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Seattle Film Critics Society Award For Best Animated Feature
The Seattle Film Critics Society Award for Best Animated Feature is one of the annual awards given by the Seattle Film Critics Society. Winners and nominees : † indicates the winner of the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature The Academy Award for Best Animated Feature is given each year for animated films. An animated feature is defined by the Academy as a film with a running time of more than 40 minutes in which characters' performances are created using a frame-by- .... 2010s 2020s References {{SFCS Awards Chron Awards for best animated feature film Animated Feature ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seattle Film Critics Society
The Seattle Film Critics Society (SFCS), founded by Matt Oakes, is represented by over 40 members in print, radio, television and online mediums who live and work in the greater Seattle area. Established in 2016, the society is dedicated to supporting local productions and festivals, enhancing public education, awareness, and appreciation of cinema, and strengthening the bonds of critical dialogue as it pertains to the cinematic arts. They seek to highlight the best films produced each year–both by the major studios and independent filmmakers–and share their love of cinema with Seattle-area residents. The SFCS formalizes an already robust network of film critics and reviewers in Seattle and surrounding areas of Washington State. The society also presents an annual awards announcement, honoring the best achievements in film, nominated and selected by all active members of the society. In 2022, the category "Excellence in Pacific Northwest Filmmaking" was introduced to specifical ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adrian Molina
Adrian Molina (born August 23, 1985) is an American animator, storyboard artist, screenwriter, director, and lyricist. He has been at Pixar since 2007, where he started as a 2D animator on ''Ratatouille''. He later moved on to be a storyboard artist, working on ''Toy Story 3'' and '' Monsters University''. After writing for ''The Good Dinosaur'', Molina started his first assignment as a screenplay writer, for '' Coco'', and later went on to co-direct the film. He is now writing and directing an original feature-length film for Pixar, titled ''Elio''. The film is set to release on March 1, 2024. Molina also illustrated the Little Golden Book for ''Toy Story 3''. A native of Northern California, he grew up in Grass Valley, California, and he graduated from Bear River High School in 2003, to subsequently attend and graduate from the California Institute of the Arts The California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) is a private art university in Santa Clarita, California. It was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rodney Rothman
Rodney Rothman is an American writer, producer, and film director known for '' Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse'', '' Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping,'' ''22 Jump Street'', ''Forgetting Sarah Marshall'', ''Get Him to the Greek'', ''Undeclared'', and ''Late Show with David Letterman''. He has been nominated for five Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Writing for a Variety Series, and also wrote the scripts for ''Grudge Match'', ''22 Jump Street'' and '' Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse'', which served as his feature directorial debut. Rothman is the author of the best-selling nonfiction humor book ''Early Bird: A Memoir of Premature Retirement''. His writing has also appeared in ''The New Yorker'', '' GQ'', ''The New York Times'', ''The New York Times Magazine'', and ''McSweeney's Quarterly''. His piece "My Fake Job" was included in ''The Best American Nonrequired Reading''. His work on '' Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse'' earned him the Academy Award for Best Animate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Ramsey
Peter A. Ramsey (born December 23, 1962) is an American illustrator, storyboard artist, film director, screenwriter, and film producer. He is best known for directing DreamWorks Animation's ''Rise of the Guardians'' (2012), becoming the first African American to direct a major American animated film, and co-directing Sony Pictures Animation's ''Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse'' (2018). For ''Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse'', he became the first African American to be nominated for and win an Academy Award for Best Animated Feature. Early life Ramsey grew up in the Crenshaw District of South Los Angeles, and graduated in 1980 from Palisades Charter High School, Pali High. He studied painting at University of California, Los Angeles, UCLA for two years before enrolling in film classes at Los Angeles City College. Career His first job in Hollywood was painting a mural, but soon he was working as a storyboard artist and production illustrator on 26 films including ''Predator 2'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bob Persichetti
Robert Persichetti Jr. (born January 17, 1973) is an American animator, story artist, storyboard artist, screenwriter, and film director. He is best known for co-directing the film '' Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse''. Filmography Director * '' Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse'' (2018) (with Peter Ramsey and Rodney Rothman) Executive producer * '' Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse'' (2023) * '' Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse'' (2024) Producer * ''The Tiger's Apprentice'' (2024) Writer * ''The Little Prince'' (2015) Head of story * ''Puss in Boots'' (2011) * ''The Little Prince'' (2015) Storyboard artist * ''Shrek 2'' (2004) * '' Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit'' (2005) * ''Flushed Away'' (2006) * ''Shrek the Halls'' (2007) * '' Monsters vs. Aliens'' (2009) Inbetweener * ''Hercules'' (1997) * ''Mulan'' (1998) * ''Tarzan'' (1999) * ''Fantasia 2000'' (1999) * ''The Emperor's New Groove'' (2000) * '' Atlantis: The Lost Empire'' (2001) * ''Treasure ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Into The Spider-Verse
''Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse'' is a 2018 American computer-animated superhero film featuring the Marvel Comics character Miles Morales / Spider-Man, produced by Columbia Pictures and Sony Pictures Animation in association with Marvel Entertainment. Distributed by Sony Pictures Releasing, it is the first animated film in the ''Spider-Man'' franchise. Directed by Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey, and Rodney Rothman (in Persichetti and Rothman's feature directorial debuts) from a screenplay by Phil Lord and Rothman, it stars Shameik Moore as Morales, alongside the voices of Jake Johnson, Hailee Steinfeld, Mahershala Ali, Brian Tyree Henry, Lily Tomlin, Luna Lauren Vélez, John Mulaney, Kimiko Glenn, Nicolas Cage, and Liev Schreiber. The film's story follows Miles Morales as he becomes the new Spider-Man and joins other Spider-People from various parallel universes to save his universe from Kingpin. Plans for an animated Spider-Man film by Phil Lord and Chr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Makoto Shinkai
, known as , is a Japanese animator, filmmaker, author, and manga artist. Shinkai began his career as a video game animator with Nihon Falcom in 1996, and gained recognition as a filmmaker with the release of the original video animation (OVA) ''She and Her Cat'' (1999). Beginning his longstanding association with CoMix Wave Films, Shinkai then released the science-fiction OVA ''Voices of a Distant Star'' in 2002, and followed this with his debut feature film ''The Place Promised in Our Early Days'' (2004). Shinkai's second feature film, the romantic drama anthology '' 5 Centimeters per Second'' (2007), gained critical acclaim, as did his subsequent releases, the dramas ''Children Who Chase Lost Voices'' (2011) and ''The Garden of Words'' (2013). Shinkai's 2016 fantasy romance ''Your Name'' was a critical and commercial success, becoming the third highest-grossing anime film of all time. His 2019 film, ''Weathering with You'', also achieved similar critical and commercial succes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Your Name
is a 2016 Japanese animated romantic fantasy film produced by CoMix Wave Films. It depicts a high school boy in Tokyo and a high school girl in the Japanese countryside who suddenly and inexplicably begin to swap bodies. The film was commissioned in 2014, written and directed by Makoto Shinkai. It features the voices of Ryūnosuke Kamiki and Mone Kamishiraishi, with animation direction by Masashi Ando, character design by Masayoshi Tanaka, and its orchestral score and soundtrack composed by Radwimps. A light novel of the same name, also written by Shinkai, was published a month prior to the film's premiere. ''Your Name'' premiered at the 2016 Anime Expo in Los Angeles on July 3, 2016, and was theatrically released in Japan on August 26, 2016 by Toho, and in the United States on April 7, 2017. The film was critically acclaimed, with praise for the animation, music, visuals, and emotional weight. The film grossed over ¥41.44 billion (US$380.1 million) worldwide, breaking num ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hugh Welchman
Hugh Stewart Jasper Welchman (born February 1975) is a British filmmaker, screenwriter, and producer. Life and career Welchman comes from Bracknell in Berkshire and attended the Dolphin School in nearby Hurst until moving on to Keble College, Oxford during the 1990s and graduated with a degree from Oxford University in Politics, Philosophy and Economics (PPE). In 2002, Welchman founded the film company BreakThru Films. This led to him becoming the joint winner of the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film in 2007. This was for the 2006 film ''Peter and the Wolf''. The other winner was the film's director Suzie Templeton. Welchman co-directed the first fully painted animated feature film ''Loving Vincent ''Loving Vincent'' ( pl, Twój Vincent) is a 2017 experimental adult animated biographical drama film about the life of the painter Vincent van Gogh, and, in particular, about the circumstances of his death. It is the first fully painted animat ...'' (2017) wit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dorota Kobiela
Dorota Kobiela (born 1978) is a Polish filmmaker, screenwriter, and producer. She is best known for co-directing her first fully painted animated feature film ''Loving Vincent'' (2017) with Hugh Welchman. Career Kobiela conceived ''Loving Vincent'' as a 7-minute short movie in 2008, ''Loving Vincent'' was idealized by Kobiela, a painter herself, after studying the techniques and the artist's story through his letters. Filmography * 2022: ''The Peasants'' (upcoming) * 2017: ''Loving Vincent ''Loving Vincent'' ( pl, Twój Vincent) is a 2017 experimental adult animated biographical drama film about the life of the painter Vincent van Gogh, and, in particular, about the circumstances of his death. It is the first fully painted animat ...'' (directed, writer, editor, visual effects) * 2011: ''Little Postman'' (Short, director, writer) * 2011: ''Chopin's Drawings'' (Short, director, writer) * 2011: '' The Flying Machine'' (Short, director, writer) Awards and nominations Ref ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Loving Vincent
''Loving Vincent'' ( pl, Twój Vincent) is a 2017 experimental adult animated biographical drama film about the life of the painter Vincent van Gogh, and, in particular, about the circumstances of his death. It is the first fully painted animated feature film. The film, written and directed by Dorota Kobiela and Hugh Welchman, is a Polish-UK co-production, funded by the Polish Film Institute, and partially through a Kickstarter campaign. First conceived as a seven-minute short film in 2008, ''Loving Vincent'' was realized by Dorota Kobiela, a painter herself, after studying the techniques and the artist's story through his letters. Each of the film's 65,000 frames is an oil painting on canvas, created using the same techniques as Van Gogh by a team of 125 artists drawn from around the globe. The film premiered at the 2017 Annecy International Animated Film Festival. It won Best Animated Feature Film Award at the 30th European Film Awards in Berlin and was nominated for Bes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chris McKay
Christopher McKay, also known as Chris Taylor (born November 11, 1973), is an American filmmaker. He is best known for directing and editing three seasons of ''Robot Chicken'' and two seasons of ''Moral Orel''. He made his feature directorial debut with ''The Lego Batman Movie'' (2017). He directed the film ''The Tomorrow War'' (2021), and is attached to direct ''Renfield''. Early life and education McKay was born in Winter Park, Florida, but spent most of his childhood in Chicago, Illinois. Growing up, McKay was inspired by Alfred Hitchcock films and decided to pursue film. He shot his earliest work on his parents' Super 8 film camera. McKay attended Southern Illinois University for two years as a film student, and completed his degree at Columbia College Chicago. While studying in Chicago, McKay attended his first film shoot for the 1989 comedy ''Uncle Buck''. Career In his early career McKay worked at several video and equipment rental companies. After purchasing produ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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