2/6/10

The Annie Awards - Animation's Highest Honor


The Annie Awards Web Site, webshot

Update: Pixar Animation Studios, "Up", wins Annie for Best Animated Feature.

Best Animated Feature Nominations

•Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs — Sony Pictures Animation
•Coraline — Laika
•Fantastic Mr. Fox — 20th Century Fox
•The Princess and the Frog — Walt Disney Animation Studios
•The Secret of Kells — Cartoon Saloon
•Up — Pixar Animation Studios

Legacy: An Interview with June Foray

The Annie Awards is ASIFA-Hollywood's most glamorous event. Each year we dress up and get together like the other academies to honor our stars. In fact, the Awards are so much a part of our organization, we tend to forget there was a time before the Annies.

That we have an awards celebration is due to longtime ASIFA-Hollywood standout June Foray. In Hollywood lingo, the Annies were “June's baby.” It was she who conceived the idea and proceeded to make them a reality...

- The Annie Awards Web Site


Link June Foray, Wikipedia
Link Full Text, Legacy: An Interview with June Foray
Link The Annie Awards Web Site

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