Wreck-It Ralph won 5 Annie awards (including  best animated feature) at the 40th Annie Awards bestowed by The International Animated Film Society, ASIFA-Hollywood. See the major winners.

The Czech political-existential thriller Alois Nebel was the winner of the animated feature film award at the 25th European Film Awards 2012.

Joanna Lurie presents two bubble characters in her Partir (Leaving).

The dramatic A Letter to Momo by Hiroyuki Okiura won the Best Animated Feature award at the 6th Asia Pacific Screen Awards.

The 9th Animateka Festival in Slovenia runs from 3-9 December (Ljubljana)/10-16 Dec (Maribor), and highlights some prominent European animation titles.

Caleb Wood, Elli Vuorinen and Emma De Swaef were the 3 animators chosen to participate in the Animation Artist in Residence Tokyo progamme 2012-2013.

The NFB film Le grand ailleurs et le petit ici by Michèle Lemieux  won the Grand Prix at the Cinanima festival in Espinho, Portugal. See all the winners.

Politically inspired, the documentary Imaginary Chile (Chile Imaginario) tells the story of a turbulent period in Chile.

An international conference on Illustration, Comics, and Animation is organized at Dartmouth College, 19-21 April, and invites call for paper proposals.