Animation: Awards & Prizes

 The charming animated film, Ernest and Celestine, by Benjamin Renner, Vincent Patar, and Stéphane Aubier, won the French César for Best Animated Film.

A Serbian allegorical animated film wins the Crystal Bear at the Berlin Film Festival (Generation 14Plus).

Pixar's Brave and the documentary animation The Making of Longbird (Will Anderson, Ainslie Henderson) won the BAFTA award for feature and short animated films, respectively.

3 stop-motion features, and a Disney-full list of features at the Academy Award nominees for best animated feature. Read all the nominees for both the best short and animated feature films in 2013.

The BAFTA nominations selected 3 animated features and short films for the British award, and there were a few surprises.

The Czech political-existential thriller Alois Nebel won the animated feature film award at the 25th European Film Awards in 2012.

The dramatic A Letter to Momo by Hiroyuki Okiura won the Best Animated Feature award at the 6th Asia Pacific Screen Awards.

The longlist of short animated films qualifying for an Oscar has been made public. See the qualifying films.

The Joann Sfarr (Gainsbourg) and Antoine Delesvaux film Rabbi's Cat won at the 37th ceremony of the French César awards.