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Critics' Choice Movie Award For Best Animated Feature
The Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Animated Feature is an award given to people working in the motion picture industry by the Broadcast Film Critics Association. The award was presented annually from 1998 to 2019. ''Toy Story'' is the only franchise with multiple wins, winning three times for ''Toy Story 2'' (1999), ''Toy Story 3'' (2010) and ''Toy Story 4'' (2019). Since 2001, almost all of the films went on to win the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, with the exception of ''Cars'', ''Wreck-It Ralph'', ''The Lego Movie'', and '' The Mitchells vs. the Machines''. The category was discontinued in 2020, with animated films being honored at the ancillary Critics' Choice Super Awards instead. The category returned in 2021. Winners and nominees 1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s See also *Academy Award for Best Animated Feature * Annie Award for Best Animated Feature *BAFTA Award for Best Animated Film This is a list of the winners and nominees of the BAFTA Award for Best A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Broadcast Film Critics Association
The Critics Choice Association (CCA), formerly the Broadcast Film Critics Association (BFCA), is an association of television, radio and online critics. Their membership includes critics who review film and television. Founded in 1995, it is the largest film critics organization in the United States and Canada. The organization has presented the Critics' Choice Awards, aim to recognize movies (with the Critics' Choice Movie Awards and the Critics' Choice Super Awards), television programs (with the Critics' Choice Real TV Awards, the Critics' Choice Super Awards and the Critics' Choice Television Awards) and documentaries (with the Critics' Choice Documentary Awards) each year since 1995. The association also selects a Film of the Month and recommends other films throughout the year, based on the cumulative grades each film receives in the monthly balloting. Interviews with nearly 20 current and former Critics Choice Assn. members, as well as a review of tax filings and internal e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antz
''Antz'' is a 1998 American computer-animated adventure comedy film produced by DreamWorks Animation (in its debut film) and Pacific Data Images and released by DreamWorks Pictures. It was directed by Eric Darnell and Tim Johnson (in their feature directorial debuts) from a screenplay by Todd Alcott, Chris Weitz, and Paul Weitz (filmmaker), Paul Weitz. The film features the voices of Woody Allen, Sharon Stone, Jennifer Lopez, Sylvester Stallone, Christopher Walken, Dan Aykroyd, Anne Bancroft, Danny Glover and Gene Hackman. Some of the main characters share facial similarities with the actors who voice them. The film involves a worker ant, Z (Allen), who falls in love with Princess Bala (Stone). When the treacherous scheming of the evil General Mandible (Hackman) threaten to wipe out the entire worker population, Z must save the ant colony and strives to make social inroads. Development began in 1988 when Walt Disney Feature Animation pitched a film called ''Army Ants'', about ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dinosaur (2000 Film)
''Dinosaur'' is a 2000 American live-action/ computer-animated adventure film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation, The Secret Lab and released by Walt Disney Pictures. The 39th Disney animated feature film, the film was directed by Ralph Zondag and Eric Leighton (in his feature directorial debut), it features the voices of D.B. Sweeney, Alfre Woodard, Ossie Davis, Max Casella, Hayden Panettiere, Samuel E. Wright, Julianna Margulies, Peter Siragusa, Joan Plowright and Della Reese, it follows a young ''Iguanodon'' who was adopted and raised by a family of lemurs on a tropical island. After surviving a devastating meteor shower, the family moves out for their new home and befriends a herd of dinosaurs along the way while on a journey to the "Nesting Grounds". However, they face harsh circumstances with its Darwinistic leader while being hunted down by numerous predators, such as ''Carnotaurus''. The initial idea was conceived in 1986 by Phil Tippett and Paul Verhoeven, which ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nick Park
Nicholas Wulstan Park (born 6 December 1958) is a British animator who created ''Wallace and Gromit'', ''Creature Comforts'', ''Chicken Run'', ''Shaun the Sheep'', and '' Early Man''. Park has been nominated for an Academy Award a total of six times and won four with ''Creature Comforts'' (1989), ''The Wrong Trousers'' (1993), ''A Close Shave'' (1995) and '' Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit'' (2005). He has also received five BAFTA Awards, including the BAFTA for Best Short Animation for ''A Matter of Loaf and Death'', which was also the most watched television programme in the United Kingdom in 2008. His 2000 film ''Chicken Run'' is the highest-grossing stop motion animated film. For his work in animation, in 2012, Park was among the British cultural icons selected by artist Peter Blake to appear in a new version of Blake's most famous artwork—the Beatles' '' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band'' album cover—to celebrate the British cultural figures o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Lord
Peter Lord CBE (born 1953) is an English animator, director, producer and co-founder of the Academy Award-winning Aardman Animations studio, an animation firm best known for its clay-animated films and shorts, particularly those featuring plasticine duo Wallace and Gromit. He also directed ''Chicken Run'' along with Nick Park, and ''The Pirates! Band of Misfits'' which was nominated for Best Animated Feature at the 85th Academy Awards. Lord is the producer/executive producer of every Aardman work, including ''Chicken Run'', ''Arthur Christmas'' and ''Flushed Away.'' Life and career Lord was born in Bristol, England. In co-operation with David Sproxton, a friend of his youth at school together in Woking in the 1960s, he realised his dream of "making and taking an animated movie". He graduated in English from the University of York in 1976. He and Sproxton founded ''Aardman'' as a low-budget backyard studio, producing shorts and trailers for publicity. Their work was first sho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chicken Run
''Chicken Run'' is a 2000 stop-motion animated comedy film produced by Pathé and Aardman Animations in partnership with DreamWorks Animation. Aardman’s first feature-length film and DreamWorks Animation's fourth film, it was directed by Peter Lord and Nick Park from a screenplay by Karey Kirkpatrick and based on an original story by Lord and Park. The film stars the voices of Julia Sawalha, Mel Gibson, Tony Haygarth, Miranda Richardson, Phil Daniels, Lynn Ferguson, Timothy Spall, Imelda Staunton, and Benjamin Whitrow. The plot centres on a group of British anthropomorphic chickens who see an American rooster named Rocky Rhodes as their only hope to escape the farm when their owners want to turn them into meat pies. Released to critical acclaim, ''Chicken Run'' was also a commercial success, grossing over $224 million, becoming the highest-grossing stop-motion animated film in history and the biggest success in DreamWorks Animation history until ''Shrek'' in 2001 doubled i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
6th Critics' Choice Awards
The 6th Critics' Choice Awards were presented on January 22, 2001, honoring the finest achievements of 2000 filmmaking. Top 10 films (in alphabetical order) *''Almost Famous'' *''Billy Elliot'' *''Cast Away'' *'' Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Wo hu cang long)'' *'' Erin Brockovich'' *''Gladiator'' *'' Quills'' *'' Thirteen Days'' *''Traffic'' *'' Wonder Boys'' Winners *Best Actor: **Russell Crowe – ''Gladiator'' *Best Actress: **Julia Roberts – '' Erin Brockovich'' *Best Animated Feature: **''Chicken Run'' *Best Child Performance: ** Jamie Bell – ''Billy Elliot'' *Best Composer: **Hans Zimmer – ''Gladiator'' and ''The Road to El Dorado'' *Best Director: **Steven Soderbergh – '' Erin Brockovich'' and ''Traffic'' *Best Family Film: **''My Dog Skip'' *Best Foreign Language Film: **'' Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Wo hu cang long)'' • China / Hong Kong *Best Picture: **''Gladiator'' *Best Screenplay – Adapted: **''Traffic'' – Stephen Gaghan *Best Screenp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ash Brannon
Ashton Brannon (born October 31, 1969) is an American Emmy Award-winning writer, director, visual artist, animator, and producer. He was a story artist and directing animator on ''Toy Story'' and co-director of ''Toy Story 2''. He also directed and co-wrote the Sony Pictures Animation film '' Surf's Up''. He also served as co-executive producer, story co-creator and writer on the Netflix animated series ''Arcane''. Early life Brannon was born and raised in Columbus, Georgia. Career Ash studied visual arts at Douglas Anderson School of the Arts in Jacksonville, Florida and went on to attend CalArts in its Character Animation program. He was accepted as a summer trainee at Walt Disney Animation Studios where he worked as an animation inbetweener on Disney's 1989 film ''The Little Mermaid''. From 1990 to 1992. Ash joined Warner Bros. Animation as a story artist and animator for such projects as Nike's Hare Jordan Super Bowl ad in 1992. In 1993 Ash joined Pixar Animation Studios as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lee Unkrich
Lee Edward Unkrich (born August 8, 1967) is an American film director, film editor, screenwriter, and animator. He was a longtime member of the creative team at Pixar, where he started in 1994 as a film editor. He later began directing, first as co-director of ''Toy Story 2''. After co-directing ''Toy Story 2'', ''Monsters, Inc.'' and ''Finding Nemo'', Unkrich made his solo directorial debut with ''Toy Story 3'' in 2010, and most recently directed '' Coco'' in 2017, both of which won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature and the Academy Award for Best Original Song. After working at Pixar for 25 years, Unkrich retired from the company in January 2019 to spend more time with his family and pursue other interests. Early life and career Unkrich was raised in Chagrin Falls, Ohio. His father, Bob Unkrich, was a World War II veteran ("He stormed the beach at Normandy") and artist. Unkrich was raised in the Jewish faith. He spent his youth acting at The Cleveland Play House. Un ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toy Story 2
''Toy Story 2'' is a 1999 American computer-animated film produced by Pixar Animation Studios for Walt Disney Pictures. The second installment in the Toy Story (franchise), ''Toy Story'' franchise and the sequel to ''Toy Story'' (1995), it was directed by John Lasseter, co-directed by Ash Brannon and Lee Unkrich, from a screenplay written by Andrew Stanton, Rita Hsiao, Doug Chamberlin, and Chris Webb from a story by Lasseter, Stanton, Brannon, and Pete Docter. In the film, Sheriff Woody, Woody is stolen by a toy collector, prompting Buzz Lightyear and his friends to rescue him, but Woody is then tempted by the idea of immortality in a museum. Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Don Rickles, Wallace Shawn, John Ratzenberger, Jim Varney, Annie Potts, R. Lee Ermey, John Morris (actor), John Morris, and Laurie Metcalf reprise their roles from the first ''Toy Story'' film and are joined by Joan Cusack, Kelsey Grammer, Estelle Harris, Wayne Knight, and Jodi Benson, who play the new characters intr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
5th Critics' Choice Awards
The 5th Critics' Choice Awards were presented on January 24, 2000, honoring the finest achievements of 1999 filmmaking. Top 10 films (in alphabetical order) * '' American Beauty'' * ''Being John Malkovich'' * ''The Cider House Rules'' * '' The Green Mile'' * '' The Insider'' * ''Magnolia'' * '' Man on the Moon'' * ''The Sixth Sense'' * ''The Talented Mr. Ripley'' * ''Three Kings'' Winners * Best Actor: ** Russell Crowe – '' The Insider'' * Best Actress: ** Hilary Swank – '' Boys Don't Cry'' * Best Animated Feature: ** ''Toy Story 2'' * Best Child Performer: ** Haley Joel Osment – ''The Sixth Sense'' * Best Composer: ** Gabriel Yared – ''The Talented Mr. Ripley'' * Best Director: ** Sam Mendes – '' American Beauty'' * Best Family Film: ** ''October Sky'' * Best Feature Documentary: ** ''Buena Vista Social Club'' * Best Foreign Language Film: ** '' All About My Mother (Todo sobre mi madre)'' • Spain * Best Picture: ** '' American Beauty'' * Best Picture Made ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Igor Kovalyov
Igor Adolfovich Kovalyov (russian: Игорь Адольфович Ковалёв; born 17 January 1954) is a Ukrainian-born Russian animator, director and educator, co-founder of Pilot — the first private animation studio in the Soviet Union. From 1991 to 2005 he worked at Klasky Csupo where he co-created ''Aaahh!!! Real Monsters'' and co-directed ''The Rugrats Movie''. He currently serves as a creative producer at Soyuzmultfilm. Kovalyov is also known for his auteur films for which received multiple international awards, including three Grand Prizes at the Ottawa International Animation Festival.''Giannalberto Bendazzi (2016)''Animation: A World History: Volume III: Contemporary Times — Boca Raton: CRC Press, pp. 51-54 ''Sergei Kapkov (2006)''. Encyclopedia of Domestic Animation, pp. 328-329 Soviet period Igor Kovalyov was born in Kyiv, Ukrainian SSR (modern-day Ukraine). When asked in 2002 whether he feels himself as an American, Russian or Ukrainian artist, he answered "I f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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