H'wood Film Fest to laud 'Rango'

"Rango" will get the Hollywood Film Festival's animation award. Kudo, introduced Tuesday, will presented in the festival's honours ceremony on March. 24 in the Beverly Hilton Hotel. The Vital Pictures/Nickelodeon Movies feature was directed by Gore Verbinski and voiced by The Actor-brad Pitt, Isla Fisher, Abigail Breslin, Alfred Molina, Bill Nighy, Harry Dean Stanton, Ray Winstone and Timothy Olyphant. Past readers from the fest's animation award include "Cars," "Ratatouille," "Toy Story 3," "Up," and "Wall-E." Contact Dork McNary at dork.mcnary@variety.com