2012 in animation

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This is a list of events in 2012 in animation.

Events

February

• 4 February: The 39th Annie Awards are held.[1]
• 14 February: Matt Groening receives a star at the Hollywood Walk of Fame.[2]
• 19 February: The Simpsons reach their 500th episode with At Long Last Leave in which Julian Assange is special guest voice.[3]
• 26 February: 84th Academy Awards:
  • Rango by Gore Verbinski wins the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature.[4]
  • The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore by William Joyce and Brandon Oldenburg wins the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film.[4]

March

• 2 March: The Lorax, a film based on the book by Dr. Seuss is released.

April

• 15 April: The couch gag of The Simpsons episode Beware My Cheating Bart is animated by Bill Plympton. This is the first time he receives this honor.[5]

May

• May 3: Carlos Loiseau's Ánima Buenos Aires premiers. The director passes away five days later.[6]
• May 20: In The Simpsons episode Lisa Goes Gaga, pop singer Lady Gaga is special guest voice.[7]

June

• 8 June: The third Madagascar film, Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted, is released by DreamWorks.
• 22 June: Brave, produced by the Walt Disney Company and Pixar, is released.[8]

July

• 13 July: The animated short The Longest Daycare premiers, featuring Maggie Simpson and directed by David Silverman.[9]

August

• 24 August: Don Hertzfeldt's It's Such a Beautiful Day premiers.[10]
• 25 August: Toonzai is replaced by Vortexx

September

• 20 September: Tim Burton's Frankenweenie is released.[11]

November

• 2 November: The Walt Disney Company releases Wreck-It Ralph.
• 10 November: The first episode of Littlest Pet Shop (2012) is broadcast.[12]

Awards

• Academy Award for Best Animated Feature: Brave
• Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film: Paper Man
• Animation Kobe Feature Film Award: K-On!
• Annecy International Animated Film Festival Cristal du long métrage: Crulic: The Path to Beyond[13]
• Annie Award for Best Animated Feature: Wreck-It Ralph
• Asia Pacific Screen Award for Best Animated Feature Film: A Letter to Momo
• BAFTA Award for Best Animated Film: Brave
• César Award for Best Animated Film: Ernest & Celestine
• European Film Award for Best Animated Film: Alois Nebel
• Golden Globe Award for Best Animated Feature Film: Brave
• Goya Award for Best Animated Film: Tad, The Lost Explorer
• Japan Academy Prize for Animation of the Year: Wolf Children
• Japan Media Arts Festival Animation Grand Prize: Combustible
• Mainichi Film Award for Best Animation Film: Wolf Children

Films released

Main article: List of animated feature films of 2012

Television series debuts

Main article: List of animated television series of 2012

Date	Title	Channel	Year
15 January	Napoleon Dynamite	Fox	2012
19 January	Unsupervised	FX
18 February	Transformers: Rescue Bots	The Hub	2012–16
23 February	Monsuno	Nicktoons	2012–14
3 March	The Aquabats! Super Show!	The Hub
23 March	Doc McStuffins	Disney Junior	2012–present
30 March	Cartoon Planet	Cartoon Network	1995–98; 2012–14
1 April	Ultimate Spider-Man	Disney XD	2012–17
14 April	The Legend of Korra	Nickelodeon	2012–14
27 April	Wild Grinders	Nicktoons	2012–15
30 April	Motorcity	Disney XD	2012–13
18 May	Tron: Uprising
2 June	Care Bears: Welcome to Care-a-Lot	The Hub	2012
	Kaijudo		2012–13
15 June	Gravity Falls	Disney Channel, Disney XD	2012–16
15 July	Black Dynamite	Adult Swim	2012–15
1 August	Ben 10: Omniverse	Cartoon Network	2012–14
4 August	Robot and Monster	Nickelodeon	2012–15
7 August	DreamWorks Dragons	Cartoon Network, Netflix	2012–18
13 August	Randy Cunningham: 9th Grade Ninja	Disney XD	2012–15
3 September	Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood	PBS Kids	2012–present
25 September	Brickleberry	Comedy Central	2012–15
29 September	Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles	Nickelodeon	2012–17
15 October	Slugterra	Disney XD, Netflix	2012–present
8 November	Bravest Warriors	Cartoon Hangover	2012–present
10 November	Littlest Pet Shop	The Hub	2012–16
18 November	Sofia the First	Disney Junior	2012–18
24 November	The Chica Show	Universal Kids	2012–14
30 November	SuperFuckers	Cartoon Hangover	2012–14
14 December	Peter Rabbit	Nick Jr.	2012–16

Television series endings

Date	Title	Channel	Year	Notes
9 January	The Adventures of Chuck and Friends	The Hub	2010–12	Cancelled
26 January	Bakugan Battle Brawlers	Cartoon Network	2007–12	Ended
17 February	Secret Mountain Fort Awesome		2011–12	Cancelled
24 February	Postcards from Buster	PBS Kids Go!	2004–12	Ended
1 March	Moose and Zee	Noggin, Nick Jr.	2003–12
4 March	Napoleon Dynamite	Fox	2012	Cancelled
25 March	Mary Shelley's Frankenhole	Adult Swim	2010–12
31 March	Ben 10: Ultimate Alien	Cartoon Network		Ended
25 April	Voltron Force	Nicktoons		Cancelled
	Ugly Americans	Comedy Central
17 May	Special Agent Oso	Disney Junior	2009–12	Ended
24 May	Jungle Junction
16 June	ThunderCats	Cartoon Network	2011–12	Cancelled
9 July	Hero: 108		2010–12
13 July	The Ricky Gervais Show	HBO
25 July	Iron Man: Armored Adventures	Nicktoons	2009–12
October	Sidekick	Cartoon Network	2011–12
2 November	Fanboy & Chum Chum	Nickelodeon	2009–12
8 November	Casper's Scare School	Cartoon Network
2 December	Kick Buttowski: Suburban Daredevil	Disney XD	2010–12
	Have a Laugh!	Disney Channel	2009–12	Ended
8 December	Care Bears: Welcome to Care-a-Lot	The Hub	2012	Cancelled
20 December	Unsupervised	FX
Unknown	El Perro y el Gato	HBO	2004–12	Ended

Deaths

February

• 29 February: Sheldon Moldoff, American comics artist and animator (Courageous Cat and Minute Mouse), dies at age 91.[14]

March

• 5 March: Joaquim Muntañola, Spanish animator and comics artist (Gonzalez the Fakir), dies at age 97.[15]
• 6 March: Robert B. Sherman, American songwriter and composer (wrote music for Mary Poppins, Jungle Book, Bedknobs and Broomsticks), dies at age 86.[16]
• 20 March: Noboru Ishiguro, Japanese animated film director, producer and screenwriter (Space Battleship Yamato II, Super Dimension Fortress Macross, Super Dimension Century Orguss, Humanoid Monster Bem, Megazone 23, Legend of the Galactic Heroes, Tytania), dies at age 73.[17][18]
• 23 March: Jim Duffy, American animator (Hanna-Barbera, Klasky-Csupo, Duckman), dies at age 74.[19]
• 25 March: Edd Gould, British animator (Eddsworld), dies at age 23 from acute lymphoblastic leukemia.[20]

April

• 22 April: Paul Gringle, American comics artist, animator and illustrator (advertising film for Champion Spark Plugs), dies at age 89.[21]
• 24 April: Yugo Sako, Japanese film director, producer and animator (Ramayana: The Legend of Prince Rama), dies at age 84.[22]

May

• 2 May: Digby Wolfe, British actor (voice of Ziggy the vulture in Jungle Book), dies at age 82.[23]
• 6 May: George Lindsey, American actor (voice of Lafayette in The Aristocats, Trigger the vulture in Robin Hood, Deadeye the Rabbit in The Rescuers), dies at age 83.[24]
• May 8: Carlos Loiseau, aka Caloi, Argentine comics artist and animator (Ánima Buenos Aires), dies at age 63.[6]
• 24 May: Millie Goldsholl, American animated film director and producer (Up Is Down), dies at age 92.[25]
• 29 May: Dick Beals, American voice actor (voice of the Speedy Alka-Seltzer in the Alka-Seltzer animated ads, Ralph Phillips in From A to Z-Z-Z-Z, Davey in Davey and Goliath), dies at age 85.[26][27][28]

June

• 16 June: Susan Tyrrell, American voice actress (did the narration for Wizards), dies at age 67.[29][30]
• June 24: Iwan Lemaire, aka Yvan Lemaire, Belgian comics artist, animator, photographer and painter, dies at age 78.[31]

July

• 4 July: Gerald Polley, American singer, activist and animator.[32]
• 8 July: Ernest Borgnine, American actor (voice of Carface in All Dogs Go to Heaven, played himself in The Simpsons episode Boy-Scoutz 'n the Hood, voice of Mermaid Man on SpongeBob SquarePants), dies at age 95.[33]
• 13 July: Ginny Tyler, American voice actress (voice of the female squirrel in The Sword in the Stone, Davey's mother and sister Sally in Davey and Goliath ), dies at age 86.[34][35]
• 26 July: Tibor Hernádi, Hungarian animator, animated film director, producer, screenwriter and storyboard artist (Felix the Cat: The Movie, The Seventh Brother, made various Red Bull animated TV commercials), passes away at age 64.[36]
• 27 July:
  • Norman Alden, American actor (voice of Kay in The Sword in the Stone and Kranix in The Transformers: The Movie), dies at age 87.[37]
  • Geoffrey Hughes, British actor (voice of Paul McCartney in Yellow Submarine), dies at age 68.[38]
• 29 July: Chris Marker, French film director and animator (co-animated Les Astronautes[39]), dies at age 91.[40]

August

• 21 August: Tissa David, Romanian-American animated film director (Bonjour Paris,[41] worked for UPA, Hubley Studios, R.O. Blechman), dies at age 91 from a brain tumor.[42][43]
• 22 August: Jeffrey Stone, American model (model for Prince Charming in Cinderella), dies at age 85.[44]

September

• 3 September: Ottó Foky, Hungarian animator and animated film director, dies at age 75.[45]
• 16 September: John Coates, British film producer (Yellow Submarine, The Snowman), dies at age 84.[46]

October

• 12 October: Břetislav Pojar, Czech puppeteer, animator and animated film director (To See or Not to See, Balablok), passes away at age 89.[47]
• 14 October: John Clive, British actor (voice of John Lennon in Yellow Submarine), dies at age 79.[48]
• 21 October: Run Wrake, British animator and film director (Rabbit), dies at age 46.[49]
• October 27: Bill White, American animator and comics artist (Spümcø, Walt Disney Company, DiC Entertainment), dies at age 51.[50]

November

• 5 November: Margaret Nichols, American animator (Warner Bros. Animation, Walt Disney Animation Studios, UPA, Fleischer Studios, Snowball Animation, Patin, TV Spots, Creston, Eagle, Hanna-Barbera, Marvel Productions, Universal Studios and Graz Entertainment) and animation director (The Transformers, Inhumanoids, My Little Pony: The Movie, Transformers: The Movie), dies at age 82.[51][52]
• 6 November: Vladimír Jiránek, Czech animator, illustrator and film director (co-creator of Pat & Mat), dies at age 74.[53]
• 8 November: Lucille Bliss, American actress (voice of Crusader Rabbit in Crusader Rabbit, Anastasia the stepsister in Cinderella, Nibbles in Tom & Jerry, a sunflower and tulip in Alice in Wonderland, Smurfette in The Smurfs, Mrs. Beth Fitzgibbons in The Secret of NIMH, Ms. Bitters in Invader Zim), dies at age 96.[54]
• 22 November: Mel Shaw, American animator (Walt Disney Company), passes away at age 97.[55][42]

December

• December 3: Fyodor Khitruk, Russian animator and film director (The Story of a Crime, Film, Film, Film, Winnie-the-Pooh, O, Sport, You - the Peace!), dies at age 95.[56]
• December 7: Rusty Mills, American animator (Tiny Toon Adventures, Animaniacs, Pinky and the Brain), dies at age 49 from colon cancer.[57][58]
• December 24: Lee Hartman, American novelist and animator (Walt Disney Company, Warner Bros. Animation), passes away at age 82.[59][60]
• December 26: Gerald McDermott, American film director, children's book writer and illustrator, dies at age 71.[61]

Specific date unknown

• Esfandiar Ahmadieh, Iranian animated film director, passes away at age 82 or 83.[62]

See also

• 2012 in anime

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