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Will it be Christmas in February at the Oscars? Netflix’s holiday tale Klaus left the competition snowbound at tonight’s 47th annual Annie Awards, winning seven trophies including the marquee Best Animated Feature. Overall, the night was a showcase for Netflix, which lapped the field with 19 Annie wins fueled by Klaus…

EXCLUSIVE: Klaus, Ford v Ferrari, and animated shorts Sister and Hair Love repped Oscar nominations earned by alumni of The California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) yesterday. Since the creation of the Best Animated Feature Oscar category in 2001, 12 of the winning films were directed by CalArts alums with the last…

This year at the Oscars, three first-time directors are in the running for Best Animated Feature—Toy Story 4's Josh Cooley, Klaus helmer Sergio Pablos and I Lost My Body's Jérémy Clapin. From the perspective of each director, this morning's results demonstrate what an exciting time it is to be in animation. "It’s a…

A column chronicling conversations and events on the awards circuit. It is now just two weeks and counting until ballots go out to Oscar voters. Except that with the speed of this shortened season, which will bring us on February 9 the earliest Oscar show ever, a lot of Academy members just getting into holiday-break…

In 2004, Sergio Pablo founded The SPA Studios—a boutique animation studio in Madrid—with the goal of transforming the service operation into a production facility, all its own. "We've developed some properties that got acquired and produced elsewhere, like Despicable Me or Smallfoot," Pablos tells Deadline, "but the…

Disney’s uber-successful franchises are the ones to look out for at the 47th annual Annie Awards with Frozen 2 and Toy Story 4 earning eight and six nominations respectively. Laika’s stop-motion animated feature Missing Link nabbed eight nods, matching the aforementioned icy animated sequel, while DreamWorks Animation…

EXCLUSIVE: This year, Christmas is coming early, courtesy of Sergio Pablos’ Netflix film Klaus, the first original animated feature to emerge from the streaming service. Scripted by Despicable Me co-creator Pablos, Zach Lewis and Jim Mahoney, Klaus centers on Jesper (Jason Schwartzman), a failing student at a postal…