Katherine Sarafian Wins Golden Globe for ‘Brave’

Los Angeles -Katherine Sarafian, producer of the animated feature film, Brave, took home a Golden Globe award Sunday night January 13, 2013 when her film won for Best Animated Feature Film.

This is a good omen for Sarafian and her film, since Brave is nominated for both an Annie Award and an Academy Award, both will be announced next month at their respective award ceremonies. The Annie Awards will be handed out on February 2 while the Academy Awards will take place on February 24. Sarafian and Brave director Mark Andrews, who accepted the award, took the stage during Sunday’s ceremony at the Beverly Hilton Hotel.

Brave, which was a critical and box office success last summer, was produced by Pixar

Animation Studios and distributed by Walt Disney Pictures.

Brave competed for the Golden Globe alongside Frankenweenie, Hotel Transylvania, Rise of the Guardians and Wreck-It Ralph.

Biography: Katherine Sarafian is a producer at Pixar Animation Studios. She started at Pixar as an artist but was shifted from the art department to marketing during the making of A Bug's Life by Pixar head Steve Jobs. She then became a producer within Pixar. Safarian produced Pixar's 2006 short film Lifted and its 2012 theatrical release Brave, for which she was nominated for the Producer's Guild Award for Outstanding Producer of an Animated Theatrical Motion Picture.

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