“Avatar: The Way of Water” topped the 21st Annual Ves Awards with nine wins, including for photoreal feature.
Meanwhile, Guillermo del Toro’s “Pinocchio” was named best animated feature and took home three awards total. On the TV side, Amazon’s “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power” won three awards and was named best photoreal episode.
Rian Johnson, Domee Shi, Tig Notaro, Jay Pharoah, Tyler Posey and Randall Park were among the presenters for the night. James Cameron presented the Ves Lifetime Achievement award to acclaimed producer Gale Anne Hurd.
Former Ves executive director Eric Roth received the Board of Directors Award from the current board, which includes Lisa Cooke, current Ves Chair; Jim Morris, Ves, president of Pixar Animation and founding Ves Chair; and former Chairs Jeffrey A. Okun, Ves; Mike Chambers, Ves; Carl Rosendahl, Ves; and Jeff Barnes.
“As we celebrate the 21st Annual Ves Awards,...
Meanwhile, Guillermo del Toro’s “Pinocchio” was named best animated feature and took home three awards total. On the TV side, Amazon’s “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power” won three awards and was named best photoreal episode.
Rian Johnson, Domee Shi, Tig Notaro, Jay Pharoah, Tyler Posey and Randall Park were among the presenters for the night. James Cameron presented the Ves Lifetime Achievement award to acclaimed producer Gale Anne Hurd.
Former Ves executive director Eric Roth received the Board of Directors Award from the current board, which includes Lisa Cooke, current Ves Chair; Jim Morris, Ves, president of Pixar Animation and founding Ves Chair; and former Chairs Jeffrey A. Okun, Ves; Mike Chambers, Ves; Carl Rosendahl, Ves; and Jeff Barnes.
“As we celebrate the 21st Annual Ves Awards,...
- 2/16/2023
- by Jazz Tangcay
- Variety Film + TV
The Visual Effects Society has announced the results of its board of directors elections for the 2008-09 term. Its newly elected board members are Jeff Barnes, Colin Campbell, Mike Chambers, Valerie Delahaye, Richard Edlund, Rob Engle, Sandra Joy Lee, Van Ling, Robert Nicoll, Marianne O'Reilly, Gene Rizzardi, Stuart Robertson, Carl Rosendahl, Sande Scoredos and Scott Squires. The alternates are Toni Pace Carstense, Terry Clotiaux, Doug Cooper and Ed Ulbrich.
- 11/9/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Jeffrey A. Okun has been elected chair of the Visual Effects Society for a one-year term by the group's new board and will succeed outgoing chair Carl Rosendahl. Other newly elected board leaders are first vice chair Ray Feeney, second vice chair Tim McGovern, treasure Ray Scalice and secretary Pam Hogarth. New members elected to the board include Mat Beck, Jerome Chen, Jonathan Erland, Warren Franklin, Hogarth, Gene Kozicki, John Knoll, Marshall Krasser, Tim McGovern, Loni Peristere, Tim Sarnoff, Ray Scalise, Mark Stetson, Richard Winn Taylor II and Susan Zwerman.
- 1/21/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The Visual Effects Society board of directors has named Eric Roth executive director of the nonprofit organization. Roth replaces VES founding executive director Tom Atkin following a six-month search. Roth brings more than 15 years of strategic management, communications and public affairs experience to his new position. "We are very excited to bring Eric into the organization," said Carl Rosendahl, chair of the VES board of directors. "His experience with nonprofit organizations will be of great benefit in helping VES to continue its growth as a society to honor, advance and promote visual effects for the VES membership and the industry."...
- 4/28/2004
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
A weak ant can carry 10 times its own weight, but this computer-animated "Antz" is no weakling -- it should carry thousands of times its own heft in enjoyment and success at the boxoffice.
The first coupling in DreamWorks and PDI's partnership in animation, this marvelously enjoyable feature animation not only was a towering delight at the Toronto International Film Festival, it represents a giant leap forward in the aesthetic of computer-animated entertainment.
If you can say nothing else for animation (computer-generated or hand-drawn), the mere fact that the process can line up such a disparate cast of characters as Woody Allen, Sylvester Stallone, Sharon Stone, Anne Bancroft and Gene Hackman for one production is a novelty. In this brainy creation, these players' voices bring distinct personality to a winning and sobering storyline.
"Antz" centers around Z (Allen), not surprisingly a neurotic and self-absorbed insect who is not cut out to be a worker. Slogging away underground moving dirt with millions of his peers is not the hyper Z's idea of fulfillment. Surely there has to be more to life than serving the state, Z surmises. There must be a better place.
To Z's surprise and glee, he spots a female ant who makes his many legs buckle. Unfortunately, she's Princess Bala (Stone) and way out of his league, but Z manages to convince his soldier friend Weaver (Stallone) to switch places with him so that he might have a shot at seeing the princess again at a military inspection. One hyperventilating thing leads to another and before he can say "social revolution," Z has unwittingly whisked the princess away and kindled a new spirit of enthusiasm among his fellow workers.
Although foremost and always a wonderfully entertaining story, "Antz" also carries an inspiring message. In its depiction of Z's discontent with the conformity of the colony and his need for personal expression, it's a shrewd laceration of the fascist state and the totalitarian mindset. Screenwriters Todd Alcott, Chris Weitz and Paul Weitz have nimbly juggled deep ideas with zany comedy.
The power of computer animation is not exercised just for showmanship here, but magnifies the story line through appropriate usage. Aesthetically, a number of computer-animated crowd scenes of massive Red Square/Nuremberg/Shanghai proportion are daunting as the filmmakers marshal spectacular numbers of animated characters into sequences of colossal proportion. The sheer number of these characters, marching in perfect phalanx, etc., is overwhelming and makes us feel the monstrous oppression of such formidable orders.
Under directors Eric Darnell and Tim Johnson's inventive hands, the character ants are packed with personality. No mere caricatures of the players, each character is etched with droll exactitude. Moreover, the 3-D like quality with which the process imbues them seems to bring them even more to life. Their vitality and appeal is in no small part due to the flavorful voicings of the cast.
As the distressed and unwittingly heroic Z, Woody Allen's shrill, nasal twang evokes memories of his overly-intellectual neurotic persona. He's a perfect selection for this story's juicy ironic thrust, that a social revolution would be lead by a generally cowardly, non-physical type and motivated solely by self-interest.
Sylvester Stallone's clipped cadence and good-hearted tones infuse his soldier character with just the right amount of humanity, while Sharon Stone's princess combination is just right -- spoiled and sexy. Giving stentorian finality to the role of the evil empire-builder Gen. Mandible is Gene Hackman. Hackman's growlings would scare the pants off Mussolini.
Other voices of distinction include: Jennifer Lopez as a blue-collar ant, Anne Bancroft as the colony's queen, Danny Glover as a soldier-drone and Christopher Walken as a consummate soldier.
While "Antz" is first and foremost a visual treat, its music is a jaunty and delicious accompaniment, from the playful score of composers Harry Gregson-Williams and John Powell to the witty inclusion of such standards as "High Hopes", warbled by Doris Day, no less.
ANTZ
DreamWorks Distribution
DreamWorks Pictures and PDI Present
Producers: Brad Lewis, Aron Warner, Patty Wooton
Directors: Eric Darnell, Tim Johnson
Executive producers: Penney Finkelman Cox, Sandra Rabins, Carl Rosendahl
Screenwriters: Todd Alcott, Chris Weitz, Paul Weitz
Music: Harry Gregson-Williams, John Powell
Production designer: John Bell
Art director: Kendal Cronkhite
Editor: Stan Webb
Lead character designer: Raman Hui
Supervising animator: Rex Grignon
Color/stereo
Z: Woody Allen
Chip: Dan Aykroyd
Queen: Anne Bancroft
Muffy: Jane Curtin
Barbatus: Danny Glover
Mandible: Gene Hackman
Azteca: Jennifer Lopez
Drunk Scout: John Mahoney
Psychologist: Paul Mazursky
Foreman: Grant Shaud
Weaver: Sylvester Stallone
Bala: Sharon Stone
Cutter: Christopher Walken
Running time -- 77 minutes
MPAA rating: PG...
The first coupling in DreamWorks and PDI's partnership in animation, this marvelously enjoyable feature animation not only was a towering delight at the Toronto International Film Festival, it represents a giant leap forward in the aesthetic of computer-animated entertainment.
If you can say nothing else for animation (computer-generated or hand-drawn), the mere fact that the process can line up such a disparate cast of characters as Woody Allen, Sylvester Stallone, Sharon Stone, Anne Bancroft and Gene Hackman for one production is a novelty. In this brainy creation, these players' voices bring distinct personality to a winning and sobering storyline.
"Antz" centers around Z (Allen), not surprisingly a neurotic and self-absorbed insect who is not cut out to be a worker. Slogging away underground moving dirt with millions of his peers is not the hyper Z's idea of fulfillment. Surely there has to be more to life than serving the state, Z surmises. There must be a better place.
To Z's surprise and glee, he spots a female ant who makes his many legs buckle. Unfortunately, she's Princess Bala (Stone) and way out of his league, but Z manages to convince his soldier friend Weaver (Stallone) to switch places with him so that he might have a shot at seeing the princess again at a military inspection. One hyperventilating thing leads to another and before he can say "social revolution," Z has unwittingly whisked the princess away and kindled a new spirit of enthusiasm among his fellow workers.
Although foremost and always a wonderfully entertaining story, "Antz" also carries an inspiring message. In its depiction of Z's discontent with the conformity of the colony and his need for personal expression, it's a shrewd laceration of the fascist state and the totalitarian mindset. Screenwriters Todd Alcott, Chris Weitz and Paul Weitz have nimbly juggled deep ideas with zany comedy.
The power of computer animation is not exercised just for showmanship here, but magnifies the story line through appropriate usage. Aesthetically, a number of computer-animated crowd scenes of massive Red Square/Nuremberg/Shanghai proportion are daunting as the filmmakers marshal spectacular numbers of animated characters into sequences of colossal proportion. The sheer number of these characters, marching in perfect phalanx, etc., is overwhelming and makes us feel the monstrous oppression of such formidable orders.
Under directors Eric Darnell and Tim Johnson's inventive hands, the character ants are packed with personality. No mere caricatures of the players, each character is etched with droll exactitude. Moreover, the 3-D like quality with which the process imbues them seems to bring them even more to life. Their vitality and appeal is in no small part due to the flavorful voicings of the cast.
As the distressed and unwittingly heroic Z, Woody Allen's shrill, nasal twang evokes memories of his overly-intellectual neurotic persona. He's a perfect selection for this story's juicy ironic thrust, that a social revolution would be lead by a generally cowardly, non-physical type and motivated solely by self-interest.
Sylvester Stallone's clipped cadence and good-hearted tones infuse his soldier character with just the right amount of humanity, while Sharon Stone's princess combination is just right -- spoiled and sexy. Giving stentorian finality to the role of the evil empire-builder Gen. Mandible is Gene Hackman. Hackman's growlings would scare the pants off Mussolini.
Other voices of distinction include: Jennifer Lopez as a blue-collar ant, Anne Bancroft as the colony's queen, Danny Glover as a soldier-drone and Christopher Walken as a consummate soldier.
While "Antz" is first and foremost a visual treat, its music is a jaunty and delicious accompaniment, from the playful score of composers Harry Gregson-Williams and John Powell to the witty inclusion of such standards as "High Hopes", warbled by Doris Day, no less.
ANTZ
DreamWorks Distribution
DreamWorks Pictures and PDI Present
Producers: Brad Lewis, Aron Warner, Patty Wooton
Directors: Eric Darnell, Tim Johnson
Executive producers: Penney Finkelman Cox, Sandra Rabins, Carl Rosendahl
Screenwriters: Todd Alcott, Chris Weitz, Paul Weitz
Music: Harry Gregson-Williams, John Powell
Production designer: John Bell
Art director: Kendal Cronkhite
Editor: Stan Webb
Lead character designer: Raman Hui
Supervising animator: Rex Grignon
Color/stereo
Z: Woody Allen
Chip: Dan Aykroyd
Queen: Anne Bancroft
Muffy: Jane Curtin
Barbatus: Danny Glover
Mandible: Gene Hackman
Azteca: Jennifer Lopez
Drunk Scout: John Mahoney
Psychologist: Paul Mazursky
Foreman: Grant Shaud
Weaver: Sylvester Stallone
Bala: Sharon Stone
Cutter: Christopher Walken
Running time -- 77 minutes
MPAA rating: PG...
- 9/21/1998
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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