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41st Annie Awards ...
The 41st Annual Annie Awards honoring excellence in the field of animation of 2013 were held on February 1, 2014 at the University of California, Los Angeles's Royce Hall in Los Angeles, California, presenting in 35 categories. On December 2, 2013, the nominations for Annie Awards were announced. Production nominees Individual achievement categories Awards References External links * Annie Awards 2014at Internet Movie Database {{DEFAULTSORT:Annie Awards 2013 2013 2013 film awards Annie Annie Annie may refer to: People and fictional characters * Annie (given name), a given name and a list of people and fictional characters with the name * Annie (actress) (born 1975), Indian actress * Annie (singer) (born 1977), Norwegian singer The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Royce Hall
Royce Hall is a building on the campus of the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Designed by the Los Angeles firm of Allison & Allison (James Edward Allison, 1870–1955, and his brother David Clark Allison, 1881–1962) and completed in 1929, it is one of the four original buildings on UCLA's Westwood campus and has come to be the defining image of the university. The brick and tile building is in the Lombard Romanesque style, and once functioned as the main classroom facility of the university and symbolized its academic and cultural aspirations. Today, the twin-towered front remains the best known UCLA landmark. The 1800-seat auditorium was designed for speech acoustics and not for music; by 1982 it emerged from successive remodelings as a regionally important concert hall and main performing arts facility of the university. Named after Josiah Royce, a California-born philosopher who received his bachelor's degree from UC Berkeley in 1875, the building's exterior is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ernest & Celestine
''Ernest & Celestine'' (french: Ernest et Célestine) is a 2012 animated comedy drama film directed by Stéphane Aubier, Vincent Patar and Benjamin Renner. The film is based on a series of children's books of the same name published by the Belgian author and illustrator Gabrielle Vincent. The film was selected to be screened in the Directors' Fortnight section at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival, as part of the TIFF Kids programme at the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival and at the 2013 Hong Kong International Film Festival. It was selected for the grand competition at feature film edition of the 2013 World festival of animated film Animafest Zagreb and was screened as the opening film. The film was released in the United States in 2013 by GKIDS. There is also an English dub that was released on 28 February 2014, with the voices of Forest Whitaker Forest Steven Whitaker (born July 15, 1961) is an American actor. He is the recipient of various accolades, including an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Film Board Of Canada
The National Film Board of Canada (NFB; french: Office national du film du Canada (ONF)) is Canada's public film and digital media producer and distributor. An agency of the Government of Canada, the NFB produces and distributes documentary films, animation, web documentaries, and alternative dramas. In total, the NFB has produced over 13,000 productions since its inception, which have won over 5,000 awards. The NFB reports to the Parliament of Canada through the Minister of Canadian Heritage. It has bilingual production programs and branches in English and French, including multicultural-related documentaries. History Canadian Government Motion Picture Bureau The Exhibits and Publicity Bureau was founded on 19 September 1918, and was reorganized into the Canadian Government Motion Picture Bureau in 1923. The organization's budget stagnated and declined during the Great Depression. Frank Badgley, who served as the bureau's director from 1927 to 1941, stated that the bure ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gloria Victoria
''Gloria Victoria'' is a 2013 3-D anti-war animated short by Theodore Ushev, produced in Montreal by the National Film Board of Canada (NFB). A film without words set to the music of Shostakovich's ''Leningrad Symphony'', ''Victoria Gloria ''is final film in a trilogy of NFB animated shorts by Ushev on art, ideology and power, following ''Tower Bawher'' (2005) and ''Drux Flux'' (2008). Style ''Gloria Victoria'' uses mixed media techniques to create images that evoke bloody battlefields and the horrors of war, with imagery of combat and massacres from the bombing of Dresden in World War II to Guernica, from the Spanish Civil War to ''Star Wars'', in a style inspired by expressionism, constructivism, cubism as well as surrealism. Ushev has stated that the film is "less geometric" in its animation than his previous works and that he sought to flatten the 3-D effect as the film progressed towards its climax, so as to convey the emotion of a human being at war. The seven-minute film t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Get A Horse!
''Get a Horse!'' is a 2013 American animated comedy short film produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios and directed by Lauren MacMullan. Combining black-and-white traditional animation, hand-drawn animation and color computer animation, the short features the characters of the late 1920s ''Mickey Mouse (film series), Mickey Mouse'' cartoons. The film features archival recordings of Walt Disney in his posthumous role as Mickey Mouse. ("Goodbye, goodbye, little feller!" is an uncredited line by Jimmy MacDonald (sound effects artist), Jimmy MacDonald sourced from an archival recording.) Disney's voice is also heard as Minnie Mouse in one instance (crying out "Help! Help! Help!"), though he is uncredited in that role. It is the first original Mickey Mouse theatrical animated short since ''Runaway Brain'' (1995), and the first appearance of Oswald the Lucky Rabbit in a Disney animated production in 75 years. Plot Mickey Mouse walks from his house and spots Horace Horsecollar pul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toy Story Of Terror!
''Toy Story of Terror!'' is an American computer-animated Halloween television special produced by Pixar Animation Studios and Disney Television Animation and released by Walt Disney Pictures, based on the ''Toy Story'' franchise. It is set after the events of ''Toy Story 3'', and premiered on the American television network ABC on October 16, 2013. It was written and directed by Angus MacLane, produced by Galyn Susman, with Joan Cusack, Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Don Rickles, Wallace Shawn, Timothy Dalton, and Kristen Schaal reprising their roles of Jessie, Woody, Buzz Lightyear, Mr. Potato Head, Rex, Mr. Pricklepants, and Trixie with Carl Weathers as Combat Carl and Stephen Tobolowsky as the motel manager. Michael Giacchino composed the music for the special. The film's soundtrack was released on October 15, 2013, on Amazon.com and iTunes in digital format. The special follows the toys on a road trip, when a flat tire leads Bonnie and her mother to spend the night in a roadsid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Magic Light Pictures
Magic Light Pictures (founded in 2003 by producers Martin Pope and Michael Rose) is a London-based independent production company, which produces films and manages the children's brand ''The Gruffalo''. Productions Since 2009, ''Magic Light Pictures'' have produced ten half-hour animated specials based on the best-selling children's story books by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler: ''The Gruffalo'' (2009), ''The Gruffalo's Child'' (2011), '' Room on the Broom'' (2012), ''Stick Man'' (2015), ''The Highway Rat'' (2017), '' Zog'' (2018), '' The Snail and the Whale'' (2019), '' Zog and the Flying Doctors'' (2020), '' Superworm'' (2021) and '' The Smeds and the Smoos'' (2022). Their films have won over 40 awards between them, including two Children's BAFTAs and the Prix Jeunesse, and have twice been nominated for an Academy Award for Best Short Animation. Their most recent production, ''The Smeds and the Smoos'', premiered on BBC One on Christmas Day 2022 at 2:30pm and was watch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Room On The Broom (film)
''Room on the Broom'' is a 2012 short stop motion computer animated television film based on the picture book written by Julia Donaldson and illustrated by Axel Scheffler. The film was nominated for the Best Animated Short Film at the 2014 Academy Awards. It also won the British Academy Children's Award for Animation in 2013. Directed by Max Lang and Jan Lachauer, the film was produced by Martin Pope and Michael Rose of Magic Light Pictures, London, in association with Orange Eyes Limited. It was first seen in theatres with '' Thor: The Dark World''. It was first broadcast on BBC One on Tuesday 25 December 2012 before being released on DVD in March 2013 by Magic Light Pictures. It then aired in the United States on PBS Kids Sprout as a Halloween special, on 30 October 2013, and then aired in the United States on PBS Kids as a Christmas special, on 1 December 2017 – 9 December 2018. Voice cast * Simon Pegg as the Narrator * Gillian Anderson as the Witch Witchcraft ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
StoryCorps
StoryCorps is an American non-profit organization whose mission is to record, preserve, and share the stories of Americans from all backgrounds and beliefs. StoryCorps grew out of Sound Portraits Productions as a project founded in 2003 by radio producer David Isay. Its headquarters are located in the Fort Greene neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York. StoryCorps is modeled—in spirit and in scope—after the efforts of the Works Progress Administration (WPA) of the 1930s, through which oral history interviews across the United States were recorded. Another inspiration for the organization was oral historian Studs Terkel, who cut the ribbon at the opening of StoryCorps’ first recording booth in Grand Central Terminal. To date, StoryCorps has recorded more than 300,000 interviews among more than 600,000 participants in all 50 states, Washington, D.C., and several American territories. Interviews StoryCorps interviews usually take place between two people who know and care about ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Touchstone Pictures
Touchstone Pictures, Inc. was an American film production label of Walt Disney Studios, founded and owned by The Walt Disney Company. Feature films released under the Touchstone label were produced and financed by Walt Disney Studios, and featured more mature themes targeted towards adult audiences than typical Walt Disney Pictures films. As such, Touchstone was merely a brand of the studio and did not exist as a distinct business operation.Letter signed by (Senior Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer, The Walt Disney Company) to the |
Studio Ghibli
is a Japanese animation studio headquartered in Koganei, Tokyo."Studio Ghibli Collection - Madman Entertainment". ''Studio Ghibli Collection - Madman Entertainment''. Retrieved 2020-12-14. It is best known for its animated feature films, and has also produced several short subjects, television commercials, and two television films. Its mascot and most recognizable symbol is a character named Totoro, a giant spirit inspired by raccoon dogs (''tanuki'') and cats from the 1988 anime film ''My Neighbor Totoro''. Among the studio's highest-grossing films are ''Spirited Away'' (2001), ''Howl's Moving Castle'' (2004) and ''Ponyo'' (2008). The studio was founded on June 15, 1985, by directors Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata and producer Toshio Suzuki, after the successful performance of Topcraft's ''Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind'' (1984). It has also collaborated with video game studios on the visual development of several games. Five of the studio's films are among the ten hig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Wind Rises
is a 2013 Japanese animated historical drama film written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki, animated by Studio Ghibli for the Nippon Television Network, Dentsu, Hakuhodo DY Media Partners, Walt Disney Japan, Mitsubishi, Toho and KDDI. It was released in Japan on 20 July 2013 by Toho, and in North America by Touchstone Pictures on 21 February 2014. ''The Wind Rises'' is a fictionalised biographical film of Jiro Horikoshi (1903–1982), designer of the Mitsubishi A5M fighter aircraft and its successor, the Mitsubishi A6M Zero, used by the Empire of Japan during World War II. The film was adapted from Miyazaki's manga of the same name, which itself combines elements from two unrelated sources; Tatsuo Hori's 1937 semi-autobiographical novel ''The Wind Has Risen'' and the life of Jiro Horikoshi. It was supposed to be the final film directed by Miyazaki, released just before the public announcement of his intention to retire in September 2013. ''The Wind Rises'' was the highest-gross ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
