2014 in animation

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This is a list of events in animation in 2014.

Events

January

• January 12: The couch gag in The Simpsons episode, Married to the Blob, is animated by Bill Plympton. This is the third time he received this honor. In the same episode, the long-time single Comic Book Guy marries manga artist, Kumiko Nakamura.[1]

February

• February 1: The 41st Annie Awards are held.
• February 22: During the 87th Academy Awards, Frozen by Chris Buck, Jennifer Lee and Peter Del Vecho wins the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature. The song Let It Go, from the same movie, written by Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez wins the Academy Award for Best Original Song.[2] Mr. Hublot by Laurent Witz and Alexandre Espigares wins the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film.[2]

March

• March 9: In The Simpsons episode, Diggs, the couch gag is animated by Sylvain Chomet.[3]

April

• April 1: Cav Bøgelund's Våbenbrødre (Brothers in Arms), an animated short aimed at mature audiences about Danish soldiers during the Afghan War, premiers.[4]
• April 27: The couch gag of The Simpsons episode, What to Expect When Bart's Expecting, is animated by Michael Socha.[5]

May

• May 4: In The Simpsons episode, Brick Like Me, large parts of the episode are animated in the style of Lego.[6]

September

• September 28:
  • Fox replaces its Animation Domination block with a new block called Sunday funday in move to acknowledge that an hour of the Sunday night schedule has live-action sitcoms and is no longer fully made up of animated shows.
  • The Simpsons episode, Clown in the Dumps, is broadcast with a couch gag animated by Don Hertzfeldt. It had been announced months earlier that a recurring character on the show would die. This character's identity is revealed: Hyman Krustofsky, father of Krusty the Clown.[7]
  • A crossover episode between The Simpsons and Family Guy is broadcast. known as The Simpsons Guy.[8]

October

• October 13: Hub Network is re-branded as Discovery Family; Hasbro remains a minority partner and programs the network's daytime lineup with children's animated programs carried over from Hub Network, while its primetime lineup was replaced with reruns of non-fiction programs from Discovery Channel's library.

November

• November 2: In The Simpsons episode Opposites A-Frack, actress Jane Fonda is a special guest voice, voicing Maxine Lombard.[9]
• November 9: The episode Simpsorama is first broadcast, a crossover between The Simpsons and Futurama.[10]

December

• December 17: Luxo Jr. and Moon Breath Beat are added to the National Film Registry.[11][12]

Awards

• Academy Award for Best Animated Feature: Big Hero 6
• Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film: Feast
• Animation Kobe Feature Film Award: Puella Magi Madoka Magica: Rebellion
• Annecy International Animated Film Festival Cristal du long métrage: The Boy and the World
• Annie Award for Best Animated Feature: How to Train Your Dragon 2
• Asia Pacific Screen Award for Best Animated Feature Film: The Tale of the Princess Kaguya
• BAFTA Award for Best Animated Film: The Lego Movie
• César Award for Best Animated Film: Minuscule: Valley of the Lost Ants
• European Film Award for Best Animated Film: The Art of Happiness
• Golden Globe Award for Best Animated Feature Film: How to Train Your Dragon 2
• Goya Award for Best Animated Film: Mortadelo and Filemon: Mission Implausible
• Japan Academy Prize for Animation of the Year: The Wind Rises
• Japan Media Arts Festival Animation Grand Prize: The Wound
• Mainichi Film Awards - Animation Grand Award: Giovanni's Island

Films released

Main article: List of animated feature films of 2014

Television series debuts

Main article: List of animated television series of 2014

Date	Title	Channel	Year
January 13	Chozen	FX	2014
January 20	Sheriff Callie's Wild West	Disney Junior	2014–17
February 3	Wallykazam!	Nick Jr.
February 12	Mixels	Cartoon Network	2014–16
February 17	Breadwinners	Nickelodeon
April 2	TripTank	Comedy Central
April 9	The Tom and Jerry Show	Cartoon Network, Boomerang	2014–present
April 14	Clarence		2014–18
May 2	Space Racers	PBS Kids, Universal Kids	2014–present
May 23	Tumble Leaf	Amazon Video	2014–19
July 7	The 7D	Disney XD	2014–16
July 12	Astroblast!	Universal Kids	2014–15
August 18	Dora and Friends: Into the City!	Nick Jr.	2014–17
August 22	BoJack Horseman	Netflix	2014–20
September 21	Mr. Pickles	Adult Swim	2014–19
October 3	Star Wars Rebels	Disney XD	2014–18
October 13	Blaze and the Monster Machines	Nick Jr.	2014–present
October 27	Stone Quackers	FXX	2014–15
	Mike Tyson Mysteries	Adult Swim	2014–present
November 3	Over the Garden Wall	Cartoon Network	2014
November 8	Sonic Boom		2014–17
November 26	VeggieTales in the House	Netflix	2014–16
December 5	Penn Zero: Part-Time Hero	Disney XD	2014–17
December 19	All Hail King Julien	Netflix

Television series endings

Date	Title	Channel	Year	Notes
February 8	Monsters vs. Aliens	Nickelodeon	2013–14	Cancelled
March 31	Chozen	FX	2014
April 4	Fish Hooks	Disney Channel	2010–14	Ended
June 5	Dora the Explorer	Nickelodeon	2000-14
June 7	Sabrina: Secrets of a Teenage Witch	Hub Network	2013–14	Cancelled
June 23	The Boondocks	Adult Swim	2005–14	Ended
July 18	Total Drama	Cartoon Network	2008–14
July 20	Superjail!	Adult Swim	2007–14
August 2	DC Nation Shorts	Cartoon Network	2011–14
August 31	The Looney Tunes Show			Cancelled
September 28	Beware the Batman	Adult Swim	2013–14	Ended
October 12	Secret Millionaires Club	Hub Network	2011–14	Cancelled
October 22	NFL Rush Zone	Nicktoons	2010–14	Ended
November 7	Over the Garden Wall	Cartoon Network	2014
November 14	Ben 10: Omniverse		2012–14
November 18	Martha Speaks	PBS Kids	2008–14
December 19	The Legend of Korra	Nickelodeon	2012–14
December 25	Johnny Test	Cartoon Network	2005–14	Cancelled

Deaths

January

• January 16: Hal Sutherland, American painter, film director and animator (Walt Disney Company, co-founder of Filmation), dies at age 84.[13]
• January 19: Michael Sporn, American animator and animated film director (Doctor DeSoto, The Man Who Walked Between the Towers) and producer (Michael Sporn Animation), dies at age 67.[14]
• January 30: Arthur Rankin Jr., American animated film director and producer (Rankin/Bass), dies at age 89.[15]

February

• February 16: Jimmy T. Murakami, American animated film director and animator (Toei Animation, The Snowman, The Magic Pear Tree), dies at age 80.[16]

April

• April 6: Mickey Rooney, American actor (voice of Oswald the Lucky Rabbit in the mid-1930s, Santa Claus in the Rankin/Bass Productions Christmas specials, adult Tod in The Fox and the Hound, Mr. Cherrywood in The Care Bears Movie, Flip in Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland, played himself in The Simpsons episode Radioactive Man and the short producer in the American Dad! episode A Star is Reborn), dies at age 93.[17]

June

• June 26: Wolf Koenig, Canadian film director and animator (worked for Colin Low), dies at age 86.[18]

July

• July 6: Tô Hoài, Vietnamese writer, playwright, screenwriter, journalist and animator, passes away at age 93.[19]
• July 7: Dick Jones, American voice actor (voice of Pinocchio in Pinocchio), dies at age 87.[20]
• July 19: James Garner, American actor (voice of God in God, the Devil and Bob, Commander Rourke in Atlantis: The Lost Empire, Shazam in Superman/Shazam!: The Return of Black Adam), dies at age 86.[21]

August

• August 6: David Weidman, American animator and poster designer (UPA, Hanna-Barbera), dies at age 93.[22][23]
• August 11: Robin Williams, American actor, comedian and voice actor (voice of Genie in Aladdin and Ramón, Cletus, Lovelace and the narrator in Happy Feet), dies from suicide at age 63.[24]
• August 12: Lauren Bacall, American actress and voice actress (Evelyn in the Family Guy episode Mom's the Word), dies at age 89.[25]

October

• October 9: Jan Hooks, American actress and voice actress (voice of Manjula Nahasapeemapetilon in The Simpsons), dies at age 57 from throat cancer.[26][27][28]

November

• November 2: Larry Latham, American storyboard director, animator, animated film producer and animated film director (worked for Hanna-Barbera, Disney Television Animation as director of TaleSpin), dies at age 61 from cancer. [29]
• November 28: Brumsic Brandon Jr., American comics artist and animator (worked for RCA and J.R. Bray), dies at age 87.[30]

December

• December 11: Robert Taylor, American animator, producer, writer and film director (The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat), dies at age 69 or 70 from COPD.[31][32]
• December 13: Martha Sigall, American animator, inker and painter (Warner Bros. Animation), dies at age 97.[33]
• December 27: Gennady Sokolsky, Russian children's book illustrator, animator and animated film director (Happy Merry-Go-Round, Well, Just You Wait!, The Adventures of Lolo the Penguin), dies at age 77.[34]

See also

• 2014 in anime

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