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Women in Animation is providing an online platform for 2020 graduates to showcase their work for key industry executives after many of the typical avenues have been sidelined due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

The Women in Animation Class of 2020 Showcase will act as a conduit for thesis/final films created by graduate and undergraduate students from all over the world, making them available for recruiters, hiring managers, agents and studio executives to review.

In addition, a jury of industry professionals will choose three projects as Class of 2020 Best Films. Winners will be announced at the end of the showcase viewing period. They will receive opportunities to meet with the jurors online and to participate in live Wia Q&a sessions as part of the Wia’s virtual event series.

Jurors include animator, writer and director Craig Bartlett; Erika Dapkewicz, film editor at Sony Pictures Animation; Magdiela Hermida Duhamel, Founder of...

The death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police and the ongoing Black Lives Matter protests in the U.S. and around the world has reshaped the agenda at the first ever Women in Animation Virtual Summit, held in conjunction with Annecy 2020 Online, this year’s digital version of the Annecy International Animation Festival and Mifa 2020.

Unveiled by Women in Animation on Thursday, the summit’s program will cover both the global call for justice and the Covid-19 crisis and their momentous effects on the animation industry.

Under the motto, “Reimagining the Future: Race, Solidarity and the Culture of Work,” the Women in Animation Virtual World Summit will post exclusively on Annecy Online on June 17 and be available for festival and Mifa badge holders to view for the rest of the two-week festival.

Wia will make the Summit available to their members and more widely at a later date.

'Oh cool, a low-budget sci-fi film about a guy who goes through a mysterious sex change in space while humanity dies far below! Sounds pretty interesting, right? Even if it's bad, it's bound to be weird enough to be compelling in some way...' Such was my mindset when approaching Eric Dapkewicz' debut feature, Paradox Alice. I liked the idea of a transgender protagonist, and I generally enjoy the sci-fi formula of inscribing contemporary anxieties into a futuristic objective reality. Imagine my growing dismay as this (already tenuous) enthusiasm slowly withered and died over the course of the two hours it takes for this film to insinuate its Christian-centered, cliché-ridden storyline into my once open and forgiving mind. In Paradox Alice, the universe is a dingy...

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The American Cinema Editors (Ace) announces the winners of the 62nd Annual Ace Eddie Awards highlighting excellence in film and television editing. "The Descendants" took home the drama award, "The Artist" won the musical/comedy award, "Rango" was awarded the animated category, and "Freedom Riders" received the documentary award.

Here's the complete list of winners (highlighted) and nominees of the 62nd Annual Ace Eddie Awards (to see winners/nominees of other award-giving bodies, visit our Awards Avenue coverage right here)

Winners And Nominees Of The 62nd Annual Ace Eddie Awards

Best Edited Feature Film (Dramatic):

*** (Winner) The Descendants

Kevin Tent, A.C.E.

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

Angus Wall, A.C.E. & Kirk Baxter, A.C.E.

Hugo

Thelma Schoonmaker, A.C.E.

Moneyball

Christopher Tellefsen, A.C.E.

War Horse

Michael Kahn, A.C.E.

Best Edited Feature Film (Comedy Or Musical):

*** (Winner) The Artist...

I guess I could look at the win last night from the American Cinema Editors (Ace) for The Descendants for Best Editing in a dramatic feature as a sign we may still have an upset at the Oscars, but I think that would be overstepping my bounds. I will, however, say I think it shows The Descendants is a stronger #2 candidate for Best Picture than Hugo is as The Artist remains the clear front-runner in the Best Picture category as it also won last night for Best Editing in a comedy or musical. In the lackluster animation category Rango took the win over Puss in Boots and The Adventures of Tintin where, I guess, we could have seen Tintin win, but I'm having a hard time mustering up any kind of passion one way or another to really care. The Ace winners are listed below along with the other nominees.

Jean Dujardin, Bérénice Bejo, The Artist The Artist, The Descendants: Cinema Editors Winners Best Edited Feature Film (Dramatic) * The Descendants Kevin Tent, A.C.E. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Angus Wall, A.C.E. & Kirk Baxter, A.C.E. Hugo Thelma Schoonmaker, A.C.E. Moneyball Christopher Tellefsen, A.C.E. War Horse Michael Kahn, A.C.E. Best Edited Feature Film (Comedy Or Musical) * The Artist Anne-Sophie Bion & Michel Hazanavicius Bridesmaids William Kerr & Michael L. Sale Midnight in Paris Alisa Lepselter My Week with Marilyn Adam Recht Young Adult Dana E. Glauberman, A.C.E. Best Edited Animated Feature Film The Adventures of Tintin Michael Kahn, A.C.E. Puss in Boots Eric Dapkewicz * Rango Craig Wood, A.C.E. Best Edited Half-hour Series For Television Curb Your Enthusiasm: “Mister Softee” Roger Nygard * Curb Your Enthusiasm: “Palestinian Chicken” Steven Rasch, A.C.E. Modern Family...

Jennifer Yuh Nelson's "Kung Fu Panda 2" dominated the Annie Awards nominations, but the International Animated Film Society decided to give its highest honor -- the Best Animated Feature award -- to Gore Verbinski's "Rango." Both films are from DreamWorks Animation and they still have to duke it out at the upcoming Oscars in the Best Animated Feature Film category.

Besides the Best Animated trophy, "Rango" also collected awards for Best Editing and Writing. But Nelson, the first woman to direct a feature film animation from a major Hollywood production company, won the Directing in a Feature Production award! Yay! (Check out my interview with Jennifer Yuh Nelson for "Kung Fu Panda 2" right here)

The Annie Awards winners were announced yesterday at the UCLA Royce Hall in Los Angeles.

Here's the complete list of winners (highlighted) and nominees of the 39th Annual Annie Awards (to see winners/nominees of other award-giving bodies,...

Gore Verbinski's Rango, voiced by Johnny Depp Production Categories Best Animated Feature A Cat in Paris Arrugas (Wrinkles) Arthur Christmas Cars 2 Chico & Rita Kung Fu Panda 2 Puss in Boots * Rango Rio The Adventures of Tintin Best Animated Special Production Adventure Time: Thank You Batman: Year One Ice Age: A Mammoth Christmas * Kung Fu Panda: Secret of the Masters Prey 2 Star Tours Best Animated Short Subject * Adam and Dog I Tawt I Taw A Puddy Tat La Luna (Notes on) Biology Paths of Hate Sunday The Ballad of Nessie The Girl and the Fox Wild Life and Studio Gds Individual Achievement Categories Animated Effects in an Animated Production Can Yuksel, Puss In Boots Chase Cooper, Rango Dan Lund, Winnie The Pooh Dave Tidgewell, Kung Fu Panda 2 Eric Froemling, Cars 2 Jason Mayer, Kung Fu Panda 2 Joel Aron, Star Wars: The Clone Wars Jon Reisch,...

The nominations for the 62nd Ace Eddie Awards were announced today recognizing outstanding editing in nine categories of film, television and documentaries. The Artist and The Descendants were still going strong after their respective wins last night at the Golden Globes Awards. The Eddie Awards will be presented at the Beverly Hilton Saturday, February 18, 2012. The ceremony will be hosted by actor/comedian Patton Oswalt. Later this month Ace will announce the Golden Eddie Filmmaker of the Year honoree and two Career Achievement honorees.

Nominees For 62nd Annual Ace Eddie Awards

Best Edited Feature Film (Dramatic):

The Descendants - Kevin Tent, A.C.E.

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - Angus Wall, A.C.E. & Kirk Baxter, A.C.E.

Hugo - Thelma Schoonmaker, A.C.E.

Moneyball – Christopher Tellefsen, A.C.E.

War Horse - Michael Kahn, A.C.E.

Best Edited Feature Film (Comedy Or Musical):...

Jeremy Irvine, Peter Mullan in Steven Spielberg's War Horse Best Edited Feature Film (Dramatic) The Descendants Kevin Tent, A.C.E. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Angus Wall, A.C.E. & Kirk Baxter, A.C.E. Hugo Thelma Schoonmaker, A.C.E. Moneyball Christopher Tellefsen, A.C.E. War Horse Michael Kahn, A.C.E. Best Edited Feature Film (Comedy Or Musical) The Artist Anne-Sophie Bion & Michel Hazanavicius Bridesmaids William Kerr & Michael L. Sale Midnight in Paris Alisa Lepselter My Week with Marilyn Adam Recht Young Adult Dana E. Glauberman, A.C.E. Best Edited Animated Feature Film The Adventures of Tintin Michael Kahn, A.C.E. Puss in Boots Eric Dapkewicz Rango Craig Wood, A.C.E. Best Edited Half-hour Series For Television Curb Your Enthusiasm: “Mister Softee” Roger Nygard Curb Your Enthusiasm: “Palestinian Chicken” Steven Rasch, A.C.E. Modern Family: “Express Christmas” Steven Rasch,...

Like every entertainment guild or union there is an awards show to recognize the year’s best in narrative film, documentary, and television. We’ve already seen various guilds nominate the best in producing, directing, and writing, now we have the Eddie Awards from the American Cinema Editors (Ace). There aren’t any big surprises on this list, The Descendants, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Hugo, and Young Adult all made the list.

But looking at the list below, I noticed that the guild has separated the movies into their own categories; so that one movie genre isn’t overlooked.

You can read the full press release and list of nominees below:

American Cinema Editors (Ace) today announced nominations for the 62nd Annual Ace Eddie Awards recognizing outstanding editing in nine categories of film, television and documentaries. Winners will be revealed during Ace’s 62nd annual black-tie awards ceremony on Saturday,...

Each year American Cinema Editors [1] (Ace) recognizes the best editing of the year in narrative film, documentary and television through the Eddie Awards. The nominations for achievement in 2011 have been released [2]. They include a couple of expected films such as Hugo and The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, and feature a couple other inclusions that might count as surprises to some. The full list is below. This list comes from the Ace press release about this year's Eddies. In this case, I like that there are feature film categories for dramatic and comedy/musical efforts; not that editing one or the other is more difficult, but editing is such a core component of comedy and musical films, and one that so often goes unheralded and even unexamined, that it deserves a moment in the sun. Looking at the documentary selections, I was at first disappointed not to see Senna included,...

The editors have spoken. Though editing is an artform that greatly fascinates me I nearly always take issue with the Ace nominations. More than most craftsmen, the editors in the guild and in Oscar's editing branch seem to just pick their favorite Best Picture contenders every year even in cases where the editing might not be anywhere close to its strongest element. I understand why people love Hugo for example -- I really do despite my protestations -- but even though I think Thelma Schoonmaker is one of the most gifted editors who ever walked the earth, her work on Hugo is not up to her general (very high) standards. I've discussed this with Nick several times so I know I wasn't imagining it. We were both flabbergasted at the amount of shot / reverse shots where the children just sort of stare at each other blankly in scene after scene.

The 62nd annual Ace Eddie Awards have announced their nominees this year for the best in editing. Last year, The Social Network team of Angus Wall and Kirk Baxter rightfully won the top award, while Exit Through the Gift Shop picked it up for documentary. Out of the noms below, I’d love to see Thelma Schoonmaker pick it up for Hugo, mostly due to the last third of the film or Kevin Tent’s fitting relaxed tone on The Descendants. As for Moneyball and War Horse, outside of some well put-together sequences, both felt overlong and thus undeserving of the award. Same goes for Werner Herzog‘s Cave of Forgotten Dreams, whereas David Tedeschi’s George Harrison: Living in the Material World runs almost four hours and has excellent pacing. Check out all the noms below.

Best Edited Feature Film (Dramatic):

The Descendants

Kevin Tent, A.C.E.

Scene from the opening credits of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

Photo: Columbia Pictures Best Film Editing is quite the important category when it comes to predicting the Best Picture winner (read more about why right here) and the American Cinema Editors' Ace Eddie Awards are a good way to begin evaluating the category and today they announced their 2012 nominees and there are certainly some things to discuss. In 2006-2008, before the Academy began nominating ten films for Best Picture, only three films -- The Reader (2008), Atonement (2007) and Letters from Iwo Jima (2006) -- were nominated for Best Picture that were not nominated by the American Cinema Editors. When the Academy bumped it up to ten nominees over the last two years only three films each year missed the cut, which is saying something considering only 13 films are nominated in three different categories each year. So what will this year's crop of contenders tell us?...

By Sean O’Connell

hollywoodnews.com: The American Cinema Editors announced their nominations for the 62nd Annual Ace Eddie Awards Monday morning, recognizing outstanding editing in nine categories of film, television and documentaries.

Like the Golden Globes, the editors divide their films between “Dramatic” and “Comedic” categories, so its tough to peg how (or if) they play into the five Oscar nomination slots. At the very least, you can guess that the Academy’s five nominees will come from the five features listed below.

Winners will be revealed during Ace’s 62nd annual black-tie awards ceremony on Saturday, February 18, 2012 in the International Ballroom of the Beverly Hilton Hotel. As previously announced, the ceremony will be hosted by actor/comedian Patton Oswalt. Later this month Ace will announce the Golden Eddie Filmmaker of the Year honoree and two Career Achievement honorees.

Here are the nominees for 62nd Annual Ace Eddie Awards:...

Milou aka Snowy in Steven Spielberg's The Adventures of Tintin Annie Award 2011 Nominations Pt.1: Rango, Rio, The Adventures Of Tintin Directing in a Feature Production Carlos Saldanha “Rio” – Blue Sky Studios Chris Miller “Puss In Boots” – DreamWorks Animation Don Hall & Stephen Anderson “Winnie The Pooh” – Walt Disney Animation Studios Gore Verbinski “Rango” – Paramount Pictures and Nickelodeon Movies present a Blind Wink/Gk Films Productions Jennifer Yuh Nelson “Kung Fu Panda 2” – DreamWorks Animation Kelly Asbury “Gnomeo & Juliet” – Touchstone Pictures Music in a Feature Production Henry Jackman “Puss In Boots” – DreamWorks Animation John Williams “The Adventures of Tintin” – Amblin Entertainment, Wingnut Films and Kennedy/Marshall Mikael Mutti, Siedah Garrett, Carlinhos Brown, Sergio Mendes, John Powell, “Rio” – Blue Sky Studios Zooey Deschannel, Kristen Anderson-Lopez, Henry Jackman, Robert Lopez “Winnie The Pooh” – Walt Disney Animation Studios Production Design in a Feature Production Harley Jessup “Cars 2” – Pixar Animation Studios Paul Felix...

I'm a huge fan of animation, animated films are getting better and better. Not only is the look and animation getting ridiculously awesome, but I find that many of these animated films actually have incredibly good stories. Not all of them are good though, for example, Cars 2 and Rio sucked. It will be interesting to see who ends up taking home the awards this year. Out of the movies on the list that I've seen and liked we have Puss in Boots, Rango and Kung Fu Panda 2. I guess it's no surprises that Kung Fu Panda 2 is leading the nominations with 9. Check out the list and let us know what your favorite animated movies of the year are!

Production Categories

Best Animated Feature

A Cat in Paris – Folimage Arrugas (Wrinkles) - Perro Verde Films, S.L. Arthur Christmas – Sony Pictures Animation, Aardman Animations Cars 2 – Pixar Animation...

"Kung Fu Panda 2" dominated the nominations for the 39th Annual Annie Awards. Given by the International Animated Film Society, the DreamWorks Animation sequel received 12 nods including Best Animated Feature. "Puss in Boots" and "Rango" each took nine noms. Pixar's "Cars 2" received seven nominations, while Disney's "Winnie the Pooh" took eight nods but was oddly missing in the Best Animated Feature category.

Winners of the 2011 Annie Awards will be announced on Saturday, Feb. 4.

Here's the complete list of nominees of the 39th Annual Annie Awards:

Production Categories

Best Animated Feature

A Cat in Paris . Folimage

Arrugas (Wrinkles) - Perro Verde Films, S.L.

Arthur Christmas . Sony Pictures Animation, Aardman Animations

Cars 2 . Pixar Animation Studios

Chico & Rita . Chico & Rita Distribution Limited

Kung Fu Panda 2 . DreamWorks Animation

Puss In Boots . DreamWorks Animation

Rango . Paramount Pictures and Nickelodeon Movies present A Blind Wink/Gk Films Production

Rio . Blue Sky Studios

Tintin . Amblin Entertainment,...

I don't put much stock in the Annie Awards and neither does Disney after withdrawing from the International Animated Film Society, Asifa-Hollywood back in 2010. I have personally never found them to be a good judge of quality and as such don't pay them any particular attention, though I will pass along the information as they have announced their 2011 nominees with Dreamworks' Kung Fu Panda 2 leading the way with 12 nominations, followed by Puss in Boots and Rango each with nine. Of course, while Disney has withdrawn from the Annies that doesn't mean they aren't considered for the awards as Cars 2, Gnomeo and Juliet and Winnie the Pooh are among the nominees. Last year How to Train Your Dragon reigned supreme over Toy Story 3 and I wouldn't be surprised to see Kung Fu Panda 2 take home plenty of hardware, following in the footsteps of its predecessor, which beat out...

In DreamWorks Animation’s latest animated outing, we are introduced to the world of Puss In Boots populated by some eyebrow-raising nursery rhyme characters. A back story to the little wide-eyed cat we met in Shrek 2, the film opens with the newly-orphaned Puss, growing up in the small village of San Ricardo. He later befriends a somewhat twisted and oval shaped guy – Humpty Alexander Dumpty. Puss continually listens to Humpty’s lofty dreams and plans, but at the end of the day, he’s just an egg who’s better at rolling than walking. Ultimately Humpty doesn’t have the means to really accomplish any of his goals. Director Chris Miller shows us an egg who was picked on and a bit of an outsider, and Puss protected him and always stood up for him. Humpty is the dreamer and Puss is helping him realize his dreams.

They both...

See new clips, interviews and TV spots from Puss in Boots, starring Antonio Banderas! The hilarious-looking animated family adventure opens October 28th via Paramount Pictures. Pic featuring an intriguing cast, should claw in a hefty take come box ofice numbers. To get you ready for the eagerly anticipated release, we've got interviews with cast and filmmakers including Antonio Banderas (Puss in Boots), Salma Hayek (Kitty Softpaws), Billy Bob Thornton (Jack), Guillermo del Toro (executive producer and the voice of Moustache Man and Comandante), director Chris Miller, producers Latifa Ouaou and Joe M. Aguilar, head of story Bob Persichetti, Editoe Eric Dapkewicz, visual effects supervisor Ken Bielenberg and composer Henry Jackman...

See new clips, interviews and TV spots from Puss in Boots, starring Antonio Banderas! The hilarious-looking animated family adventure opens October 28th via Paramount Pictures. Pic featuring an intriguing cast, should claw in a hefty take come box ofice numbers. To get you ready for the eagerly anticipated release, we've got interviews with cast and filmmakers including Antonio Banderas (Puss in Boots), Salma Hayek (Kitty Softpaws), Billy Bob Thornton (Jack), Guillermo del Toro (executive producer and the voice of Moustache Man and Comandante), director Chris Miller, producers Latifa Ouaou and Joe M. Aguilar, head of story Bob Persichetti, Editoe Eric Dapkewicz, visual effects supervisor Ken Bielenberg and composer Henry Jackman...