Spider-man Across the Spider-verse
animation
directors : Joaquim Santos
Spider-man Across the Spider-verse was the great winner as Best Feature of the 51st Annual Annie Awards, by the International Society of Animated Cinema.
The Annie Awards, animation’s highest honor, is an American award for accomplishments in animation.
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
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 at Annie Awards.
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 Ghibli. Miyazaki 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
"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 & Célestine A Trip Gibberitia, Four Souls of Coyote, The Inventor, and White Plastic Sky.
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+).
Education:
- Teachers can envision so many ways to use these movies in the classroom to teach:
- And reinforcing skills as :
- Or introducing skills of inference and critical thinking as well creativity.
- 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.
