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Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award For Best Animated Film
The Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Animated Feature is one of the annual awards given by the Los Angeles Film Critics Association The Los Angeles Film Critics Association (LAFCA) is an American film critic organization founded in 1975. Background Its membership comprises film critics from Los Angeles-based print and electronic media. In December of each year, the organiza .... Winners 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s References {{LAFCA Awards Chron Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards Awards for best animated feature film Awards established in 1989 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Los Angeles Film Critics Association
The Los Angeles Film Critics Association (LAFCA) is an American film critic organization founded in 1975. Background Its membership comprises film critics from Los Angeles-based print and electronic media. In December of each year, the organization votes on the Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards, honoring members of the film industry who have excelled in their fields over the calendar year. These awards are presented each January. The LAFCA also honors industry veterans with its annual Career Achievement Award, and promising talent with its annual New Generation Award. Award ceremonies Awards categories * Best Animated Film * Best Cinematography * Best Director * Best Documentary Film * Best Editing * Best Film * Best Foreign Language Film * Best Lead Performance * Best Music * Best Production Design * Best Screenplay * Best Supporting Performance * New Generation Award * Career Achievement Award The Career Achievement Award, also referred to as the Career Ach ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Lion King
''The Lion King'' is a 1994 American animated musical drama film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and released by Walt Disney Pictures. The 32nd Disney animated feature film and the fifth produced during the Disney Renaissance, it is inspired by William Shakespeare's ''Hamlet'' with elements from the Biblical stories of Joseph and Moses and Disney's 1942 film ''Bambi''. The film was directed by Roger Allers and Rob Minkoff (in their feature directorial debuts) and produced by Don Hahn, from a screenplay written by Irene Mecchi, Jonathan Roberts, and Linda Woolverton. The film features an ensemble voice cast that includes Matthew Broderick, James Earl Jones, Jeremy Irons, Jonathan Taylor Thomas, Nathan Lane, Ernie Sabella, Rowan Atkinson and Robert Guillaume. Its original songs were written by composer Elton John and lyricist Tim Rice, with a score by Hans Zimmer. Set in a kingdom of lions in Africa, ''The Lion King'' tells the story of Simba (Swahili for lion), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hercules (1997 Film)
''Hercules'' is a 1997 American animated musical fantasy comedy film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation for Walt Disney Pictures. The 35th Disney animated feature film and the eighth animated film produced during the Disney Renaissance, it is loosely based on the legendary hero Heracles (known in the film by his Roman name, Hercules), the son of Zeus, in Greek mythology. The film was directed by John Musker and Ron Clements, both of whom also produced the film with Alice Dewey Goldstone. The screenplay was written by Musker, Clements, Donald McEnery, Bob Shaw, and Irene Mecchi. Featuring the voices of Tate Donovan, Danny DeVito, James Woods, and Susan Egan, the film follows the titular Hercules, a demigod with super-strength raised among mortals, who must learn to become a true hero in order to earn back his godhood and place in Mount Olympus, while his evil uncle Hades plots his downfall. Development of ''Hercules'' began in 1992 following a pitch adaptation of the He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1997 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards
The 23rd Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards, honoring the best in film for 1997, were voted on in December 1997. Winners *Best Picture: **''L.A. Confidential'' **Runner-up: '' The Sweet Hereafter'' *Best Director: **Curtis Hanson – ''L.A. Confidential'' **Runner-up: Atom Egoyan – '' The Sweet Hereafter'' *Best Actor: **Robert Duvall – ''The Apostle'' **Runner-up: Jack Nicholson – ''As Good as It Gets'' *Best Actress: **Helena Bonham Carter – ''The Wings of the Dove'' **Runner-up: Jodie Foster – ''Contact'' *Best Supporting Actor: **Burt Reynolds – ''Boogie Nights'' **Runner-up: Kevin Spacey – ''L.A. Confidential'' *Best Supporting Actress: **Julianne Moore – ''Boogie Nights'' **Runner-up: Gloria Stuart – ''Titanic'' *Best Screenplay: **Curtis Hanson and Brian Helgeland – ''L.A. Confidential'' **Runner-up: Kevin Smith – ''Chasing Amy'' *Best Cinematography: **Dante Spinotti – ''L.A. Confidential'' **Runner-up: Paul Sarossy – '' The Sweet Hereafter ... [...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] |
The Wrong Trousers
''The Wrong Trousers'' is a 1993 British stop-motion animated short film co-written and directed by Nick Park, featuring his characters Wallace and Gromit, and was produced by Aardman Animations in association with Wallace and Gromit Ltd., BBC Bristol, Lionheart Television and BBC Children's International. It is the second film featuring the eccentric inventor Wallace (voiced by Peter Sallis) and his dog Gromit, following '' A Grand Day Out'' (1989)''.'' In the film, a villainous penguin named Feathers McGraw uses Wallace and Gromit's robotic "Techno-Trousers" to steal a diamond from the city museum. This was the last Wallace and Gromit film to have Wallace as the only spoken character. ''The Wrong Trousers'' premiered in the United States on 17 December 1993, and the United Kingdom on 26 December 1993 on BBC Two. It was commercially successful, and won the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film in 1994. It also inspired a charity fundraising day, known as "Wrong Trousers Da ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Grand Day Out
''A Grand Day Out with Wallace and Gromit'', later marketed as ''A Grand Day Out'', is a 1989 British stop-motion animated short film A short film is any motion picture that is short enough in running time not to be considered a feature film. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences defines a short film as "an original motion picture that has a running time of 40 minutes ... starring Wallace and Gromit. It was directed, co-written, and animated by Nick Park at the National Film and Television School in Beaconsfield and Aardman Animations in Bristol. The short premiered on 4 November 1989, at an animation festival at the Arnolfini Gallery in Bristol. It was first broadcast on 24 December 1990, Christmas Eve, on Channel 4. ''A Grand Day Out'' is followed in the series by 1993's ''The Wrong Trousers'', 1995's ''A Close Shave'', 2005's ''Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, The Curse of the Were-Rabbit'' and 2008's ''A Matter of Loaf and Death''. The short was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Creature Comforts
''Creature Comforts'' is a British adult stop-motion comedy mockumentary franchise originating in a 1989 British humorous animated short film of the same name. The film matched animated zoo animals with a soundtrack of people talking about their homes, making it appear as if the animals were being interviewed about their living conditions. It was created by Nick Park and Aardman Animations. The film later became the basis of a series of television advertisements for the electricity boards in the United Kingdom, and in 2003, a television series in the same style was released. An American version of the series was also made. The original film The original ''Creature Comforts'' short film was five minutes and a few seconds long and was conceived and directed by Nick Park and produced by Aardman Animations, featuring the voices of British non-actors in the same vein as the "man on the street" Vox Pop interviews. It was produced as part of a series called '' Lip Synch'' for Channe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Close Shave
''Wallace and Gromit: A Close Shave'' is a 1995 British stop-motion animated short film co-written and directed by Nick Park and produced by Aardman Animations with Wallace and Gromit Ltd., BBC Bristol and BBC Children's International. It is the third film featuring Wallace and Gromit, following '' A Grand Day Out'' (1989) and ''The Wrong Trousers'' (1993). In ''A Close Shave'', Wallace and Gromit uncover a plot to rustle sheep by a sinister dog. Like ''The Wrong Trousers'', ''A Close Shave'' won the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film. ''A Close Shave'' saw the first appearance of Shaun, who became the protagonist of the ''Shaun the Sheep'' spin-off series. Plot The inventor Wallace and his dog Gromit operate a window cleaning business. Wallace falls for the wool shopkeeper Wendolene Ramsbottom. Her sinister dog, Preston, rustles sheep to supply the shop. After a lost sheep wanders into the house, Wallace places him in his Knit-o-Matic, which shears sheep and kni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1996 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards
The 22nd Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards, honoring the best in film for 1996, were given in December 1996. Winners *Best Picture: **'' Secrets & Lies'' **Runner-up: '' Fargo'' *Best Director: **Mike Leigh – '' Secrets & Lies'' **Runner-up: Joel Coen – '' Fargo'' *Best Actor: **Geoffrey Rush – ''Shine'' **Runner-up: Eddie Murphy – ''The Nutty Professor'' *Best Actress: **Brenda Blethyn – '' Secrets & Lies'' **Runner-up: Frances McDormand – '' Fargo'' *Best Supporting Actor: ** Edward Norton – '' Everyone Says I Love You'', ''The People vs. Larry Flynt'' and ''Primal Fear'' **Runner-up: Armin Mueller-Stahl – ''Shine'' *Best Supporting Actress: ** Barbara Hershey – ''The Portrait of a Lady'' **Runner-up: Courtney Love – ''The People vs. Larry Flynt'' *Best Screenplay: ** Joel and Ethan Coen – '' Fargo'' **Runner-up: Joseph Tropiano and Stanley Tucci – '' Big Night'' *Best Cinematography (tie): ** Chris Menges – ''Michael Collins'' **John Seale ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Lasseter
John Alan Lasseter (; born January 12, 1957) is an American film director, producer, screenwriter, animator, voice actor, and the head of animation at Skydance Animation. He was previously the chief creative officer of Pixar Animation Studios, Walt Disney Animation Studios, and Disneytoon Studios, as well as the Principal Creative Advisor for Walt Disney Imagineering. Lasseter began his career as an animator with The Walt Disney Company. After being fired from Disney for promoting computer animation, he joined Lucasfilm, where he worked on then-groundbreaking use of CGI animation. The Graphics Group of the Computer Division of Lucasfilm was sold to Steve Jobs and became Pixar in 1986. Lasseter oversaw all of Pixar's films and associated projects as executive producer. In addition, he directed ''Toy Story'' (1995), ''A Bug's Life'' (1998), ''Toy Story 2'' (1999), ''Cars'' (2006), and '' Cars 2'' (2011). From 2006 to 2018, Lasseter also oversaw all of Walt Disney Animation St ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toy Story
''Toy Story'' is a 1995 American computer-animated comedy film directed by John Lasseter (in his feature directorial debut), produced by Pixar Animation Studios and released by Walt Disney Pictures. The first installment in the '' Toy Story'' franchise, it was the first entirely computer-animated feature film, as well as the first feature film from Pixar. It was written by Joss Whedon, Andrew Stanton, Joel Cohen, and Alec Sokolow from a story by Lasseter, Stanton, Pete Docter, and Joe Ranft. The film features music by Randy Newman, was produced by Bonnie Arnold and Ralph Guggenheim, and was executive-produced by Steve Jobs and Edwin Catmull. The film features the voices of Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Don Rickles, Jim Varney, Wallace Shawn, John Ratzenberger, Annie Potts, R. Lee Ermey, John Morris, Laurie Metcalf, and Erik von Detten. Taking place in a world where toys come to life when humans are not present, the plot of ''Toy Story'' focuses on the relationship between a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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