39th Annie Awards
The 39th Annual Annie Awards honoring the best in animation of 2011 were held on February 4, 2012, at Royce Hall in Los Angeles, California. Production nominees Nominations announced on December 5, 2011 Best Animated Feature '' Rango'' - Paramount/ Nickelodeon Movies, Blind Wink, GK Films * '' A Cat in Paris'' – Folimage * '' Wrinkles'' – Perro Verde Films, S.L. * '' Arthur Christmas'' – Columbia/Sony Pictures Animation, Aardman Animations * '' Cars 2'' – Disney/Pixar * '' Chico & Rita'' – Chico & Rita Distribution Limited * '' Kung Fu Panda 2'' - DreamWorks Animation * '' Puss in Boots'' - DreamWorks Animation * '' Rio'' - 20th Century Fox/ Blue Sky Studios * ''The Adventures of Tintin'' - Paramount, Columbia/Amblin Entertainment, The Kennedy/Marshall Company, Nickelodeon Movies, WingNut Films Best Animated Special Production '' Kung Fu Panda: Secrets of the Masters'' - DreamWorks Animation * ''Adventure Time: Thank You'' - Cartoon Network Studios * '' Batman: ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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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]   |
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Aardman Animations
Aardman Animations Limited, known simply as Aardman, is a British animation studio based in Bristol, England, United Kingdom. It is known for films and television series made using stop motion and clay animation techniques, particularly those featuring its plasticine characters from '' Wallace & Gromit'', '' Chicken Run'', '' Shaun the Sheep'', and '' Morph''. After some experimental computer-animated short films during the late 1990s, beginning with '' Owzat'' (1997), Aardman entered the computer animation market with '' Flushed Away'' (2006). As of February 2020, it had earned $1.1 billion worldwide, with an average $135.6 million per film. Between 2000 and 2006, Aardman partnered with DreamWorks Animation. Aardman's films have been consistently well received, and their stop-motion films are among the highest-grossing produced, with their 2000 debut, '' Chicken Run'', being their top-grossing film, as well as the highest-grossing stop-motion film of all time. A sequel, '' Chi ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Adventure Time
''Adventure Time'' is an American fantasy animated television series created by Pendleton Ward and co-produced by Frederator Studios for Cartoon Network. The series follows the adventures of a boy named Finn the Human, Finn (Jeremy Shada) and his best friend and adoptive brother Jake the Dog, Jake (John DiMaggio)a dog with the power to change size and shape at will. Finn and Jake live in the post-apocalyptic Land of Ooo, where they interact with Princess Bubblegum (Hynden Walch), the Ice King (Tom Kenny), Marceline the Vampire Queen, Marceline (Olivia Olson), BMO (character), BMO (Niki Yang), and others. The series is based on a 2007 Adventure Time (short film), short film that aired on Nicktoons (American TV channel), Nicktoons. After the short became a viral video, viral hit on the Internet, Nickelodeon's executives passed on its option before Cartoon Network commissioned a full-length series from Fred Seibert and Ward, which was previewed on March 11, 2010. The same year, the ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Secrets Of The Masters
''Secrets of the Masters'' is a 2009 Philippine television cooking show broadcast by Q. Hosted by Issa Litton, it aired from February 22 to 2009. 2009 Philippine television series debuts 2009 Philippine television series endings 2000s Philippine television series Filipino-language television shows Philippine cooking television series Q (TV network) original programming {{Philippines-tv-prog-stub ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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WingNut Films
WingNut Films Productions Ltd is a New Zealand production company based in Wellington, with other offices in Hollywood, United States, London, United Kingdom, and Melbourne, Australia; notably for producing and collaborating predominantly with filmmaker Peter Jackson, especially on ''The Lord of the Rings''. WingNut Films also has produced at Pinewood Studios in England. Its US subsidiary is WingNut Films, Inc. History WingNut Films has been involved in nearly all of Peter Jackson's work. The company is known for being involved in Jackson's ''The Lord of the Rings'' film series, based on the classic fantasy novel of the same name by English author J. R. R. Tolkien. The third film in the series received eleven Academy Awards including Best Picture and Best Director. The company also became involved in ''The Hobbit'' after director Guillermo del Toro left the project. Filmography * '' Bad Taste'' (1987) * ''Meet the Feebles'' (1989) * '' Braindead'' (1992) * '' Valley of the ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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The Kennedy/Marshall Company
The Kennedy/Marshall Company (K/M) is an American Filmmaking, film and television production company, based in Santa Monica, California, founded in 1992 by spouses Kathleen Kennedy (producer), Kathleen Kennedy and Frank Marshall (filmmaker), Frank Marshall. It has had contracts with Paramount Pictures, Spyglass Entertainment, DreamWorks Pictures, Universal Pictures, 20th Century Studios, Warner Bros. Pictures and the Walt Disney Studios (division), Walt Disney Studios. Kennedy and Marshall are founders at Steven Spielberg's Amblin Entertainment, though no longer affiliated with the studio. History In 1992, Kathleen Kennedy (producer), Kathleen Kennedy and Frank Marshall (filmmaker), Frank Marshall left Amblin Entertainment to form their own self-titled banner The Kennedy/Marshall Company with a three-year first look deal at Paramount Pictures. After leaving Amblin, Marshall directed and Kennedy produced ''Alive (1993 film), Alive'' which was released in 1993 as a Kennedy/Mar ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Amblin Entertainment
Amblin' Entertainment, Inc., formerly named Amblin Productions, is an American film production company founded by director and producer Steven Spielberg, and film producers Kathleen Kennedy and Frank Marshall in 1980. Its headquarters are located in Bungalow 477 of the Universal Studios backlot in Universal City, California. It distributes all of the films from Amblin Partners under the Amblin Entertainment banner. History Amblin is named after Steven Spielberg's first commercially released film, '' Amblin''' (1968), a short independent film about a man and woman hitchhiking through the desert. Costing $15,000 to produce, it was shown for Universal Studios, giving Spielberg more directing roles. The company was established a year later, in 1969, and it was properly incorporated in 1970. On July 14, 1975, Spielberg signed a four-picture agreement with Universal Pictures to produce its feature films through his Amblin label, aiming to build upon the success of its first ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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The Secret Of The Unicorn
''The Secret of the Unicorn'' () is the eleventh volume of ''The Adventures of Tintin'', the comics series by Belgian cartoonist Hergé. The story was serialised daily in , Belgium's leading francophone newspaper, from June 1942 to January 1943 amidst the Nazi German occupation of Belgium during World War II. The story revolves around young reporter Tintin, his dog Snowy, and his friend Captain Haddock, who discover a riddle left by Haddock's ancestor, the 17th century Sir Francis Haddock, which can lead them to the hidden treasure of the pirate Red Rackham. To unravel the riddle, Tintin and Haddock must obtain three identical models of Sir Francis's ship, the ''Unicorn'', but they discover that criminals are also after three model ships and are willing to kill in order to obtain them. ''The Secret of the Unicorn'' was a commercial success and was published in book form by Casterman shortly after its conclusion. Hergé concluded the arc begun in this story with '' Red Rack ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Blue Sky Studios
Blue Sky Studios, Inc. was an American visual effects and computer animation animation studio, studio, which was active from 1987 to 2021. It was based in Greenwich, Connecticut, and was founded on February 22, 1987, by Chris Wedge, Michael Ferraro, Carl Ludwig, Alison Brown, David Brown, and Eugene Troubetzkoy after their employer, Mathematical Applications Group (MAGI), one of the visual effects studios behind ''Tron'' (1982), shut down. Using its in-house rendering software, the studio created visual effects for commercials and films before dedicating itself to animated film production. It produced List of Blue Sky Studios productions#Feature films, 13 feature films, the first being ''Ice Age (2002 film), Ice Age'' (2002), and the final one being ''Spies in Disguise'' (2019). Blue Sky Studios was a subsidiary of 20th Century Animation until its acquisition by the Walt Disney Company, as part of their acquisition of 21st Century Fox by Disney, acquisition of 21st Century Fox ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Rio (2011 Film)
''Rio'' is a 2011 American animated musical adventure romantic comedy film produced by Blue Sky Studios and 20th Century Fox Animation. It was directed by Carlos Saldanha from a screenplay written by Don Rhymer, Joshua Sternin, Jeffrey Ventimilia, and Sam Harper, based on a story conceived by Saldanha and the writing team of Earl Richey Jones and Todd Jones. The title refers to the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro, where the film is set. The film features the voices of Anne Hathaway, Jesse Eisenberg, Jemaine Clement, Leslie Mann, George Lopez, and Jamie Foxx. It tells the story of Blu (Eisenberg), a domesticated male Spix's macaw who is taken to Rio de Janeiro to mate with a free-spirited female Spix's macaw, Jewel (Hathaway). Saldanha developed his first story concept of ''Rio'' in 2005, in which a penguin is washed up in Rio. Saldanha learned of the production of the films '' Happy Feet'' (2006) and '' Surf's Up'' (2007), and changed the concept to involve macaw ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Puss In Boots (2011 Film)
''Puss in Boots'' is a 2011 American animated adventure comedy film produced by DreamWorks Animation and distributed by Paramount Pictures. It is a spin-off of the ''Shrek'' film series and its fifth installment, rather than an adaptation of the fairytale " Puss in Boots". The film was directed by Chris Miller from a screenplay by Tom Wheeler and a story by Brian Lynch, Will Davies, and Wheeler, based on the character from ''Shrek 2'' (2004) and inspired from the Puss in Boots fairy tale. It stars Antonio Banderas (reprising his voice role as Puss in Boots), alongside Salma Hayek, Zach Galifianakis, Billy Bob Thornton, and Amy Sedaris. The film follows the origin story of Puss in Boots (Banderas) during his adventure years before the events of ''Shrek 2''. Accompanied by his friends, Humpty Dumpty (Galifianakis) and Kitty Softpaws (Hayek), Puss is pitted against Jack and Jill (Thornton and Sedaris), two murderous outlaws, for ownership of three legendary magical beans ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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DreamWorks Animation
DreamWorks Animation LLC (DWA, also known as DreamWorks Animation Studios or simply DreamWorks) is an American animation studio, owned by Comcast's NBCUniversal as part of Universal Pictures, a division of Universal Studios, Inc, Universal Studios. The studio has produced List of DreamWorks Animation productions#Feature films, 51 feature films. Its first film, ''Antz'', was released on October 2, 1998, and its latest film, How to Train Your Dragon (2025 film), the live-action remake of ''How to Train Your Dragon'', was released on June 13, 2025. Their upcoming slate of films includes ''The Bad Guys 2'' on August 1, 2025, ''Gabby's Dollhouse: The Movie'' on September 26, 2025, ''Forgotten Island'' on September 25, 2026, ''Shrek 5'' on December 23, 2026, the How to Train Your Dragon (2025 film)#Sequel, live-action remake of ''How to Train Your Dragon 2'' on June 11, 2027, ''Cocomelon: The Movie'' in 2027, and an untitled film on September 22, 2028. Formed as a division of DreamWor ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |