As WALL•E makes its rounds, some more festivals and awards shows are officially noticing this masterpiece:
Andrew Stanton won the Hollywood Animation of the Year Award at the Hollywood Awards (part of the Hollywood Film Festival) for WALL•E. The award will be presented at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on October 27. It is of note that WALL•E is technically not a "Hollywood" film, depending on how you look at it.
(via PrWeb)
Composer Thomas Newman nabbed two nominations at the 8th Annual World Soundtrack Awards. Peter Gabriel, who collaborated with Newman on ‘Down to Earth’, also got a nod. Held on October 18th, the award show is
the closing event for Belgium’s Ghent International Film Festival.
(via Variety)
WALL•E will be the closing film for the 21st Annual Tokyo International Film Festival held from October 18 to the 26th. If you’re in the area or planning to go, this is your chance to see it early as Pixar’s latest release will open in Japan last, on December 20th.
(via Screen Daily)
Thanks, miafka.
Congratulations, Andrew Stanton and everyone at Pixar for the nods!
Last modified: September 16, 2008
Opening Wall-E at the end of the year in Japan seems to be a big ‘why’ to me.
I’m sure Japan will embrace Wall-e given their penchant for storytelling and science fiction, but why so late in the year? Especially since just as it’s coming to their theaters, we’ll have had it on DVD for over a month.
Still, maybe Wall-E will do good numbers, as PIXAR films were once a fall/winter event film.
The Japenese LOVE cartoons. And they love a good cartoon even more!
I think it was so that WALL-E wouldn’t go head to head with a Studio Ghibli film… seeing as Lasseter and Miyazaki are friends and all.