Academy Award Nominee Archives

Carved With Heart: The Craft and Storytelling Behind ‘Forevergreen’

4 March 2026 • by SIGGRAPH ConferencesAnimation, Conferences, Film

Go behind the scenes of “Forevergreen,” a SIGGRAPH 2025 Electronic Theater selection and Best Animated Short Film nominee at the 98th Academy Awards®.

Academy Award Nominee, Computer Animation Festival, Electronic Theater, Forevergreen, Oscar Nominee

Roundup: Oscars Week Live Director Q&A Series

2 March 2018 • by SIGGRAPH ConferencesAnimation, Conferences, Film, Industry Leaders, Production, Virtual Reality

photo by Kyle Espeleta Photography © 2017 ACM SIGGRAPH This week, we sat down on Facebook Live for a series of three real-time discussions with Best Animated Short Film Academy Award nominees and winners. Watch each session below, led by SIGGRAPH 2018 Computer...

Academy Award, Academy Award Nominee, Academy Award Winnter, Academy Awards, Animated Shorts, Animation, Antonia Herrera, Best Animated Short, Computer Animation Festival, Computer Animation Festival winners, Film, Film Festival, Film Festivals, Gabriel Grapperon, Gabriel Osorio, Garden Party, illogic, MOPA, Oscars, Patrick Osborne, production, Punkrobot Animations Studios, Ringling College of Art & Design, The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

Exploring the VFX in ‘Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2’

22 February 2018 • by SIGGRAPH ConferencesConferences, Film, Production, Visual Effects

photo by John Fujii © 2017 ACM SIGGRAPH Last summer, SIGGRAPH 2017 attendees were treated to a presentation as part of the Production Sessions program titled "The Making of Marvel Studios' 'Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2'". What follows is a recap of that session,...

Academy Award Nominee, Academy Awards, Damien Carr, Framestore, Guardians of the Galaxy, Guy Williams, Marvel, Marvel Studios, Method Studios, Nordin Rahhali, Oscar Nominee, Oscars, Production Sessions, SIGGRAPH 2017, Simone Kraus, Trixter, VFX, Victoria Alonso, Visual Effects, Weta, Weta Digital

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