Michael Sporn Animation – Splog

The nominations for the Academy Award were announced this morning.
Those for Best Animated short include:
. The Danish Poet
. Lifted
. The Little Match Girl
. Maestro
. No Time For Nuts

Those for Best Animated Feature include:
. Cars
. Happy Feet
. Monster House

Congratulations to all nominees, especially the East Coast guys, Chris Renaud and Mike Thurmeier, at Blue Sky.

However, I have to say that it’s an enormous disappointment that Joanna Quinn‘s film Dreams and Desires: Family Ties wasn’t nominated. This is far and away the best of the films screened for the Academy. It won grand prizes at Annecy, Ottawa and Zagreb, yet it’s ignored by the Academy. It’s upsetting.
This is the year of the BIG studio – time to make up for the past couple of years.

For a list of all other nominations go: here.

– From now through Feb 27, the Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery in Philadellphia will be hosting a show of R.Crumb’s art. My True Inner Self features drawings and sculpture from 1960 through the present.

New York’s Paul Morris Gallery and private collectors provided the show’s works, which range from small sculptures to self portraits to notebooks full of observational sketches, all from the early 1960s through 2000.

The opening reception will be on Friday, Jan 26th.

Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery
333 South Broad Street
Philadelphia, PA 19102
Tel: 215.717.6480

Gallery hours: Weekday, 10-5 PM Wednesday, 10-8 PM Weekends, 12-5 PM
(Click on any image to enlarge.)

You can read about this show in the Philadelphia press:
. A story in the Philadelphia Daily News: here.
. A story in CityPaper.net has a good story: here.

Also on Friday, Jan 26th at 7:30 pm the Museum of the Moving Image, in New York is hosting a panel moderated by David Levy (ASIFA-East president and author of the hit book Your Career In Animation). Guests include: Traci Paige Johnson (Blue’s Clues co-creator), Alice Cahn (VP of Programming/Devt. at Cartoon Newtork), Ila Abramson (i spy recruiting), and Oscar Nominees Bill Plympton and me.
(Me on my last panel appearance.)

Admission: $10 per person (which includes admission to museum! Get there early to enjoy the whole day!)
The museum is also offering 2 admissions for the same price of $10 (so bring a friend and pay half price each!)

Museum of the Moving Image
35th Avenue at 36th Street, Astoria
(take the N or W subway)

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