Golden Globe Nomination for 'SHAUN THE SHEEP MOVIE' and 5 Annie Award Nominations.

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.

Oscar Nomination race begins for 'SHAUN THE SHEEP MOVIE'.

Hot on the heals of the Children's BAFTA Nominations for 'SHAUN THE SHEEP MOVIE' comes the news that The Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences have announced that 16 animated features have been submitted for Oscar nomination consideration. I am delighted to say that 'SHAUN THE SHEEP MOVIE' is on that list! The 16 films are:

Anomalisa
Home

Hotel Transylvania 2
Inside Out
Kahlil Gibranas The Prophet

Minions

Moomins on the Riviera

Regular Show: The Movie

Shaun the Sheep Movie

The Boy and the Beast

The Boy and the World

The Good Dinosaur

The Laws of the Universe a Part 0

The Peanuts Movie

The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge out of Water

When Marnie Was There

The 88th Academy Awards nominations will be announced on Thursday, January 14, 2016.

Oscar Long-Listed Animated Short 'PAPA'S BOY' voiced by Sean is now AVAILABLE TO BUY from iTunes.

The Oscar Long-Listed Animated Short 'PAPA'S BOY'.

'PAPA'S BOY' is now available from iTunes

For those of you who have followed my work on the 'PAPA'S BOY' Animated Short which narrowly missed out on an Oscar Nomination in 2012. I am very pleased to announce that it is available to BUY from iTunes as part of a special collection. 'THE CHOPIN SHORTS:KIDS' is a collection of animations made by award winning directors, produced to accompany the Puppet Animation film 'THE MAGIC PIANO'. All the Chopin Shorts are set to a Chopin etude performed by the world renowned Chinese pianist Lang Lang. 'PAPA'S BOY' in Pixar style animation tells the story of 'BILLY ELLIOT' but with mice and a very fat greedy cat! It's a very sweet film, beautifully animated, no dialogue and voiced entirely by little me and I am immensely proud to be associated with it.

‘PAPA’S BOY’ (ISAN POIKA), was made by the Oscar nominated BreakThru Films and Ink & Light. It was Oscar Long-Listed in the Best Animated Short category. Writer and director was Leevi Lemmetty.