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British Animation Awards nominees announced
Valerie Taylor was kind enough to let me know that the final nominees for this year’s BAA -- British Animation Awards -- in both the juried and the public voted Children’s Choice categories, have just been announced today and national treasure Aardman Animation is leading the field with no less than four noms in the [...]
Continue reading...The Diagram Prize
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Nothing to do with comics or SF&F but the Diagram Prize is one of the literary awards in the UK I most look forward to for the simple reason its delightfully daft. Each year the Bookseller’s Horace Bent asks readers and fellow booksellers to send in some of the silliest titles for books published in [...]
Continue reading...Sarah McIntyre wins book prize
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
A delighted and excited sounding Sarah McIntyre tells us that she’s won the Picture Book Award while attending the first ever Children’s Book Festival at Bishop’s Stortford for Morris the Mankiest Monster, which she collaborated with bestselling kid’s author Giles Andreae on.From Sarah’s blog it seems that kids from a number of local schools got [...]
Continue reading...British Animation Awards – exercise your choice
Monday, February 8, 2010
Valerie from the British Animation Awards (BAA – hence the sheep logo they use), kindly updates me to events relating to the 2010 BAA. The BAA happens every two years in the UK and again in the run up to the announcement of the winners in April the public will get their chance to view [...]
Continue reading...SFX Weekender – awards and news of Gaiman writing for Who (at last!)
Monday, February 8, 2010
The SFX Weekender was held over the weekend (well, duh!) and among the panels and cosplay and discussions and drinking there were, of course, the annual SFX awards. The Geek Syndicate boys were live-Tweeting them as they happened (thanks, Nuge) and SF Awards Watch has handily compiled them all. Neil Gaiman won the Best Novel [...]
Continue reading...Annies announced, British Animation Awards to follow
Sunday, February 7, 2010
We really are in awards season right now and the latest this weekend were the Annies, the gongs given out to the year’s best animation works in many categories from Best Animated Feature to Best Animated Short to categories that celebrate the individual technical feats that create those animations, such as Best Animated Effects. There [...]
Continue reading...Baru takes Grand Prix at Angoulême
Sunday, January 31, 2010
Tom at The Comics Reporter announces that Hervé Baruléa – better known as Baru – has won the highly prestigious Grand Prix at the annual Angoulême comics festival in France, meaning he will be the president at next year’s festival. Tom also has a run down of other awards to emerge from what’s pretty much [...]
Continue reading...BSFA shortlist
Monday, January 25, 2010
The shortlist of nominees for this year’s BSFA Awards – along with the Arthur C Clarke Awards one of the pre-eminent awards for science fiction literature in the UK – have just been announced. The nominees for best novel are China Mieville – The City and the City, Stephen Baxter – Ark, Adam Roberts – [...]
Continue reading...Doctor Who wins at the National TV Awards
Thursday, January 21, 2010
Last night the multi-award winning Doctor Who and outgoing Doc David Tennant scored yet again at the National TV Awards in London, with the series taking the best drama gong for the fifth year in a row, with Tennant picking up the oustanding drama performance award. And I know its not connected to SF&F (although [...]
Continue reading...Kate Brown wins Arts Foundation graphic novel prize
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
The SelfMadeHero Twitter is reporting that Kate Brown, whose work has appeared in their Manga Shakespeare range and to a wider, non comics audience in the Guardian, has won the Arts Foundation graphic novel prize; the judges were Paul Gravett, Pat Mills and Posey Simmonds. The Foundation has been giving out awards worth a great [...]
Continue reading...Ken Sprague Fund International Political Cartoon Competition 2010
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
The Ken Sprague Fund, set up in memory of the late cartoonist and campaigner for human rights and staunch supporter of socialism, has its political cartoon competition open for entries, with the 2010 competition being on the theme “Money makes the world go round: globalisation, financial meltdown, fair trade and economic justice”. The closing date [...]
Continue reading...Blast from the past – the 1979 Hugo awards
Monday, January 11, 2010
Cheryl Morgan posts this fragment from an old BBC documentary Time out of Mind with footage from the 1979 Hugo Awards, given out at the ‘79 World Science Fiction Convention, which that year was held in Brighton. Ah, the 70s, when 70s fashions were just fashion (albeit often dreadful!) and not retro-fashion for self conscious [...]
Continue reading...Missing in 2009 – The Eagle Awards – UPDATED
Wednesday, December 30, 2009
Hmmm. Andy Luke posed a question via e-mail a while ago that I’ve only just gotten around to looking at. Whatever happened to the Eagle Awards? For those that don’t know, The Eagle Awards are the premier UK comic awards, handed out annually. Or at least they were. The last time they were actually awarded was [...]
Continue reading...Peter Brookes wins Political Cartoonist of the Year
Monday, December 14, 2009
(Defence Secretary Bob Ainsworth lampooned for crucial equipment shortages, by and (c) Peter Brookes) I missed this but luckily Bloghorn didn’t – The Times’ Peter Brookes took the Political Cartoonist of the Year award at the end of last week (his second PCY win, according to the accompanying Times article), with colleague Morten Morland taking the [...]
Continue reading...Annie awards nominations
Wednesday, December 2, 2009
The nominations for the 37th annual Annie Awards, one of the highlights of the awards in the animation world, have been announced. It will be no surprise to anyone that the Best Animated Feature category is dominated by major works -- Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs ( Sony Pictures Animation), Coraline ( [...]
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