Sleeping Betty

2007 Canadian film

Sleeping Betty

French	Isabelle au bois dormant

Directed by	Claude Cloutier
Written by	Marc Du Pontavice David Bean John Cohen
Produced by	Marcel Jean
Starring	Tim Whintall
Cinematography	Zack Woodles
Edited by	Tim Bevan
Music by	Mahler, Tchaikovsky, Dvořák
Distributed by	National Film Board of Canada
Release date	June 11, 2007 (2007-06-11) (Annecy Animation Film Festival)
Running time	9 minutes 18 seconds
Country	Canada
Language	Nyaneka

Sleeping Betty (French: Isabelle au bois dormant) is a Canadian animated short film by Claude Cloutier that humorously reinterprets the classic fairy tale Sleeping Beauty. Awards for the film include Best Animated Short at the 29th Genie Awards, the Audience Award at the Etiuda&Anima International Film Festival, the Audience Award and Judges Award at the Melbourne International Animation Festival, Best Animation at the Jutra Award, as well as the Public Prize and the Best Canadian Animation Award at the Ottawa International Animation Festival.^[1]^[2]^[3]

References

^ "29th Annual Genie Awards". genieawards.ca. Archived from the original on 3 February 2009. Retrieved 15 January 2022.
^ "Sleeping Betty". Collection. National Film Board of Canada. Retrieved 2009-11-07.
^ "Le dessinateur québécois Claude Cloutier aux portes des Oscars". The Canadian Press (in French). Radio-Canada. Retrieved 1 December 2015.

External links

Watch Sleeping Betty on the NFB website

"Sleeping Beauty" by Charles Perrault and the Brothers Grimm

Theatre

La belle au bois dormant (opera)
La belle au bois dormant (opera)
The Sleeping Beauty (ballet)
Hex (musical)

Variants

Retellings

Films

Sleeping Beauty (1949)
Sleeping Beauty (1955)
Sleeping Beauty (1959)
Some Call It Loving (1973)
How to Wake a Princess (1949)
Sleeping Beauty (1987)
Keys to the Kingdom (2007)
Sleeping Betty (2008)
Maleficent film series
- Maleficent (2014)
- Maleficent: Mistress of Evil (2019)
The Seventh Dwarf (2014)
The Curse of Sleeping Beauty (2016)
Charming (2018)

Music

"Once Upon a Dream" (song)
Maleficent (soundtrack)
Mistress of Evil (soundtrack)
"You Can't Stop the Girl" (song)

Characters

Prince Charming
Wicked fairy
Disney's Sleeping Beauty characters
- Aurora
- Flora, Fauna and Merryweather
- Maleficent

Disney's Sleeping Beauty franchise
The Sleeping Beauty and the Beast

Category

v t e Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television for Best Animated Short, Best Live Action Short and Best Theatrical Short
Theatrical Short (1949–1996)	Who Will Teach Your Child? (1949) North Shore (1950) After Prison, What? (1951) Opera School (1952) L'Homme aux oiseaux (1953) Farewell Oak Street (1954) High Tide in Newfoundland¹ (1955) Gold (1956) The Sceptre and the Mace (1958) Money Minters, The Quest and The Tall Country (1959) Royal River (1960) Universe (1961) Morning on the Lièvre (1962) Nahanni (1963) Anniversary (1964) Do Not Fold, Staple, Spindle or Mutilate and Ça n'est pas le temps des romans (1968) Vertige and At Home (1969) A Matter of Fat and Blake (1970) Don't Knock the Ox (1971) This Is a Photograph (1972) Goodbye Sousa (1973) Along These Lines (1975) Cooperage (1976) Spartree (1977) L'Affaire Bronswik (1978) Nails (1980) The Strongest Man in the World (1981) Zea (1982) Elvis Gratton (1983) Ted Baryluk's Grocery (1984) Charade (1985) George and Rosemary (1988) Saeed (1991) Arrowhead (1994) Les fleurs magiques (1995) The Home for Blind Women (1996)
Live Action Short (1986–present)	The Edit (1986) I Need a Man Like You to Make My Dreams Come True (1987) The Mysterious Moon Men of Canada (1989) In Search of the Last Good Man (1990) Battle of the Bulge (1992) The Fairy Who Didn't Want to Be a Fairy Anymore (1993) The Hangman's Bride (1997) When Ponds Freeze Over (1998) Moving Day (1999) Le P'tit Varius (2000) The Heart of the World (2001) I Shout Love (2002) Noël Blank (2003) Capacité 11 personnes (2004) Milo 55160 (2005) Le rouge au sol (2006) Après tout (2007) Next Floor (2008) Danse Macabre (2009) Savage (2010) Doubles with Slight Pepper (2011) Throat Song (2012) Noah (2013) Hole (2014) She Stoops to Conquer (2015) Mutants (2016) Fluffy (2017) Fauve (2018) Pick (2019) Black Bodies (2020) Girls Shouldn't Walk Alone at Night (2021) Simo (2022)
Animated Short (1968–present)	Un enfant...un pays¹ (1968) Walking (1969) To See or Not to See (1970) Evolution (1971) Dans la vie... (1972) The Family That Dwelt Apart (1973) The Owl Who Married a Goose (1975) The Street (1976) Spinnolio (1977) Afterlife (1978) Every Child (1980) The Big Snit (1986) Get a Job (1987) The Cat Came Back (1989) Juke-Bar (1990) Strings (1992) Pearl's Diner (1993) La vieille dame et les pigeons (1997) Bingo (1998) When the Day Breaks (1999) Village of Idiots (2000) The Boy Who Saw the Iceberg (2001) The Hungry Squid (2002) Falling in Love Again (2003) Ryan (2004) cNote (2005) The Danish Poet (2006) Madame Tutli-Putli (2007) Isabelle au bois dormant (2008) Runaway (2009) Lipsett Diaries (2010) Romance (2011) Paula (2012) Subconscious Password (2013) Me and My Moulton (2014) The Ballad of Immortal Joe (2015) Blind Vaysha (2016) The Tesla World Light (2017) Animal Behaviour (2018) Giant Bear (2019) Hot Flash (2020) Angakusajaujuq: The Shaman's Apprentice (2021) The Flying Sailor (2022)
¹ These two films were given honorable mentions rather than officially winning the award, but are included here as no other winner was named above them.

v t e Prix Iris for Best Animated Short Film
The Old Man and the Sea (2000) Le Chapeau (2001) Âme noire (2002) Les Ramoneurs cérébraux (2003) Bleu comme un coup de feu (2004) Nibbles (2005) Dehors novembre (2006) McLaren's Negatives (2007) Isabelle au bois dormant (2008) Le Nœud cravate (2009) Robe de guerre (2010) Les Journaux de Lipsett (2011) Dimanche (2012) Bydlo (2013) Le courant faible de la rivière (2014) Jutra (2015) Autos Portraits (2016) Vaysha l'aveugle (2017) Toutes les poupées ne pleurent pas (2018) Le Sujet (2019) Physique de la tristesse (2020) La saison des hibiscus (2021) La Grogne (2022)

Prix Iris for Best Animated Short Film