Celebrating the Art, Craft and Business of Animation https://www.awn.com/ en-US 15 Thu, 18 Dec 2025 07:39:31 -0800 Thu, 18 Dec 2025 07:40:13 -0800 https://www.awn.com/news/academy-youtube-partner-exclusive-global-rights-oscars From 2029 through 2033, the annual awards, including red carpet coverage, behind-the-scenes content, and Governors Ball access, will be available live and for free on YouTube, and for YouTube TV subscribers in the United States. L'Wren Alexa https://www.awn.com/news/academy-youtube-partner-exclusive-global-rights-oscars Thu, 18 Dec 2025 7:39:31 PST Academy Awards https://www.awn.com/news/academy-announces-shortlists-10-categories-98th-oscars VFX category narrowed down to 10 films, animated shorts to 15; voting for nominations runs next month, January 12-16, with nomination announcements set for January 22, 2026. Dan Sarto https://www.awn.com/news/academy-announces-shortlists-10-categories-98th-oscars Tue, 16 Dec 2025 11:56:43 PST Academy Awards https://www.awn.com/news/35-animated-features-eligible-academy-awards-consideration Academy members will vote to determine five nominees for best animated feature film award at the 99th Oscars; films also qualify for other categories including best picture. Dan Sarto https://www.awn.com/news/35-animated-features-eligible-academy-awards-consideration Fri, 21 Nov 2025 13:39:23 PST Academy Awards https://www.awn.com/news/winners-announced-2025-student-academy-awards 12 short films, including 3 animations, from 3,127 entries, are awarded at 52nd ceremony, held in New York City; all winning films now eligible for 98th Oscars. Dan Sarto https://www.awn.com/news/winners-announced-2025-student-academy-awards Tue, 07 Oct 2025 9:22:37 PDT Academy Awards https://www.awn.com/news/academy-elects-2025-2026-academy-foundation-board-members-officers The Academy Foundation Board comprises 12 trustees who also serve as members of the Academy Board of Governors; casting director Kim Taylor-Coleman was elected Board president. L'Wren Alexa https://www.awn.com/news/academy-elects-2025-2026-academy-foundation-board-members-officers Mon, 11 Aug 2025 9:33:16 PDT Academy Awards https://www.awn.com/news/ampas-aces-joins-academy-software-foundation The open source framework for color management and image interchange across the entire motion picture production life cycle has been developed and maintained by the Academy for more than a decade. L'Wren Alexa https://www.awn.com/news/ampas-aces-joins-academy-software-foundation Thu, 07 Aug 2025 17:36:53 PDT Academy Awards https://www.awn.com/news/academy-invites-534-new-members The list of new AMPAS member invitees includes 41 in Animation, 25 in Visual Effects, 29 in Production Design, and 25 in Production and Technology. Dan Sarto https://www.awn.com/news/academy-invites-534-new-members Thu, 26 Jun 2025 12:58:33 PDT Academy Awards https://www.awn.com/news/ampas-call-submissions-2026-scientific-and-technical-awards Eligible entries include devices, methods, formulas, discoveries, and inventions of outstanding value to moviemaking; must be received by July 24. L'Wren Alexa https://www.awn.com/news/ampas-call-submissions-2026-scientific-and-technical-awards Tue, 24 Jun 2025 11:33:44 PDT Academy Awards https://www.awn.com/news/academy-sets-2025-dates-rule-changes-ai-guidelines-and-expands-animated-short-voting For 98th Oscars, members must now watch all nominated films in a category in order to vote in final award round; each branch will judge films based on the ‘degree to which a human was at the heart of the creative authorship.’ Dan Sarto https://www.awn.com/news/academy-sets-2025-dates-rule-changes-ai-guidelines-and-expands-animated-short-voting Mon, 21 Apr 2025 11:47:37 PDT Academy Awards https://www.awn.com/vfxworld/nathan-crowley-goes-big-and-practical-wicked-production-design Fresh off his Oscar win for Jon M. Chu and Universal’s hit musical adventure, the production designer talks real trains, Unreal Engine digital fly-bys, and growing 9 million tulips. Trevor Hogg https://www.awn.com/vfxworld/nathan-crowley-goes-big-and-practical-wicked-production-design Mon, 17 Mar 2025 14:55:11 PDT Academy Awards https://www.awn.com/news/flow-dune-part-two-take-home-oscar-gold In an upset win, Gints Zilbalodis’ animated tale of a cat who wakes up to a world invaded by water took home the Oscar for Best Animated Feature, while the second chapter in Denis Villeneuve’s sci-fi epic won for Best Visual Effects and Best Sound Design on a night that also saw Iranian filmmakers Shirin Sohani and Hossein Molayemi, with visas approved just yesterday, arrive in the U.S. in time to win Best Animated Short for ‘In the Shadow of the Cypress.’ Dan Sarto https://www.awn.com/news/flow-dune-part-two-take-home-oscar-gold Sun, 02 Mar 2025 20:02:38 PST Academy Awards https://www.awn.com/animationworld/road-97th-oscars-animated-features-nominees Take a deeper look at ‘Flow,’ ‘Inside Out 2,’ ‘Memoir of a Snail,’ ‘Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl,’ and ‘The Wild Robot,’ all vying for the Best Animated Feature Oscar on March 2, 2025. Victoria Davis https://www.awn.com/animationworld/road-97th-oscars-animated-features-nominees Tue, 25 Feb 2025 16:23:34 PST Academy Awards https://www.awn.com/animationworld/spotlight-oscar-nominated-shorts-shadow-cypress Iranian filmmakers Hossein Molayemi and Shirin Sohani talk about their hand-drawn, deeply personal film, created under extreme political and financial hardship, about a captain suffering from PTSD who lives with his daughter, wants to be a caring father, but struggles with a harsh life.   Dan Sarto https://www.awn.com/animationworld/spotlight-oscar-nominated-shorts-shadow-cypress Tue, 18 Feb 2025 12:57:02 PST Academy Awards https://www.awn.com/animationworld/spotlight-oscar-nominated-shorts-yuck Director Loïc Espuche and producer Juliette Marquet discuss their 2D animated short about a group of kids on vacation and how they react with disgust as they spy people kissing on the mouth… although for one young boy and girl, the idea may not be so awful. Dan Sarto https://www.awn.com/animationworld/spotlight-oscar-nominated-shorts-yuck Mon, 17 Feb 2025 16:46:48 PST Academy Awards https://www.awn.com/animationworld/spotlight-oscar-nominated-shorts-magic-candies Producer Takashi Washio shares insights on his collaboration with director Daisuke Nishio and their efforts to understand Korean culture in order to faithfully adapt Heena Baek’s picture book, which follows a boy who struggles to connect with others until he discovers a pack of magical candies. Victoria Davis https://www.awn.com/animationworld/spotlight-oscar-nominated-shorts-magic-candies Mon, 17 Feb 2025 12:55:07 PST Academy Awards https://www.awn.com/animationworld/spotlight-oscar-nominated-shorts-beautiful-men Nicolas Keppens discusses his stop-motion film about the vulnerable journey of 3 balding brothers who travel to Istanbul for hair transplants. Victoria Davis https://www.awn.com/animationworld/spotlight-oscar-nominated-shorts-beautiful-men Thu, 13 Feb 2025 10:13:51 PST Academy Awards https://www.awn.com/animationworld/spotlight-oscar-nominated-shorts-wander-wonder Nina Gantz discusses her stop-motion film about 3 tiny humans, stars of a kids’ TV series, whose creator dies, leaving them alone in the studio to somehow survive and continue making episodes. Victoria Davis https://www.awn.com/animationworld/spotlight-oscar-nominated-shorts-wander-wonder Wed, 12 Feb 2025 16:08:47 PST Academy Awards https://www.awn.com/vfxworld/road-97th-oscars-visual-effects-nominees Take a deeper look at ‘Alien: Romulus,’ ‘Better Man,’ ‘Dune: Part Two,’ ‘Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes,’ and ‘Wicked,’ all vying for the Best Visual Effects Oscar on March 2, 2025. Trevor Hogg https://www.awn.com/vfxworld/road-97th-oscars-visual-effects-nominees Tue, 11 Feb 2025 15:05:13 PST Academy Awards https://www.awn.com/animationworld/crafting-bittersweet-stop-motion-adam-elliots-memoir-snail The Oscar-winning ‘Harvie Krumpet’ director discusses how he’s failed as a filmmaker if audiences aren’t left emotionally wrecked by his latest film about the difficult lives of once inseparable twins forced to live with different families after their father dies; just nominated for an Oscar and two Annie Awards. Trevor Hogg https://www.awn.com/animationworld/crafting-bittersweet-stop-motion-adam-elliots-memoir-snail Tue, 28 Jan 2025 15:51:59 PST Academy Awards https://www.awn.com/news/14-scientific-technical-achievements-be-honored-academy-sci-tech-awards Ceremony, rescheduled for April 29 at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, celebrates individuals and companies whose discoveries and innovations have contributed in significant and lasting ways to the motion picture industry. Dan Sarto https://www.awn.com/news/14-scientific-technical-achievements-be-honored-academy-sci-tech-awards Mon, 27 Jan 2025 12:51:52 PST Academy Awards https://www.awn.com/news/97th-academy-awards-vfx-nominees-react Oscar nominees named this morning for Best Visual Effects share their reactions. Dan Sarto https://www.awn.com/news/97th-academy-awards-vfx-nominees-react Thu, 23 Jan 2025 16:17:38 PST Academy Awards https://www.awn.com/news/97th-academy-awards-animation-nominees-react Oscar nominees named this morning for Best Animated Feature and Best Animated Short share their reactions to the great news. Dan Sarto https://www.awn.com/news/97th-academy-awards-animation-nominees-react Thu, 23 Jan 2025 14:39:32 PST Academy Awards https://www.awn.com/news/nominations-announced-97th-academy-awards ‘Flow,’ ‘Inside Out 2,’ ‘Memoir of a Snail,’ ‘Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl,’ and ‘The Wild Robot’ nab noms for Best Animated Feature, while ‘Alien: Romulus,’ ‘Better Man,’ ‘Dune: Part Two,’ ‘Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes,’ and ‘Wicked’ take the top spots for Best Visual Effects. Dan Sarto https://www.awn.com/news/nominations-announced-97th-academy-awards Thu, 23 Jan 2025 6:58:30 PST Academy Awards https://www.awn.com/news/academy-issues-97th-oscars-update Nominations voting period extended due to the ongoing Los Angeles fires and their impact; AMPAS has changed some key dates and events on its awards season schedule. Dan Sarto https://www.awn.com/news/academy-issues-97th-oscars-update Mon, 13 Jan 2025 10:42:49 PST Academy Awards https://www.awn.com/news/michael-moore-joins-ground-zero-executive-producer The shortlisted Oscars entry, a collection of short films by 22 Palestinian filmmakers living in Gaza that blends animation, documentary, and fiction, hits U.S. theaters on January 3. L'Wren Alexa https://www.awn.com/news/michael-moore-joins-ground-zero-executive-producer Tue, 31 Dec 2024 10:12:10 PST Academy Awards https://www.awn.com/animationworld/torill-kove-tells-story-behind-imagery-maybe-elephants Oscar-winning animator Torill Kove, known for her unique style of personal storytelling, now dives into the inspiration for the images in her award-winning short ‘Maybe Elephants’ and how they were crafted. National Film Board of Canada https://www.awn.com/animationworld/torill-kove-tells-story-behind-imagery-maybe-elephants Thu, 19 Dec 2024 11:57:19 PST Academy Awards https://www.awn.com/news/academy-announces-shortlists-10-categories-97th-oscars VFX category narrowed down to 10 films, animated shorts to 15; voting for nominations runs next month, January 8-12, with nomination announcements set for January 17, 2025. Dan Sarto https://www.awn.com/news/academy-announces-shortlists-10-categories-97th-oscars Tue, 17 Dec 2024 11:38:48 PST Academy Awards https://www.awn.com/animationworld/magnets-lube-and-r-rating-adam-elliot-discusses-memoir-snail-savff The Oscar-winning director of ‘Harvie Krumpet’ discusses his new, award-winning, decidedly not-for-kids stop-motion feature, including the use of sophisticated magnetic puppets, being forced to play board games as a kid, and how personal lubricant makes the best tears because it can go all day and not evaporate. Victoria Davis https://www.awn.com/animationworld/magnets-lube-and-r-rating-adam-elliot-discusses-memoir-snail-savff Thu, 21 Nov 2024 17:27:04 PST Academy Awards https://www.awn.com/news/31-animated-features-eligible-academy-awards-consideration Academy members will vote to determine five nominees for best animated feature film award at the 97th Oscars; films also qualify for other categories including best picture. Dan Sarto https://www.awn.com/news/31-animated-features-eligible-academy-awards-consideration Thu, 21 Nov 2024 11:52:26 PST Academy Awards https://www.awn.com/news/legendary-producer-jon-landau-passes-63 The Oscar-winning producer of  the hugely successful 'Titanic' and the 'Avatar' film franchise and longtime producing partner to James Cameron at Lightstorm Entertainment passed away on Friday after a battle with cancer.  L'Wren Alexa https://www.awn.com/news/legendary-producer-jon-landau-passes-63 Mon, 08 Jul 2024 9:37:50 PDT Academy Awards