Hollywood films, including Dreamwork's animation film "Shrek" and "Moulin Rouge, " lost out on the awards' front.
John Coates, the producer of the classic animation film The Snowman, has died of cancer.
It was left to Disney to revive the fashion with their hit animation film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.
It is the second time in recent years the festival has chosen a stop-motion animation film to open the gala.
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In June, Rovio acquired Kombo, the Finnish animation studio, to expand its in-house animation capabilities and it recently secured a grant from the Finnish Film Foundation to start planning its first full length animation film.
For "The Croods, " a new DreamWorks Animation film about a family of cavemen which Fox is releasing Friday, Mr. Young collaborated on yet another song, called "Shine Your Way, " featuring the additional vocals of the Malaysian singer-songwriter Yuna.
Or make a newspaper more interactive by using animation and film clips instead of photos?
Instead he set up small private screenings on the Pixar and Disney lots, and courted the animation and film school communities in Los Angeles.
He pointed out that, pound-for-pound, British animation outsells film.
But those awards would be presented with an eye to some of the technical innovations made in the performance and animation of the film.
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Chief executive, DreamWorks Animation, a film production company.
Northern Ireland Screen was established in 1997 to promote the sustainable development of a local film, animation and television production industry.
Coming in at number three on the list of computer animation is Arthur Christmas, a recent seasonal film that has some simply wonderful animation and lots of smart humor.
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The mixed animation and live action film is about a man who accidentally hits the Easter Bunny (voiced by Russell Brand) with his car and then must help him recover from his injuries.
Born in London, but raised in New York, he attended Harvard University, where he studied film and animation before dropping out in the mid-1990s to help launch a hip-hop music label, Rawkus Records.
He believes that the role of his company should not be to create content, but rather to find the "hit makers" of the short film and animation genre, and then distribute and market them through the Web.
Disney is more than just a film and animation studio the company operates everything from a TV network (multiple TV networks, actually) and an amusement park (multiple amusement parks, in fact) to a whole chain of Disney-branded stores, among other ventures.
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It is just as important to infuse this ideal and goal into narrative film, animation, digital media, television and theater classes (whether mainstream or independent) as much as for documentary classes, an area often thought of as the primary domain for social impact filmmaking.
While the film had gorgeous animation and some truly well done scenes, it never really managed to be very exciting.
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Yet it only does so thanks to takings from two days of previews, giving it the advantage over last week's top film, Disney animation Wreck-It Ralph.
The best animation went to Kipper and best film went to Fairytale: A True Story.
It was exciting to discuss our film with such an animation legend.
On Friday, coinciding with the U.S.-China film deal, DreamWorks Animation announced a joint venture with China Media Capital (CMC) and two other Chinese companies to establish a China-focused family entertainment company, Oriental DreamWorks.
Alan Davidson, from Sussex, is suing for copyright damages against the film's creators Aardman Animation and DreamWorks, said the Telegraph newspaper.
Joe Wright's adaptation of Anna Karenina came away with the award for best costume design, while Disney Pixar film Brave was named best animation.
Other films in the shortlist included Chan-wook Park's "Oldboy" from South Korea and Japanese animation master Hayao Miyazaki's animated film "Sen to Chihiro no Kamikakushi" ("Spirited Away").
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Under the deal, Disney will acquire ownership of Lucasfilm, a leader in entertainment, innovation and technology, including its massively popular and "evergreen" Star Wars franchise and its operating businesses in live action film production, consumer products, animation, visual effects, and audio post production.
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This time around the film is a mix of live action and animation.
Last month, the company failed to renew a lucrative film partnership with Pixar, a computer-animation business, after Disney accused Pixar of holding out for overly generous terms.
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