Alternative Film Guide

John Lasseter’s animated film Cars, set in the back roads of the United States, and Flushed Away, the story of an upscale rat who gets flushed down into the sewers of London, received the most nominations — nine in all — for the International Animated Film Society’s Annie Awards, announced Monday, Dec. 4.

Cars received a Best Animated Feature nod, though Flushed Away was strangely absent from that category, in spite of nominations for Directing in an Animated Feature Production (David Bowers & Sam Fell) and Writing in an Animated Feature Production (Will Davies).

George Miller’s Australia-U.S. co-production and fall box-office hit Happy Feet, about a genetically impaired penguin that tap dances, received two nods: Best Animated Feature and Writing in an Animated Feature Production (director Miller, John Collee, Judy Morris, and Warren Coleman).

This year, DreamWorks Animation SKG Inc. garnered the most nominations — 17 nods for two features: Flushed Away, a co-production with the British-based Aardman Animation, and Over the Hedge, an animated version of a popular comic strip.

The winner of the Annie Awards has also won the Academy Award for Best Animated Film every year since the Academy instituted the yearly award in 2001.

The winners of the 34th Annnie Awards will be announced at the Alex Theatre in Glendale on Feb. 11, 2007.

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