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Sony Pictures Animation and Sony Pictures Imageworks Celebrates Annie Award Nominees
Digital Production Studio Receives 11 Nominations
December 3, 2007 – CULVER CITY, CA – Sony Pictures Animation and Sony Pictures Imageworks are proud to announce that SURF’S UP and SPIDER-MAN 3 garnered a total of 11 Annie Awards nominations, including SURF’S UP being named in the best animated feature category.
Nominees are as follows:
SURF’S UP
- Best Animated Feature
- Outstanding Individual Achievement for Directing in an Animated Feature Production Ash Brannon and Chris Buck
- Outstanding Individual Achievement for Writing in an Animated Feature Production Written by: Don Rhymer and Ash Brannon & Chris Buck & Chris Jenkins
- Outstanding Individual Achievement for Production Design in an Animated Feature Production Marcelo Vignali
- Outstanding Individual Achievement for Storyboarding in an Animated Feature Production Denise Koyama
- Outstanding Individual Achievement for Character Design in an Animated Feature Production Sylvain Deboissy
- Outstanding Individual Achievement for Animated Effects Deborah Carlson
- Outstanding Individual Achievement as an Animation Production Artist John Clark
- Outstanding Individual Achievement for Character Animation in an a Feature Production Alan Hawkins
- Outstanding Individual Achievement for Character Animation in an a Feature Production Dave Hardin
SPIDER-MAN 3:
- Outstanding Individual Achievement for Animated Effects Ryan Laney
Sony Pictures Imageworks also congratulates Paramount Pictures and Doug Chiang for his nomination for Production Design in an Animated Feature Production for BEOWULF.
The ASIFA-Hollywood branch of the International Animated Film Society will present the 35th annual Annie Awards on February 8th, 2008, at UCLA’s Royce Hall in Los Angeles. For more information, please visit www.annieawards.org.
About Sony Pictures Animation
Sony Pictures Animation truly exemplifies the next generation of CGI storytelling. It combines the cutting edge technology of Sony Corporation with dynamic, new visions and fresh voices from around the globe. The division is excited to be developing a full slate of films, including the upcoming theatrical releases Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs and Hotel Transylvania. Having successfully released Open Season and Surf’s Up, it also recently completed The ChubbChubbs™ Save Xmas, a comedy short based on the characters from the 2002 Academy Award® winning short film The ChubbChubbs! ™ In addition, Sony Pictures Animation is in production on its first direct-to-DVD release, Open Season 2, which follows the hysterical exploits of Boog and Elliot, from the 2006 hit, Open Season.
About Sony Pictures Imageworks
Sony Pictures Imageworks Inc. is an Academy Award® winning, state-of-the-art digital production studio dedicated to the art of visual effects production and character animation. The Imageworks production environment facilitates four diverse pipelines including live-action visual effects and character work, Imagemotion™ performance capture, all CG animation and Imageworks 3D stereoscopic.
The company’s achievements have been recognized by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences with Oscars® for its work on Spider-Man™ 2 and the CG animated short film The ChubbChubbs!. In addition, two of Imageworks’ most highly regarded projects, the all-CG animated feature Monster House and Superman Returns were nominated for Academy Awards in the Best Animated Feature and Outstanding Achievement in Visual Effects respectively in 2007. With these two nominations, Imageworks became the first studio to be recognized in the same year in these distinct areas, an indication of the diversity and quality of the company’s capabilities. Other Oscar® nominated projects include The Chronicles Of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Spider-Man™, Hollow Man, Stuart Little and Starship Troopers, for a total of nine nominations.
Imageworks’ most recently completed projects include I Am Legend, Beowulf, also made in 3D stereoscopic, as well as this summer’s blockbuster Spider-Man™ 3 and Sony Pictures Animation’s Surf’s Up.
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