Guest Column - 2001 Animation Awards
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Note: This was originally posted in the discussion boards. The author has given LaughingPlace.com permission to rework it a bit and put it up as a Guest Column
The Animation Awards
Good evening everybody. It is time again to pay tribute to the animation excellence of 2001 with the yearly animation awarded by me, Daniel Kaplan. Feel free to respond with your own choices or nominations. On these first two pages are the nominations only so you can play along without being influenced by my choices. On the pages after that will be the nomations again with the winners marked in italics.
The Nomations
Best score
Final Fantasy (c) Columbia
Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within
Atlantis: The Lost Empire
Monsters, Inc.
Shrek
Best song
"The Spirits Within" from Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within
"Where the Dream Takes You" from Atlantis: The Lost Empire
"I Wouldn't Have Nothin" from Monsters Inc
"It Is You I Have Loved" From Shrek
Best achievment in advancing animation
Shrek (c) Dreamworks
Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within for
providing realisitc human models.
Monsters, Inc. for contributions in CGI hair and fur.
Shrek for contributions with CGI fabric and fire.
Best animated actor (human male)
Milo from Atlantis: The Lost Empire
Lord Farquaad from Shrek
Doctor Sid from Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within
Captain Gray Edwards from Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within
Milo and Princess Kida from Atlantis
Best animated actress (human female)
Doctor Aki Ross from Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within
Princess Fiona from Shrek
Boo from Monsters, Inc.
Princess Kida from Atlantis
Best animated animal (realistic)
Various birds in Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within
Fish in Atlantis: The Lost Empire
Best animated animal (cartoon)
Waternoose and Mike from Monsters, Inc. (c) Disney
Sulley from Monsters, Inc.
Mike from Monsters, Inc.
Randall from Monsters, Inc.
Henry J. Waternoose from Monsters, Inc.