Press Release | Lisboa, 6 de fevereiro 2014
45 NOMEAÇÕES PARA OS “ÓSCARES DA ANIMAÇÃO” “FROZEN” DA ZON AUDIOVISUAIS ELEITO MELHOR FILME DE ANIMAÇÃO NOS “ANNIE AWARDS”
Frozen, distribuído em Portugal pela ZON Audiovisuais, foi o grande vencedor da 41ª edição dos Annie Awards, os “Óscares” para os melhores filmes de animação, tendo ganho na categoria Best Animated Feature.
Das 170 nomeações, as obras produzidas pela Pixar e Disney, e distribuídas pela ZON Audiovisuais em Portugal, registaram 45 nomeações que resultaram em 10 Prémios nas diversas categorias. Os Annie Awards premeiam 9 categorias para a área da produção e 21 categorias para distinções individuais.
Para Nuno Gonçalves, administrador da ZON Audiovisuais, “os resultados dos Annie Awards vêm, uma vez mais comprovar a qualidade das apostas da ZON Audiovisuais na distribuição de filmes para o mercado português. Estamos no caminho certo para trazer até ao público o que de melhor se faz no audiovisual.”
Os Annies são instituídos, desde 1972, pela AFISA-Hollywood, International Animated Film Society. Ao longo de 42 edições estes Prémios, criados por June Foray, têm desempenhado um papel vital no desenvolvimento e reconhecimento da excelência nos conteúdos de animação.
A ZON Audiovisuais é líder na distribuição de filmes em Portugal com uma quota de mercado superior a 60%.
Lista geral de nomeações e vencedores http://annieawards.org/nominees/#1
Best Animated Feature A Letter to Momo - GKIDS Despicable Me 2 - Illumination Entertainment/Universal Pictures (ZON Audiovisuais) Ernest & Celestine – GKIDS (ZON Audiovisuais) Frozen - Walt Disney Animation Studios (ZON Audiovisuais) Monsters University - Pixar Animation Studios (ZON Audiovisuais) The Croods - DreamWorks Animation The Wind Rises - Studio Ghibli/Touchstone Pictures
Best Animated Special Production Chipotle Scarecrow - Chipotle Creative Department, Moonbot Studios, CAA Marketing Listening Is an Act of Love - StoryCorps Room on the Broom - Magic Light Pictures Toy Story OF TERROR! - Pixar Animation Studios
Best Animated Short Subject Despicable Me 2 - Puppy - Illumination Entertainment/Universal Pictures (ZON Audiovisuais) Get A Horse! - Walt Disney Animation Studios (ZON Audiovisuais) Gloria Victoria - National Film Board of Canada My Mom is an Airplane - Acme Filmworks The Numberlys - Moonbot Studios
Best Animated TV/Broadcast Commercial Despicable Me 2 - Cinemark - Illumination Entertainment/Universal (ZON Audiovisuais) Sound of the Woods – Acme Filmworks The Polar Bears Movie - Scott Free Productions/RSA Films, Animal Logic, CAA Marketing
Best General Audience Animated TV/Broadcast Production For Preschool Children Bubble Guppies - Nickelodeon Productions/Nelvana Disney Sofia the First - Disney Television Animation Doc McStuffins - Brown Bag Films Justin Time - Guru Studio Peter Rabbit - Nickelodeon Productions/Silvergate Media
Best Animated TV/Broadcast Production For Children’s Audience Adventure Time - Cartoon Network Studios Beware the Batman - Warner Bros. Animation Disney Gravity Falls - Disney Television Animation Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness - Nickelodeon Animation Studio Regular Show - Cartoon Network Studios Scaredy Squirrel - Nelvana Ltd. Teen Titans Go! - Warner Bros. Animation The Legend of Korra - Nickelodeon Animation Studio
Best General Audience Animated TV/Broadcast Production Archer - FX Networks Bob's Burgers - Bento Box Entertainment Disney Tron Uprising - Disney Television Animation Futurama - 20th Century Fox Television Motorcity - Titmouse Inc.
Best Animated Video Game Diggs Nightcrawler - Moonbot Studios, Sony London Studio, Exient Tiny Thief - 5 ANTS The Last of Us - Naughty Dog
Best Student Film Chicken or the Egg - Ringling College of Art and Design Kellerkind - Filmakademie Baden-Wuerttemberg Miss Todd - Kristina Yee Move Mountain - Kirsten Lepore SEMÕFORO - University of Southern California The Final Straw - Ringling College of Art and Design Trusts & Estates - CalArts Wedding Cake - Filmakademie Baden-Wuerttemberg
INDIVIDUAL ACHIEVEMENT CATEGORIES
Outstanding Achievement, Animated Effects in an Animated Production Alen Lai, David Quirus, Diego Garzon Sanchez, Ilan Gabai - Epic - Blue Sky Studios David Jones - Dragons: Defenders of Berk - DreamWorks Animation
Joshua Jenny, Jason Johnston, Matthew Wong, Eric Froemling, Enrique Vila - Monsters University - Pixar Animation Studios (ZON Audiovisuais) Jeff Budsberg, Andre Le Blanc, Louis Flores, Jason Mayer - The Croods - DreamWorks Animation Greg Gladstone, Nikita Pavlov, Allen Ruilova, Matt Titus, Can Yuksel - Turbo - DreamWorks Animation
Outstanding Achievement, Animated Effects in a Live Action Production Jonathan Paquin, Brian Goodwin, Gray Horsfield, Mathieu Chardonnet, Adrien Toupet - Man Of Steel - Weta Digital Ben O’Brien, Karin Cooper, Lee Uren, Chris Root - Star Trek: Into Darkness - Industrial Light & Magic (ZON Audiovisuais) Dan Pearson, Jay Cooper, Jeff Grebe, Amelia Chenoweth - Star Trek: Into Darkness - Industrial Light & Magic (ZON Audiovisuais) Michael Balog, Ryan Hopkins, Patrick Conran, Florian Witzel - Pacific Rim - Industrial Light & Magic
Outstanding Achievement, Character Animation in an Animated Television/Broadcast Production Brad Schaffer - Friendship All-Stars of Friendship: Wrong Number - Stoopid Buddy Stoodios Eric Urban - Ubermansion - Stoopid Buddy Stoodios JC Tran Quang Thieu - Toy Story OF TERROR! - Pixar Animation Studios David DeVan - Toy Story OF TERROR! - Pixar Animation Studios Kureha Yokoo - Toy Story OF TERROR! - Pixar Animation Studios Keith Kellogg - Star Wars: The Clone Wars - Lucasfilm Animation
Outstanding Achievement, Character Animation in a Feature Production Thom Roberts - Epic - Blue Sky Studios Jonathan Del Val – Despicable Me 2 - Illumination Entertainment/Universal Pictures (ZON Audiovisuais) Jakob Jensen - The Croods - DreamWorks Animation John Chun Chiu Lee - Monsters University - Pixar Animation Studios (ZON Audiovisuais) Kitaro Kosaka – The Wind Rises - Studio Ghibli/Touchstone Pictures Tony Smeed - Frozen - Walt Disney Animation Studios (ZON Audiovisuais) Patrick Imbert - Ernest & Celestine – GKIDS (ZON Audiovisuais)
Outstanding Achievement, Character Animation in a Live Action Production Jeff Capogreco, Jedrzej Wojtowicz, Kevin Estey, Alessandro Bonora, Gino Acevedo - The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey - Gollum - Weta Digital (ZON Audiovisuais)
Dave Clayton, Simeon Duncombe, Jung Min Chang, Matthew Cioffi, Guillame Francois - The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey - Goblin King - Weta Digital (ZON Audiovisuais) Hal Hickel, Chris Lentz, Derrick Carlin, Steve Rawlins, Kyle Winkelman - Pacific Rim - Industrial Light & Magic
Outstanding Achievement, Character Design in an Animated TV/Broadcast Production Craig McCracken - Disney Wander Over Yonder - Disney Television Animation Paul Rudish - Disney Mickey Mouse - Disney Television Animation Andy Bialk - The Awesomes - Bento Box Entertainment Ben Adams - Regular Show - Cartoon Network Studios Danny Hynes, Colin Howard - Steven Universe - Cartoon Network Studios
Outstanding Achievement, Character Design in an Animated Feature Production Carter Goodrich, Takao Noguchi, Shane Prigmore - The Croods - DreamWorks Animation Sylvain Deboissy, Shannon Tindle - Turbo - DreamWorks Animation Craig Kellman – Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs 2 - Sony Pictures Animation Chris Sasaki - Monsters University - Pixar Animation Studios (ZON Audiovisuais) Christophe Lourdelet - A Monster in Paris - Shout! Factory Eric Guillon – Despicable Me 2 - Illumination Entertainment/Universal Pictures (ZON Audiovisuais) Bill Schwab - Frozen - Walt Disney Animation Studios (ZON Audiovisuais)
Outstanding Achievement, Directing in an Animated TV/Broadcast Production Colin Heck - The Legend of Korra - Nickelodeon Animation Elaine Bogan - Dragons: Defenders of Berk - DreamWorks Animation Stephan Franck - The Smurfs: The Legend of Smurfy Hollow - Sony Pictures Animation John Aoshima - Disney Gravity Falls - Disney Television Animation Aaron Springer - Disney Mickey Mouse - Disney Television Animation Angus MacLane - Toy Story OF TERROR! - Pixar Animation Studios Harold Harris - Justin Time - Guru Studio
Outstanding Achievement, Directing in an Animated Feature Production Chris Sanders, Kirk DeMicco - The Croods - DreamWorks Animation David Soren - Turbo - DreamWorks Animation Chris Wedge - Epic - Blue Sky Studios Benjamin Renner, Vincent Patar, Stéphane Aubier - Ernest & Celestine – GKIDS (ZON Audiovisuais) Chris Buck, Jennifer Lee - Frozen - Walt Disney Animation Studios (ZON Audiovisuais)
Outstanding Achievement, Music in an Animated TV/Broadcast Production
Alan Williams - Estefan – BYU Center for Animation Guy Moon - T.U.F.F. Puppy - Nickelodeon Animation Studio Peter Lurye, Stuart Kollmorgen, Peter Zizzo - Peter Rabbit - Nickelodeon Animation Studio Kevin Kliesch, Craig Gerber, John Kavanaugh - Disney Sofia the First - Disney Television Animation Christopher Willis - Disney Mickey Mouse - Disney Television Animation Andy Bean - Disney Wander Over Yonder - Disney Television Animation
Outstanding Achievement, Music in an Animated Feature Production Alan Silvestri - The Croods - DreamWorks Animation Henry Jackman - Turbo - DreamWorks Animation Mark Mothersbaugh – Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs 2 - Sony Pictures Animation Heitor Pereira, Pharrell Williams – Despicable Me 2 - Illumination Entertainment/Universal Pictures (ZON Audiovisuais) Danny Elfman - Epic - Blue Sky Studios Randy Newman - Monsters University - Pixar Animation Studios (ZON Audiovisuais) Kristen Anderson-Lopez, Robert Lopez, Christophe Beck - Frozen - Walt Disney Animation Studios (ZON Audiovisuais) Dominic Lewis - Free Birds - Reel FX (ZON Audiovisuais)
Outstanding Achievement, Production Design in an Animated TV/Broadcast Production Angela Sung, William Niu, Christine Bian, Emily Tetri, Frederic Stewart - The Legend of Korra - Nickelodeon Animation Studio Liz Artinian, Ray Feldman, Chris Fisher, George Fort - The Venture Bros. “What Color is Your Cleansuit?” - Titmouse Inc. Steven Sugar, Emily Walus, Sam Bosma, Elle Michalka, Amanda Winterstein - Steven Universe ”Gem Glow” - Cartoon Network Studios Lynna Blankenship, Dima Malanitchev, Debbie Peterson, Charles Ragins, Jefferson R. Weekley - The Simpsons "Treehouse of Horror XXIV" Gracie Films in Association with 20th Century Fox TV Christophe Vacher - Transformers Prime ‘Beast Hunters’ - Hasbro Studios Nick Jennings, Sandra Calleros, Teri Shikasho, Ron Russell, Martin Ansolebehere - Adventure Time - Cartoon Network Studios
Outstanding Achievement, Production Design in an Animated Feature Production Christophe Lautrette, Paul Duncan, Dominique R. Louis - The Croods - DreamWorks Animation Yarrow Cheney, Eric Guillon – Despicable Me 2 - Illumination Entertainment/Universal Pictures (ZON Audiovisuais) Michael Knapp, Greg Couch, William Joyce - Epic - Blue Sky Studios Zaza, Zyk - Ernest & Celestine – GKIDS (ZON Audiovisuais)
Ricky Nierva, Robert Kondo, Daisuke “Dice” Tsutsumi - Monsters University - Pixar Animation Studios (ZON Audiovisuais) Michael Giaimo, Lisa Keene, David Womersley - Frozen - Walt Disney Animation Studios (ZON Audiovisuais)
Outstanding Achievement, Storyboarding in an Animated TV/Broadcast Production Piero Piluso - Monsters vs. Aliens - Nickelodeon Animation Studio (ZON Audiovisuais) Douglas Lovelace - Dragons: Riders of Berk - DreamWorks Animation Adam Ford, Deke Wightman, Kevin Mellon, Justin Wagner, Benji Williams - Archer - FX Networks Alonso Ramos-Ramirez - Disney Mickey Mouse - Disney Television Animation Daniel Chong - Toy Story of TERROR! - Pixar Animation Studios Alonso Ramos-Ramirez - Gravity Falls - Disney Television Animation Guillermo Del Toro, Guy Davis, Ralph Sosa - The Simpsons -- "Treehouse of Horror XXIV" -- Gracie Films in Association with 20th Century Fox TV Paul Watling - Justin Time - Guru Studio
Outstanding Achievement, Storyboarding in an Animated Feature Production Steven MacLeod - The Croods - DreamWorks Animation Eric Favela – Despicable Me 2 - Illumination Entertainment/Universal Pictures (ZON Audiovisuais) Dean Kelly - Monsters University - Pixar Animation Studios (ZON Audiovisuais) Jason Hand - Planes - Disneytoon Studios (ZON Audiovisuais) John Ripa - Frozen - Walt Disney Animation Studios (ZON Audiovisuais)
Outstanding Achievement, Voice Acting in an Animated TV/Broadcast Production Eric Bauza as the voice of Foop - Fairly Odd Parents - Nickelodeon Animation Studio Bill Farmer as the voice of Goofy - Disney Mickey Mouse - Disney Television Animation Chris Diamantopoulos as the voice of Mickey Mouse - Disney Mickey Mouse - Disney Television Animation Mark Hamill as the voice of Skips and Walks - Regular Show - Cartoon Network Studios Tom Kenny as the voice of Ice King - Adventure Time - Cartoon Network Studios
Outstanding Achievement, Voice Acting in an Animated Feature Production Paul Giamatti as the voice of Chet - Turbo - DreamWorks Animation Terry Crews as the voice of Earl – Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs 2 - Sony Pictures Animation Kristen Wiig as the voice of Lucy – Despicable Me 2 - Illumination Entertainment/Universal Pictures (ZON Audiovisuais) Steve Carell as the voice of Gru – Despicable Me 2 - Illumination Entertainment/Universal Pictures (ZON Audiovisuais)
Pierre Coffin as the voice of Minions - Despicable Me 2 - Illumination Entertainment/Universal Pictures (ZON Audiovisuais) Billy Crystal as the voice of Mike – Monsters University – Pixar Animation Studios (ZON Audiovisuais) Josh Gad as the voice of Olaf - Frozen - Walt Disney Animation Studios (ZON Audiovisuais)
Outstanding Achievement, Writing in an Animated TV/Broadcast Production Katie Mattila - Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness - Nickelodeon Animation Studio Ian Maxtone-Graham, Billy Kimball - The Simpsons - “Dark Knight Court” – Gracie Films in Association with 20th Century Fox Lewis Morton - Futurama - 20th Century Fox Television Matt Price, John Infantino, Mike Roth, Michele Cavin, Sean Szeles - Regular Show - Cartoon Network Studios Michael Price - The Simpsons - “Dangers on a Train” – Gracie Films in Association with 20th Century Fox
Outstanding Achievement, Writing in an Animated Feature Production Daniel Pennac - Ernest & Celestine – GKIDS (ZON Audiovisuais) Daniel Gerson, Robert L. Baird, Dan Scanlon - Monsters University - Pixar Animation Studios (ZON Audiovisuais) Hayao Miyazaki -The Wind Rises - Studio Ghibli/Touchstone Pictures Jennifer Lee - Frozen - Walt Disney Animation Studios (ZON Audiovisuais)
Outstanding Achievement, Editorial in an Animated TV/Broadcast Production Adam Arnold, Hugo Morales, Davrick Waltjen - Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness - Nickelodeon Animation Studio Myra Lopez, Ana Adams, Justin Baker - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - Nickelodeon Animation Studio Lynn Hobson - Dragons: Defenders of Berk - DreamWorks Animation Illya Owens - Disney Mickey Mouse - Disney Television Animation Axel Geddes, Kathy Graves, Chloe Kloezeman - Toy Story OF TERROR! - Pixar Animation Studios Paul D. Calder - Futurama - 20th Century Fox Television Paul Douglas - Adventure Time - Cartoon Network Studios Jason W.A. Tucker - Star Wars: The Clone Wars - Lucasfilm Animation
Outstanding Achievement, Editorial in an Animated Feature Production Darren Holmes - The Croods - DreamWorks Animation James Ryan - Turbo - DreamWorks Animation Fabienne Alvarez-Giro - Ernest & Celestine – GKIDS (ZON Audiovisuais)
Greg Snyder, Gregory Amundson, Steve Bloom - Monsters University - Pixar Animation Studios (ZON Audiovisuais) Jeff Draheim - Frozen - Walt Disney Animation Studios (ZON Audiovisuais)
SOBRE A ZON OPTIMUS
ZON OPTIMUS é um grupo empresarial que oferece soluções fixas e móveis de última geração, de televisão, internet, voz e dados para todos os segmentos de mercado - Residencial, Pessoal, Empresarial e Wholesale, sendo líder na TV por subscrição, em serviços de Banda Larga de Nova Geração e na distribuição e exibição cinematográfica em Portugal.
Merecendo a confiança de 1,6 milhões de clientes de TV por Subscrição, 3,6 milhões de clientes móveis, 1,2 milhões de clientes de Voz Fixa e 917 mil clientes de Banda Larga Fixa em Portugal, a ZON OPTIMUS presta um serviço de excelência aos seus clientes, tendo este ano conseguido o feito inédito de revalidar o título de “Melhor Serviço ao Cliente do Mundo”, atribuído por uma das mais prestigiadas entidades do setor.
A ZON OPTIMUS está na vanguarda da inovação e oferece os melhores e mais avançados produtos e serviços do mercado: a maior rede de cabo digital existente em Portugal; uma rede 4G que cobre mais de 80% do País; o melhor serviço integrado de telecomunicações e entretenimento em Portugal – ZON 4i; o mais inovador serviço de TV por subscrição, IRIS; e um portfolio avançado de soluções empresariais integradas.