Pixar’s director of The Incredibles & Ratatouille, Brad Bird, will receive this year’s Animation Writing Award for lifetime achievement from the Writer’s Guild of America. The ceremony will take place at the WGA West’s 2008 Honorary Awards Luncheon on April 23 at the Westin Bonaventure Hotel in Los Angeles.
“Brad’s work has put him in the pantheon of animation creators for whom the art and craft of animation writing are elegantly (and sometimes literally) drawn together,” commented WGAW President Patric M. Verrone.
The WGAW’s AWC Animation Writing Award is given to that member of the Animation Writers Caucus or Writers Guild who has advanced the literature of animation in film and/or television through the years, and who has made outstanding contributions to the profession of the animation writer.
Congratulations Brad!
[via WGA & Animation Magazine]
Last modified: April 16, 2008
Hmmmmmm, Animation Writing Award, wonder if he’ll comment on that.
Congratulations, Mr. Bird!