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Winsor McCay Award
June Foray
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Ub Iwerks
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Special Achievement
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Certificate of Merit
The International Animated Film Society, ASIFA-Hollywood,
announced its 2008 Winsor McCay Award recipients during a private
reception Friday, July 25, at the Gaslight Marriott during the
annual Comic Con Convention in San Diego, California. This year’s
Winsor McCay recipients are: Mike Judge, John Lasseter and Nick Park
(see bios below). Award recipients will claim their trophies at the
36th Annual Annie Awards scheduled for Friday, January 30, 2009, at
UCLA’s Royce Hall in Los Angeles, California.
Named in honor of animator Winsor McCay, best known as a prolific
artist and pioneer in the art of comic strips and animation, the
Winsor McCay Award stands as one of the highest honors given to an
individual in the animation industry in recognition for career
contributions to the art of animation.
“ASIFA-Hollywood is proud to present Mike Judge, John Lasseter and
Nick Park each with a Winsor McCay Award,” said Antran Manoogian,
president of ASIFA-Hollywood. “Their career achievements and
outstanding contributions to the art of animation are certainly
worthy of being recognized with this honor.”
The 2008 Winsor McCay Award Recipients are:
 Mike Judge is the acclaimed creator of MTV’s Beavis and
Butt-head and Fox’s King Of The Hill. Judge started his career as an
independent animator creating several short films, including Office
Space with Milton and Frog Baseball, animating them on his kitchen
table. Judge provides the voices for his main characters (Beavis,
Butt-head and Hank Hill) and has directed a feature length version
of Beavis and Butt-head, as well as several critically acclaimed
live action films. His third animated series, The Goode Family, will
air next year on ABC.
John Lasseter is a pioneering computer animation director and
currently the Chief Creative Officer at Pixar and Walt Disney
Animation. Lasseter, a Cal Arts graduate, began his career in hand
drawn character animation at Disney in 1975. He joined Pixar when it
was still an experimental unit of Lucasfilm in 1984. He added a
cartoonist’s vision to the world of computer graphics, combining
strong storytelling with classic character animation. After winning
an Academy Award for his short, Tin Toy, he led Pixar to commercial
and critical success with such feature films as Toy Story, A Bug’s
Life, and Cars.
Nick Park is the British clay animator who charmed the world
with his Academy Award winning short, Creature Comforts, and
hilarious characters Wallace and Gromit. He started his first film,
A Grand Day Out, while still a student at the National Film and
Television School. He joined Aardman Animation in 1985 and went on
to complete three Wallace and Gromit shorts and co-directed two
feature films, Chicken Run and the Academy Award winning Wallace &
Gromit: Curse of the Were-Rabbit. His fourth Wallace and Gromit
short, A Matter of Loaf and Death, will be released later this year.
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The following is a
list of all past and present Winsor McCay recipients: |
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1972 (1st) |
Max Fleischer,
Dave Fleischer |
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1973 (2nd) |
Walter Lantz |
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1974 (3rd) |
Tex Avery, Friz
Freleng, Chuck Jones, Art Babbit, Winsor McCay |
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1975
(4th) |
Walt Disney,
John Hubley, Faith Hubley, Norman McLaren |
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1976
(5th) |
Robert Cannon,
Hugh Harman, Rudolph Ising, Mike Maltese, George Pal, Ward
Kimball |
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1977
(6th) |
Bill Hanna, Joe
Barbera, Mel Blanc, Oskar Fischinger, Bill Scott, Milt Kahl |
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1978
(7th) |
Jay Ward, Ub
Iwerks, Dick Huemer, Carl Stalling, Hans Conreid |
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1979
(8th) |
Clyde Geronomi,
Bill Melendez, Mae Questel, Otto Messmer |
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1980
(9th) |
Ollie Johnston,
Frank Thomas, Cal Howard, Paul Julien, La Verne Harding |
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1981
(10th) |
T. Hee, Bill
Peet, Bill Tytla, John Whitney, Ken Harris |
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1982
(11th) |
Ken Anderson,
Bruno Bozzetto, June Foray, Don Graham, Marc Davis |
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1983
(12th) |
Eric Larson,
Fred Moore, Clarence Nash, Wolfgang Reitherman, Leo Salkin,
Steven Bosustow, Wilfred Jackson |
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1984
(13th) |
Daws Butler,
David Hand, Jack Kinney, Michael Lah, Robert McKimson, Richard
Williams, Hamilton S. Luske. |
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1985
(14th) |
Robert Abel,
Preston Blair, Joe Grant, John Halas, Sterling Holloway, Jim
McDonald, Phil Monroe, Ben Washam |
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1986
(15th) |
Frederic Back,
Shamis Culhane, William T, Hurtz, Irven Spence, Emery Hawkins,
John Lounsbery |
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1987
(16th) |
Paul Dressien,
Jack Hannah, Bill Littlejohn, Maurice Noble, Ken O'Connor |
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1988
(17th) |
Ralph Bakshi,
Bob Clampett, Tissa David, Kihachiro Kawamoto, Virgil Ross |
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1989-90 (18th) |
Art Clokey,
Hicks Lokey, Don Messick, Osamu Tezuka, Lester Novros |
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1991 (19th) |
Ray Harryhausen,
Herb Klynn, Bob Kurtz, Yuri Norstein, Joe Siracusa, Ruth Kissane |
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1992 (20th) |
Les Clark, Stan
Freberg, David Hilberman |
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1993 (21st) |
George Dunning,
Roy E. Disney, Jack Zander |
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1994 (22nd) |
Ed Benedict,
Arthur Davis, Jean Vander Pyl |
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1995 (23rd) |
Jules Engel,
Vance Gerry, Dan McLaughlin |
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1996 (24th) |
Mary Blair,
Burny Mattinson, Iwao Takamoto |
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1997 (25th) |
Willis O'Brien,
Myron Waldman, Paul Winchell |
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1998 (26th) |
Eyvind Earle,
Hayao Miyazaki, Ernest Pintoff |
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1999 (27th) |
Ray Patterson,
Marcell Jankovics, Con Pederson |
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2000 (28th) |
Norman McCabe,
Hoyt Curtin, Lucille Bliss |
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2001 (29th) |
Bill Justice,
Pete Alvarado, Bob Givens |
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2002 (30th) |
Gene Hazelton,
Floyd Norman, Richard M. and Robert B. Sherman |
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2003 (31st) |
Gene Deitch,
John Hench, Thurl Ravenscroft |
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2004 (32nd) |
Don Bluth, Virginia Davis, Arnold
Stang |
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2005 (33rd) |
Cornelius Cole III, Fred Crippen,
Tyrus Wong |
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2006 (34th) |
Andreas Deja, Genndy Tartakovsky,
Bill Plympton |
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2007 (35th) |
John Canemaker,
Glen Keane,
John Kricfalusi |
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2008 (36th) |
Mike Judge, John Lasseter,
Nick Park |
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