright


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