Disney Legends Pete Docter And Craig McCracken Awarded With Winsor McCay Award Achievement At 50th Edition Of Annie Awards.
ASIFA-Hollywood has just released nominations for its 50th Annual Annie Awards recognizing the year’s best in the field of animation.
This year, the ceremony is scheduled to be held live, in-person on Saturday, February 25, 2023 at UCLA’s Royce Hall.
Juried Awards will be presented during the ceremony, honoring unparalleled achievement and exceptional contributions to animation. The Winsor McCay Award in recognition of lifetime or career contributions are being presented to three recipients:
Pete Docter - Chief Creative Officer of Pixar Animation Studios
Docter is American animator, film director, screenwriter, producer, voice actor mostly know for Directing the Academy Award & Annie Award winning films Monsters Inc,Up,Inside Out & Soul and being the Chief Creative Officer of Pixar Animation Studios since 2018, Docter has lead the future Director of Storytelling at Pixar and bringing diversity with more POC,Queer and Female voices to direct their own shorts and films at the studio with upcoming talent like Aphton Corbin, Brian Fee, Kristen Lester, and Rosana Sullivan who have been working on their respective untitled feature films
Additionaly Docter has provided creative consultant on Monsters At Work from Disney Television Animation and got a special thanks credit on Walt Disney Animation Studios Frozen II and was going to helm the production of the canceled Pixar film Newt to step down to make Inside Out.
Craig McCracken - Creator And Animator Disney Television Animation 2011-2018
Craig McCracken is an American animator, writer, producer, director, storyboard artist, and designer known for creating The Powerpuff Girls,Foster’s Home For Imaginary Friends at Cartoon Network Studios,Wander Over Yonder for Disney Television Animation and Kid Cosmic for Netflix Animation, McCracken has been credited as "a staple of American modern animated television" on 2021.
Besides working on his most notable works McCracken has pivoted character desings,art direction and storyboarding for other projects at CN like Two Stupid Dogs, Dexter’s Laboratory, Dumb And Dumber,Chowder additionaly he helped on CN Development with the pilots of Diggs Tailwagger: Galactic Rover and Enter Mode 5 and was Executive Producer for the pilot of Regular Show from J.G Quintel.
Currently McCracken is in development for a Powerpuff Girls Reboot for Cartoon Network and WarnerMax and a preschool reboot of Foster’s Home For Imaginary Friends for Cartoonito and WarnerMax with Hanna Barbera Studios Europe.
Despite leaving Disney on 2018, McCracken on late 2022 revealed on Twitter that he didn’t felt burn with Disney and would like to make more original shows for them, given the chance with the new Disney Channel’s Worldwide CEO Ayo Davis
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so as currently stated I just finished binge-watching Invincible (which I really love oh my gosh) and I'm all caught up, but I was beating myself up about ONCE AGAIN having another smart, red-headed heroine who likes pink and wants to do good in the world as a favorite character in a series (Atom Eve, seriously, I love her so much)
then I end up watching her special episode and get to this part
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