In a provocative article published in The Hollywood Reporter, critic Scott Feinberg proposes the elimination of the animation shorts category from the Oscar awards broadcasting, because it's not popular enough.

Longway North, Cartoon Saloon also nominated at the 44th Annie Awards.

The three animation features have been nominated by the European Film Academy for the Best European Animation Feature award.

The Swiss stop-motion film has now entered the 9 foreign language films that will advance in the 89th Oscars race.

The Head Vanishes, Blind Vaysha, among the European films on the list.

Amalimbo, Edmond, In the Distance the three animated shorts for the European Film Award for Best Short Film.

The stop-motion film won the European Feature Animation prize for 2016.

8 European films figure in the list of submitted features for the Academy Awards 2017.

The 2016 Student Academy Awards were given. See all animation winners.