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 feature film Ernest and Celestine by Benjamin Renner, Vincent Patar and Stéphane Aubier won the French César for the best animated film.

The short animated film Fresh Guacamole by the LA director, PES, is the shortest film ever to be nominated for an Academy Award.

Approved for Adoption (Couleur de peau: miel / Skin color: honey) by Jung and Laurent Boileau  is a welcome study of a neglected area in child development, but minimizes all the harsh edges of the adoption predicament it describes.

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

A tender film about our relationship with the past from the Croatian director Veljko Popović. Watch Dove sei, amor mio.

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.

The Oscar®-nominated short Adam and dog by Minkyu Lee is online. Watch the film.

 The Oscar-nominated, stop-motion film Head over Heels  by Tim Reckart is now online.

16 works were selected to design the MSU media facade at Animafest, Zagreb.

The US premiere for the French Ernest and Celestine, a North American premiere for Enzo D' Alo's Pinocchio and a new Kirikou film are among the features highlighted at the NYICFF 2013 programme.

It could have been sugary, but is also sweet. Watch the black-and-white short melodrama of Daniela Sherer, He was a sweet man.

The Oscar-nominated Head Over Heels (Tim Reckart), Tram by Michaela Pavlatova and the Goya-nominated Spanish feature The Apostle headline the selection results of the 3rd Be there! Corfu Animation Festival.

Bo Juhl Nielsen and The Animation Workshop in Denmark present a story of unemployment and momentary happiness. Watch Under the Fold.

A charming animated documentary about repair and recycling in rural Ireland, Irish Folk Furniture, was awarded at Sundance Festival.

The main competition sections of the 19th edition of the Encounters Short Film and Animation Festival (Brief Encounters and Animated Encounters) are now accepting submissions.

4 short animated films have been selected to compete at the 2013 Berlin Film Festival.

An academic symposium on "Change and Continuity: Interdisciplinary Aspects of Animation, Comics and Literature" is organised by SAS and Stuttgart International Animation Festival. Read the call for papers.

A new documentary film on the French pioneer illustrator and animator, Benjamin Rabier, the man behind the laughing cow. Read the film review.

International animation festival Fest Anča in Zilina, Slovakia has launched a call for entries for its 2013 edition.