2009 in animation

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The year 2009 involved animation-related events.

Events

January

• January 15: Adam Eliot's Mary and Max premiers.[1]
• January 16: Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf: The Super Snail Adventure is released, the first film based on the Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf TV series.[2]
• January 18: The first episode of Masha and the Bear is broadcast.[3]
• January 30: During the Gérardmer Film Festival Tomm Moore's The Secret of Kells premiers.[4]

February

• February 5: Henry Selick's Coraline, based on Neil Gaiman's eponymous novel, is first released.[5]
• February 6: Futurama: Into the Wild Green Yonder, based on the TV series Futurama, is first shown to the public at the New York Comic Con and premiers to the public on 30 August.[6][7]
• February 12: Sergey Seryogin's Alice's Birthday is released.[8]
• February 22: 81st Academy Awards:
  • Wall-E wins the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature.[9]
  • La Maison en Petits Cubes by Kunio Kato wins the Academy Award for Best Animated Short.[9]
• February 23: Eddie White's The Cat Piano premiers, which features narration by Nick Cave.[10]

March

• March 3: Lauren Montgomery's Wonder Woman is released direct-to-dvd to positive reviews.[11]
• March 5: Jiří Barta's Toys in the Attic is released.[12]
• March 17: In The Simpsons episode In the Name of the Grandfather the family travels to Ireland.[13]
• March 24: Conrad Vernon and Rob Letterman's Monsters vs. Aliens premiers.[14]

April

• April 1: The first episode of The Amazing Spiez! is broadcast, though it had aired on 15 March on Disney Channel (Asia) before.[15]
• April 20: The first episode of Fishtronaut is broadcast.[16]

May

• May 13–24: 2009 Cannes Film Festival: Both Up, produced by the Walt Disney Company, and Panique au Village (A Town Called Panic), the first film based on the eponymous TV series, premier during the festival. In the case of Up it's the first time an animated film opens the festival. In Panique au Village 's case it's the first stop-motion film to be played during the festival.[17][18]
• May 17: In The Simpsons episode Four Great Women and a Manicure Jodie Foster is special guest voice.[19]
• May 31: After more than 10 years on the air, PBS pulls Jay Jay the Jet Plane off the PBS Kids schedule.

June

• June 10: Paul Fierlinger's My Dog Tulip premiers.[20][21]

July

• July 2: Andrei Khrzhanovsky's Room and a Half is released.[22]
• July 21: Luke and Lucy: The Texas Rangers is released, the first CGI-animated feature film made in Belgium. It's also the first animated film based on the Belgian comics series Suske en Wiske.[23] It's also the most expensive Flemish movie of that moment.[24]
• July 22: Totally Spies! The Movie premiers, the first film based on the eponymous TV series.[25]

September

• September 3: 66th Venice International Film Festival: Tarik Saleh's Metropia premiers.[26]
• September 7:
  • The first episode of Dinosaur Train airs.[27]
  • The first episode of Wibbly Pig is broadcast.[28]
• September 9: Shane Acker's 9 premiers.[29]
• September 15: The first episode of Geronimo Stilton airs.[30]
• September 17: The first episode of Archer is broadcast.[31][32]
• September 22:
  • Phil Lord and Christopher Miller's Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs is first released.[33]
  • Rob Zombie releases The Haunted World of El Superbeasto, which is directly based on his comic book of the same name.[34]
• September 27: The first episode of The Cleveland Show airs, a spin-off of Family Guy revolving around Cleveland Brown.[35]
• September 29: The King of Milu Deer is released, the first Chinese CGI-animated film.[36]

October

• October 2: The first episode of Kung Fu Dino Posse airs.
• October 5: The first episode of Les Mistigris (Lulu's Islands) is broadcast.[37]
• October 12: The first episode of Fanboy & Chum Chum is broadcast as a preview, then has its official first broadcast on November 6, 2009 after SpongeBob's Truth or Square.[38]
• October 14: Wes Anderson's stop-motion film Fantastic Mr. Fox, based on Roald Dahl's eponymous children's book, is first shown to the public during the London Film Festival.[39]
• October 26: The first episode of Have a Laugh! airs.

November

• November 3: Robert Zemeckis' A Christmas Carol, with the voice of Jim Carrey as Ebenezer Scrooge, premiers.[40][41]
• November 8: The final episode of Ed, Edd n Eddy is broadcast, after a decade run.[42][43]
• November 14: Jorge Blanco's Planet 51 premiers.[44]
• November 25: The Princess and the Frog is released, directed by Ron Clements and John Musker, the first Walt Disney Company production with an African-American lead character.[45][46]
• Specific date unknown: The first episode of The Samsonadzes is broadcast.[47]

December

• December 30: Little Nemo, Quasi at the Quackadero, The Red Book and Scratch and Crow are added to the National Film Registry.[48][49]

Specific date unknown

• Michael P. Heneghan's The Romantic is released.[50][51]

Awards

• Academy Award for Best Animated Feature: Up
• Animation Kobe Feature Film Award: WALL-E[52]
• Annecy International Animated Film Festival Cristal du long métrage: Coraline and Mary and Max
• Annie Award for Best Animated Feature: Up
• Asia Pacific Screen Award for Best Animated Feature Film: Mary and Max
• BAFTA Award for Best Animated Film: Up
• European Film Award for Best Animated Film: Mia and the Migoo
• Goya Award for Best Animated Film: Planet 51
• Japan Academy Prize for Animation of the Year: Summer Wars
• Japan Media Arts Festival Animation Grand Prize: Summer Wars
• Mainichi Film Awards - Animation Grand Award: Summer Wars

Films released

Main article: List of animated feature films of 2009

Television series debuts

Main article: List of animated television series of 2009

Date	Title	Channel	Year
January 3	Huntik: Secrets & Seekers	TheCW4Kids, Nicktoons	2009–15
January 23	Wolverine and the X-Men	Nicktoons	2009
January 26	Olivia	Nick Jr.	2009–13
February 13	Jimmy Two-Shoes	Disney XD	2009–11
	Kid vs. Kat
March 5	League of Super Evil	Cartoon Network	2009–12
April 4	Special Agent Oso	Playhouse Disney
April 6	Timmy Time
April 19	Sit Down, Shut Up	Fox	2009
April 24	Iron Man: Armored Adventures	Nicktoons	2009–12
June 15	DJ & the Fro	MTV	2009
July 16	Stoked	Cartoon Network	2009–10
August 17	Glenn Martin, DDS	Nick at Nite	2009–11
August 29	Hot Wheels Battle Force 5	Cartoon Network
September 7	Dinosaur Train	PBS Kids	2009–present
September 12	Angelina Ballerina: The Next Steps		2009–10
September 17	Archer	FX, FXX	2009–present
September 19	Noonbory and the Super Seven	Cookie Jar TV	2009
	Being Ian	Qubo	2009–present
	Class of the Titans		2009–present
	Spliced		2009–10
	Willa's Wild Life		2009–present
	Pearlie		2009–11
September 26	Jungle Junction	Playhouse Disney	2009–12
September 27	The Cleveland Show	Fox	2009–13
	Titan Maximum	Adult Swim	2009
October 12	Fanboy & Chum Chum	Nickelodeon	2009–12
November 2	The Garfield Show	Cartoon Network	2009–16
November 9	Guess with Jess	Qubo	2009–13

Television series endings

Date	Title	Channel	Year	Notes
January 18	Viva Piñata	TheCW4Kids	2006–09	Cancelled
	Moral Orel	Adult Swim	2005–09	Ended
January 23	Slacker Cats	ABC Family	2007–09	Cancelled
January 24	Tak and the Power of Juju	Nickelodeon
February 28	Sushi Pack	CBS
March 30	The Replacements	Disney Channel	2006–09
April 18	Yin Yang Yo!	Disney XD
May 2	My Life as a Teenage Robot	Nicktoons Network	2003–09	Ended
May 3	Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends	Cartoon Network	2004–09
May 23	Transformers: Animated		2007–09	Cancelled
June 28	Three Delivery	Nicktoons Network	2008–09
August 7	The Goode Family	ABC	2009
August 14	Random! Cartoons	Nicktoons Network	2008–09
September 18	Pinky Dinky Doo	Noggin	2006–09
October 19	The Mr. Men Show	Cartoon Network	2008–09
November 8	Ed, Edd n Eddy		1999–2009	Ended
November 18	The Spectacular Spider-Man	TheCW4Kids	2008–09
November 21	Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles		2003–09
	Sit Down, Shut Up	Fox	2009	Cancelled
November 22	Titan Maximum	Adult Swim
November 29	Wolverine and the X-Men	Nicktoons
December 22	Little Einsteins	Playhouse Disney	2005–09	Ended

Deaths

January

• January 23: Hisayuki Toriumi, Japanese animator (Tatsunoko Production, Sunrise, Studio Pierrot), animated film director and producer (Science Ninja Team Gatchaman), screenwriter and novelist, dies at age 67.[53]

February

• February 5: Albert Barillé, Polish-French animator, screenwriter and animated film producer (Procidis, Once Upon a Time...), dies at age 88.[54]
• February 13: Johnny Hawksworth, British musician and composer (wrote the theme song for Roobarb), dies at age 85.[55]

May

• May 21: Joan Alexander, American actress (voice of Lois Lane in Superman), dies at age 94.[56]

June

• June 9: Dave Simons, American comics artist, storyboard artist and animator (Captain Planet and the Planeteers, Exosquad, The Zula Patrol, Maya and Miguel), dies at age 54.[57]
• June 25: Michael Jackson, American soul and pop singer (voice of Leon Kompowski in The Simpsons episode Stark Raving Dad), passes away at age 50.[58]

July

• July 6: Alfons Figueras, Spanish animator and comics artist (MGM animation, RKO Radio Network, Hispano Graphic Films), dies at age 86.[59]
• July 14: Dallas McKennon, American voice actor (voice of Inspector Willoughby and Buzz Buzzard in Woody Woodpecker, voice of Gumby and other characters in Gumby, the Professor at the zoo, Toughy the bulldog, Pedro the chihuahua, the Hyena in Lady and the Tramp, Maleficent's raven and Vernon the owl in Sleeping Beauty, the Fox and one of the penguins in Mary Poppins, Max in How the Grinch Stole Christmas, Archie Andrews, Hot Dog and Mr. Weatherbee in The Archie Show), dies at age 89.[60]
• July 21:
  • Heinz Edelmann, German graphic designer, illustrator, animator, cartoonist and comics artist (Yellow Submarine), dies from heart disease at age 75.[61]
  • Yoshinori Kanada, Japanese animator (Birth, worked for Hayao Miyazaki), dies from a heart attack at age 57.[62]
• July 22: John Ryan, British comics artist and animator (Captain Pugwash), dies at age 88.[63]

August

• August 15: Virginia Davis, American actress (Alice in Walt Disney's Alice Comedies), dies at age 90.[64]

September

• September 24: Robert Sahakyants, Armenian animator and animated film director (The Lesson), dies at age 59.[65]

October

• October 20: Attila Dargay, Hungarian animator, animated film director and comics artist (Mattie the Goose-boy, Vuk, Szaffi), passes away at age 82.[66]

December

• December 16: Roy E. Disney, American animated film director (Walt Disney Company), dies at age 79 from stomach cancer.[67]

See also

• 2009 in anime

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