People of all ages have grown to love the stop-motion animation movies of Nick Park, including "Chicken Run" and the "Wallace & Gromit" series. In "Memoir of a Snail" (IFC Films), Oscar-winning gay ...

AWARDS PREDICTION COMMENTARY: The Academy announced the shortlist for the animated short contenders, and they produced an interesting crop of selections. Netflix is placing all their power and ...

In the animated film space, two things naturally come to mind: stories for children and big-budget, formulaic projects. The former idea is something directors have been fighting for years, a recent ...

The feature jury said in a statement: “Without a word of dialogue, Gints Zilbalodis weaves sound, music and immersive animation to show how powerful the medium can be when coupled with the right story ...

A friendly reminder that animated does not automatically mean "for children," "Memoir of a Snail" is a wholly unique story of adulthood and alienation that could only be told through animation. Its ...

Drawing on his own life experiences and inspired by friends and acquaintances he’s met along the way, filmmaker Adam Elliot has landed himself an Academy Award nomination for his decidedly not ...

This may be the best stop-motion animation film since Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas. It has taken 30 years for a movie as ambitious and wildly creative as Memoir of a Snail to grace the ...

Throughout their careers in animation, directors Max Lang and Daniel Snaddon have maintained a strong collaborative relationship with children’s book author Julia Donaldson. After bringing four of her ...

A month or so back we wrote about a laser sculpture that featured a snail inventing the wheel and going on an evolutionary journey that saw it walking on two legs. Pretty high-minded stuff for a snail ...