Kavaleer, Watch Next Media and Cloudco Entertainment are honoured and humbled to have picked up three awards for “Boy Girl Dog Cat Mouse Cheese” at Friday’s biennial Irish Animation Awards. Kavaleer were nominated in four categories and took home awards for Best Animated Kids Series 6 +, Best Writer For An Animated Series (Baljeet Rai, Henry Gifford) and the Kids Choice Award For... Read more...
The Oscar-nominated film Wolfwalkers from Kilkenny studio Cartoon Saloon was the big winner in this year’s Irish Animation Awards, (Friday 21st May) coming away with four awards in total, including Best Irish Feature or Special. This year’s event was broadcast live online and was hosted by Irish TV and radio star Baz Ashmawy. Dublin studio Kavaleer came away with three... Read more...
Animation Ireland has announced that broadcaster Baz Ashmawy will host the 2021 Irish Animation Awards on Friday May 21. The biennial awards ceremony is the premier event in the Irish animation calendar and this year’s will take place virtually. Once again, the awards show will highlight the brilliance and talent of the Irish animation sector. Among the nominations in the... Read more...
Wolfwalkers, the new animated adventure from Kilkenny’s Cartoon Saloon, has won five prizes at the Annie Awards in the US, with the Irish company also honoured for its work on another production, There’s a Monster in my Kitchen. A co-production with Luxembourg’s Melusine Productions, Wolfwalkers won the Best Direction Annie Award for its Irish filmmakers Tomm Moore and Ross Stewart and also took... Read more...
The nominees for the 2021 Irish Animation Awards have been announced today (Wed 14th April) by Animation Ireland, the trade association for Irish animation studios. The biennial awards ceremony will take place virtually for the first time on Friday 21st May. And will once again highlight the brilliance and talent of the Irish animation sector. The 2021 Irish Animation Awards... Read more...