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Paramount+ is removing Nickelodeon titles from its library, including some big properties like Doug, Blue’s Room, and Big Time Rush.

December has seen Doug being taken off the streamer. The animated series premiered in 1991 on Nickelodeon and ran for four seasons. Doug was one of the earliest titles of the “Nicktoons” in the 1990s, which would later include shows like Rugrats, The Ren & Stimpy Show, Rocko’s Modern Life, Aaahh!! Real Monsters, Hey Arnold! and more.

Other titles purged from Paramount+ include My Life As A Teenage Robot and shows based on DreamWorks Animation films like Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness and The Penguins of Madagascar.

AwesomenessTV, Breadwinners, Game Shakers, House of Anubis, Let’s Just Play: Go Healthy Challenge, Welcome to the Wayne, Wonder Pets, and Zoofari were also removed from Paramount+.

More recently, Paramount+ users have reported other titles being taken off the streamer like Alvinnn!!! and the Chipmunks,...

Noggin, Paramount Global’s interactive learning subscription service for preschoolers, is shutting down, sources tell Deadline. The Nick Jr.-affiliated app is slated to sunset this year, with the majority of its staff let go in the latest round of layoffs at Paramount Global on Tuesday that impacted about 800 U.S. employees.

As Noggin stops taking new subscribers, there will be a transition period for current ones. Noggin predated Paramount Global’s flagship streamer Paramount+, which has been carrying Noggin’s video content under the Nick Jr. preschool brand.

The development comes almost a year after Paramount reportedly explored a sale of a majority stake in Noggin as the company shifted priorities — and resources — to Paramount+ and Pluto TV.

Noggin was co-founded by Nickelodeon parent MTV Networks and Sesame Workshop and originally launched Feb. 2, 1999 as a cable television channel and a companion website focused on imagination, creativity, and education.

In 2015, Noggin,...

Composer Robert Lopez has made Egot history in a number of ways, but his wife and musical collaborator Kristen Anderson-Lopez is closing in on him, and before long they could become the first husband-and-wife duo in history to win the showbiz grand slam. This year they share two nominations for their work on the Disney+ limited series “WandaVision,” and if they win one or both of them, Anderson-Lopez will cross the third prize off her list.

Robert Lopez completed his Egot in 2014 with his Oscar win for the original song “Let it Go” from “Frozen.” That made him the youngest ever to achieve the feat (he was 39), the fastest to achieve it (10 years), and eventually he became the first to win all four of those coveted awards multiple times. Before he teamed creatively with his better half he won Tonys for composing “Avenue Q” (2004) and “The Book of Mormon” (2011), as...

Robert Lopez is not only an Egot winner, but he’s also the youngest to reach it (at 39 years and 8 days old) and is the first to achieve a double Egot, having won each accolade twice. But there are some who feel his Egot ought to be asterisked because his two Emmys are Daytime Emmys, but Lopez can now shut those haters up in one fell swoop with double Primetime Emmy wins this year.

Shared with his wife Kristen Anderson-Lopez, Lopez nabbed two nominations for “WandaVision”: music and lyrics for “Agatha All Along” and main title theme music. These are his fourth and fifth Primetime Emmy bids; he previously lost the songwriting category for “Scrubs” in 2007, and “The Comedians” and the Oscars, both in 2015.

Lopez was never the favorite in those years — he lost to “Saturday Night Live’s” “Dick in a Box” and “Inside Amy Schumer’s” “Girl...

Update, with Leslie Odom Jr., Daveed Diggs nominations No one’s saying it will be easy, but Hamilton actors Renée Elise Goldsberry, Leslie Odom Jr. and Daveed Diggs, along with WandaVision songwriter Kristen Anderson-Lopez, each came a little closer today to the rarified Egot status with their respective Emmy Award nominations.

Goldsberry was nominated for her supporting turn as Angelica Schuylerin in Hamilton, which has already earned her a Tony Award and Grammy Award. An Emmy win (in the supporting actress in a limited series or TV movie category) would put her an Oscar away from Egot status.

The actress’ nomination today for Hamilton was one of 12 received by the filmed Broadway musical, including performance nominations for Lin-Manuel Miranda (who himself is one Oscar short of Egot) and Leslie Odom Jr. The Disney+ musical was nominated in the outstanding Variety Special (pre-recorded) category, along with fellow...

Film, television, and stage actor Jerry Stiller died of natural causes, as according to his son Ben Stiller. He was 92.

“I’m sad to say that my father, Jerry Stiller, passed away from natural causes,” Ben announced on Twitter. “He was a great dad and grandfather, and the most dedicated husband to Anne for about 62 years. He will be greatly missed. Love you Dad.”

Stiller is known for his TV roles as Frank Costanza on Seinfeld and Arthur Spooner on The King of Queens, and multiple films including, The Taking of Pelham One, Two, Three, John Waters’ Hairspray, his son’s Zoolander, and Richard Lester’s adaptation of Terrence McNally’s play, The Ritz, which Jerry also acted in on Broadway.

But he might be best remembered for being part of the comedy team Stiller & Meara, which he performed with his wife, Anne Meara. The pair met in 1953 at a New York casting call,...

Noggin, Nick Jr.’s interactive learning subscription service for preschoolers, is now available on Apple TV channels on the Apple TV app in 25 territories, including the U.S., U.K., Germany, France and multiple regions in Southeast Asia. New Noggin users will get a free seven day trial to the service through Apple TV channels.

Subs can watch online or download long and short-form Nick Jr. content like Paw Patrol, Dora the Explorer, Shimmer and Shine, Blaze and the Monster Machines and The Wonder Pets! in over 20 languages on the Apple TV app. Through Family Sharing, up to six family members can share subscriptions to Apple TV channels using just their Apple ID and password.

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Santa Monica, CA – Get ready to be absolutely terrified when Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark arrives on Digital October 22 and on 4K Ultra HD Combo Pack (plus Blu-ray and Digital), Blu-ray Combo Pack (plus DVD and Digital), DVD, and On Demand November 5 from global content leader Lionsgate. The highly anticipated film adaptation of the iconic book series brings the thrills and chills of some of Alvin Schwartz’s scariest stories to life.

Certified Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes, Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark is produced by Academy Award® winner Guillermo del Toro, with screen story by Guillermo Del Toro and Patrick Melton & Marcus Dunstan, written for the screen by Dan Hageman & Kevin Hageman, and directed by André Øvredal. The film stars Zoe Margaret Colletti, Michael Garza, Lorraine Toussaint, Austin Zajur, and Natalie Ganzhorn.

It’s 1968 in America. Change is blowing in the wind…but seemingly far removed...

CBS‘ The Young And The Restless led the pack in nominations for the 41st Daytime Emmy Awards, announced this morning. The Bold And The Beautiful was a distant second, with 18. CBS topped the list with most nominations (50), followed by PBS (44), Nickelodeon (37) and ABC (30). Katie Couric, heading her departing syndicated talk show Katie, will contend with Dr. Oz, Rachael Ray and the chatterers on The Talk and The View for Outstanding Talk Show Host. Scoring a best drama nom was now defunct online series One Life To Live. The nominations were announced this morning by the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences in cooperation with the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. There is still no TV network for the ceremony, which will be held at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on Sunday, June 22, 2014. Here is the complete list of nominees: Outstanding Drama Series The Bold and the Beautiful CBS Days of Our Lives...

The Philippines, never a nation to decline an opportunity to celebrate, has warmly embraced Robert Lopez and Kristen Anderson-Lopez's Oscar win for best original song Sunday. The songwriting couple's triumph with "Let It Go" for Disney's Frozen, made Lopez, at age 39, the 12th and youngest member of the Egot family – the select group of artists who have won an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar and a Tony. Prior to his Oscar, Lopez had bagged three Tony Awards, a Grammy for The Book of Mormon, and a Daytime Emmy for his work on the show The Wonder Pets. Video: Oscars: Idina Menzel

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The target audience for "Frozen" was tucked in bed by the time Idina Menzel showed up on "The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon," but her performance is proof positive that adults can't resist the Oscar-winning tune either.

Menzel sang a slightly less bombastic version of "Let It Go" in a pre-recorded bit with Fallon and The Roots, who played along on kids' toys. It's nothing short of adorable, especially when Questlove takes out his kazoo. And it's a refreshing change for those of us who have listened to the soundtrack on repeat for the past few months, whether by choice or by demand.

Robert Lopez and Kristen Anderson-Lopez, who wrote "Let It Go," won an Oscar for Best Original Song; their thank-you speech was equally charming. Robert Lopez is now the youngest person with an Egot, a term coined by Philip Michael Thomas that is short for Emmy, Grammy, Oscar,...

These days especially, what matters in a three-and-a-half hour awards show like Sunday's 86th annual Academy Awards is not who won or lost -- though the victories for Steve McQueen's "12 Years a Slave" and Alfonso Cuaron's "Gravity" seemed to be part of history in the making -- but which moments were most likely to go viral.

In case you missed the Ellen DeGeneres-hosted extravaganza -- or nodded off at some point during its 212 minutes -- here are the best and worst of the evening's memorable moments.

Best DeGeneres Opening Monologue Joke

Poking fun at Hollywood vanities and neuroses, she said, "I'm not saying movies are the most important thing in the world, because we all know the most important thing in the world is youth. But really, we know that the most important thing in life is love and friendship and family. And if people don't have those things,...

This year, Oscar night was all about 12 Years a Slave‘s Lupita Nyong’o and Matthew McConaughey’s career makeover. But it’s also important to celebrate what those in the biz regard as a ginormous accomplishment: the Egot. (That’s Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony Award). Robert Lopez is now a member of the prestigious club, thanks to his Best Original Song Oscar win for the infectious “Let It Go” from Frozen. He’s also the youngest person to ever achieve such a feat. Time to move over, Whoopi Goldberg. (Keep on working at your craft, Tracy Jordan.)

The Frozen composer got some major prime-time love at tonight’s Academy Awards, but he’s no stranger to fancy award shows. Broadway smash The Book of Mormon earned him two Tony Awards for Best Original Score and Best Book; 2003′s Avenue Q won him a Tony Award for Best Original Score.

"Let It Go," from the animated film Frozen won the award for Best Original Song at the 86th Academy Awards Sunday night, beating out competition from U2's "Ordinary Love," Pharrell's "Happy" and Karen O's "The Moon Song." Steven Price's score for Gravity won the award for Best Original Score.

U2, Pharrell and Karen O Stun With Showstopping Oscar Performances

In our look at Upsets to Beat at this year's awards, "Let It Go," written by Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez, was the favorite to win; a "bona...

The Jo B. & G. Raff Show is an animated series created by multiple Emmy Award-winning writer and producer Josh Selig (The Wonder Pets). Created specifically to help teach preschoolers the importance of resolving conflict in constructive ways, The Jo B. & G. Raff Show follows two best friends, Jo B. and G. Raff, who are hosts of their very own TV show. Each day, just as their show is about to start, Jo B. realizes G. Raff has gone somewhere new and exciting and needs to go find him. Jo B. travels to get G. Raff, but G. Raff always wants to stay and explore. The two friends reach a compromise by the end of the show.

Watch the pilot and help decide if the show should be made into a series.

var brightcovevideoid = '3072106956001'; There's a small club in the entertainment industry with a highly selective membership, a weird name and arcane rules. No, it's not the Skull and Bones, it's the Egot-ers, or people who have won all four major annual entertainment awards: Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony. There are only 11 members so far, and Frozen composer Robert Lopez may become the 12th, if he wins an Academy Award for "Let It Go." (The song was nominated for a Golden Globe, but did not win.) Lopez won a Tony in 2004 for best original score for Avenue Q, and has...

It didn’t take long for Amazon to show that it’s really getting behind its original programming theory. It doesn’t seem that long since we were running through the pilots and filling out polls, but Amazon is already saying it wants to see more, and continue on this road.

Five more shows aimed at children will produce pilots in the hopes of getting a series green light, and like the last set of children’s programming, these look like they’ll be great shows. From massively prestigious pedigrees in the business to someone Amazon found through their open submission process, there’s a lot to look forward to here. Amazon Studios kids shows were the best part of the initial run of pilots for me, and I think they may be aiming to make a real push into the market with these additional titles.

Of course, all of...

From outer space to “normal street,” five new series optioned by Amazon Studios will take children on journeys of wonder, laughter, and creative exploration.

Amazon Studios today announced that it will be producing five pilots for Prime Instant Video, including its first for 6- to 11-year-olds. The children’s series were created by established writers such as Duane Capizzi (Transformers Prime), as well as a newcomer discovered via Amazon Studios’ open-door development process.

The pilots will stream on Amazon Instant Video and LOVEFiLM in the U.K. for customers to watch, provide feedback, and help determine which shows should be produced as series.

“We’re very excited to be able to introduce these original ideas and their talented creators to Amazon customers. After the success of our first pilots, we look forward to getting lots more fantastic feedback from kids and parents,” said Roy Price, Director of Amazon Studios. “For...

Season 4 of Justified wraps up tonight (FX, 10 p.m. Et) with another tense hour. Raylan (Timothy Olyphant) and Boyd (Walton Goggins) make their final plays to keep pregnant Winona (Natalie Zea) safe from Nicky Augustine (Mike O’Malley), and prevent Ava (Joelle Carter) from going to jail for Delroy’s murder. “I think she really feels responsibility for this situation because she’s the one who pulled the trigger and then didn’t potentially get rid of the body in the right way,” Carter says of Ava’s mindset. “She’s had help from other people, and it’s come...

Today at the Television Critics Association Press Tour, PBS Kids announced production for the newest addition to the beloved PBS Kids lineup. Peg + Cat will premiere this fall on PBS Kids with a special one-hour broadcast of two back-to-back episodes, along with integrated online and mobile content. From PBS Aimed at preschoolers, the series focuses on math learning in a fun and engaging way. Co-creators Billy Aronson (Rent, Postcards from Buster) and Jennifer Oxley (Little Bill, The Wonder Pets!) have teamed with The Fred Rogers Company to introduce viewers to the adorable, spirited Peg and her sidekick Cat as they embark on adventures and learn foundational math concepts and skills. Please see the full press release here or...

It's the last hurrah for "All My Children" and "One Life to Live" at the Daytime Emmy Awards. The canceled soaps got their last nominations in key categories, but face stiff competition from fellow ABC soap "General Hospital."

ABC picked up a total of 56 nominations with PBS closing in behind with 51. "General Hospital," which will live to see its 50th anniversary, received 23 nominations. "All My Children" and "One Life to Live" each picked up 11.

Check out some key categories below to see if your favorite soap stars and talk shows made the cut.

The 39th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards will be held Sat., June 23.

Outstanding Drama Series

"All My Children," ABC

"Days of Our Lives," NBC

"General Hospital," ABC

"The Young and the Restless," CBS

Outstanding Children's Animated Program

"Curious George," PBS

"Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness," Nickelodeon

"Peep & The Big Wide World," PBS

"Penguins of Madagascar," Nickelodeon

"Sid the Science Kid,...

It's the last hurrah for "All My Children" and "One Life to Live" at the Daytime Emmy Awards. The canceled soaps got their last nominations in key categories, but face stiff competition from fellow ABC soap "General Hospital."

ABC picked up a total of 56 nominations with PBS closing in behind with 51. "General Hospital," which will live to see its 50th anniversary, received 23 nominations. "All My Children" and "One Life to Live" each picked up 11.

Check out some key categories below to see if your favorite soap stars and talk shows made the cut.

The 39th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards will be held Sat., June 23.

Outstanding Drama Series

"All My Children," ABC

"Days of Our Lives," NBC

"General Hospital," ABC

"The Young and the Restless," CBS

Outstanding Children's Animated Program

"Curious George," PBS

"Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness," Nickelodeon

"Peep & The Big Wide World," PBS

"Penguins of Madagascar," Nickelodeon

"Sid the Science Kid,...

ABC’s General Hospital leads the way with 23 nominations for Daytime Emmy Awards.

The television academy announced Wednesday that the venerable soap opera will compete with NBC’s Days of Our Lives, CBS’ The Young and the Restless and the canceled All My Children of ABC for best daytime drama. NBC’s The Bold and the Beautiful has won the trophy three years in a row but wasn’t nominated this year.

Other repeat winners are possible, though: Ben Bailey of Cash Cab was nominated for best game show host and Dr. Mehmet Oz as best talk show host.

Sesame Street...

Every movie-loving parent has been there: the first time you take your kid to the movies. It's a momentous occasion. In honor of the new romantic comedy "Friends With Kids," which, as the title implies, follows the many little triumphs and tragedies that accompany transitioning from a childless circle of friends to a clique of new (and perpetually exhausted) parents, we bring you some basic tips on how to survive the first trip to the multiplex with your kid. 1. Pick an age-appropriate movie. This is probably the most important rule of all –- right up there with not kicking the seat in front of you. If you take your four-year-old to a PG-13 action flick just because it's based on a novel you read and loved as a tween, you will be in for an unpleasant afternoon of frightened whimpering, tears and shouts of "Is he going to die?" If...

Robert Lopez, co-creator of hit Tony-winning musicals The Book Of Mormon and Avenue Q, is looking to add a co-creator of a TV series title to his resume. Lopez and his brother Billy Lopez haves signed a blind script deal with ABC Studios for a comedy project. The two have some TV experience. They composed music for Nickelodeon’s kids show The Wonder Pets, for which they won two Daytime Emmys, and Robert Lopez also wrote four songs for the My Musical episode of Scrubs, which was produced by ABC Studios. The gig earned him an Emmy nomination. Robert made his TV writing debut last year with an episode of Comedy Central’s long-running South Park, created/executive produced by his Book Of Mormon collaborators Matt Stone and Trey Parker.

The 38th annual Daytime Emmy Award nominations were announced Wednesday, with soap opera "General Hospital" garnering 21 nods and "The Ellen DeGeneres Show" honored with 12.

"The Young and the Restless" received 20 nominations, while recently-canceled soaps "All My Children" and "One Life to Live" received 13 and 12 nominations, respectively, but none for Susan Lucci.

Here is a list of nominees in the major categories:

Outstanding Daytime Drama Series

"The Bold and the Beautiful" (CBS)

"The Young and the Restless...

The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (NATAS) today announced the nominees for the 38th Annual Daytime Entertainment Emmy® Awards.   General Hospital lead the pack with 21 nominations.

Nominations by Show:

    General Hospital    21

    The Young and the Restless    20

    Sesame Street    16

    The Bold and the Beautiful    14

    All My Children    13

    The Ellen DeGeneres Show    12

    One Life To Live    12

    Penguins of Madagascar    8

    The Electric Company    7

    Today Show    6

    Transformers Prime    6

    The View    6

    Days of Our Lives    5

    The Oprah Winfrey Show    5

    84th Annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade    4

    As the World Turns    4

    Between the Lions    4

    Private Sessions    4

    The Rally To Restore Sanity And/Or Fear    4

    Biz Kid$    3

    Disney Kick Buttowski    3

    Disney Mickey Mouse Clubhouse    3

    The Doctors    3

    Fanboy and Chum Chum    3

    Fetch! with Ruff Ruffman    3

    Giada At Home    3

    Live with Regis and Kelly    3

    Rachael Ray    3

    SciGirls    3

    Semi-Homemade Cooking with Sandra Lee    3

    The Wendy Williams Show    3

    America's Test Kitchen    2

    Back at the Barnyard    2

    Cash Cab    2

    The Cat in the Hat...

Frontman for one of the biggest rock groups of all time. Judge on one of the biggest television shows of all time. Has a new memoir out about the entire crazy ride. And now "American Idol's" Steven Tyler can add Emmy nominee to the list.

The Daytime Emmy Award nominations were announced Wednesday (May 11) and after weeding through all the soap operas and talk shows, we were surprised and delighted to discover that Mr. Tyler is nominated for Outstanding Performer in an Animated Program for his work as the Mad Hatter on Nickelodeon's "The Wonder Pets!"

Tyler isn't a regular on "Wonder Pets," but he joined forces last fall with Idina Menzel (Queen of Hearts) and Ziggy Marley (Cheshire Cat) in an "Alice in Wonderland"-themed episode for the Emmy-winning preschool series that follows the adventures of three singing classroom pets who work together to save animals in distress.

The 38th annual Daytime Emmy Award nominations were announced Wednesday (May 11). Long-running soap opera "General Hospital" leads all nominated shows with 21, followed closely by "The Young and the Restless" with 20.

The recently-canceled soaps "All My Children" and "One Life to Live" received 13 and 12 nominations, respectively. The most nominated non-soap opera was long-time children's program "Sesame Street" with 16, followed by "The Ellen DeGeneres Show" with 12. PBS led all networks with 57 nominations, though ABC was right on its heels with 56.

The awards show, hosted by "Let's Make a Deal" host Wayne Brady, will be broadcast live from Las Vegas on June 19, 2011. Game show hosts Alex Trebek and Pat Sajak will both receive lifetime achievement awards.

Here is a list of the major categories:

Outstanding Daytime Drama Series

    * "The Bold and the Beautiful" (CBS)

    * "The Young and the Restless" (CBS)

    * "All My Children" (ABC)

    * "General Hospital" (ABC)

 Outstanding Lead Actress In A Drama Series

    * Susan Flannery,...

Zooey Deschanel is not an amazing actress, she is also a musician, singer, songwriter and she's half of the awesome band, She & Him. The band performed three songs for the upcoming Winnie the Pooh film, including her own take on the classic “Winnie the Pooh” theme song, “A Very Important Thing to Do” and the original end-credit song “So Long,” which was written by Deschanel and performed with fellow bandmate M. Ward.

Take a listen to "So Long" below and share your thoughts!

Synopsis:

Walt Disney Animation Studios returns to the Hundred Acre Wood with “Winnie the Pooh,” the first big-screen Pooh adventure from Disney animation in more than 35 years. With the timeless charm, wit and whimsy of the original featurettes, this all-new movie reunites audiences with the philosophical “bear of very little brain” and friends Tigger, Rabbit, Piglet, Owl, Kanga, Roo—and last, but certainly not least, Eeyore, who has lost his tail.

Check out these 12 newly released photos from Winnie The Pooh - Look at all that honey! My niece will absolutely love this film. Have a peek at Pooh in his latest adventure, coming to theaters later this year!

Some fun Pooh facts:

Winnie The Pooh welcomes a few new voices to the Hundred Acre Wood: Craig Ferguson (The Late Show with Craig Ferguson), Tom Kenny (SpongeBob SquarePants) and Bud Luckey (director of the Pixar short “Boundin”). Actress/musician/singer/songwriter Zooey Deschanel (Indie folk band, “She & Him”) provides the vocals for a special rendition of the beloved Winnie The Pooh theme song. Tony® Award-winning songwriter Bobby Lopez, and his wife Kristen, wrote the seven spirited new songs for Pooh and his pals, including “Pooh Bear Takes Care of His Tummy,” “A Very Important Thing To Do,” “Everything Is Honey” and “The Winner Song.” Lopez is composer on several episodes of “The Wonder Pets,...

The Annie Awards, Animation's Highest Honor, went all the way for DreamWorks Animation's "How to Train Your Dragon!" The fun, animated film, originally received 15 nominations and won 10 trophies including Best Animated Feature.

Given by the International Animated Film Society, the 38th annual Annie Awards was not without controversy. Apparently, Disney and Pixar announced they would no longer participate in the annual awards because of their concerns over how the event is judged.

The studios claimed the Annie Awards have always been slighted towards DreamWorks Animation. And this year, both DreamWorks film ("How to Train Your Dragon") and TV ("Kung Fu Panda Holiday") topped the Annie Awards.

"Dragon," featuring the voices of Jay Baruchel, Gerard Butler, America Ferrara, Jonah Hill, and Craig Ferguson, beat Annie contenders such as Universal's "Despicable Me," Disney's "Tangled," Sony Pictures Classics' "The Illusionist," and Pixar's "Toy Story 3" for best animated feature. (Check out...

With awards season is underway comes the 38th Annual Annie Award nominations, which recognize the year’s best work in animation. Since the creation of the animation-specific Oscar category in 2001, the Annies have predicted the Academy Award winner every year except 2006 and 2008.

Unfortunately, the award has been tainted by controversy after CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg reportedly bought each DreamWorks Animation employee a membership in the International Animated Film Society, Asifa-Hollywood, skewing the voting in the studio’s favor. This likely resulted in a surprise sweep by DreamWorks Animations’ Kung Fu Panda at the Annies in 2008-2009 over Pixar’s eventual Oscar winner, Wall-e.

Disney Studios has since pulled its official support of the event and submissions for the awards, though individual animators are able to submit their films themselves. As a result, the rules were changed for individual achievement categories, but Disney sought a neutral committee of animators from every studio to propose and approve guidelines.

The International Animated Film Society, Asifa-Hollywood, announced nominations today for the 38th Annual Annie Awards™ recognizing the year’s best in the field of animation including best animated feature, television production, commercials, short subjects, video games and outstanding individual achievements.

Two years ago, Kung-Fu Panda swept the awards over Wall-e pushing Disney and Pixar to withdraw from the organization and making everyone else wonder if there is any point in caring anymore about the ceremony. Toy Story 3 and Tangled did get Best Picture nominations, but DreamWorks (who pretty much run the show) lead the nominees.

According to /film, Disney’s reason for withdrawing was rooted in the organization’s very loose membership requirements and the fact that DreamWorks seemed actively working to stack the deck in the studio’s favour. Disney-Pixar president Ed Catmull said earlier this year,

“After more than a year of discussions with the Asifa board,...

The full list of nominations for the 38th Annie Awards were announced today with Dreamworks’s How to Train your Dragon gathering up the majority of nominations including Best Feature, Animation, Character Design and Voice Work for Gerard Butler and Jay Baruchel, as well as Directing nominations for Chris Sanders and Dean DeBlois.

Pixar’s Up took home the Best Animated Feature earlier this year at the 2009 awards and when the awards are announced next February Lee Unkrich and his team are up from a number of awards, along with Disney’s Tangled, but the recent decision of Disney to withdraw support for the awards may go some way to explaining the relatively few number of nods.

It has been a great year for animation as the films on the list below attest, and it’s nice to see Sylvain Chomet’s enchanting film The Illusionist scoring a point against the domination of CG here.

DreamWorks Animation's "How to Train Your Dragon" flew high above competition by nabbing 15 nominations for the 38th annual Annie Awards given by the International Animated Film Society, Asifa-Hollywood. ("How to Train Your Dragon" movie review)

"Dragon," featuring the voices of Jay Baruchel, Gerard Butler, America Ferrara, Jonah Hill, and Craig Ferguson, will duke it out with Universal's "Despicable Me," Disney's "Tangled," Sony Pictures Classics' "The Illusionist," and Pixar's "Toy Story 3" for best animated feature. ("How to Train Your Dragon" interviews)

But there's controversy in the Annie Awards world. The Hollywood Reporter is saying that "Disney and Pixar announced they would no longer participate in the annual awards because of their concerns over how the event is judged."

Apparently, Disney was complaining that the Annie Awards has favored DreamWorks in recent years such as when "Kung Fu Panda" won 10 trophies and beat Pixar's "Wall-e" in 2008.

This year, DreamWorks Animation...

The month of December, January, and February pretty much means near-daily updates of award nominations and selections. The latest is for the 38th Annual Annie Awards, awarding excellence in the animation area. Leading the pack is How To Train Your Dragon, a film I recently re-watched and loved just as much as in the theater. Also getting big nods are Despicable Me, Tangled, The Illusionist, and Toy Story 3. Check out the full list below.

Production Categories

Best Animated Feature

* Despicable Me – Illumination Entertainment

* How to Train Your Dragon – DreamWorks Animation

* Tangled – Disney

* The Illusionist – Django Films

* Toy Story 3 – Disney/Pixar

Best Animated Short Subject

* Coyote Falls – Warner Bros. Animation

* Day & Night – Pixar

* Enrique Wrecks the World – House of Chai

* The Cow Who Wanted To Be A Hamburger – Plymptoons Studio

* The Renter – Jason Carpenter

Best Animated Television Commercial

* Children’s Medical Center – Duck Studios

* Frito Lay Dips “And Then...

Disney has tough competition in the form of itself this year, as “Tangled” and “Toy Story 3″ will compete against one another, along with a host of other fantastic animated films, at the 38th Annual Annie Awards.

The Annie Awards will be a battleground for the upcoming Oscar animation awards. This year, only three animated films will be nominated. Why? Because the rules that govern the Oscars are laughably outmoded. But that’s beside the point.

Fact is, the Annie Awards deserve attention amongst the many other awards shows because so many great animated films were released in 2010, arguably more than traditional films. “Tangled,” “Toy Story 3,” “How to Train Your Dragon,” “Despicable Me” and “The Illusionist” will jostle for the Best Animated Feature award.

Here’s a list of all the nominees.

Best Animated Feature

“Despicable Me” (Illumination Entertainment)

“How to Train Your Dragon” (DreamWorks)

“Tangled” (Disney)

“The Illusionist...

The International Animated Film Society Asifa-Hollywood has announced the nominees for the 38th Annual Annie Awards, and the DreamWorks feature How to Train Your Dragon leads the pack with more than ten nods. But there's a caveat; that and the full list of nominations after the break. This will be the first Annie Awards after Disney and Pixar withdrew from the organization [1] that organizes the awards. Toy Story 3 and Tangled did get Best Picture nominations, and Lee Unkrich was nominated Best Director. But in the feature deaprtment this is DreamWorks' show, with a few nods toward the Warner Bros. film Legend of the Guardians and a scant few other features such as The Illusionist. Disney's reason for withdrawing was rooted in the organization's very loose membership requirements (read: almost non-existent requirements, until recently) and the fact that DreamWorks seemed actively working to stack the deck in the studio's favor.

How To Train Your Dragon has dominated the nominations for the Annie Awards awarded by the International Animation Society.

It will compete for the top category against The Illusionist, Despicable Me, Tangled and Toy Story 3. It is surprising that Tangled and Toy Story were nominated since they withdrew from the International Animation Society.

Here is the complete list of nominations:

Best Animated Feature

Despicable Me – Illumination Entertainment

How to Train Your Dragon – DreamWorks Animation

Tangled – Disney

The Illusionist – Django Films

Toy Story 3 – Disney/Pixar

Best Animated Short Subject

Coyote Falls - Warner Bros. Animation

Day & Night – Pixar

Enrique Wrecks the World - House of Chai

The Cow Who Wanted To Be A Hamburger - Plymptoons Studio

The Renter - Jason Carpenter

Best Animated Television Commercial

Children’s Medical Center - Duck Studios

Frito Lay Dips “And Then There Was Salsa” - Laika/house

‘How To Train Your Dragon...

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