Amazing Kids! and Perry's Previews Announce First-Ever "Amazing Kids!' Perrific Oscar Picks! Contest": Young Entrants to Predict Best Animated Feature of 2010
Contestants are asked to name which of the top 3 Oscar®-nominated feature animation films, How to Train Your Dragon, Toy Story 3, and The Illusionist, they predict will win at the Academy Awards ceremony on February 27, 2011.
- (1888PressRelease) January 27, 2011 - Amazing Kids! ® (amazing-kids.org) and Perry's Previews (perryspreviews.com) announced today that entries are now being accepted for their first-ever "Amazing Kids!' Perrific Oscar® Picks!" Contest. Amazing Kids! and Perry's Previews are challenging kids and teens worldwide, ages 6-17, to predict the Oscar® winner for Best Animated Feature of 2010 for the upcoming 83rd Academy Awards® and make their voice heard. Contestants are asked to name which of the top 3 Oscar®-nominated feature animation films, How to Train Your Dragon, Toy Story 3, and The Illusionist, they predict will win at the Academy Awards ceremony on February 27, 2011. Contestants have the option of submitting the reason for their pick in 50 words or less on the contest site.
Prizes will include DVDs of the best animated feature film of 2010 Oscar® nominees and winner, and will be awarded to contest winners in a random drawing from those entries which correctly predict the Oscar winner. In addition, one grand prize winning "Best Essay" entry will receive copies of all three DVDs. The winners' names will be featured on the Amazing Kids! website, amazing-kids.org with a following of nearly 1 million yearly visitors, and in the Amazing Kids! Magazine (mag.amazing-kids.org), as well as on Perry's Previews (Perryspreviews.com). The winners will also be announced in the contest's media sponsor, Kid Scoop, a syndicated weekly kids' educational activities column appearing in over 300 newspapers across the U.S. (kidscoop.com/).
The "Amazing Kids!' Perrific Oscar® Picks!"contest is one of several movie-related contests planned by Amazing Kids! and Perry's Previews in the coming months, including an upcoming kids' movie review writing contest for kids which will be judged by Perry Chen, Amazing Kids! resident film critic, along with some of today's most prominent adult critics.
The deadline to submit entries for the "Amazing Kids!' Perrific Oscar® Picks!" is February 26, 2011, one day prior to the 83rd Academy Awards. More information and contest rules can be found on the main "Contests" page on the Amazing Kids! website: http://amazing-kids.org/contests.
About Amazing Kids! ®
Founded in 1998 by Amazing Kids! President Alyse Rome, Amazing Kids! (http://amazing-kids.org) is a children's educational non-profit organization and award-winning website dedicated to inspiring excellence in children, while helping them to realize their amazing potential and launch their dreams. A recent recipient of the American Library Association's Top 24 "Great Websites for Kids" for 2010, the Amazing Kids! website supports kids' achievement, creativity, critical thinking, and literacy through hosting ongoing creative contests and publishing the award-winning, kid-created Amazing Kids! Online Magazine. For the past 13 years, Amazing Kids!' Contests, http://amazing-kids.org/contests, have become widely-known and respected as one of the best online resources for kids contests (and appear in the top 2 listings for "kids contests" in Google rankings). Amazing Kids!' Contests continue to receive the support of a "Who's Who" of highly respected national and international corporations who act as contest sponsors. Past Amazing Kids! Contest sponsors have included such well-respected companies like DreamWorks Animation, Nintendo America, Carnival Cruises, Kentucky Fried Chicken, Random House and Ty, Inc.
About Perry's Previews (perryspreviews.com) and Perry Chen
Perry's Previews (perryspreviews.com) is an online resource for kids, teens, parents, educators, and movie lovers of all ages to read and comment on family-friendly movie reviews from a kid's perspective. To date, over 50 reviews are listed on a multi-media platform, including TV, radio, print, and web. In addition, Perry's Previews features Perry's art and animation videos. Reader participation is encouraged through and via Perry's website, Facebook fan page
(http://www.Facebook.com/PerrysPreviewsFan) and Perry's twitter feed ( @ ) PerrysPreviews dot
About Perry Chen - Gifted with a keen eye from a young age, Perry began writing movie reviews for his website "Perry's Previews" at age 8. Characterized by his starfish rating system, his "Perrific™" favorite movies, and his family-friendly movie choices, Perry is often regarded as one of the great up-and-coming movie critics. The youngest honoree at the recent San Diego Press Club Excellence in Journalism Awards, Perry also serves as the resident movie critic for the Amazing Kids! Magazine (mag.amazing-kids.org), film critic and blogger on Animation World Network, a leading professional animation industry publication; a movie panelist for the San Diego Union Tribune with over a million weekly readers; and the San Diego Entertainer Magazine's youngest columnist and entertainment critic.
Perry has been featured in numerous publications and television interviews, including a recent (October 22, 2010) article in Variety, which spotlighted the top 3 up-and-coming young movie reviewers; and The Young Icons, a nationally-syndicated TV show. In May 2009, Perry made his national television debut on CBS Evening News with Katie Couric, and in March 2010, he appeared in his first national radio interview on National Public Radio (NPR) with host Liane Hansen. Perry's hobbies outside of film reviews include drawing, reading, folding origami, exploring nature, and gardening. Perry is represented by Rebel Entertainment Partners, a talent agency in Hollywood.
ACADEMY AWARD(S)® and OSCAR(S)® are the registered trademarks and service marks of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Amazing Kids! ® is the registered trademark of the Amazing Kids! corporation. Perry's Previews is the trademark of Perry's Previews. All rights reserved.
Contact Information:
Alexandra Bishop, Amazing Kids! Publicity
Email: alexb ( @ ) amazing-kids dot org; Phone: 206-331-3807;
Amazing-Kids.org
Zhu Shen, Ph.D, MBA, CEO,
Email: perryspreviews ( @ ) gmail dot com
Phone: 858-761-7955; Perryspreviews.com
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