The most egregious mistake of Oscar night was not the incorrect-envelope Best Picture catastrophe -- although that was pretty bad. Happily, the deserving film (“Moonlight”) won in that instance. No, ...

The winners of the César Awards, France’s national film award, were announced at a ceremony in Paris last night. Claude Barras’ My Life As A Zucchini won the César for best animated feature. The ...

EXCLUSIVE: Swiss filmmaker Claude Barras, best known for his 2016 Oscar-nominated feature My Life As a Zucchini, returns to Cannes this year with the animated stop-motion Savages. The film’s synopsis ...

The Swiss-French animated feature My Life as a Zucchini (Ma vie de courgette) has been recognized by the European Film Awards as the year’s best European animated feature. Here is a photo of director ...

Oscar-nominated Swiss animator Claude Barras (“My Life as a Zucchini”) will be honored by the Locarno Film Festival with its Locarno Kids Award given to personalities credited with infusing younger ...

Sallow faces and shadowed eyes on oversized heads, tragedy and pain made bloatedly manifest on little clay bodies: This Best Animated Feature Oscar nominee is not an easy film, but it is an instantly ...

Of this year’s Oscar-nominated animated features, only one can reasonably be described as enchanting and heavy. Yet “My Life as a Zucchini” deserves both accolades. It may not sound like it, but ...

Courgette (Zucchini) is an intriguing nickname for a 9-year-old boy. Although his unique story is surprisingly universal. After his mother's disappearance, Courgette is befriended by a police officer ...

Production company Gebeka International — a Hildegarde-Goodfellas company formed in 2021 — and production, financing and sales studio Anton are behind the project, which will be written by Barras and ...

My Life as a Zucchini arrives in town with a boost from the name recognition afforded by its recent Academy Award and Golden Globe nominations for Best Animated Feature. (Those of you who voted in ...