2005 in animation

The year 2005 in animation involved some animation-related events.

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Events

February

• February 6: The pilot episode of American Dad! airs, launching the TV series.[1][2]
• February 13: In The Simpsons episode Pranksta Rap rapper 50 Cent is special guest voice.[3]
• February 20:
  • The first episode of Robot Chicken airs.[4]
  • In The Simpsons episode There's Something About Marrying Selma Bouvier outs herself as a lesbian.[5]
• February 21: The first episode of Avatar: The Last Airbender airs.[6]
• February 27: 77th Academy Awards:
  • The Incredibles, directed by Brad Bird and produced by the Walt Disney Company, wins the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature.[7]
  • Ryan by Chris Landreth wins the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film.[7]
  • In their 100 Greatest series the British TV channel Channel 4 broadcasts the 100 Greatest Cartoons!, a list of the 100 greatest animated cartoons, as voted by viewers.[8]

March

• March 11: The first episode of Wonder Showzen airs, an adult parody of children's educational shows, complete with animated sequences too.[9]
• March 13: In The Simpsons episode Goo Goo Gai Pan the family travels to China. Lucy Liu and Robert Wagner are special guest voices.[10]
• March 28: Turner Broadcasting splits Adult Swim off from Cartoon Network after the block debuted in 2001, as the Nielsen Media Research could treat it as a separate channel for ratings purposes.
• March 31: Don Hertzfeldt's World of Tomorrow premiers.[11]

May

• May 1: Family Guy returns on Fox after a three-year cancellation, sparking popularity and strong DVD sales.
• May 9: Japanese animation studio A-1 Pictures is founded.
• May 10: Marco Nguyen, Pierre Perifel, Xavier Ramonède, Olivier Staphylas and Rémi Zaarour's Le Building premiers.[12]
• May 13: Michel Ocelot and Bénédicte Galup's Kirikou and the Wild Beasts premiers.[13]
• May 25: Eric Darnell and Tom McGrath's Madagascar premiers.[14]

July

• July 9: Disneyland receives a star at the Hollywood Walk of Fame, the first and only theme park to receive this honour.[15]

September

• September 4: Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit premiers.[16]
• September 7: Tim Burton and Mike Johnson's Corpse Bride is released.[17]
• September 23: Nicktoons rebranded itself as Nicktoons Network. It remains rebranded for 4 years, before Nicktoons returned to its former name.

October

• October 10: A fire destroys most of Aardman Animations' archive warehouse.[18] The fire results in the loss of most of Nick Park's creations, including the models and sets used in the film Chicken Run. Some of the original Wallace and Gromit models and sets, as well as the master prints of the finished films, were elsewhere and survived.

November

• November 6: The first episode of The Boondocks airs.[19]

December

• December 6: Run Wrake's award-winning animated short Rabbit premiers.[20]
• December 11: In The Simpsons episode The Italian Bob the family travels to Italy.[21]
• December 20: Toy Story is added to the National Film Registry.[22][23]

Awards

• Academy Award for Best Animated Feature: Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
• Animation Kobe Feature Film Award: Zeta Gundam A New Translation: Heirs to the Stars
• Annie Award for Best Animated Feature: Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
• Goya Award for Best Animated Film: Midsummer Dream
• Japan Media Arts Festival Animation Award: Flow
• Mainichi Film Awards – Animation Grand Award: Fullmetal Alchemist the Movie: Conqueror of Shamballa

Films released

Television series debuts

Main article: List of animated television series of 2005

Date	Title	Channel	Year
January 21	American Dragon: Jake Long	Disney Channel	2005–07
January 23	Pet Alien	Cartoon Network	2005
February 6	American Dad!	TBS	2005–present
February 20	Robot Chicken	Adult Swim
February 21	Avatar: The Last Airbender	Nickelodeon	2005–08
March 25	Krypto the Superdog	Cartoon Network	2005–06
May 30	The Life and Times of Juniper Lee		2005–07
June 17	The Buzz on Maggie	Disney Channel	2005–06
June 19	12 oz. Mouse	Adult Swim	2005–07
July 8	Camp Lazlo	Cartoon Network	2005–08
July 9	Catscratch	Nickelodeon	2005–07
	Time Warp Trio	Discovery Kids	2005–06
August 22	Firehouse Tales	Cartoon Network	2005–07
	Gerald McBoing-Boing
September 6	Go, Diego, Go!	Nick Jr.	2005–11
September 10	G.I. Joe: Sigma 6	4 Kids TV	2005–06
	Bratz
September 17	Loonatics Unleashed	Kids' WB	2005–07
	Coconut Fred's Fruit Salad Island		2005–06
	Johnny Test	Kids' WB, The CW, Cartoon Network	2005–14
October 2	Sunday Pants	Cartoon Network	2005
October 9	Little Einsteins	Playhouse Disney	2005–09
	Squidbillies	Adult Swim	2005–present
November 6	The Boondocks		2005–14
	Minoriteam		2005–06
November 25	The X's	Nickelodeon
December 13	Moral Orel	Adult Swim	2005–09
December 26	My Gym Partner's a Monkey	Cartoon Network	2005–08
December 27	Ben 10 (2005)

Television series endings

Date	Title	Channel	Year	Notes
January 15	Megas XLR	Cartoon Network	2004–05	Cancelled
January 22	Dave the Barbarian	Disney Channel		Cancelled
February 19	Kenny the Shark	Discovery Kids	2003–05
February 26	¡Mucha Lucha!	Kids' WB	2002–05
March 25	The Powerpuff Girls (1998)	Cartoon Network	1998–2005	Ended
	Star Wars: Clone Wars		2003–05
April 24	Sealab 2021	Adult Swim	2001–05
May 26	Pet Alien	Cartoon Network	2005	Cancelled
May 27	Father of the Pride	NBC	2004–05
June 15	CatDog	Nickelodeon	1998–2005	Ended
July 8	Jackie Chan Adventures	Kids' WB	2000–05	Ended
July 22	Video Mods	MTV2	2004–05	Cancelled
August 19	The Proud Family	Disney Channel	2001–05	Ended
October 30	Sunday Pants	Cartoon Network	2005	Cancelled
November 11	Duck Dodgers		2003–05	Ended
November 25	Jay Jay the Jet Plane	PBS Kids	1998–2005	Ended
	Dragon Tales		1999–2005	Ended
November 27	Fatherhood	Nick at Nite	2004–05	Cancelled
December 25	Stroker & Hoop	Adult Swim

Deaths

January

• January 15: Dan Lee, Canadian animator and character designer (Walt Disney Company, designer of Nemo in Finding Nemo), dies at age 35 from lung cancer.[24]
• January 25: Chad Grothkopf, American comics artist and animator (Walt Disney Company, Fleischer Studios, Hanna-Barbera, DePatie-Freleng, Chuck Jones, Jay Ward, Terrytoons, Tiny Toon Adventures), dies at age 90 or 91.[25]

March

• March 13: Hal Seeger, American animator, comics writer and comics artist (Fleischer Studios, Batfink, Milton the Monster), dies at age 87.[26]

April

• April 11: John Bennett, British actor (Captain Holly in Watership Down, Don in The Plague Dogs), dies at age 76.[27]
• April 21: Bob Gardiner, American animator (co-director of Closed Mondays) and inventor (Claymation), dies at age 54.[28][29]
• April 23: Romano Scarpa, Italian comics artist, writer and animator (La piccola fiammiferaia), dies at age 77.[30]

May

• May 6: Joe Grant, American animator, character designer and screenwriter (Walt Disney Company, designed the Evil Queen in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs), dies at age 96.[31]
• May 19: Henry Corden, American voice actor (voice of Fred Flintstone), dies at 85.[32]
• May 21: Howard Morris, American actor (voice of Gopher in Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree and Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day, Atom Ant in Atom Ant, Mr. Peebles in Magilla Gorilla, Jughead Jones in The Archies, Munro in Munro, Professor Icenstein and Luigi La Bounci in Galaxy High, Flem in Cow & Chicken), dies at age 85.[33]
• May 22: Thurl Ravenscroft, American voice actor and singer (voice of Monstro the Whale in Pinocchio, the alligator in Lady and the Tramp, Tony the Tiger in the animated ads, Paul Bunyan in Paul Bunyan, Captain the Horse in One Hundred and One Dalmatians, singer of You're A Mean One, Mr. Grinch in How the Grinch Stole Christmas, Billy Bass in The Aristocats, Kirby in The Brave Little Toaster), dies at age 91.[34]

June

• June 24: Paul Winchell, American ventriloquist and voice actor (voice of Tigger in Winnie the Pooh, Dick Dastardly in Wacky Races and Dastardly and Muttley in their Flying Machines, Shun Gon in The Aristocats, Gargamel in The Smurfs, Boomer in The Fox and the Hound, Zummi Gummi in Disney's Adventures of the Gummi Bears), dies at age 82.[35]
• June 25: John Fiedler, American voice actor (Piglet in Winnie the Pooh, Father Sexton in Robin Hood, Porcupine in The Fox and the Hound, Rudy in The Emperor's New Groove), dies at age 80.[36]

July

• July 2: Norm Prescott, American animation producer (co-founder of Filmation), dies at age 78.[37]
• July 11: Frances Langford, American singer (sang the Once Upon a Wintertime segment in Melody Time), dies at age 92.[38]
• July 20: James Doohan, Canadian actor (voiced Scotty in Star Trek: The Animated Series), dies at age 83.[39]
• July 27: Marten Toonder, Dutch comics artist and animator (Toonder Animation, Als Je Begrijpt Wat Ik Bedoel (The Dragon That Wasn't (Or Was He?)), dies at age 93.[40]

August

• August 1: Wim Boost, aka Wibo, Dutch comics artist, cartoonist and animator, passes away at age 87.[41]
• August 16: Joe Ranft, American screenwriter, comedian, storyboard artist, magician, animator animation director (Walt Disney Company, Pixar) and voice actor (voice of Igor in The Nightmare Before Christmas, Heimlich the caterpillar in A Bug's Life, Lenny the Binoculars in Toy Story, Wheezy the penguin in Toy Story 2, Pete "Claws" Ward in Monsters, Inc., Jacques the Shrimp in Finding Nemo, Red and Peterbilt in Cars), dies at age 45 from injuries in a traffic collision.[42]

October

• October 20: Eva Švankmajerová, Czech painter, ceramist, poet, animator, designer, director and producer (wife, co-producer, co-designer, co-director of Jan Švankmajer), dies at age 65.[43][44]

November

• November 5: Derek Lamb, British animator and animated film producer (Special Delivery, the opening credits of Mystery!, co-produced the Sports Cartoons series, played himself in Ryan, made animated shorts for Sesame Street), dies at age 69.[45][46]
• November 7: Harry Thompson, British radio and TV producer, comedy writer, novelist and TV writer (co-creator of Monkey Dust), dies at age 45 from cancer.[47]
• November 28: Miroslav Štěpánek, Czech animator, animated film director, sculptor, screenwriter, illustrator and graphic designer (Pojďte pane, budeme si hrát, aka Hey Mister, Let's Play!), passes away at age 81.[48]

December

• December 22: Aurora Miranda, Brazilian singer and actress (sang and danced with Donald Duck in The Three Caballeros), dies at age 90.

See also

• 2005 in anime

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