2003 in animation
The year 2003 in animation involved some animation-related events.
Events
January
- January 5: The Simpsons episode Special Edna premieres, guest starring Little Richard.[1]
- January 21: Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment initially releases 101 Dalmatians II: Patch's London Adventure, directed by Jim Kammerud and Brian Smith.[2]
February
- February 2: The Simpsons reaches its 300th episode.[3]
- February 8: The first episode of the reboot of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is broadcast.[4]
- February 9: The first episode of Monkey Dust, a controversial TV series full of black comedy, airs.[5]
- February 16: The first episode of The Venture Bros. is broadcast.[6]
- February 20: Anime producer Yoshinobu Nishizaki is sentenced to two years and eight months in prison for the illegal possession of firearms, a case which happened in 1999.[7] He is released on 9 December 2007.
March
- March 5: The first episode of Odd Job Jack airs.[8]
- March 9: In The Simpsons episode Mr. Spritz Goes to Washington, Krusty the Clown becomes a Republican. It became controversial for satirizing Fox News's news ticker.[9]
- March 18: Charlotte's Web 2: Wilbur's Great Adventure is released, but was panned by critics by its animation and plot.[10]
- March 21: The Walt Disney Company releases Piglet's Big Movie, directed by Francis Glebas.[11]
- March 23: 75th Academy Awards:
- Spirited Away, directed by Hayao Miyazaki and produced by Studio Ghibli, wins the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature.[12] Miyazaki boycotts the event because of the U.S. involvement in the Iraq War and stays at home.[13]
- The ChubbChubbs!, directed by Eric Armstrong and produced by Sony Pictures Imageworks, wins the Academy Award for Best Animated Short.[12]
April
- April 7:
- The first episode of the stop-motion version of Miffy and Friends airs.
- The first episode of Moose and Zee airs.[14]
- April 12: The first episode of All Grown Up! airs,[15] before its regular run began on November 9, 2003.[16]
May
- May 7: Ray Harryhausen receives a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.[17]
- May 18: During the Cannes Film Festival Interstella 5555: The 5tory of the 5ecret 5tar 5ystem, a Japanese-French animated feature film directed by Daisuke Nishio, Hirotoshi Rissen, Kazuhisa Takenouchi and Leiji Matsumoto, set to a soundtrack by Daft Punk, is released.[18]
- May 30: The Walt Disney Company releases Finding Nemo, directed by Andrew Stanton.[19]
June
- June 10: Larryboy: The Cartoon Adventures releases its final episode
- June 11: Sylvain Chomet's The Triplettes of Belleville premiers.[20]
- June 13: The first episode of The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy is broadcast.[21]
- June 25: Philippe Leclerc's The Rain Children premiers.[22]
- June 26 – July 24: Ren & Stimpy "Adult Party Cartoon" airs. It's a comeback of John Kricfalusi's original 1991–1995 Ren & Stimpy series, but with a more mature and darker tone. Both producers, advertisers and viewers dislike it, causing it to be cancelled after only a few episodes.[23]
July
- July 2: Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas, the final traditionally animated DreamWorks film, premiers but becomes a flop.[24]
- July 11: The first episode of Spider-Man: The New Animated Series airs, but only lasts a season.[25]
- July 19: The first episode of Teen Titans airs.[26]
August
- August 1: The first episode of My Life as a Teenage Robot airs.[27]
- August 10: Futurama was abruptly cancelled after four seasons on Fox. The series was revived by Comedy Central in 2010.
September
- September 1: The first episode of Kid Paddle, an animated series based on the Belgian comics series of the same name, airs.[28]
- September 2: The first episode of Rubbadubbers airs.[29]
- September 3:
- The first episode of Chilly Beach is broadcast.[30]
- The first episode of Code Lyoko airs.
- September 7: The first episode of Jakers! The Adventures of Piggley Winks airs.[31][32]
- September 8: The first episode of Connie the Cow airs.[33]
- September 16: The first episode of Auld Ones airs.[34]
- September 28: The first episode of JoJo's Circus airs.[35]
October
- October 10: Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill: Volume 1 is released, which features an anime sequence, directed by Kazuto Nakazawa and produced by Production I.G.[36]
November
- November 1:
- The Walt Disney Company releases Brother Bear, directed by Aaron Blaise and Robert Walker.[37]
- The first episode of Xiaolin Showdown, Tutenstein airs.[38]
- November 2: The Simpsons episode Treehouse of Horror XIV premieres, guest starring Jerry Lewis.[39]
- November 7: The first episode of Star Wars: Clone Wars airs.[40]
- November 9: Joe Dante's Looney Tunes: Back in Action is released.[41]
- November 16: The Simpsons episode The President Wore Pearls premieres, guest starring Michael Moore.[42]
- November 23: The Simpsons episode The Regina Monologues premieres, where the family travels to The United Kingdom. It also guest stars J. K. Rowling, Ian McKellen and Prime Minister Tony Blair.[43]
- November 27: The first episode of Pororo the Little Penguin airs.[44]
December
- December 3: Jacques-Rémy Girerd's Prophétie des Grenouilles (Raining Cats and Frogs) premiers.[45]
- December 7: The Simpsons episode Today I Am a Clown premieres, guest starring Mr. T.[46]
- December 16: One Froggy Evening and Tin Toy are added to the National Film Registry.[47][48]
Specific date unknown
- The first episode of Pat & Mat airs.
- The first episode of The Secret World of Benjamin Bear airs.
Awards
- Academy Award for Best Animated Feature: Finding Nemo
- Animation Kobe Feature Film Award: Millennium Actress[49]
- Annecy International Animated Film Festival Cristal du long métrage: My Life as McDull
- Annie Award for Best Animated Feature: Finding Nemo
- Goya Award for Best Animated Film: El Cid: The Legend
- Japan Media Arts Festival Animation Award: Winter Days
- Mainichi Film Awards – Animation Grand Award: Tokyo Godfathers
Films released
Television series debuts
| Date | Title | Channel | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| January 6 | The Berenstain Bears (2003) | PBS Kids | 2003–04 |
| January 13 | Lupin the Third Part II | Adult Swim | 2003 |
| February 1 | .hack//Sign | Cartoon Network | |
| February 8 | Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2003) | Fox Box, The CW4Kids | 2003–10 |
| February 10 | Reign: The Conqueror | Adult Swim | 2003–04 |
| February 16 | The Venture Bros. | 2003–18 | |
| March 1 | Stuart Little: The Animated Series | HBO | 2003 |
| March 4 | Hey Monie! | BET | |
| March 11 | The Save-Ums! | Discovery Kids | 2003–06 |
| Strawberry Shortcake | Direct-to-Video | 2003-08 | |
| March 31 | Trigun | Adult Swim | 2003 |
| April 7 | Miffy and Friends | Noggin | 2003–07 |
| Moose and Zee | 2003–12 | ||
| April 12 | All Grown Up! | Nickelodeon | 2003–08 |
| May 17 | MegaMan NT Warrior | Kids' WB | 2003–05 |
| June 3 | Hey Joel | VH1 | 2003 |
| June 9 | Android Kikaider: The Animation | Adult Swim | |
| June 13 | The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy | Cartoon Network | 2003–08 |
| June 26 | Gary the Rat | The New TNN | 2003 |
| Ren & Stimpy "Adult Party Cartoon" | |||
| Stripperella | 2003–04 | ||
| June 30 | Cyborg 009 | Cartoon Network | 2003 |
| July 8 | Franny's Feet | PBS Kids | 2003–10 |
| July 11 | Evil Con Carne | Cartoon Network | 2003–04 |
| Free for All | Showtime | 2003 | |
| Spider-Man: The New Animated Series | MTV | ||
| July 19 | Teen Titans | Cartoon Network | 2003–06 |
| August 1 | My Life as a Teenage Robot | Nickelodeon | 2003–09 |
| August 4 | Blue Gender | Adult Swim | 2003–04 |
| August 5 | FLCL | 2003–18 | |
| August 23 | Funky Cops | Fox Box | 2003–04 |
| Duck Dodgers | Cartoon Network | 2003–05 | |
| August 30 | Shaman King | Fox Box | |
| September 1 | Clifford's Puppy Days | PBS Kids | 2003–06 |
| September 2 | Rubbadubbers | Nick Jr. | 2003–05 |
| September 7 | Jakers! The Adventures of Piggley Winks | PBS Kids | 2003–07 |
| September 8 | Connie the Cow | Nick Jr. | 2003–05 |
| September 20 | Lilo & Stitch: The Series | Disney Channel | 2003–06 |
| September 28 | JoJo's Circus | Playhouse Disney | 2003–07 |
| October 1 | The Koala Brothers | ||
| October 17 | VH1 ILL-ustrated | VH1 | 2003–04 |
| October 22 | Kid Notorious | Comedy Central | 2003 |
| November 1 | Kenny the Shark | Discovery Kids | 2003–05 |
| Tutenstein | 2003–08 | ||
| Xiaolin Showdown | Kids' WB | 2003–06 | |
| November 7 | Star Wars: Clone Wars | Cartoon Network | 2003–05 |
| November 14 | Dragon Ball GT | Cartoon Network, Nicktoons | 2003–12 |
Television series endings
| Date | Title | Channel | Year | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 16 | 3 South | MTV | 2002–03 | Cancelled |
| February 5 | The Legend of Tarzan | UPN | 2001–03 | Ended |
| February 25 | Clifford the Big Red Dog | PBS Kids | 2000–03 | |
| April 4 | Liberty's Kids | 2002–03 | Cancelled | |
| April 13 | Clone High | MTV | ||
| April 15 | Hey Monie! | BET | 2003 | |
| May 24 | Stuart Little: The Animated Series | HBO | ||
| June 17 | Hey Joel | VH1 | ||
| July 24 | Ren & Stimpy "Adult Party Cartoon" | TNN | ||
| August 10 | Futurama | Fox | 1999–03 | Cancelled, until revived by Comedy Central in 2010. |
| August 22 | Spider-Man: The New Animated Series | MTV | 2003 | Cancelled |
| September 12 | Free for All | Showtime | ||
| October 24 | Disney's House of Mouse | Toon Disney | 2001–03 | Ended |
| October 25 | X-Men: Evolution | Kids' WB | 2000–03 | |
| November 7 | Little Bear | Nick Jr. | 1995–03 | |
| November 9 | Family Guy | Fox | 1999–03; 2005–present | Cancelled, until revived in 2005. |
| November 14 | Whatever Happened to... Robot Jones? | Cartoon Network | 2002–03 | Cancelled |
| November 20 | Dexter's Laboratory | 1996–03 | Ended | |
| November 26 | Time Squad | 2001–03 | Cancelled | |
| December 12 | Transformers: Armada | 2002–03 | ||
| December 15 | Kaput and Zösky | Nicktoons Network | 2002-03 | |
| December 17 | Kid Notorious | Comedy Central | 2003 | |
| December 31 | The Brak Show | Adult Swim | 2000–03 |
Births
April
- April 19: Caleel Harris, American actor (voice of AJ in Blaze and the Monster Machines, Clyde McBride in The Loud House).
August
- August 18: Max Charles, American actor (voice of Sherman in Mr. Peabody & Sherman and The Mr. Peabody & Sherman Show, the title character in Harvey Beaks, Kion in The Lion Guard).
September
- September 3: Jack Dylan Grazer, American actor (voice of Alberto Scorfano in Luca, Barney Pudowski in Ron's Gone Wrong).
- September 25: Bella Ramsey, English actress (voice of the title character in Hilda).
Deaths
February
- February 24: Imogene Lynn, American singer (singing voice of Red in Tex Avery's cartoons), dies at age 80.[50][51]
March
- March 9: Stan Brakhage, American film director and animator (Mothlight), dies at age 70.[52]
- March 12:
- Branco Karabajic, Croatian comics artist and animator (worked on Veliki Mitting), dies at age 77.[53]
- Thomas Warkentin, American comics artist, comics writer and animator (Filmation, Warner Bros. Animation), dies at age 67.[54]
- March 28: Bob Matz, American animator (Warner Bros. Cartoons, DePatie-Freleng, Peanuts specials), dies at age 90.[55]
April
- April 15: Maurice Rapf, American screenwriter (Song of the South, So Dear to My Heart, Alice in Wonderland, Gnomes), dies at age 88,
- April 20: Johnny Douglas, English composer (Marvel Productions), dies at age 82.
- April 24: Gary Sperling, American television writer (Disney Television Animation), dies at age 45.
- April 30: Lionel Wilson, American voice actor (voiced all characters in Tom Terrific, Vincent van Gopher and Possible Possum in Deputy Dawg, Eustace Bagge in Courage the Cowardly Dog), dies at age 79.[56]
May
- May 14: Robert Stack, American actor (voice of Ultra Magnus in The Transformers: The Movie, ATF Fleming in Beavis and Butt-Head Do America, Bob the Narrator in Hercules, General in Recess, Reynolds Penland in King of the Hill, Superintendent in Recess: School's Out, Stoat Muldoon in Butt-Ugly Martians), dies at age 84.
June
- June 30: Buddy Hackett, American actor and comedian (voice of Pardon-Me-Pete in Jack Frost, Scuttle in The Little Mermaid), dies at age 78.[57]
July
- July 4: Barry White, American soul singer and voice actor (voice of Brother Bear in Coonskin, himself in The Simpsons episodes Whacking Day and Krusty Gets Kancelled) dies at age 58.[58]
- July 31: Guido Crepax, Italian comics artist and animator, dies at age 70.[59]
August
- August 9: Gregory Hines, American dancer, actor, choreographer and singer (voice of Big Bill in Little Bill), dies from liver cancer at age 57.[60]
- August 24: Robert C. Bruce, American voice actor (narrator of various Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies cartoons), dies at age 88.[61]
September
- September 6:
- Jules Engel, American sculptor, graphic artist, set designer, animator, film director (Walt Disney Animation Studios, Charles Mintz Studios, UPA) and founder of the Experimental Animation Program at CalArts), dies at age 94.[62]
- Harry Goz, American actor (voice of Mayor Huffenmeier in Buster & Chauncey's Silent Night, Captain Hazel "Hank" Murphy in Sealab 2021), dies from multiple myeloma at age 71.[63]
- September 8: Jaclyn Linetsky, Canadian actress (voice of the title character in Caillou, Meg in Mega Babies, second voice of Lori in What's with Andy?), dies from a car accident at age 17.
- September 11: John Ritter, American actor (voice of Inspector Gil in Fish Police, the title character in Clifford the Big Red Dog), dies at age 54.
- September 12: Johnny Cash, American country singer (voice of the Space Coyote in The Simpsons episode "El Viaje Misterioso de Nuestro Jomer"), dies at age 71.[64][65]
- September 29: Wesley Tuttle, American country music singer (did the yodeling in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs), dies at age 85.
- September 30: Edwin Gillette, American inventor, cameraman and animator (Cambria Studios, inventor of the Syncro-Vox technique), dies at age 94.[66]
October
- October 16: Carl Urbano, American animator and director (A Is for Atom, Hanna-Barbera), dies at age 92.
- October 26: Ted C. Bemiller, American animation checker, camera operator (Crusader Rabbit, Hanna-Barbera, The Beatles, MGM Animation/Visual Arts, Filmation, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, The Simpsons, Looney Tunes), cinematographer (Fritz the Cat) and production manager (Garfield and Friends), dies at age 79.[67]
November
- November 12: Penny Singleton, American actress (voice of Jane Jetson in The Jetsons), dies at age 95.
- November 30: Kin Platt, American caricaturist, radio writer, television writer, comics artist and animation writer (Walt Disney Animation, Hanna-Barbera, Terrytoons, Milton the Monster), dies at age 91.[68]
December
- December 17: Alan Tilvern, English actor (R.K. Maroon in Who Framed Roger Rabbit, voice of Innkeeper in The Lord of the Rings), dies at age 85.
- December 19: Les Tremayne, English actor (voice actor for Chuck Jones, voice of The Ghost of Christmas Present in Mr. Magoo's Christmas Carol), dies at age 90.
- December 22: Wah Chang, Chinese-American designer, sculptor, animator and animation producer (Pinocchio, Bambi), dies at age 86.[69]
- December 27: Pete Alvarado, American comics artist and animator (Walt Disney Company, Warner Bros. Cartoons, DePatie-Freleng, Republic Pictures, Hanna-Barbera, Ruby-Spears Productions, Filmation), dies at age 83.[70]
- Specific date in December unknown: Oliver Passingham, British comics artist and animator, dies at age 78.[71]
Specific date unknown
- Claude Smith, American animator (Walt Disney Company, MGM), dies at age 90.
See also
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- "Looney Tunes: Back in Action". November 14, 2003 – via IMDb.
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External links
- Animated works of the year, listed in the IMDb
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