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Multi-faceted stop-motion filmmaker Henry Selick will receive
the CAS Filmmaker Award at the 46th CAS Awards on February
27, 2010, at the Crystal Ballroom of the Millennium-Biltmore
Hotel, Los Angeles.
“The Cinema Audio Society is delighted to be honoring
one of the vanguards of stop-motion animation as this year’s
Filmmaker recipient and once again, we are thrilled we have synergy
between our Career Achievement recipient Randy Thom and
our Filmmaker Award honoree through their collaboration on
Coraline. We look forward to another year of honoring the best in
the sound mixing field at this year’s dinner,” said CAS President
Edward L. Moskowitz.
Selick is best known for his stop-motion animation on Tim
Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas. He also directed James and the
Giant Peach, Monkeybone, and the stop-motion animation sequences
in Wes Anderson’s The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou.
While studying animation at CalArts in Valencia, Calif., with
classmates that included Brad Bird, Tim Burton and John Lasseter,
Selick had two of his short films, Phases and Tube Tales, nominated
for Student Academy Awards. Soon he was a full-fledged animator
at Disney, first working under Eric Larson—one of the original
“Nine Old Men”—and later under the brilliant draughtsman
Glen Keane on The Fox and the Hound. While at Disney, Mr. Selick
received an American Film Institute grant to make his animated
short film Seepage, an experimental study that combined drawn
animation with life-size stop-motion puppets. Selick worked on
the cut-out animation feature Twice Upon a Time. He storyboarded
fantasy sequences for Walter Murch’s Return to Oz and Carroll
Ballard’s Nutcracker: The Motion Picture (with designs by Maurice
Sendak).
Through his own production company Selick breathed new
life into the Pillsbury Doughboy, creating nine commercials in
one year, and helmed the award-winning Ritz Bits commercials
in which hundred of crackers ski down mountains of peanut butter
and fly to the moon in search of cheese. He also created an
animated series of MTV station IDS and an original series for
MTV called Slow Bob in the Lower Dimensions which combined a liveaction
central character with stop-motion and cut-out animation
and won first prize at the Ottawa Animation Festival and a Silver
Hugo at the Chicago Film Festival.
Selick is the fifth recipient of the CAS Filmmaker Award.
Past honorees have included Quentin Tarantino, Gil Cates, Bill
Condon and Paul Mazursky.
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