LAIKA Snares Academy Award Nomination for “Coraline”

“Coraline,” the 3-D animated feature release last year that was produced by LAIKA, the Portland, Oregon-based animation studio, has been nominated for an Academy Award in the category of Best Animated Feature.  The film was directed by Henry Selick and is billed as the first stop-motion animated film to be shot in stereoscopic 3-D. Additional nominees in the Best Animated Feature category include Wes Anderson’s stop-motion epic “Fantastic Mr. Fox,” the Pixar hit “Up,” the classically animated Disney feature “The Princess and the Frog” and “The Secret of Kells.”

Recent TV commercial projects produced by LAIKA/House, the studio’s commercials division, include spots for Tostitos and Goodby, Silverstein & Partners, Cheerios and Saatchi & Saatchi, Honda and RPA and Hormel and BBDO/Minneapolis.  In the US the studio is represented by Rich Durkin of Ice Tea Productions on the East Coast, Liz Laine of Liz Laine Reps in the Midwest and Claire Worch of Claire & Company on the West Coast.  


Published February 3, 2010