The legendary artists at the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) will be honored by ASIFA-Hollywood for their career achievements in animation at the 52nd Annie Awards on February 8.
ASIFA-Hollywood will honor composer/sound designer Normand Roger and animator/producer Eunice Macaulay, two legendary figures in National Film Board of Canada (NFB) animation, with its Winsor McCay Award for career achievement, to be presented at the 52nd Annie Awards on February 8.
Born in Montreal, Normand Roger began his career as a freelance film composer in 1971 for the NFB. Renowned primarily for his work in animation, Normand has scored films for many of the greatest names in Canadian and NFB animation, including Claude Cloutier, Paul Driessen, Eugene Fedorenko, Munro Ferguson, Chris Hinton, Co Hoedeman, René Jodoin, Caroline Leaf, and many more. Films Roger has worked on have garnered hundreds of prizes and 13 Academy Award nominations, including 6 Oscar wins.
Born in England, Macaulay held nearly every position in animation over her 17-year career at the NFB, which she joined full-time in 1973. Her NFB highlights include co-writing and co-directing the Oscar-winning short Special Delivery (1978) with John Weldon; co-writing Ishu Patel’s Academy Award-nominated short Paradise (1984); and garnering an Oscar nomination as producer on Alison Snowden and David Fine’s animated short George and Rosemary (1987). As NFB producer, Eunice was also instrumental in developing the Just for Kids series of shorts for children. Macaulay passed in 2013 and will be awarded posthumously.
Source: The NFB
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