Two years ago, siblings Billie Eilish and Finneas O’Connell shared in four Grammy wins for the album “When We Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?” (Album of the Year; Best Pop Vocal Album) and its single “Bad Guy” (Record of the Year; Song of the Year). Now, they have concurrently earned their first Oscar nominations for co-writing the song “No Time to Die” for the James Bond film of the same name. If they prevail later this month, they will become the fourth brother-sister pair to both be honored by the academy and the first to win for the same film.
The first brother-sister Oscar champs and first sibling winners overall were Douglas Shearer and Norma Shearer. In 1930, he triumphed in the Best Sound category for “The Big House” while she took the Best Actress prize for “The Divorcee.” They were followed by Lionel Barrymore and Ethel Barrymore, who respectively...
The first brother-sister Oscar champs and first sibling winners overall were Douglas Shearer and Norma Shearer. In 1930, he triumphed in the Best Sound category for “The Big House” while she took the Best Actress prize for “The Divorcee.” They were followed by Lionel Barrymore and Ethel Barrymore, who respectively...
- 3/16/2022
- by Matthew Stewart
- Gold Derby
The Annency International Animation Film Festival announced Saturday evening the winners of its major awards.
Flee, Jonas Poher Rasmussen’s hand-drawn animation telling the true story of a man’s extraordinary journey as a child refugee from Afghanistan, won top honors by nabbing the Annency Cristal for a feature film. Deadline’s Todd McCarthy said Rasmussen “puts you through it in a way that illustrates, instructs, makes you look inward and ask whether you’d have what it takes, if you could tough it out and survive in a cold, hostile world.”
Riz Ahmed and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau will voice the lead roles in an English language version of the film, which will debut later this year, and the pair are also executive producers on the pic.
My Sunny Maad, the debut feature of Oscar-nominated director Michaela Pavlátová, won this year’s Jury Award. The film follows a young Czech woman...
Flee, Jonas Poher Rasmussen’s hand-drawn animation telling the true story of a man’s extraordinary journey as a child refugee from Afghanistan, won top honors by nabbing the Annency Cristal for a feature film. Deadline’s Todd McCarthy said Rasmussen “puts you through it in a way that illustrates, instructs, makes you look inward and ask whether you’d have what it takes, if you could tough it out and survive in a cold, hostile world.”
Riz Ahmed and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau will voice the lead roles in an English language version of the film, which will debut later this year, and the pair are also executive producers on the pic.
My Sunny Maad, the debut feature of Oscar-nominated director Michaela Pavlátová, won this year’s Jury Award. The film follows a young Czech woman...
- 6/19/2021
- by Brandon Choe
- Deadline Film + TV
Annecy’s short film competition is many things. It is a celebration of the best short, animated films from the previous year, a barometer of bigger things to come from filmmakers on the rise, a place of recognition for established filmmakers still going strong decades into their careers, and a home to experimentation impossible to find almost anywhere else.
Each year, Variety watches each of the shorts in Annecy’s main competition selection and picks ten of our favorites. We’re not saying these are the best 10 shorts this year, we’ll leave that to the judges, but we believe each brings something that shouldn’t be missed.
“Affairs of the Art”
24 years after sweeping the Special Jury, Ufoleis and Mellow Manor awards at Annecy 1987, Oscar-nominated filmmaker Joanna Quinn is back with her iconic creation Beryl, in a new story of aging, body image, sisterly love and fond memories. One...
Each year, Variety watches each of the shorts in Annecy’s main competition selection and picks ten of our favorites. We’re not saying these are the best 10 shorts this year, we’ll leave that to the judges, but we believe each brings something that shouldn’t be missed.
“Affairs of the Art”
24 years after sweeping the Special Jury, Ufoleis and Mellow Manor awards at Annecy 1987, Oscar-nominated filmmaker Joanna Quinn is back with her iconic creation Beryl, in a new story of aging, body image, sisterly love and fond memories. One...
- 6/17/2021
- by Jamie Lang, Emilio Mayorga and John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
Global Screen has closed further sales deals for its 3D animated feature film “Marnie’s World,” which is close to selling out worldwide. The movie is written and directed by Oscar winners Christoph and Wolfgang Lauenstein.
In the film, pampered pussycat Marnie is lured into becoming a secret agent. Marnie teams up with a bunch of runaway animals, and sets off on a dangerous mission to track down a gang of notorious thieves.
Among the latest territory deals are the U.K. (sold to Signature), Scandinavia (Scanbox), Africa (Black Sheep), the Benelux (Dutch Filmworks), Israel (Five Stars Distribution) and Poland (Kino Swiat). The film will be released by Universum Film in Germany in spring 2019. Negotiations are underway with buyers for the U.S. and Australia.
Previously announced deals include France (Septieme Factory), Spain (Flins y Peniculas), China (Vision Film), Hungary (ADService), Latin America (Cdc Film), Portugal (Films4You), Turkey (Tme), Bulgaria...
In the film, pampered pussycat Marnie is lured into becoming a secret agent. Marnie teams up with a bunch of runaway animals, and sets off on a dangerous mission to track down a gang of notorious thieves.
Among the latest territory deals are the U.K. (sold to Signature), Scandinavia (Scanbox), Africa (Black Sheep), the Benelux (Dutch Filmworks), Israel (Five Stars Distribution) and Poland (Kino Swiat). The film will be released by Universum Film in Germany in spring 2019. Negotiations are underway with buyers for the U.S. and Australia.
Previously announced deals include France (Septieme Factory), Spain (Flins y Peniculas), China (Vision Film), Hungary (ADService), Latin America (Cdc Film), Portugal (Films4You), Turkey (Tme), Bulgaria...
- 9/26/2018
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
Further openers include The Spy Who Dumped Me, The Children’s Act and A Northern Soul.
New releases led by Spike Lee’s BlacKkKlansman and a duo of family animations are hoping to light up the UK box office this weekend (Aug 24-26) after last weekend was dominated by holdovers.
Universal is opening BlacKkKlansman wide on over 300 screens. The film, which premiered in competition at Cannes earlier this year, stars John David Washington (son of Denzel) and Adam Driver and is based on the true story of a Southern black policeman who went undercover in the Ku Klux Klan in the late1970s.
New releases led by Spike Lee’s BlacKkKlansman and a duo of family animations are hoping to light up the UK box office this weekend (Aug 24-26) after last weekend was dominated by holdovers.
Universal is opening BlacKkKlansman wide on over 300 screens. The film, which premiered in competition at Cannes earlier this year, stars John David Washington (son of Denzel) and Adam Driver and is based on the true story of a Southern black policeman who went undercover in the Ku Klux Klan in the late1970s.
- 8/24/2018
- by Louise Tutt
- ScreenDaily
"Get ready to meet some new friends who are out of this world!" Warner Bros UK has debuted an official trailer for an animated kids adventure comedy titled Luis and the Aliens. This is made by two German brothers, Wolfgang Lauenstein & Christoph Lauenstein, who have started directing animated features out of Germany for distribution worldwide - they also made a film titled Marnie's World which premiered at the Annecy Film Festival this summer. And they won an Oscar for their 1999 animated short Balance. Luis tells the story of an 11-year-old boy who makes friends with three loveable little aliens, who crash their UFO into his house. In return for Luis' help in finding the home-shopping channel stuff they came for, they will save Luis from the horrors of boarding school. The voice cast includes Joey Guila and Franciska Friede. This looks cute, but it's not an all-ages super smart animated movie,...
- 7/2/2018
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Warner Bros have dropped a new trailer and a hoard of stills for the Alien animation adventure, Luis and the Aliens for World UFO Day.
The brother’s behind Marnie’s World, Christoph and Wolfgang Lauenstein are the directors on the new animation. The originally German adventure has been re-recorded in the English language. However, information on the English speaking voice cast is pretty thin on the ground.
Also in trailers – Cate Blanchett guns down killer pumpkins in magical new trailer for The House with the Clock in its Walls
The film hits cinema’s 24th August
Luis and the Aliens Official Synopsis
No-one believed Luis’s dad when he said he’d been attacked by an alien. And growing up with an obsessed Ufologist for a father hasn’t been easy for 12-year-old Luis, either.
But then three crazy aliens crash their ship right in front of Luis, and finally,...
The brother’s behind Marnie’s World, Christoph and Wolfgang Lauenstein are the directors on the new animation. The originally German adventure has been re-recorded in the English language. However, information on the English speaking voice cast is pretty thin on the ground.
Also in trailers – Cate Blanchett guns down killer pumpkins in magical new trailer for The House with the Clock in its Walls
The film hits cinema’s 24th August
Luis and the Aliens Official Synopsis
No-one believed Luis’s dad when he said he’d been attacked by an alien. And growing up with an obsessed Ufologist for a father hasn’t been easy for 12-year-old Luis, either.
But then three crazy aliens crash their ship right in front of Luis, and finally,...
- 7/2/2018
- by Zehra Phelan
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Warner Bros. has taken U.K. rights to animated movie “Luis and the Aliens,” written and directed by Oscar-winning brothers Christoph and Wolfgang Lauenstein. Global Screen handled the deal.
The adventure film, which is produced by Ulysses Films, Fabrique d’Images and A. Film Production, begins its British theatrical roll-out on Aug. 24.
The film tells the story of a 12-year-old boy, Luis, who makes friends with three little aliens who crash their spaceship near to Luis’ house in a small Midwestern city. “In return for Luis’ help finding the home-shopping channel stuff they came for, they try to save Luis from boarding school – and a tumultuous adventure takes its course,” according to a statement.
The Lauenstein brothers, who won an Oscar for their animated short “Balance,” also directed Global Screen’s latest high-profile 3D animated film, “Marnie’s World.” The film is about a spoiled house cat, Marnie, who is lured...
The adventure film, which is produced by Ulysses Films, Fabrique d’Images and A. Film Production, begins its British theatrical roll-out on Aug. 24.
The film tells the story of a 12-year-old boy, Luis, who makes friends with three little aliens who crash their spaceship near to Luis’ house in a small Midwestern city. “In return for Luis’ help finding the home-shopping channel stuff they came for, they try to save Luis from boarding school – and a tumultuous adventure takes its course,” according to a statement.
The Lauenstein brothers, who won an Oscar for their animated short “Balance,” also directed Global Screen’s latest high-profile 3D animated film, “Marnie’s World.” The film is about a spoiled house cat, Marnie, who is lured...
- 6/15/2018
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
Hot projects on Screenbase this week include German-Canadian co-production In The Lost Lands, twin brothers Mohammed Abou Nasser and Ahmad Abou Nasser’s Dégradé, spy-thriller Damascus Cover and documentary Tomorrow.
Fantasy adventure In The Lost Lands
Milla Jovovich will star alongside Justin Chatwin in this new feature based on short stories from the creator of Game Of Thrones. The German-Canadian co-production is directed by Constantin Werner.
The story revolves around a series of magical and fantastic tales centring on a sorceress in search of a spell, a warrior girl on a quest and a young barbarian who encounters a witch in a spacecraft.
Steve Hoban, Oliver Luer and Nico Bruinsma produce. Myriad Pictures chief Kirk D’Amico will serve as an executive producer.
Terrence Malick’s Voyage Of Time
Malick’s documentary features the voices of Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett. Dede Gardner, Nicolas Gonda, Sarah Green, Grant Hill, Brad Pitt, Bill Pohlad and [link...
Fantasy adventure In The Lost Lands
Milla Jovovich will star alongside Justin Chatwin in this new feature based on short stories from the creator of Game Of Thrones. The German-Canadian co-production is directed by Constantin Werner.
The story revolves around a series of magical and fantastic tales centring on a sorceress in search of a spell, a warrior girl on a quest and a young barbarian who encounters a witch in a spacecraft.
Steve Hoban, Oliver Luer and Nico Bruinsma produce. Myriad Pictures chief Kirk D’Amico will serve as an executive producer.
Terrence Malick’s Voyage Of Time
Malick’s documentary features the voices of Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett. Dede Gardner, Nicolas Gonda, Sarah Green, Grant Hill, Brad Pitt, Bill Pohlad and [link...
- 2/9/2015
- by maud.le-rest@sciencespo-toulouse.net (Maud Le Rest)
- ScreenDaily
I love Paul Driessen. Very long ago (1977!) when I was head of acquisitions and international sales for the Santa Monica based short film distributor Pyramid Films, we had Paul Driessen's wonderful short animation, The Killing of an Egg (02'50 / Holland 1977). We sold it to businesses who were holding meetings for inspiring sales, bolstering morale, to schools and libraries. It became one of our best selling shorts. In 2000 he was nominated for the Oscar for Best Animated Short 3 Misses.
And now the Dragon of Dragons Award, the award for life achievement granted annually by the 53rd Krakow Film Festival to be held May 26 to June 2, 2013, goes to the Dutch-Canadian animator Paul Driessen.
The Krakow Film Festival is one of the oldest film events dedicated to documentary, animated and short fiction films in Europe. Among previous winners there are such well-known artists as Kazimierz Karabasz, Allan King, Albert Maysles, Werner Herzog, Stephen and Timothy Quay, Raoul Servais, Jerzy Kucia and Jonas Mekas. Last year, for the first time a woman - Helena Trestíková, the author of the famous documentary Rene, become a laureate.
Paul Driessen was born in 1940, in Nijmegen, in the Netherlands. He drew cartoons from an early age, in 1964 he graduated from the Art Academy in Utrecht and was offered a job as an animator at a commercial animation film & TV studio in Hilversum, near Amsterdam. In 1967 he was invited by George Dunning to work on his Beatles’ story “The Yellow Submarine”, which now is considered a forerunner for modern intertextual animations for adults like “Shrek”, “Futurama”, “South Park” or “The Simpsons”.
In 1970 Paul Driessen emigrated to Canada and started a freelance animation career, working mainly for the National Film Board of Canada. Since 1976 he also animated and directed many of his films for independent producers in The Netherlands. Driessen's unique style can be easily recognised by the incessantly wobbling lines and smooth movements of his characters. As a narrator he often uses split screen technique, while keeping the story integrated.
In the 1980s Driessen started teaching animation at the University of Kassel, Germany, after Jan Lenica. He continued till 2005 and under his guidance two of his student's films, "Balance" (1989) by Christoph and Wolfgang Lauenstein, and “Quest” (1996) by Tyron Montgomery and Thomas Stellmach, won Academy Awards.
Paul Driessen has won over 50 international awards for his work. He was honored with life achievement awards at the animated film festivals in Ottawa (1984) and Zagreb (2002), in 1987 Asifa Hollywood presented the Annie Award to him for "his distinguished contribution to the art of animation". In 2005 he was given the Special Golden Dinosaur Award at the Etiuda & Anima Film Festival in Krakow. In 2000 his short film, interlocking three tales of damsels in distress, “3 Misses” earned him an Oscar nomination.
Lately he wrote and illustrated a couple of books - “The Fiddle Fumble Stories” series, typical of the style which characterizes the rest of his work. Paul Driessen is currently working on a new animated short, a coproduction between Canada and The Netherlands.
Paul Driessen Website
Filmography:
“The Story of Little John Bailey” (6', The Netherlands 1970)
“Le Bleu Perdu” (7', Canada 1972)
“Air!” (02'00 / Canada 1972)
“Au bout du Fil” (“Cat's Cradle”) (10', Canada 1974)
“Une Vieille Boîte” (“An Old Box”) (9', Canada 1975)
“David” (7', The Netherlands 1977)
“The Killing of an Egg” (2', The Netherlands 1977)
“On Land, at Sea & in the Air” (10', The Netherlands 1980)
“Jeu de Coudes” (“Elbowing”) (6', Canada 1980)
“Home on the Rails” (“Treinhuisje”) (10', The Netherlands 1981)
“Une Histoire comme une Autre” (“The Same Old Story”) (3', Canada 1981)
“Oh what a Knight” (3', The Netherlands 1982
“Spotting a Cow” (“Het Scheppen van een Koe”) (6', The Netherlands 1983)
“Tip-Top” (7', Canada 1984)
“Sunny Side Up” (“Spiegeleiland”) (3', The Netherlands 1985)
“Traingang” (1'), “Getting There” (1') (Expo Vancouver, Canada 1986)
“The Writer” (“De Schrijver en de Dood”) (12', The Netherlands 1988)
“Uncles & Aunts #1” (2', The Netherlands 1989)
“The Water People” (24’ & 13', The Netherlands-Japan 1992)
“Uncles & Aunts #3” (3', The Netherlands 1992)
“The End of the World in 4 Seasons” (12', Canada 1995)
3 Misses (10', The Netherlands 2000)
“The Boy who saw the Iceberg” (12', Canada 2000)
“2D or not 2D” (17', Canada-The Netherlands 2004)
“2D or not 2D -The ShortCut” (12', Canada-The Netherlands 2004)
“Oedipus” (13', Canada-The Netherlands 2011)
Participation:
“The Yellow Submarine” (feature length / Tvc, UK 1969)
“Tiki-Tiki” (feature length / Potterton Productions, Canada 1970)
“The Happy Prince” (27', Potterton Productions, Canada 1974)
“Le Rejeton” (12', Onf, Canada 1977)
“Anijam” (15', International Rocketship, Canada 1985)
“Elephantrio” (9', Nfb, Src, Canada 1986)
“Candyjam” (6', J. Priestly, Canada 1988)
“Pink Komkommer” (11', International Rocketship, Canada 1991)
“Paul Driessen Inside-Out” (52', Documentary, The Netherlands 2002)
“The 7 Brothers” (12', Kaj & Paul Driessen / CinéTé, The Netherlands 2008)
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And now the Dragon of Dragons Award, the award for life achievement granted annually by the 53rd Krakow Film Festival to be held May 26 to June 2, 2013, goes to the Dutch-Canadian animator Paul Driessen.
The Krakow Film Festival is one of the oldest film events dedicated to documentary, animated and short fiction films in Europe. Among previous winners there are such well-known artists as Kazimierz Karabasz, Allan King, Albert Maysles, Werner Herzog, Stephen and Timothy Quay, Raoul Servais, Jerzy Kucia and Jonas Mekas. Last year, for the first time a woman - Helena Trestíková, the author of the famous documentary Rene, become a laureate.
Paul Driessen was born in 1940, in Nijmegen, in the Netherlands. He drew cartoons from an early age, in 1964 he graduated from the Art Academy in Utrecht and was offered a job as an animator at a commercial animation film & TV studio in Hilversum, near Amsterdam. In 1967 he was invited by George Dunning to work on his Beatles’ story “The Yellow Submarine”, which now is considered a forerunner for modern intertextual animations for adults like “Shrek”, “Futurama”, “South Park” or “The Simpsons”.
In 1970 Paul Driessen emigrated to Canada and started a freelance animation career, working mainly for the National Film Board of Canada. Since 1976 he also animated and directed many of his films for independent producers in The Netherlands. Driessen's unique style can be easily recognised by the incessantly wobbling lines and smooth movements of his characters. As a narrator he often uses split screen technique, while keeping the story integrated.
In the 1980s Driessen started teaching animation at the University of Kassel, Germany, after Jan Lenica. He continued till 2005 and under his guidance two of his student's films, "Balance" (1989) by Christoph and Wolfgang Lauenstein, and “Quest” (1996) by Tyron Montgomery and Thomas Stellmach, won Academy Awards.
Paul Driessen has won over 50 international awards for his work. He was honored with life achievement awards at the animated film festivals in Ottawa (1984) and Zagreb (2002), in 1987 Asifa Hollywood presented the Annie Award to him for "his distinguished contribution to the art of animation". In 2005 he was given the Special Golden Dinosaur Award at the Etiuda & Anima Film Festival in Krakow. In 2000 his short film, interlocking three tales of damsels in distress, “3 Misses” earned him an Oscar nomination.
Lately he wrote and illustrated a couple of books - “The Fiddle Fumble Stories” series, typical of the style which characterizes the rest of his work. Paul Driessen is currently working on a new animated short, a coproduction between Canada and The Netherlands.
Paul Driessen Website
Filmography:
“The Story of Little John Bailey” (6', The Netherlands 1970)
“Le Bleu Perdu” (7', Canada 1972)
“Air!” (02'00 / Canada 1972)
“Au bout du Fil” (“Cat's Cradle”) (10', Canada 1974)
“Une Vieille Boîte” (“An Old Box”) (9', Canada 1975)
“David” (7', The Netherlands 1977)
“The Killing of an Egg” (2', The Netherlands 1977)
“On Land, at Sea & in the Air” (10', The Netherlands 1980)
“Jeu de Coudes” (“Elbowing”) (6', Canada 1980)
“Home on the Rails” (“Treinhuisje”) (10', The Netherlands 1981)
“Une Histoire comme une Autre” (“The Same Old Story”) (3', Canada 1981)
“Oh what a Knight” (3', The Netherlands 1982
“Spotting a Cow” (“Het Scheppen van een Koe”) (6', The Netherlands 1983)
“Tip-Top” (7', Canada 1984)
“Sunny Side Up” (“Spiegeleiland”) (3', The Netherlands 1985)
“Traingang” (1'), “Getting There” (1') (Expo Vancouver, Canada 1986)
“The Writer” (“De Schrijver en de Dood”) (12', The Netherlands 1988)
“Uncles & Aunts #1” (2', The Netherlands 1989)
“The Water People” (24’ & 13', The Netherlands-Japan 1992)
“Uncles & Aunts #3” (3', The Netherlands 1992)
“The End of the World in 4 Seasons” (12', Canada 1995)
3 Misses (10', The Netherlands 2000)
“The Boy who saw the Iceberg” (12', Canada 2000)
“2D or not 2D” (17', Canada-The Netherlands 2004)
“2D or not 2D -The ShortCut” (12', Canada-The Netherlands 2004)
“Oedipus” (13', Canada-The Netherlands 2011)
Participation:
“The Yellow Submarine” (feature length / Tvc, UK 1969)
“Tiki-Tiki” (feature length / Potterton Productions, Canada 1970)
“The Happy Prince” (27', Potterton Productions, Canada 1974)
“Le Rejeton” (12', Onf, Canada 1977)
“Anijam” (15', International Rocketship, Canada 1985)
“Elephantrio” (9', Nfb, Src, Canada 1986)
“Candyjam” (6', J. Priestly, Canada 1988)
“Pink Komkommer” (11', International Rocketship, Canada 1991)
“Paul Driessen Inside-Out” (52', Documentary, The Netherlands 2002)
“The 7 Brothers” (12', Kaj & Paul Driessen / CinéTé, The Netherlands 2008)
Kff on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/krakowfilmfest
Kff on Twitter: http://twitter.com/krakowfilmfest
Kff on Blip: http://krakowfilmfestival.blip.pl/...
- 4/8/2013
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
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