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Imagen Ent. Industry Awards Announces 2006 Nominees

DORA THE EXPLORER and its spin-off series, GO, DIEGO GO, are amongst the 21st Annual Imagen Awards' 2006 Nominees announced June 29, 2006 by Lorenzo Lamas at the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Conference Center in North Hollywood, California. The Imagen Awards Gala is scheduled for Aug. 18 at the Beverly Hilton Hotel.

Imagen was established in 1985 to encourage and recognize the positive portrayal of Latinos in all media, and to increase Latino representation at all levels of the entertainment industry.

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William Shatner to Host Canadian Gaming & Animation Awards

William Shatner will host the first year of the Canadian Awards for the Electronic and Animated Arts (CAEAA 2006) on Sept. 14, 2006, in Vancouver. Producers of the show say Canada is long overdue according to most animation and videogaming professionals, as Canada has earned worldwide recognition as a leader in videogame development and animation.

Awards Events

MI6 Conference and Awards

By Guest (not verified) | Tuesday, June 27, 2006 at 11:00am
Begins: June 27, 2006

The inaugural MI6 Conference and Awards is a conference for marketing, promotion and design professionals in the gaming and interactive media. MI6 is a non-profit initiative organized to increase your effectiveness and recognize your achievements, and is the foremost source for ideas and information for those who want to win in the new digital marketplace. The event features two days of workshops and sessions, awards in more than 50 categories and a showcase of state-of-the-art campaigns, spots, trailers and events. For more information, visit www.mi6conference.com.

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Architectural 3D Awards Deadline Soon!

2006 Architectural 3D Awards Competition Boston, Massachusetts, USAAugust 4, 2006Deadline: June 23, 2006

Following up on last year's huge success, CGarchitect.com is hosting the 3rd annual Architectural 3D Awards to be awarded at this year's VisMasters Design Visualization Conference. The Awards Competition is open to everyone in the Architectural Visualization industry to highlight the best imagery and animations done in 2005/2006.

Animation Headline News

aniBOOM Launches Online Animation Competition with $50,000 in Prizes

Interactive animation company aniBOOM announced the First aniBOOM Awards. Fans of animation throughout the world will be able to vote on their favorite submissions from professional and independent participants alike and help determine the winners of $50,000 in prize money.

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LAIKA/house Ups Roland Gauthier to CG Manager

Roland Gauthier will now serve as CG manager for LAIKA/house division. He will oversee LAIKA/houses CG animation group for all LAIKA/house commercial projects. The CG department has successfully created memorable commercials for various commercial clients.

Roland brings great expertise and enthusiasm to this key role, remarked Lourri Hammack, president/exec producer LAIKA/house. We are very excited for him to lead our phenomenally talented CG team.

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Sci-Tech Aps in the Mail for 79th Academy Awards

Officially launching the 79th Academy Awards season, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is mailing more than 850 application request forms to individuals and companies representing the scientific and technical community in the U.S. and abroad in the next few days.

Mainframe Headline News

Mainframe Ent. Scores 2006 MTV Movie Awards Animation

Mainframe Ent. will create original logos, branding, opening and closing segments, and introductions for upcoming 2006 MTV MOVIE AWARDS broadcast, which air June 8 on MTV. The studio will blend elements of 2D and 3D animation to create stylized animated sequences for the awards show. The studio contributed branding to the awards program last year after it launched a full service creative services division.

Digital Headline News

Digital Domain Promotes Molly Hansen to VP

Molly Hansen has added the title of vp to her existing portfolio as the general counsel and head of business affairs of Digital Domain, the Academy Award-winning full-service digital studio and production company that was acquired last week by South Florida-based Wyndcrest Holdings Llc. Director Michael Bay is one of the principals and co-chairs the Digital Domain board with John Textor.

Animation Headline News

Being Ian Wins Top Toon at Leo Awards

The 8th annual Leo Awards took place on May 12-13, 2006, at the Westin Bayshore Vancouver. The Leo Awards are where the best film and television talent and programs in British Columbia are honored for their work.

In animation, the top winner was Studio Bs BEING IAN, which took home the prize for Best Animation Program or Series. Additionally, Mark Shirra of the Vancouver Film School won Best Student Production for his animated short, A GREAT BIG ROBOT FROM OUTER SPACE ATE MY HOMEWORK.

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Jungle Beat Wins at Sprockets

The 9th annual Sprockets Toronto International Film Festival for Children announced its awards at the George Vari Engineering and Computing Centre at Ryerson University. Five awards were decided upon by childrens juries (three designated for feature films, two for shorts), two audience awards were determined by festivalgoers, four awards for Jump Cuts Young Filmmakers Showcase were decided by a jury of film industry professionals and one Students Choice Award was determined by high school students attending the festival.

Sound Headline News

Jakers! and The Batman Double Daytime Emmy Winners

JAKERS! THE ADVENTURES OF PIGGLEY WINKS and THE BATMAN were the big animation winners, with two Emmys each, as the National Television Academy presented the 33rd Annual Creative Craft Daytime Emmy Awards on Saturday, April 22, 2006, during simultaneous black-tie ceremonies held at the Marriott Marquis Hotel in New York City and the Grand Ballroom at Hollywood and Highland in Los Angeles. Outstanding Children's Animated Program was awarded to JAKERS!

Festival Events

39th Annual WorldFest-Houston

By Guest (not verified) | Friday, April 21, 2006 at 11:00am
Begins: April 21, 2006

Founded in August 1961, WorldFest is the third oldest competitive International film festival in North America. It gave first honors and awards to Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, Randall Kleiser, Ridley Scott, Ang Lee, The Coen Brothers, Robert Rodriguez and many more. It screens 50-60 new features and around 100 new shorts, in 35mm and digital video DLP projection in a large commercial theater complex. The event provides great networking as more than 450 international filmmakers attend, and the general audience exceeds 25,000 at the 10-day event.

Television Headline News

Watch The TV Academy College Television Awards Online

Special coverage of the College Television Awards Gala, awarded by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, and a sample of the winning works are now available via mtvU.com. To watch, go to www.mtvu.com/on_mtvu/college_television_awards. This is the fist time the ceremony has ever been televised or the films been made available for viewing online.

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South Park & Battlestar Galactica Win Peabody Awards

The winners of the 65th Annual Peabody Awards were announced by the University of Georgia's Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication. The winners, chosen by the Peabody board as the best in electronic media for 2005, were named in a ceremony in the Peabody Gallery on the University of Georgia Campus.

The awards were presented June 5, 2006, at a luncheon at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City. Jon Stewart, anchor of Comedy Central`s two-time Peabody Award winner, THE DAILY SHOW WITH JON STEWART, was the master of ceremonies.

Animation Events

Cartoons on the Bay 2006

By Guest (not verified) | Wednesday, April 5, 2006 at 11:00am
Begins: April 5, 2006

Cartoons on the Bay is an international event with awards, workshops, lectures, TV and theatrical previews, and events centering on the ever-changing world of television animation. The Pulcinella Awards Competition is open to all products in animation for television and the Internet, including pilots of series. The Competition is also open to short films.

Awards Events

Matrix Awards 2006

By Guest (not verified) | Monday, April 3, 2006 at 11:00am
Begins: April 3, 2006

New York Women in Communications (NYWICI) will honor Geena Davis and Candace Bushnell, among others, for its 2006 Matrix Awards. The ceremony, sponsored by the Oxygen Network, will be emceed by Ellen DeGeneres. The 2006 Matrix Awards event will take place at a luncheon in the Waldorf-Astoria.

Advertising Events

2006 Internet Advertising Competition (IAC) Awards

By Guest (not verified) | Friday, March 31, 2006 at 11:00am
Begins: March 31, 2006

The Web Marketing Association announces the launch of its fourth annual Internet Advertising Competition (IAC) Awards. The IAC Awards is the first and only industry-based advertising award competition dedicated exclusively to online advertising. The competition website is located at www.iacaward.org and the deadline for entry is Jan. 31, 2006.

2005 Best of Show Awards were awarded in each of the online medium categories. Last year's winners include: EVB, Inc., TMX Communications, she communications (Hong Kong), Power Design, Organic, Inc., i33 Communications, and Agency.com.

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MAAC Animators Win FICCI Awards

A team of young animators from Maya Academy of Advanced Cinematics Ltd. (MAAC), one of India's leading animation and visual effects training academies, won two awards at the FICCI BAF Awards 2006 in Mumbai, reports THE TIMES OF INDIA.

MAAC garnered best student animation film social welfare award for TAKES YOU HIGHER?, which dealt with anti-smoking, and best visual effects in a motion picture award for Ketan Mehta's MANGAL PANDEY THE RISING.

Animation Events

FICCI BAF Awards 2006

By Guest (not verified) | Wednesday, March 22, 2006 at 11:00am
Begins: March 22, 2006

The Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) hosts an International Animation Festival. This year it will have 14 professional categories, two student categories and Special Jury awards. In addition to Animation & Gaming, it has also introduced Visual Effects. For more information, visit www.ficci-frames.com.

Television Headline News

Chris Hinton’s CNote Wins Genie Awards

The Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television has announced the winners of the 26th Annual Genie Awards, celebrating excellence in Canadian cinema. Outside of the live-action film C.R.A.Z.Y. snatching up 11 awards, Chris Hinton and Michael Fukushimas CNOTE won for best animated short.

For more information on the Genie Awards, visit www.genieawards.ca.

Television Headline News

Melissa Rivers To Emcee TV Academy’s College TV Awards

Melissa Rivers, host of TV Guide Channel's event programming, will emcee the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Foundations 27th Annual College Television Awards at 7:00 pm on March 19, 2006, at the invitation-only College Television Awards Gala at the Culver Studios. The winning entries will be showcased at the annual College Television Awards Festival on March 20 at 7:30 pm at the Television Academys Leonard H. Goldenson Theatre in North Hollywood, which is open to the public.

Production Headline News

Corpse Bride Upsets at British Animation Awards

CORPSE BRIDE upset favorite WALLACE & GROMIT: THE CURSE OF THE WERE-RABBIT and THE TRIPLETS OF BELLEVILLE to win Best European Animated Feature at this years British Animation Awards hosted by the comedian Jeremy Hardy and held at the Shaw Theatre in London. Aardmans BBC-3 special ANGRY KID: WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE walked off with the Best TV Special award and Hat Trick and Decodes BROMWELL HIGH Baby Boom won the Best Comedy Award.

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Dora Wins Top Toy Brand at T.O.T.Y. Awards

The Toy Industry Association kicked off the 103rd American International Toy Fair with the sixth annual T.O.T.Y. (Toy Of The Year) Awards. The Feb. 11, 2006, ceremony was attended by almost 700 industry leaders and innovators. The T.O.T.Y. Awards (pronounced Toh-Tee) are designed to salute the creativity, success and playful spirit of the toy industry by honoring the best toys developed by the international toy industry for North American consumers.

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