{"id":32428,"date":"2019-04-19T03:36:05","date_gmt":"2019-04-19T10:36:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/?p=32428"},"modified":"2019-04-17T22:14:04","modified_gmt":"2019-04-18T05:14:04","slug":"animal-behaviours-double-honours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/2019\/04\/19\/animal-behaviours-double-honours\/","title":{"rendered":"Animal Behaviour\u2019s double honours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>A scene from Alison Snowden and David Fine\u2019s <em>Animal Behaviour<\/em>: Victor acts out. <em>(image from National Film Board of Canada)<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Alison Snowden and David Fine\u2019s National Film Board animated short <em>Animal Behaviour<\/em> won for best animated short at the Canadian Screen Awards March 31.<\/p>\n<p>The film also was an Academy Award nominee this year. It is the fourth Oscar nomination for the Vancouver-based husband-and-wife animation duo, who took home the Oscar 24 years ago for the NFB-Snowden Fine Animation-Channel 4 co-production <em>Bob\u2019s Birthday<\/em>. They were also nominated for their 1987 NFB short <em>George and Rosemary<\/em>, with Snowden nominated before that for her 1984 student film <em>Second Class Mail<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Animal Behaviour<\/em> takes viewers inside a group therapy session for animals who grapple with issues not unlike our own. (See jewishindependent.ca\/animated-therapy-session.) Produced and executive produced by Michael Fukushima for the NFB\u2019s Animation Studio in Montreal, <em>Animal Behaviour<\/em> is the 75th Academy Award nomination for the NFB \u2013 more than any other film organization based outside of Hollywood. The NFB has received 12 Oscars over its 79-year history, including a 1989 Honourary Academy Award for overall excellence in cinema.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A scene from Alison Snowden and David Fine\u2019s Animal Behaviour: Victor acts out. (image from National Film Board of Canada) Alison Snowden and David Fine\u2019s National Film Board animated short Animal Behaviour won for best animated short at the Canadian Screen Awards March 31. The film also was an Academy Award nominee this year. It [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":32429,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[590,8368,8295,8932,8367,8931],"class_list":["post-32428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local","tag-academy-awards","tag-alison-snowden","tag-animation","tag-canadian-screen-awards","tag-david-fine","tag-oscars"],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":8}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32428\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}