4 animated student films from Europe have been selected and feature in the programme of Cinéfondation at Cannes Film Festival.

The European Association of Animation Film has announced the finalists for Cartoon Movie Tributes 2013. Prominent European directors and production companies are nominated.

Pixar scored  a victory with the Scottish-themed Brave, and the Disney animator John Kahrs won the best animated short for the retro-looking Paperman in the 2013 award ceremony.

 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 at the feature and short animated film respectively.

3 stop-motion features, and a Disney-full list features at the Academy Award nominees for best animated feature.Read all the nominees for both 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 gothic thriller The Apostle features in the Spanish Goya nominatiosn, as well as the box-office hit Tadeo Jones. See all the nominations in the feature and short animated categories.