"Monsters University," "Despicable Me 2" land Annie Awards nomsDecember 3, 2013 - 14:53 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - The animated awards season race has officially begun with the announcement of the 41st Annie Awards nominations. "Frozen (2013)" and "Monsters University" are atop the list with 10 each, followed by "Despicable Me 2" and "The Croods" with 9 each, AceShowbiz said. "We had more submissions to chose from this year, running the gamut from big studio features to indie films, television series to Internet shows, games, shorts and student films," ASIFA-Hollywood president Frank Gladstone said, noting the high volumes of animations this year. "Frozen", presenting the voice talents of Kristen Bell and Idina Menzel among others, puts Disney as the leader with 31. DreamWorks with "The Croods" accumulated 19 while Pixar that produced "Monsters University" nabbed 18. The number of bids is the total nominations in film and TV. Voice acting nominations include Paul Giamatti in "Turbo", Terry Crews in "Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2", Kristen Wiig, Steve Carell and Pierre Coffin for "Despicable Me 2", Billy Crystal for "Monsters University" and Josh Gad for "Frozen". Meanwhile in TV categories, FX's "Archer" and 20th Century Fox's "Futurama" are among the best general audience animated TV nominees. Director Steven Spielberg will be one of the career achievement honorees to receive the Winsor McCay Award at the awards ceremony. The 41st Annie Awards will be held on Saturday, February 1, at UCLA's Royce Hall, in Los Angeles, California. Related links: Top stories The creative crew of the Public TV had chosen 13-year-old Malena as a participant of this year's contest. She called on others to also suspend their accounts over the companies’ failure to tackle hate speech. Penderecki was known for his film scores, including for William Friedkin’s “The Exorcist”, Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining”. The festival made the news public on March 19, saying that “several options are considered in order to preserve its running” Partner news | Kazakhstan welcomes Yerevan, Baku’s agreement to meet in Almaty Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has welcomed the agreement of Baku and Yerevan to hold negotiations in Almaty. Armenia offers to temporarily host, preserve Gaza manuscripts The Armenian Foreign Minister has said Yerevan is ready to help preserve manuscripts from the conflict zone in Gaza. Aliyev says no need for mediators in Armenia-Azerbaijan process Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev believes that Baku and Yerevan do not mediators in the process of normalizing relations. Aram I supports Karekin II’s “patriotic position” Catholicos of the Great House of Cilicia Aram I has expressed support for the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin. |