Pete Docter's Up was the best picture winner and Docter was the best director at the Annie Awards ceremony held Saturday evening at UCLA's Royce Hall in Los Angeles. The favorite movie did win the top two prizes — but that was it. With three awards each, Coraline and The Princess and the Frog were the evening's top animated feature winners.
But at least Up's best picture victory avoided a repeat of last year's outrage following the Kung Fu Panda sweep when WALL-E was the odds-on favorite. Up is the favorite to win this year's Best Animated Feature Academy Award. It's also the second ever animated feature to be nominated for a Best Picture Academy Award. Beauty and the Beast was the first, eighteen years ago.
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