Max Karli is a Swiss film producer, best known for producing critically acclaimed film My Life as a Courgette , for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature at the 89th Academy Awards, losing to Zootopia . [1] [2]
The Academy Award for Best Animated Feature is given each year for animated films. An animated feature is defined by the Academy as a film with a running time of more than 40 minutes in which characters' performances are created using a frame-by-frame technique, a significant number of the major characters are animated, and animation figures in no less than 75 percent of the running time. The Academy Award for Best Animated Feature was first awarded in 2002 for films released in 2001.
The National Film Board of Canada is Canada's public film and digital media producer and distributor. An agency of the Government of Canada, the NFB produces and distributes documentary films, animation, web documentaries, and alternative dramas. In total, the NFB has produced over 13,000 productions since its inception, which have won over 5,000 awards. The NFB reports to the Parliament of Canada through the Minister of Canadian Heritage. It has bilingual production programs and branches in English and French, including multicultural-related documentaries.
Georges-Henri Denys Arcand is a French Canadian film director, screenwriter and producer. His film The Barbarian Invasions won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film in 2004. His films have also been nominated three further times, including two nominations in the same category for The Decline of the American Empire in 1986 and Jesus of Montreal in 1989, becoming the only French-Canadian director in history whose films have received this number of nominations and, subsequently, to have a film win the award. Also for The Barbarian Invasions, he received an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay, losing to Sofia Coppola for Lost in Translation.
Nabil Ayouch is a Franco-Moroccan television and film director, producer, and writer. His films have screened at international film festivals including the Cannes Film Festival and Montreal World Film Festival.
Antoine de Caunes is a French television presenter, actor, writer and film director. He is the son of two prominent French personalities, television journalist-reporter Georges de Caunes and television announcer Jacqueline Joubert. He is the father of the actress Emma de Caunes.
Nathalie Richard is a French actress.
Roger Ross Williams is an American director, producer and writer and the first African American director to win an Academy Award (Oscar), with his short film Music by Prudence; this film won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Film in 2009.
Daniel Pemberton is an Academy Award-nominated and Emmy-winning English composer and songwriter.
Louis-Do de Lencquesaing is a French actor and film director. His daughter, Alice de Lencquesaing, is also an actress.
Seule ce soir is an album by Canadian jazz singer Emilie-Claire Barlow. This is the first album on which she sings every song in French. It was released on October 16, 2012. At the 2013 Juno Awards, Seule ce soir won Vocal Jazz Album of the Year. It also won Album of the Year - Jazz Interpretation at the 2013 ADISQ Awards.
TeamTO is an independent French animation studio that produces TV series and film projects. Headquartered in Paris, it has a second production facility in Bourg-les-Valence, with offices in Los Angeles, California, U.S., Beijing, China and London, England, United Kingdom. The studio was founded in 2005 by Guillaume Hellouin, Corinne Kouper and Caroline Souris.
Daniel Bevilacqua, better known by the stage name Christophe, was a French singer and songwriter. He was born in the Paris suburb of Juvisy-sur-Orge, to an Italian father.
Marceline Loridan-Ivens was a French writer and film director. Her memoir But You Did Not Come Back details her time in Auschwitz-Birkenau. She was married to Joris Ivens.
My Life as a Courgette is a 2016 stop-motion animated comedy-drama film directed by Claude Barras, and co-written by Céline Sciamma. It was screened in the Directors' Fortnight section at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival.
Arianne Sutner is an American film producer and animator, best known for producing the stop-motion animated film Kubo and the Two Strings. She was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Animated Feature at both the 89th Academy Awards and the 92nd Academy Awards.
Cara Speller is a British producer of film and television. She is best known for producing animated film Pear Cider and Cigarettes and for Pearl as an executive producer. Both films received Best Animated Short Film nomination, with Cara being nominated for Pear Cider and Cigarettes with director Robert Valley.
Kim McCraw is a Canadian film producer and co-founder of the Montreal-based production company micro_scope, with Luc Déry.
Éric Savin is a French film and TV actor.
Anthony Leo is a Canadian filmmaker and producer best known for producing the 2017 animated film The Breadwinner, which earned him an Academy Award for Best Animated Feature nomination at the 90th Academy Awards.
Dan Cogan is an American film producer. He has produced multiple documentary films including The Queen of Versailles (2012), How to Survive a Plague (2012), The Hunting Ground (2015), Icarus (2017), Won't You Be My Neighbor (2018), On the Record (2020), and has produced documentary series including I'll Be Gone in the Dark (2020), and Allen v. Farrow (2021). Cogan is the co-founder of Impact Partners, Gamechanger Films, and Story Syndicate.