JENNIFER WOLFE

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Backstage at the 89th Academy Awards | ANIMATIONWorld

  • By Jennifer Wolfe
  • February 27th, 2017
‘Moana’ voice talent and singer Auli’l Cravalho mugs it up with “How Far I’ll Go” composer Lin-Manuel Miranda backstage during the 89th Oscars.

ANIMATIONWorld — February 2017
Backstage at the 89th Academy Awards

Outside of a tiny, barely noticeable snafu surrounding the winner of the award for best picture, the 89th Academy Awards on Sunday night went off pretty much as expected.

Host Jimmy Kimmel continued his “feud” with BFF Matt Damon, trolled President Trump on Twitter, and mocked several difficult-to-pronounce foreign-sounding names. Meryl Streep cemented her position as America’s leading actress. The audience got free candy parachuted from the ceiling. And Walt Disney Animation Studios won the Oscar — for the ninth time in the past 10 years — for best animated feature for Zootopia.

Backstage, the mood was hectic and celebratory as the filmmakers and talent behind some of the biggest movies of 2016 headed into the press room to pose with their awards.

Marking the first Academy Award for Piper director Alan Barillaro and producer Marc Sondheimer, the pair were all smiles in the press room after accepting the award for best animated short film on stage, where they thanked the entire Pixar team, including John Lasseter and Ed Catmull. (Read full story…)

Jennifer Wolfe

A Los Angeles-based content producer and strategist with 15+ years of experience in Media & Entertainment, I bring a broad-scope knowledge of M&E business and technologies spanning visual storytelling, creative post production, and digital content creation and delivery. Fluent across digital publishing platforms, including development and back-end management, I am highly skilled at translating technical workflows into narratives that showcase product features and capabilities.