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Animation Educators Forum (AEF) Announce New Hall of Fame 2022 Recipients
BURBANK, CA (September 26, 2022) – The Animation Educators Forum (AEF), a non-profit association of teachers and scholars whose focus is the art of animated film, announce the inaugural group selected to its new Hall of Fame. Dedicated to the artists and scholars whose teaching influenced the history of animation, the AEF will announce a […]
50th Annie Awards Set for Feb 25, 2023 at UCLA’s Royce Hall
BURBANK, CA (June 1, 2022) – The Board of Directors for ASIFA-Hollywood announced today that its 50th Annual Annie Awards™ recognizing the year’s best in the field of animation will return to a live ceremony on Saturday, February 25, 2023 at UCLA’s Royce Hall, Los Angeles, CA. A list of ceremony Deadlines, Rules & Categories, […]
Animation Educators Forum (AEF) Now Accepting Applications For 2022 Faculty Grant Program
The Faculty Grant program from ASIFA-Hollywood’s Animation Educations Forum (AEF) provides support for individuals or groups with reasonable expenditures associated with research, scholarly activity, or creative projects in the field of animation. Guidelines for applying for the AEF Faculty Grants are found here. Online Submissions Submissions are accepted online only through the submission site. The […]
‘The Mitchells vs The Machines’ and ‘Flee’ Take Top Prizes at the Annie Awards
Sony Pictures Animation was a big winner Saturday evening during the 49th Virtual Annie Awards™. The Mitchells vs The Machines received eight Annies including Best Feature, Best FX (Christopher Logan, Man-Louk Chin, Devdatta Nerurkar, Pav Grochola, Filippo Maccari), Character Design (Lindsey Olivares), Direction (Mike Rianda, Jeff Rowe), Production Design (Lindsey Olivares, Toby Wilson, Dave Bleich), […]
Annie Awards: Vote Before the February 15th Deadline
If you are an ASIFA-Hollywood professional or patron member who has qualified and been approved to vote for the Annies, you have already received your ballot. If, by chance you didn’t receive the original email invitation, login at my.asifa-hollywood.org and your ballot and voting instructions will pop up. You are able to vote in every category, though you […]
49th Annie Awards Ticket Update
Annie tickets that have been purchased at annieawards.org and members.asifa-hollywood.org/tickets will be refunded by February 21st. If you purchased tickets from either of these two websites and have not received a refund by February 21, please contact us via email at support@annieawards.org for further assistance, and well as for any other Annie-related questions. Please send […]
49th Annie Awards Move to Virtual Format on Saturday, March 12
BURBANK, CA (January 20, 2022) – The Board of Directors for ASIFA-Hollywood announced today that its 49th Annual Annie Awards™ recognizing the year’s best in the field of animation will move to a virtual format instead of a live ceremony that was originally set for Saturday, February 26. Reasons for the change are due primarily […]
Nominations for the 49th Annie Awards Announced
BURBANK, CA (December 21, 2021) – ASIFA-Hollywood announced nominations today for its 49th Annual Annie Awards™ recognizing the year’s best in the field of animation. For a complete list of nominations, please visit www.annieawards.org/nominations. This year’s ceremony is scheduled to return Live on Saturday, February 26, 2022 at UCLA’s Royce Hall. Pre-reception and Red Carpet […]
Remembering Will Ryan
Will Ryan, prolific voice actor, musician, writer and ASIFA-Hollywood past president passed away on November 19 after a short battle with cancer. In the late 1970s, Will teamed up with Phil Baron, performing as Willio and Phillio. Eventually the team voiced the Teddy Ruxpin and Grubby the Octopede characters for books, recordings and television. After […]