Annie Awards Red Carpet 2009 - Part 3Director, producer, four-time Academy Award winner Nick Park was presented with a Winsor McCay Award. Nick is probably most famous for his Wallace and Gromit feature, âThe Curse of the WereRabbit.â Also, Nick Parkâs Aardman Animations Ltdâs âWallace & Gromit: A Matter of Loaf and Death,â was nominated as best animated short.
Comedian and presenter, Fred Willard, is credited in the cast of Pixarâs âWall-E,â so everyone assumes he is voicing one of the animated robots. It turns out Fred appears on camera in a Pixar first. Also, your Actors Reporter last chatted with Fred at the Comedy to the Max benefit recently where Fred donated his time as MC/Comedian to the worthy cause of helping Max Alexander.
Director John Stevenson, an art department/storyboard wiz, co-directed with Mark Osborne âKung Fu Panda,â a DreamWorks Animation. John and Mark were nominated for best director in an animate feature production.
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