2020 in animation
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This is a list of events in animation in 2020.
Events
February
- February 9: 92nd Academy Awards:
- Toy Story 4, directed by Josh Cooley, Jonas Rivera and Mark Nielsen, produced by Pixar and the Walt Disney Company wins the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature.[1]
- Hair Love by Matthew A. Cherry and Karen Rupert Toliver wins the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film. [2]
March
- March 8: In The Simpsons episode Screenless film director Werner Herzog is special guest voice again.[3]
Awards
- Academy Award for Best Animated Feature: Toy Story 4
- Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film: Hair Love
- American Cinema Editors Award for Best Edited Animated Feature Film: TBD
- Annecy International Animated Film Festival Cristal du long métrage: TBD
- Annie Award for Best Animated Feature: Klaus
- Annie Award for Best Animated Feature — Independent: I Lost My Body
- Asia Pacific Screen Award for Best Animated Feature Film: Weathering with You
- BAFTA Award for Best Animated Film: Klaus
- César Award for Best Animated Film: TBD
- Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Animated Film: Toy Story 4
- Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Animated Feature: Toy Story 4
- Dallas–Fort Worth Film Critics Association Award for Best Animated Film: Toy Story 4
- European Film Award for Best Animated Feature Film: TBD
- Florida Film Critics Circle Award for Best Animated Film: I Lost My Body
- Golden Globe Award for Best Animated Feature Film: Missing Link
- Golden Reel Awards: TBD
- Goya Award for Best Animated Film: TBD
- Japan Academy Film Prize for Animation of the Year: TBD
- Kids' Choice Award for Favorite Animated Movie: TBD
- Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Animated Film: I Lost My Body
- Mainichi Film Award for Best Animation Film: TBD
- National Board of Review Award for Best Animated Film: How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World
- New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Animated Film: TBD
- Online Film Critics Society Award for Best Animated Film: TBD
- Producers Guild of America Award for Best Animated Motion Picture: Toy Story 4
- San Diego Film Critics Society Award for Best Animated Film: TBD
- San Francisco Film Critics Circle Award for Best Animated Feature: TBD
- Satellite Award for Best Animated or Mixed Media Feature: TBD
- Saturn Award for Best Animated Film: TBD
- St. Louis Gateway Film Critics Association Award for Best Animated Film: Toy Story 4
- Tokyo Anime Award: TBD
- Toronto Film Critics Association Award for Best Animated Film: Missing Link
- Visual Effects Society Award for Outstanding Visual Effects in an Animated Feature: Missing Link
- Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Award for Best Animated Feature: TBD
Film Released
Television series debuts
| Date | Title | Channel | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Early | The Great North | Fox | 2020 |
| High Guardian Spice | Crunchyroll | 2020 | |
| Long Gone Gulch | YouTube | 2020 | |
| January 4 | Go! Go! Cory Carson | Netflix | 2020–present |
| January 6 | Deathstroke: Knights & Dragons | CW Seed | 2020–present |
| January 10 | The Owl House | Disney Channel | 2020–present |
| January 14 | Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts | Netflix | 2020–present |
| January 18 | It’s Pony | Nickelodeon | 2020–present |
| January 19 | Powerbirds | Universal Kids | 2020–present |
| January 20 | The Adventures of Paddington | Nickelodeon | 2020–present |
| February 16 | Duncanville | Fox | 2020–present |
| February 21 | Glitch Techs | Netflix | 2020–present |
| February 22 | ThunderCats Roar | Cartoon Network | 2020–present |
| February 28 | 101 Dalmatian Street | Disney+ | 2020–present |
| March 13 | Jessy & Nessy | Amazon Video | 2020-present |
| March 20 | Mira, Royal Detective | Disney Junior | 2020-present |
| April 6 | Ollie's Pack | Nickelodeon | 2020 |
| April 11 | Adventures in Wonder Park | 2020 | |
| April 20 | The Midnight Gospel | Netflix | 2020 |
| May | Looney Tunes Cartoons | HBO Max | 2020 |
| Tig 'N' Seek | 2020 | ||
| The Fungies | 2020 | ||
| Close Enough | 2020 | ||
| May 8 | Solar Opposites | Hulu | 2020 |
| May 29 | Central Park | Apple TV+ | 2020 |
| June 1 | Hero Elementary | PBS Kids | 2020 |
| June 12 | Crossing Swords | Hulu | 2020 |
| July | Kamp Koral: SpongeBob's Under Years | Nickelodeon | 2020 |
| September 7 | Elinor Wonders Why | PBS Kids | 2020 |
| TBA | Animaniacs | Hulu | 2020 |
| TrollsTopia | Hulu & Peacock | 2020 | |
| The Mighty Ones | 2020 | ||
| Madagascar: A Little Wild | 2020 | ||
| Kid Cosmic | Netflix | 2020 | |
| Trash Truck | 2020 | ||
| Transformers: War for Cybertron Trilogy | 2020 | ||
| Chico Bon Bon: M`onkey with a Tool Belt | 2020 | ||
| Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous | 2020 | ||
| Rhyme Time Town | 2020 | ||
| Wizards: Tales of Arcadia | 2020 | ||
| Invincible | Amazon Video | 2020 | |
| Untitled We Bare Bears spin-off series | Cartoon Network | 2020 | |
| My Little Pony: Pony Life | Discovery Family | 2020 | |
| Star Trek: Lower Decks | CBS All Access | 2020 | |
| Tooned Out | HBO Max | 2020 | |
| Adventure Time: Distant Lands | 2020 | ||
| Jellystone! | 2020 | ||
| Boondocks | 2020 | ||
| The Chicken Squad | Disney Junior | 2020 | |
| The Curse of Molly McGee | Disney Channel | 2020 | |
| Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur | 2020 | ||
| Vikingskool | 2020 | ||
| Housebroken | Fox | 2020 | |
| Santiago of the Seas | Nickelodeon | 2020 | |
| Baby Shark | 2020 | ||
| Yabba-Dabba Dinosaurs | Boomerang | 2020 | |
| Fairy Tales | Adult Swim | 2020 | |
| Remy & Boo | Universal Kids | 2020 |
Television series endings
| Date | Title | Channel | Year | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 10 | Harvey Girls Forever! | Netflix | 2018–20 | Ended |
| January 26 | Star Wars Resistance | Disney Channel | ||
| January 30 | New Looney Tunes | Cartoon Network, Boomerang | 2015–20 | Cancelled |
| January 31 | BoJack Horseman | Netflix | 2014–20 | Ended |
| March 1 | Rapunzel's Tangled Adventure | Disney Channel | 2017–20 | |
| Lego Jurassic World: Legend of Isla Nublar | Nickelodeon | 2019–20 | Cancelled | |
| March 27 | Steven Universe Future | Cartoon Network | Ending | |
| May 8 | Star Wars: The Clone Wars | Cartoon Network, Disney+ | 2008–20 | |
| May 15 | She-Ra and the Princesses of Power | Netflix | 2018-20 | |
| TBA | Doc McStuffins | Disney Junior | 2012–20 |
Deaths
January
- January 9: Yūji Yamaguchi, Japanese animator (Fate/stay night), dies at an unknown age. [4]
February
- February 3: Philippe Adamov, French illustrator, animator and comics artist (worked for René Laloux on the film Gandahar), dies at age 63. [5]
- February 5: Kirk Douglas, American actor (voice of Chester J. Lampwick in The Simpsons episode The Day the Violence Died), dies at age 103. [6][7]
- February 8: Ron McLarty, American dramatist, playwright and actor (did voices for several episodes of Courage the Cowardly Dog, voice of the narrator and Papa Bear in The Berenstain Bears animated TV specials), dies at age 72. [8]
- February 13: Yoshisada Sakaguchi, Japanese voice actor (Philip II of Macedon in Reign, Muijika in Mushishi, Hachiroh Tohbe in Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade, Tonpetty in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Phantom Blood), dies at age 80. [9]
- February 16:
- Zoe Caldwell, Australian-American actress (voice of the Grand Councilwoman in Lilo & Stitch), dies at age 86. [10]
- Jason Davis, American actor (voice of Mikey Blumberg in Recess), dies at age 35. [11]
- Maureen Mlynarczyk, American animator (Steven Universe, The Cleveland Show, Camp Lazlo), dies at age 47 from colon cancer. [12]
- February 17: Ja'Net DuBois, American actress (voice of Ms. Avery in The PJs), passes away at age 74. [13]
- February 21:
- Nick Cuti, American comics writer, editor, animator and artist (Ralph Bakshi, Walt Disney Animation), passes away at age 75. [14]
- Hisashi Katsuta, Japanese voice actor (Professor Ochanomizu in Astro Boy, Dr. Hoshi in Astroganger, Professor Tobishima in Groizer X, Shin'ichirō Izumi in Tōshō Daimos, passes away at age 92. [15] [16]
- February 22: Kazuhiko Kishino, Japanese voice actor (voice of Mayumi Kinniku in Kinnikuman), dies at age 86. [17]
- February 29: Luis Alfonso Mendoza, Mexican voice dub actor (Latin American voice dub of teenage and adult Gohan in Dragon Ball Z and Dragon Ball GT, Leonardo in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles), is murdered at age 55. [18]
March
- March 3: David Wise, American TV scriptwriter (Star Trek: The Animated Series, The Transformers, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers, Batman: The Animated Series), dies at age 64 or 65. [19]
- March 8: Max von Sydow, Swedish actor (voiced an art forger in The Simpsons episode The Art of War), dies at age 90. [20]
- March 19: Roman Arámbula, Mexican comics artist, animator and lay-out artist (Hanna-Barbera, worked on Pinky and the Brain), dies at age 83. [21]
- March 20: Giovanni Romanini, Italian animator and comics artist, dies at age 75 from a heart attack. [22]
- March 24:
- Juan Padrón, Cuban comics artist and animator (Vampires in Havana), dies at age 73. [23]
- Albert Uderzo, French comics artist (creative advisor and designer for the Astérix animated films Asterix and Cleopatra and The 12 Tasks of Asterix), passes away at age 92 from a heart attack. [24]
See also
References
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