Annie Awards 2009
2009 Annie Awards
2009 International Animated Film Society’s Annie Award nominations: December 1, 2008
2009 Annie Award winners: January 30, 2009
("*" denotes the winner in each category)
Kung Fu Panda was the surprising — shocking? — big winner at the 2009 Annie Awards. The animated feature won 10 Annies — in every single feature category — including best animated feature, best direction (John Stevenson and Mark Osborne), best screenplay (Jon Aibel and Glenn Berger), and best voice acting (Dustin Hoffman). Odds-on favorite WALL-E failed to win a single award. It should be noted that since 2001, when the Academy instituted the best animated feature category, only once has the Annie winner failed to nab the Academy Award. (Cars won the Annie; Happy Feet [...]
by Deborah Arthur | January 30, 2009
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Tags: $9.99, Animation, Annie Awards, Bolt, Film Awards, International Animated Film Society, Kung Fu Panda, WALL-E, Waltz with Bashir
Annie Awards 2007
2007 Annie Awards
2007 International Animated Film Society’s Annie Award nominations: December 4, 2006
2007 Annie Award winners: Alex Theatre in Glendale on February 11, 2007
("*" denotes the winner in each category)
Pixar’s Cars, directed by John Lasseter and Joe Ranft, won the 2007 Annie Award for best animated feature film at the 34th International Animated Film Society Awards. Additionally, Cars won the Annie for best music in an animated feature for Randy Newman’s score. Flushed Away, however, turned out to be the evening’s top winner. The DreamWorks Animation/Aardman Animations feature about life in the London sewers, won a total of five Annies including best animated effects and best "voice acting" for Ian McKellen, who plays the character Toad. Curiously, Flushed Away was [...]
by Andre Soares | February 11, 2007
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Tags: Animation, Annie Awards, Bambi II, Cars, Film Awards, Flushed Away, International Animated Film Society, Joe Ranft, John Lasseter, Karey Kirkpatrick, Over the Hedge, Tim Johnson
2007 Annie Awards: Nominations
John Lasseter and Joe Ranft’s Cars (above, top photo), set in the back roads of the United States, and Flushed Away (above, lower photo), 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 2007 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 directors David Bowers and Sam Fell, and for screenwriter Will Davies.
George Miller’s Australia-U.S. co-production and box-office hit Happy Feet, about a genetically impaired penguin that tap dances, received two nods: best animated feature and writing in an [...]
by Andre Soares | December 6, 2006
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Tags: Animation, Annie Awards, Cars, David Bowers, Film Awards, Flushed Away, George Miller, Happy Feet, Joe Ranft, John Lasseter
Annie Awards 2006
2006 Annie Awards
2006 International Animated Film Society’s Annie Award winners: February 4, 2006
("*" denotes the winner in each category)
In Nick Park and Steve Box’s Wallace & Gromit – The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, Wallace and his dog Gromit investigate the mystery behind acts of sabotage that threaten their village’s annual giant vegetable-growing competition.
PRODUCTION CATEGORIES
Best Animated Feature
Chicken Little — Walt Disney Feature Animation
Corpse Bride — Warner Bros. Presents A Tim Burton/Laika Entertainment Production
Hauru no ugoku shiro / Howl’s Moving Castle — Walt Disney Studios/Studio Ghibli
Madagascar – DreamWorks Animation
* Wallace & Gromit – The Curse of the Were-Rabbit – DreamWorks Animation/Aardman Animations Ltd
Best Home Entertainment Production
Bionicle 3: Web of Shadows – Creative Capers Entertainment, Inc.
Kronk’ s New Groove — DisneyToon [...]
by Andre Soares | February 4, 2006
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Tags: Animation, Annie Awards, Film Awards, Nick Park, Peter Sallis, Steve Box, Wallace and Gromit in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
