Commentary &Festivals 20 Feb 2006 08:05 am
Award
- As posted yesterday, the winners of the BAFTA Award for excellence in film were announced yesterday. Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Wererabbit was given the Michael Korda Award for Best British Film. It was an important award considering the competition, all excellent live action films. 
Congratulations to all of those involved at Aardman. Oscar’s next.
- Edited out of the show on BBC America was the award for Best Animated Short. The nominees were:
FALLEN ART – Jarek Sawko/Piotr Sikora/Tomek Baginski
FILM NOIR – Osbert Parker
KAMIYA’S CORRESPONDENCE – Sumito Sakakibara
THE MYSTERIOUS GEOGRAPHIC EXPLORATIONS OF JASPER MORELLO – Anthony Lucas/Julia Lucas/Mark Shirrefs
RABBIT – Run Wrake
The winner was FALLEN ART, a Polish CG animated film.
An interview with the film makers can be found here.
A summary of all the nominees, including the live-action shorts, can be found here.
