Annie Awards Give Love to Pixar (and "Judy" in The Revenant!)
Tuesday, December 1, 2015 at 12:41PM
NATHANIEL R in Annie Awards, Anomalisa, Bob's Burgers, Inside Out, Minions, Oscars (15), Pixar, TV, The Good Dinosaur, The Revenant, animated films

The Annie Awards, now in their 43rd year, seemed to have stabilized after their controversial laden years when people felt they were to beholden to Dreamworks Animation (am I remembering this correctly?) within their voting ranks. But their nominations often still feel quite random as in voice acting where Richard Kind was shut out for "bing bong" in Inside Out. Or Tom Noonan, who voices almost every character in Anomalisa, being ignored. Or their character design and visual effects nominations sometimes specifying individual scenes or categories and sometimes just labelled "all". And the varying number of nominations per category.

In short: their executive body really needs to sharpen up their rules so they feel more respectable / consistent.

But it was a good morning for Pixar since Inside Out and The Good Dinosaur dominated with 14 and 10 nods respectively. As for their competition for Oscar gold, good showings for Anomalisa, Shaun the Sheep and Peanuts with 5 nominations each. The low profile but reportedly excellent Brazilian feature Boy and the World received 3 nominations.

Even some live action films get honored by the Annies since most films get computer animated assists these days so... what's that? The Revenant was nominated? See more after the jump...

PRODUCTION CATEGORIES

Feature

Feature-Independent

The Annie Awards split this into two categories so they can honor the foreign stuff without dissing their bread and butter in America. Covenient! Consider these nine films the ones to watch in Oscar's animated feature race where there are 16 eligible features and 3 to 5 nomination slots depending on how voting goes.

Special Production

Short Subject

Four of their nominees in this category are on Oscar's 10 wide finalist list

Television/Broadcast Commercial

Television/Broadcast Production For Preschool Children

Television/Broadcast Production For Children

General Audience Television/Broadcast Production

Student Film

INDIVIDUAL ACHIEVEMENT CATEGORIES

Effects in an Animated Production

Animated Effects in a Live Action Production

Character Animation in an Animated Television/Broadcast Production

Character Animation in a Feature Production

Character Animation in a Live Action Production

The bear's name is "Judy" She's not a DiCaprio fan

Character Animation in a Video Game

Character Design in an Animated TV/Broadcast Production

Character Design in an Animated Feature Production

Directing in an Animated TV/Broadcast Production


We're always Team Archer here at TFE

Directing in an Animated Feature Production

Music in an Animated TV/Broadcast Production

Music in an Animated Feature Production

Production Design in an Animated TV/Broadcast Production

Production Design in an Animated Feature Production

Storyboarding in an Animated TV/Broadcast Production

Storyboarding in an Animated Feature Production

Voice Acting in an Animated TV/Broadcast Production


Voice Acting in an Animated Feature Production

Writing in an Animated TV/Broadcast Production

Writing in an Animated Feature Production

Editorial in an Animated TV/Broadcast Production

Editorial in an Animated Feature Production

 

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