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Blue Sky's "Bunny" Receives Academy Award
"Bunny," a seven-minute short film from Blue Sky Studios, written and directed by Chris Wedge received an Oscar last night for "Best Animated Short Film."
One of five films nominated in the category, "Bunny" took top honors during the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Oscar Night® ceremonies held at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles.
Introduced by the well-loved characters of the feature-animated hit "A Bug's Life," Wedge took the stage thanking the Academy members, his family and wife Jean, Bunny's Producer Nina Rappaport, and Composers Tom Waits and Kathleen Brennan. He added, "This is especially thrilling because this was a labor of love . . . and to everyone of you who now or ever has worked for Blue Sky Studios, thank you for allowing me to follow my heart and for pouring so much of yours into Bunny."
In addition to it's engrossing, bittersweet tale of loneliness and ultimate reunion, "Bunny" also creates a new standard of cinematic storytelling for computer animation using an advanced computer rendering technique known as "radiosity" which mimics the most subtle properties of natural light. This technique, never before used in film, enabled Wedge and his crew to create an unparalleled dimensionality and organic realism.
The other short animated nominees included The Canterbury Tales directed by Christopher Grace and Jonathan Myerson An S4C/BBC Wales/HBO Production; Jolly Roger directed by Mark Baker, an Astley Baker/Silver Bird Production for Channel Four; More directed by Mark Osborne and Steve Kalafer, A Bad Clams Productions/Swell Productions/Flemington Pictures Production; and When Life Departs directed by Karsten Kiilerich and Sefan Fjeldmark, an A. Film Production.
In addition to screening at several national and international film festivals, "Bunny" is schedule to screen at The Film Forum in New York from May 12 - 25, and is featured in the 1999 Spike & Mike Film Festival which tours over 50 states in the U.S. and Canada.
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Blue Sky's "Bunny" Receives Academy Award"Bunny," a seven-minute short film from Blue Sky Studios, written and directed by Chris Wedge received an Oscar last night for "Best Animated Short Film."
One of five films nominated in the category, "Bunny" took top honors during the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Oscar Night® ceremonies held at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles.
Introduced by the well-loved characters of the feature-animated hit "A Bug's Life," Wedge took the stage thanking the Academy members, his family and wife Jean, Bunny's Producer Nina Rappaport, and Composers Tom Waits and Kathleen Brennan. He added, "This is especially thrilling because this was a labor of love . . . and to everyone of you who now or ever has worked for Blue Sky Studios, thank you for allowing me to follow my heart and for pouring so much of yours into Bunny."
In addition to it's engrossing, bittersweet tale of loneliness and ultimate reunion, "Bunny" also creates a new standard of cinematic storytelling for computer animation using an advanced computer rendering technique known as "radiosity" which mimics the most subtle properties of natural light. This technique, never before used in film, enabled Wedge and his crew to create an unparalleled dimensionality and organic realism.
The other short animated nominees included The Canterbury Tales directed by Christopher Grace and Jonathan Myerson An S4C/BBC Wales/HBO Production; Jolly Roger directed by Mark Baker, an Astley Baker/Silver Bird Production for Channel Four; More directed by Mark Osborne and Steve Kalafer, A Bad Clams Productions/Swell Productions/Flemington Pictures Production; and When Life Departs directed by Karsten Kiilerich and Sefan Fjeldmark, an A. Film Production.
In addition to screening at several national and international film festivals, "Bunny" is schedule to screen at The Film Forum in New York from May 12 - 25, and is featured in the 1999 Spike & Mike Film Festival which tours over 50 states in the U.S. and Canada.
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- Feb. 9, 1999 - "Bunny" receives Oscar Nomination
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