Brown Bag Films, Paper Panther Productions and Nora Twomey Lead the Winners at the Irish Animation Awards
Posted: 27th March 2019
The Irish Animation Awards, which took place on 23 March as part of Animation Dingle saw Brown Bag Films and Paper Panther Productions lead the winners, with both companies receiving three major awards each. Nora Twomey was presented with the Murakami Award while her Academy Award®-nominated debut feature, The Breadwinner, took home Best Irish Feature Film.
Paper Panther Productions was awarded Best Newcomer and the company also received the Best Animation and Best Design and Art Direction accolades for its Frameworks short film, The Bird and the Whale—co-funded by Screen Ireland and RTÉ.
Nora Twomey also delivered a keynote address at the awards, alongside Academy Award®-nominated Finding Nemo writer Bob Peterson and Golden Globe-winning producer of How to Train Your Dragon, Bonnie Arnold.
See below for a full list of 2019 winners:
Best animated preschool series (up to 6 years)
Vampirina: Going Batty (Brown Bag Films)
Best animated short film
The Wiremen (JAM Media’s Jessica Patterson)
Best international short film
All the Things (Chris Guyot and Paul McMahon)
Best writer for a preschool animated series (up to 6 years)
Becca’s Bunch: Acorn King (Shane Langan and Amy Stephenson for JAM Media)
Best writer for an animated series
Vampirina: Home Scream Home (Chris Nee for Brown Bag Films)
Best VFX as part of an animated TV series or film
Space Chickens in Space (Gingerbread Animation’s Paul Rutledge)
Best animation for apps, gaming and interactive
Aurora (Pink Kong Studios)
Best design and art direction
The Bird and the Whale (Paper Panther Productions’ Carol Freeman)
Best director of an animated TV series
Danger Mouse (Boulder Media’s Aidan McAteer)
Best animation
The Bird and the Whale (Paper Panther’s Eimhin McNamara, Carol Freeman)
Best music
Danger Mouse: Melted (Sanj Sen and Dominic Lawrence for Boulder Media)
Best sound design
Danger Mouse (Dominic Lawrence and Sol O’Carroll for Windmill Lane)
Best Irish feature film or special
The Breadwinner (Cartoon Saloon, Nora Twomey)
Best newcomer
Paper Panther Productions
Kid’s choice award for best preschool animated series (up to 6 years)
The Doc McStuffins Christmas Special (Brown Bag Films)
Kid’s choice award for best animated series (six to 12 years)
Space Chickens in Space (Gingerbread Animation)
The Murakami award
Nora Twomey