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Jules Engel Awards
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Engel has received First Prizes at the Venice, Edinburgh, Mannheim, Atlanta, Charleston, Black Maria, and Oberhausen Film Festivals for his films. He received an Oscar nomination for the Ray Bradbury scripted animation, Icarus Montgolfier Wright, and the French Oscar, the Jean Vigo Award for Coaraze, a black-and-white experimental live-action film. Ingmar Bergman exhibited the short film in Paris to open a premier of one of his feature films in 1965. Engel has received five Golden Eagle Awards from the United States; an AFI, Rockefeller, Ford Foundation, and Andrew Mellow Grant; an Artist Residency for the State of Utah; Tamarind Institute and Gemini Gel Grants for printmaking; Lifetime Achievement Awards from ASIFA Hollywood, the Cardiff International Film Festival in Wales, and the Norman McLaren Heritage Award from the National Film Board of Canada.
Engel’s art works are in the permanent collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the National Gallery of the Smithsonian Institution, the Hirshorn Museum in Washington, D.C., the David Rockefeller Collection in New York, and notable private collections throughout the United States and the world. In addition to his duties as Chair of the Experimental Animation Department at Cal Arts, Engel was a world-wide guest lecturer on his films, UPA, and Cal Arts experimental animation. Engel also served on the Executive Committee for the Short Branch of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. |
| Text copyright Janeann Dill, co-funded by The Foundation for Creativity and The iotaCenter | |