Saturday, June 1, 2024

Schools : Animation films into curricula ! Annie Awards 2024


 


Spider-man Across the Spider-verse

animation

directors : Joaquim Santos

https://www.imdb.com/

Spider-man Across the Spider-verse was the great winner as Best Feature of the 51st Annual Annie Awardsby the International Society of Animated Cinema. 

The Annie Awards, animation’s highest honor, is an American award for accomplishments in animation.


 



And the Annie Award for Best Feature goes to... Spider-Man: Across the Spiderverse!
Sony Pictures

 

The Annie Awards are the Oscars of animation, long and short. And the winner in Best Animated Feature was Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse at the Annie Awards 2024!

Congratulations to the Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse Editorial Team for winning.

I loved the film and I wrote about it on "May in Review & Marvel saga animation : Spider-Man Verse ! Resources."

https://gsouto-digitalteacher.blogspot.com/2023/06/marvel-saga-animation-spider-man-across.html






This Award reinforced its nomination in the category Animated Feature Film at the 2024 Oscars. Sony's superhero production received the 7 awards for which it was nominated, including "Best Animated Film" and "Best Director". 

Directed by the Portuguese Joaquim dos Santos, Kemp Powers & Justin K. Thompson. Unfortunately, the Oscar nominees' list did not mention the Portuguese director's name. Lapse?! Really ?!


 


The Boy and the Heron

Hayao Miyazaki, 2023

https://www.imdb.com/


Followed by The Boy and the Heron with 2 awards directed by the great Japanese "master of the animation" Hayao Miyazaki though it had 7 nomimations aAnnie Awards




Hayo Miyazaki
Oscar winner The Boy and Heron
credit: Studio Ghibli France


Later The Boy and the Heron was the winner of the Oscar 2024 as Best Animated Feature. Congratulations to Hayao Miyazaki who presented his last animation produced as always by the  Studio GhibliMiyazaki one of Japan's greatest animation wirters and directors.


Having become synonymous with animated poetry, Miyazaki returns with a captivating story where nature and human relationships intertwine.




Nimona

Nick Bruno &  Troy Quane, 2023

https://www.imdb.com/


"When a knight in a futuristic medieval world is framed for a crime he didn't commit, the only one who can help him prove his innocence is Nimona - a mischievous teen who happens to be a shapeshifting creature he's sworn to destroy."

And finally, Nimona, direction Nick Bruno e Troy Quane by Netflix, (official website) which had 9 nominations at Annie Awards






"The adventures and misfortunes of Dog and Robot in New York City during the 1980s."

Robot Dreams de Pablo Berger, the Spanish and French animation without dialogue about a friendship between a dog and robot in the 80s in New York from 5 nominations won just one but as the Best Feature Independent at Annie Awards.

Winning Ernest & CĂ©lestine A Trip Gibberitia, Four Souls of CoyoteThe Inventor, and White Plastic Sky. 


 






The winner in the category Animated Short Film at the Oscars 2024 was The WAR IS OVER! Inspired by the Music of John & Yoko and at the Annie Awards as Best Short Subject. Same category that the Portuguese production Ice Merchants won last year.

Categories BestTV, Blue Eye Samurai / Netflix won the Best TV/Media Mature in the seven categories at the Annie Awards


Finally, there was three awards to Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur (Disney+) and two to Star Wars: Visions (Disney+).





Annie Awards 2024
via Animation Magazine

Education:


Animated movies are excellent educational digital resources to motivate and inspire your students and bring new life into your curriculum!

  • Teachers can envision so many ways to use these movies in the classroom to teach:

Literacy, grammar, morals, music, civics, sciences, drawing and other.

  • And reinforcing skills as :

Reading, writing, drawing, composing, reinforcing 

  • Or introducing skills of inference and critical thinking as well creativity.


CurriculaMother Language; Foreign Languages; Arts; Music, Civics, Science, Technology and Multimedia.

Target: Kindergarten; Primary education; Secondary education ; Vocational education.

Teachers will decide carefully which animated film for which students and level they are teaching. Must prepare very well your lessons including animated films and think on the activities they can present to the students.





Annie Awards 2024
via Google Images Archive



Activities:

  • Choose different animated films from the Annie Awards to study in the curricula they are teaching. Pay attention to the age or level of the students.
  • Reviewing the Narrative;
  • Comparing children's literature or teen's literature adaptation to animated films if there is one or two based books;
  • Inviting the older students to critical thinking or to discuss critically or to give their opinion, expressing their feeling or preference of the animation they are exploring; 
  • Critical writing presenting their opinions always adapted to the level or age;
  • Why not a cross-curricular project ? Ask  some of your colleagues of different curricula to present some ideas and discuss them with the students.


Hoping you don't miss to include some of these animated films into your school curriculum to explore the pedagogical richness of awesome and so creative digital resources.


G-Souto

01.04.2024

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