WALL•E Sweeps Animation Category at the VES Awards + WALL•E Takes Top Prize at the Golden Reel Awards

VES Awards: The Visual Effects Society awarded the very deserving WALL•E every single prize in the Outstanding Animation field!

These include:
Outstanding Animation in an Animated Motion Picture, where it beat out Bolt, Kung Fu Panda, Roadside Romeo and Waltz With Bashir. Recognition for: Andrew Stanton, Jim Morris, Lindsey Collins, Nigel Hardwidge
Outstanding Animated Character in an Animated Motion Picture, where the character WALL•E won against, Bolt, Rhino and Po. Recognized were Ben Burtt, Victor Navone
Outstanding Animated Effects in an Animated Motion Picture, that one’s for WALL•E too, rivaling Bolt, Kung Fu Panda and Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa. Recognitions include: Jason Johnston, Keith Daniel Klohn, Enrique Vila, Bill Watral.

Congratulations on the awards to all the winners, especially the people mentioned above! View the rest of the recipients, here.

(via Animation Magazine)

Golden Reel Awards: Not only do the experts on visual effects love WALL•E, as you can see above, so do the sound gurus of Hollywood.

WALL•E was awarded Best Sound Editing: Sound Effects, Foley, Dialogue and ADR Animation in a Feature Film at this years Golden Reel Awards, the top prize! See all of the winners here.

Great job Andrew Stanton, Ben Burtt and Co. on these two outstanding technical awards!

(via The Hollywood Reporter/Thanks, wallefanatic, from the Pixar Planet Forums)

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Now, it’s Oscars time! We’ll be extensively covering all of the Pixar business at this year’s Academy Awards, tonight!