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2021 Tribeca Animated Shorts Pack Emotional Punch

The 2021 Tribeca Film Festival screened its Animated Shorts Curated by Whoopi G presentation in-person and online earlier this week. I had the chance to screen all eight shorts at home. I’m impressed by all of them, and I think we could be talking about at least a few from now to the 2022 Annie […]

“Women In Animation Summit” to be Held in Collaboration with Annecy 2021

Women in Animation (WIA) has announced the program for the fifth The Women in Animation World Summit, in conjunction with this year’s hybrid version of the Annecy International Animation Festival and Mifa 2021. The theme of this year’s virtual Summit is “The Business Case for Diversity.” The Women in Animation World Summit will be viewable […]

Peilin Chou Debuts “Awakening”

Awakening is a PSA directed by Oscar-nominated producer Peilin Chou (Over The Moon), in response to the rise in Asian violence across the country. As part of Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month, and with the goal of inspiring and uplifting the community and beyond, Awakening features an exciting line-up of top Asian American animation […]

And the Oscar Goes to… Pixar’s “Soul” and “If Anything Happens I Love You”

In case you missed it – and it seems many did… This year’s Academy Award for Best Animated Feature went to Pixar’s Soul. Best Animated Short was awarded to “If Anything Happens I Love You”. Both films were indeed Oscar-worthy, but clearly the Academy adhered to its longtime traditions – favoring films that touch the […]

ANNIE AWARD WINNERS: “Soul” wins 7 “Wolfwalkers” win 5

Pixar’s Soul received seven Annie Awards during the 48th virtual awards ceremony Friday evening, winning top honors for Best Feature, Character Animation (Michal Makarewicz), Music (Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross, Jon Batiste), Storyboarding (Trevor Jimenez), Writing (Pete Docter, Mike Jones, Kemp Powers), Best FX (Tolga Göktekin, Carl Kaphan, Hiroaki Narita, Enrique Vila, Kylie Wijsmuller) and Editorial […]

Watch The Annie Awards Live Stream Tonight – Here!

Asifa Hollywood is live streaming tonight’s Annie Awards ceremony – a virtual event this year – and you can watch or re-watch it here. The award ceremony’s multi-camera and audio set up covers the entire ceremony – the celebrations, the laughs, the flubs. You won’t miss a thing. It’s just like being there… only you […]

Academy Award Nominations 2021

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences today announced that nominations for its 93rd Annual Academy Awards. The 5 films are listed below in alphabetical order by title, with their producers and directors: Best Animated Feature nominees are: Onward (Pixar) D: Dan Scanlon Over The Moon (Netflix) D: Glen Keane Soul (Pixar) D: Pete […]

GLAS 2021 Signal Film + Passes On Sale

The GLAS Animation Festival will go on – virtually – next month: April 5-11, 2021 and passes are on sale now. If their magnificent Signal Film, released this week, is any indication this online programs will be a blast. Directed by Jonathan Djob Nkondo. Check it out:

2020 Golden Globe Nominees

The infamous Hollywood Foreign Press Association announced their nominees today – and included in the mix were their choices for Best Animated Feature. As expected, Pixar’s Soul (Pete Docter and Kemp Powers) and Onward (Dan Scanlon) made the grade; Over The Moon (Netflix/Pearl; Glen Keener) and The Croods 2: The New Age (Dreamworks; Joel Crawford) […]

Heritage Offering Original Artwork for Fleischer Studios’ “Superman” Cartoons

Here they are, compiled by Dallas-based Heritage Auctions for the Dec. 11-13 Animation Art event. More than 50 original pieces from the Fleischer’s run on Superman, amassed from two separate collections never before available to the public, create the largest assemblage ever to come to auction. Jim Lentz, Heritage’s Director Animation Art, says the 28 […]

Final Four Animation Panels of Virtual NYCC 2020

It’s the last day of a very different New York Comic-Con. Let’s Yabba Dabba Doo this! Kicking off the Sunday panels: The Flintstones 60th Anniversary Celebration, moderated by actress Yvette Nicole Brown. To tie-in with this milestone for Primetime Network TV’s first animated series, Warner Bros. Home Entertainment is releasing The Flintstones: The Complete Series […]

“No Times for Purrs and Pats”: The 50th Anniversary of ‘Josie and the Pussycats’

Think about your favorite singer, or group, or band. They may be from the Golden Age of Rock n’ Role, or the British Invasion, or the Grunge Rock-era or even a Boy Band. They may have made their indelible impact on, not just the music charts, but our culture as well. They may be legends […]

48th Annual Annie Awards Rules, Categories & Deadlines Announced

ASIFA-Hollywood announced today that while the current pandemic has been a challenge, the 48th Annie Awards ceremony will be held — either virtually or live — on Friday, April 16th, 2021. The final decision on whether the ceremony is virtual or live will be determined this October 2020. “What this epidemic has taught us is […]

Sunday’s Animation Panels at Comic-Con@HOME

The final day of San Diego Comic-Con at Home has brought us two major animation panels. Here are the highlights: On August 21st, Netflix will be debuting the new adult animated sports comedy series Hoops, about a high school basketball coach and his team in Kentucky. Ben Hoffman is the show’s creator. “Hoops was born […]

Saturday’s Animation Panels at Comic-Con@HOME

These are some of the Saturday animation highlights for SDCC@Home: Appropriately, the first virtual panel of the day was Warner Archive’s “Secret Origins of Saturday Morning Cartoons”. Animation Historian Jerry Beck talked about Saturday Morning’s early days. “First of all, when they made cartoons like Ruff and Reddy in the 1950s, they were actually thinking […]