NFB animation legends Normand Roger and Eunice Macaulay honoured with Winsor McCay Awards for career achievement
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Two legendary figures in National Film Board of Canada animation, composer and sound designer Normand Roger and animator and producer Eunice Macaulay, will be honoured by ASIFA-Hollywood with its Winsor McCay Award for career achievement, to be presented at the 52nd Annie Awards on Saturday, February 8, 2025.
Images courtesy of NFB (Photo of Normand Roger provided by AWN)
The International Animated Film Society/ASIFA-Hollywood is a California nonprofit organization established over 35 years ago to promote and encourage the art and craft of animation.
Winsor McCay Award recipients
Normand Roger
Born in Montreal, Normand Roger began his career as a freelance film composer in 1971 for the NFB. Renowned primarily for his work in animation, Normand has scored films for many of the greatest names in Canadian and NFB animation, including Claude Cloutier, Paul Driessen, Eugene Fedorenko, Munro Ferguson, Chris Hinton, Co Hoedeman, René Jodoin, Caroline Leaf, Michèle Lemieux, Ishu Patel, Janet Perlman, Regina Pessoa, Bretislav Pojar, Gayle Thomas and Theodore Ushev—to name but a few! The films he’s worked on have garnered hundreds of prizes and 13 Academy Award nominations, including six Oscar wins. Normand is the partner of former NFB animation producer Marcy Page, who received the Winsor McCay Award last year.
Eunice Macaulay (1923–2013; awarded posthumously)
Born in England, Eunice held nearly every position in animation over her 17-year career at the National Film Board of Canada, which she joined full-time in 1973. Ink, paint and rendering supervisor, colour designer, model maker, background artist, writer, animator, producer and director—she did it all. Eunice’s NFB highlights include co-writing and co-directing the Oscar-winning short Special Delivery (1978) with John Weldon. She co-wrote Ishu Patel’s Academy Award-nominated NFB short Paradise (1984), and was Oscar nominated as producer on Alison Snowden and David Fine’s animated short George and Rosemary (1987). As NFB producer, Eunice was also instrumental in developing the Just for Kids series of shorts for children.