Yesterday lunchtime the nominations for the 73rd Golden Globes were announced from the Beverley Hilton Hotel, Beverley Hills in Los Angeles. After an agonising few minutes wait the news that Aardman's 'SHAUN THE SHEEP MOVIE' had secured a nomination for a Golden Globe Award for Best Animated Feature. I'm so proud to be a part of this wonderful film, it certainly deserves all the attention it's getting, of course I would say that!
The nominated animated features this year, include two very diverse stop motion films: 'ANOMALISA' (which looks amazing!) and of course 'SHAUN THE SHEEP MOVIE', with Disney Pixar's 'INSIDE OUT' and 'THE GOOD DINOSAUR' with 'THE PEANUTS MOVIE' completing the five. So a pretty competitive set of nominees to say the least! We'll find out who comes away with the award on Sunday January 10th 2016, just four days before we find out whether 'SHAUN THE SHEEP MOVIE' will be rewarded with an Oscar nomination too, all just a wee bit crazy??!!
Still on the awards trail ... 'SHAUN THE SHEEP MOVIE' has also had some other brilliant news.
The Annie Awards (basically the animation Oscars!) are, quoting from their own website ...
"The event celebrating individuals for a lifetime or career contributions to the art of animation in producing, directing, animating, design, writing, voice acting, sound and sound effects, technical work, music, professional teaching, and for other endeavours which exhibit outstanding contributions to excellence in animation."
'SHAUN THE SHEEP MOVIE' has been nominated in FIVE categories:
1.) Best Animated Feature.
2.) Outstanding Achievement in
Directing for Richard Starzac and Mark Burton.
3.) Outstanding Achievement in
Writing an Animated Feature for Richard Starzac and Mark Burton.
4.) Outstanding Achievement in
Production Design for Matt Perry and Gavin Lines.
5.) Outstanding Achievement in
Editorial in an Animated Feature for Sim Evan-Jones.
The 43rd Annual Annie Awards will be presented on Saturday February 6th 2016 at UCLA's Royce Hall in Los Angeles.
