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Famous Fred
''Famous Fred'' is a 1996 British animated short film written and directed by Joanna Quinn. It is based on the children's book ''Fred'' by Posy Simmonds. Plot Fred, the pet cat of young siblings Sophie and Nick, has recently died. Word gets around in the street and the children and adults remember Fred, who took every opportunity to sleep. Together with their parents, Sophie and Nick bury Fred in the courtyard and paint him a simple gravestone. At night, Sophie and Nick are woken by a noise outside their window. Upon sneaking downstairs, they find a neighbour's cat, Ginger, standing outside in a tailcoat and top hat, looking at his wristwatch. Sophie and Nick crawl out the house through the catflap and approach Ginger, who suddenly speaks to them in English and inquires whether they knew 'the deceased'. Realising he means Fred, Sophie and Nick explain they were Fred's owners. Ginger is delighted to learn they owned 'the most famous cat in the world', which confuses them. They ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joanna Quinn
Joanna Lisa Quinn is an English independent film director and animator. Early life Quinn was born in Birmingham, England and grew up in North London. She went to school at Highgate Wood Secondary School and completed a foundation course in art at Goldsmiths College, University of London before studying for a BA in Graphic Design at Middlesex University. Career Quinn's first film ''Girls Night Out'' was completed in 1987 and won three awards at the Annecy Film Festival. This film introduced the anti-heroine character of Beryl and follows her antics when she goes to see a male stripper. Beryl appeared in Quinn's next film ''Body Beautiful'' (1990) in which she is the factory union rep dealing with a macho workmate named Vince, voiced by Rob Brydon. In ''Dreams and Desires - Family Ties'' (2006), Beryl becomes obsessed with film making and is asked to video a friend's wedding. ''Affairs of the Art'' was written and produced by Les Mills and voiced by Brendan Charleson and Menn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British Academy Children's Award For Animation
The British Academy Children and Young People Award for Animation is an award presented annually by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA). It is given to "animated content for children and young people six and over". It was first awarded at the 1st edition of the British Academy Children's Awards in 1996, with Welsh claymation-style series ''Gogs'' being the first recipient of the award. Cartoon Network series ''The Amazing World of Gumball'' holds the record of most wins in the category with four, followed by ''Shaun the Sheep'' with two. The two shows are the only programs to win the award more than once. ''The Amazing World of Gumball'' is also the most nominated series with eight nominations for the award, followed by ''Shaun the Sheep'' with seven and '' Grizzly Tales for Gruesome Kids'' and '' Strange Hill High'' with three each. Winners '' Yr Enwog Ffred'', '' Room on the Broom'' and ''Revolting Rhymes'', and nominee '' Robin Robin'' have also been nominat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1996 Films
The year 1996 involved many significant films. The major releases this year included '' Scream'', '' Independence Day'', ''Fargo'', ''Trainspotting'', '' The Rock'', '' The English Patient'', '' Twister'', '' Space Jam'', '' Mars Attacks!'', '' Jerry Maguire'' and a film version of the musical '' Evita''. Highest-grossing films The top 10 films released in 1996 by worldwide gross are as follows: Box office records * ''Independence Day'' became the highest-grossing film of Will Smith's career, up until it was surpassed by '' Aladdin'' (2019). * '' Rumble in the Bronx'' was released in North America, becoming Jackie Chan's first major box office hit in the region. It became the year's most profitable film, with its US box office alone earning over 20 times its budget. It was Chan's biggest ever hit up until then. Events * July 10 – Nickelodeon releases its first feature film, '' Harriet the Spy'', a spy-comedy-drama film based on the 1964 novel of the same name. It also ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Films Based On Books
A film also called a movie, motion picture, moving picture, picture, photoplay or (slang) flick is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, beauty, or atmosphere through the use of moving images. These images are generally accompanied by sound and, more rarely, other sensory stimulations. The word "cinema", short for cinematography, is often used to refer to filmmaking and the film industry, and to the art form that is the result of it. Recording and transmission of film The moving images of a film are created by photographing actual scenes with a motion-picture camera, by photographing drawings or miniature models using traditional animation techniques, by means of CGI and computer animation, or by a combination of some or all of these techniques, and other visual effects. Before the introduction of digital production, series of still images were recorded on a strip of chemically sensitize ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British Animated Short Films
British may refer to: Peoples, culture, and language * British people, nationals or natives of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories, and Crown Dependencies. ** Britishness, the British identity and common culture * British English, the English language as spoken and written in the United Kingdom or, more broadly, throughout the British Isles * Celtic Britons, an ancient ethno-linguistic group * Brittonic languages, a branch of the Insular Celtic language family (formerly called British) ** Common Brittonic, an ancient language Other uses *''Brit(ish)'', a 2018 memoir by Afua Hirsch *People or things associated with: ** Great Britain, an island ** United Kingdom, a sovereign state ** Kingdom of Great Britain (1707–1800) ** United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (1801–1922) See also * Terminology of the British Isles * Alternative names for the British * English (other) * Britannic (other) * British Isles * Brit (other) * Bri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geri's Game
''Geri's Game'' is a 1997 American computer-animated short film produced by Pixar and written and directed by Jan Pinkava. The short, which shows a senior named Geri who competes with himself in a game of chess, was Pixar's first film to feature a human being as its main character; Geri later made a cameo appearance in '' Toy Story 2'' as "The Cleaner", here voiced by Jonathan Harris instead of Bob Peterson. ''Geri's Game'' was released eight years after '' Knick Knack'', the last short by Pixar to that point, made as part of an effort to reignite the studio's short film series, which had been put on standby in order to focus on the creation of television commercials as well as the studio's first feature film, which would become the first-ever full-length computer-animated film, ''Toy Story''. A dedicated research and development team worked alongside the filmmakers to devise ways to get around the burdens of animating a human character, leading to an in-house computer simula ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Academy Award For Best Animated Short Film
The Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film is an award given by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) as part of the annual Academy Awards, or Oscars, since the 5th Academy Awards (with different names), covering the year 1931–32, to the present. From 1932 until 1970, the category was known as Short Subjects, Cartoons; and from 1971 to 1973 as Short Subjects, Animated Films. The present title began with the 46th Awards in 1974. During the first 5 decades of the award's existence, awards were presented to the producers of the shorts. Current Academy rules, however, call for the award to be presented to "the individual person most directly responsible for the concept and the creative execution of the film." Moreover, " the event that more than one individual has been directly and importantly involved in creative decisions, a second statuette may be awarded." Only American films were nominated for the award until the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Academy Awards
The Academy Awards, better known as the Oscars, are awards for artistic and technical merit for the American and international film industry. The awards are regarded by many as the most prestigious, significant awards in the entertainment industry worldwide. Given annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), the awards are an international recognition of excellence in cinematic achievements, as assessed by the Academy's voting membership. The various category winners are awarded a copy of a golden statuette as a trophy, officially called the "Academy Award of Merit", although more commonly referred to by its nickname, the "Oscar". The statuette, depicting a knight rendered in the Art Deco style, was originally sculpted by Los Angeles artist George Stanley (sculptor), George Stanley from a design sketch by art director Cedric Gibbons. The 1st Academy Awards were held in 1929 at a private dinner hosted by Douglas Fairbanks in The Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BAFTA Award For Best Short Animation
This page lists the winners and nominees for the BAFTA Award for Best British Short Animation for each year since 1990 when the award was introduced. The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA), is a British organisation that hosts annual awards shows for film, television, children's film and television, and interactive media. In the following lists, the titles and names in bold with a dark grey background are the winners and recipients respectively; those not in bold are the remaining nominees. The winner is also the first name listed in each category. The number of nominated films has varied over the course of the award. Four nominations were usual to begin with (with a total of 10 years with four nominations). More recently the number of nominations has been three. The most nominations were in 1997, when there were six nominations. The award has had three different names since its inception including 'Best Short Animation', 'Best Short Animation Film' and, since 201 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Coates (producer)
John Coates (7 November 1927 – 16 September 2012) was a British film producer, best known for producing the animated film '' The Snowman'' based on the picture book by Raymond Briggs, one of the first animated productions screened on Channel Four and still repeated every year on the channel. He co-founded the animation studio TVC (Television Cartoons) London with George Dunning in 1957 and worked on The Beatles's animated feature '' Yellow Submarine'' and produced numerous other animated films including '' When the Wind Blows'', ''Granpa'', ''Father Christmas'', '' The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends'' and '' The Bear''. John's business partner for many years was Norman David Kauffman, who first worked with him at the age of 16 as a trainee animator. He became a Director of TVC and associated companies in 1999 until his retirement in 2012. John was the nephew of the 1st Baron Rank, and worked within the Rank Organisation after leaving school at Stowe. He had 3 sibl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matthew Marsh (actor)
Matthew Marsh (born 8 July 1954) is an English actor. He is the older brother of Jon Marsh of the English dance band "The Beloved". He has appeared in the films ''The Fourth Protocol'' (1987), ''Diamond Skulls'' (1989), '' Mountains of the Moon'' (1990), ''Alambrado'' (1991), '' Dirty Weekend'' (1993), ''Spy Game'' (2001), '' Miranda'' (2002), ''Bad Company'' (2002), ''Quicksand'' (2003) and ''An American Haunting'' (2005). In 2011 Marsh starred in the biopic film '' The Iron Lady'' as the United States Secretary of State Alexander Haig. In 2005, Marsh starred as Simon Hewitt in the first series of ''The Thick of It''. In May 1998, Marsh portrayed the character Alex Duncan in the British TV program As Time Goes By, series 7, episode 3 entitled "The New Neighbours". He co-starred with Amanda Burton in '' The Commander'', and guest-starred in the sixth series of the spy drama '' Spooks'' in 2007 and the second series of '' Lewis'' in 2008. He played Harry Gallo in the New Tric ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Robb
David Robb (born 23 August 1947) is a Scottish actor. Early life Born in London, the son of David Robb and Elsie Tilley, Robb grew up in Edinburgh and was educated there at the Royal High School, where he played Henry II in a school production of Jean Anouilh’s ''Becket''. Screen career Robb has starred in various British films and television shows, including films such as ''Swing Kids'' and '' Hellbound''. He is well known for playing Germanicus in the famous 1976 BBC production of ''I, Claudius'', and as Robin Grant, one of the principal characters in Thames Television's 1981 series ''The Flame Trees of Thika''. Robb had his big break playing Andrew Fraser MP in the TV miniseries ''First Among Equals'' a 1986 adaption of the book of the same name by Jeffrey Archer. The miniseries was a great success on prime time TV in the UK and abroad and also propelled careers of co-stars Tom Wilkinson, Jeremy Child and James Faulkner. He has also performed as a voice actor fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
