Sunday, February 8, 2015

Nominations Announced & Annie Awards

Nominations Announced & Annie Awards

(January, 2015)  Feb, 2015

Welp — I am just about caught up folks.
This is January’s entry, written in February — thank you for your patience.

As I’ve said, we had a wonderfully busy few months which culminated in January.
On the 15th, nominations were announced and we all watched with bated breath (except Tomm, who was too nervous — and instead, at lunch, went down to watch the ducks at the pond).

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[Oscar®-Nomination photo courtesy of Scainnan, IFB.]


And, holy smokes…!!  Cartoon Saloon received its second Oscar®-nomination for SONG, going 2 for 2 — and GKIDS received 2 (for both SONG and THE TALE OF THE PRINCESS KAGUYA – which garners their/our team 6 nods in 6 years for THE SECRET OF KELLS, CAT IN PARIS, CHICO & RITA, ERNEST & CELESTINE and this year’s two nods for SONG and KAGUYA).


Amazing.


We continued the month on a high with a host of Europeans coming in for ASIFA-Hollywood’s 42 Annie Awards, as SONG OF THE SEA had earned 7 nominations including: Best Animated Film, Best Director, Best Writing, Best Editing, Best Music, Best Character Design & Best Production Design.


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[The International Animated Film Society / ASIFA-Hollywood’s 42nd ANNIE AWARDS.]


14 members of the SONG team (plus!) came in as nominees, Director & Producer of CODA (Alan Holly & Ciaran Deeney) came in for the festivities as their film (one of the 10 Oscar®-shortlisted films) was also nominated for Best Animated Short, and French producer extraordinaire, Didier Brunner was honored with the Winsor McCay Lifetime Achievement Award.

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[Cartoon Saloon & Cartoon Saloon-US, photo courtesy of David Derks.]

4_Didier[Didier Brunner on the red carpet.]

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[Alan Holly & Ciaran Deeney of CODA on the red carpet.] 

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[Tomm & Paul on the red carpet.]

5_Salooners[The Salooners on the red carpet…]

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[Liselott, Tomm Eric of GKIDS and Claus – SONG’S Danish co-producer.]

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[Best Music nominee for SONG, Colm of KILA, and Best Editing nominee for SONG, Darragh.]


Inside the awards, Tomm presented Didier Brunner (the producer of THE SECRET OF KELLS, THE TRIPLETS OF BELLEVILLE, and ERNEST & CELESTINE), with The Winsor McCay Lifetime Achievement Award.

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[Tomm Moore]

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[Benjamin Renner’s ERNEST ET CELESTINE]

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[Tomm Moore’s THE SECRET OF KELLS]

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[Sylvain Chomet’s THE TRIPLETS OF BELLEVILLE]

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[Sylvain Chomet’s THE TRIPLETS OF BELLEVILLE]

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[Tomm Moore, “and the Winsor goes to…”]

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[Didier Brunner.]

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[Didier & his  lovely wife (L), his Annie and Nicole Renaud (R), the composer of Bill Plympton’s CHEATIN’.]

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[More SONG nominees, Darragh with Rosa (one of the character design nominees) & SONG’s Best Writing nominee, Will Collins.]

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[All of the women nominated for SONG in Best Character Design – sans Tomm, plus Liselott Olofsson.]



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[SONG’s French co-producers, Clement & Jeremie, Alan Holly & Ciaran Deeney of CODA, Marie Thorhague (Best Character Design Nominee for SONG) and the lovely Liselott…

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[Alan of CODA and Colm of KILA.]




Congratulations to our fellow nominees, to all of the winners and to ASIFA-Hollywood for a great time had by all.





jkb | Cartoon Saloon-US

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