The Producers Guild of America (PGA) announced this hour that Pixar chief John Lasseter will be receiving the David O. Selznick Achievement Award at the Guild's upcoming annual award show, set for January 24, 2010 —a first for an animated film producer.If you recall, early this year the PGA honored WALL-E producer (now Pixar general manager) Jim Morris with a nomination and win in the animation category for his work on WALL-E.
(via AP)
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"[...]a first for an animated film producer."
Did PGA not exist back in Walt's day?
Hey Mike! Out of all the animated films this year, besides Up, which was your favorite? Here's a list, but I think I might be forgetting some:
Coraline
Monsters vs. Aliens
Up
Ice Age: Dawn of The Dinosaurs
Ponyo
9
Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs
And out of the ones coming out, which ones are you most anticipating?
Astro Boy
A Christmas Carol
Fantastic Mr. Fox
Mary & Max
Planet 51
The Princess and The Frog (Mr. Lasseter helped with this one!)
Avatar (Does this one count as animation?)
I look forward to hearing which other animated films you've seen and enjoyed this year! Keep up the great work with TPB!
I'll answer "I Love Pixar"'s question! Besides Up, my favorite animated film I've seen so far was Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs. I have not heard of Mary & Max, and the movie I am looking forward to least is Avatar. All of the others look great, based on their trailers!
@Jordan: Thanks for the answer! Mary & Max is an Australian claymation film about a pen-pal relationship between an 8 year-old girl and a middle-aged man with Aspergers syndrome. It looks very interesting. I haven't seen Cloudy yet, but I really want to!
I Love Pixar:
I've seen all of these (except Ponyo), and...
Coraline was pretty good, but compared to Corpse Bride, it isn't THAT great.
Monsters vs. Aliens... maybe not much plot, but HYSTERRICAL! They should've released it in the summer.
Up, well, you can guess. Best one so far.
Ice Age 3 continued to plummet on the franchise. How did it get to gross so much worldwide? I DON'T KNOW.
9 was quite good, I thought.
CWACOM was a hit out of the ballpark, a great movie.
Upcoming:
I saw Astro Boy today actually, and it was fabulous, almost as great as Up.
Some of these I've either never heard of, or they're not animated (i.e.: A Christmas Carol and Avatar). Planet 51 looked OK, but not very good.
The Princess and the Frog... meh. It looks funny, but kind of lame.
Speaking of Astro Boy... IT ONLY GOT 1.8 MILLION ON FRIDAY, AND THE HORRID PARANORMAL ACTIVITY AND SAW VI WERE ON TOP!!?! HAS THE WORLD GONE MAD?
LET'S HOPE IT HOLDS UP LIKE "CLOUDY" DID!
A Christmas Carol is animation. Mo-Cap is a version of animation, and I have more than one point to argue this by...
Coraline was quite good. The stop-motion animation was very impressive. Monsters vs. Aliens wasn't awful or anything, but it felt more like one of those films that was just made to be made. Up was obviously amazing. Didn't see Ice Age, 9, or Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs. Ponyo was very imaginitive and light-hearted, full of that Miyazaki (and even some classic Disney) charm.
The Princess and the Frog looks to be the best upcoming animated film on that list.
Glad I got a discussion started! Anyway, like Anon. said, mo-cap is animation. Avatar is mo-cap, and the whole planet of Pandora is animated. I'm not sure it qualifies because, to my knowledge, the stuff on Earth isn't animated.
I should note that from my list of films now in release, I have seen 6 of the 8 films listed. I liked all of them, but Up, Coraline and 9 were my favourites.
I have yet to see Cloudy and Astro Boy.
I love reading what Pixar fans have thought of non-Pixar animation. Anyway, anxious to see what Mike's opinions are on all these films!
Oh wonderful! I LOVE LOVE LOVE PIXAR!
& congratulations John! :)
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