The 2016 BAFTA nominations are in, and the top animation feature contenders this year will be Pete Docter’s heartstring-tugger Inside Out (Disney-Pixar), Pierre Coffin & Kyle Balda’s ‘60s CG comedy Minions, and Mark Burton & Richard Starzak’s non-dialog stop-motion slapsick Shaun the Sheep Movie (Aardman Animations).
Focusing in on local animation talent, the nominees for the British Short Animation award are Nina Gantz’s Edmond — a stop-motion film which uses felt puppets and 2D animation elements to explore “all-consuming love, self-understanding and the deepest parts of your psyche,” produced by Emilie Jouffroy; Richard Williams’ painterly Prologue — a fight to the death between Athenians and Spartans as observed by a young girl, produced by Imogen Sutton; and Simon Cartwright’s MANoMAN — a blend of puppetry and animation that tells the haunting story of a man named Glen and his exploration of primal scream therapy.
And in the Special Visual Effects category there are no surprises: Star Wars: The Force Awakens (special effects supervisor Chris Corbould), Mad Max: Fury Road (visual effects supervisor Andrew Jackson), Marvel’s Ant-Man (vfx supervisor Jake Morrison), Ex Machina (CG lead Mark Ardington), and The Martian (vfx supervisor Chris Lawrence).
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