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Former Disney Exec Calls Pixar-Boycotted Annies 'Sad'

3:04 PM PST 2/6/2011 by Carolyn Giardina

"I understand there's lot of issues, and the Animated Film Society needs to work on that," Peter Schneider tells THR.

"The animation community has been a tight community. Now that animation is starting to have great success in the commercial world, in Hollywood, to see it in fracture in terms of people's support, it makes me sad," Peter Schneider, former president of Disney Feature Animation and Walt Disney Studios, told The Hollywood Reporter at Saturday's Annie Awards, which saw DreamWorks Animation's How to Train Your Dragon sweep the animated feature categories in the midst of a Disney boycott over judging procedures.

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