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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 International Animated Film Society, ASIFA-Hollywood, announced nominations today for its 40th Annual Annie Awards.

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.

Tim Burton's stop-motion Frankenweenie is a welcome reminder of what classic horror pictures used to be, but prefers to describe horror rather than cause it.

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

japicCaleb 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.

A Liar's Autobiography: The Untrue Story of Monty Python's Graham Chapman portrays Graham Chapman as a person who defied etiquette.

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.

The Oscar-hopeful French feature animated film, Le Tableau (The Painting) by Jean-François Laguionie won the Best Music Award at the Tübingen-Stuttgart International Festival.

The Irish animator Eamonn O'Neill presents an intriguing portrait of a person in distress. Watch I'm Fine Thanks.

The UK animator Adam Wells describes his vision of a geometrically shaped world of uninteresting individuals with gusto. Watch Brave Old New.

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