Annie Awards Articles

Dean DeBlois and Chris Sanders‘ How to Train Your Dragon The Annie Awards-DreamWorks marriage has become unofficially official: The DreamWorks/Paramount animated feature How to Train Your Dragon swept the 2011 Annie Awards, winning 10 trophies, including the Best Animated Film award handed out by Guillermo del Toro. In August last year, Disney and Pixar withdrew from the International Animated Film Association, which selects the Annie [...]

HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON – *Not* TOY STORY 3 – Dominates Annie Awards 2011 Nominations DreamWorks’ How to Train Your Dragon (above) topped the 2010 Annie Award nominations with 15 nods, including Best Animated Feature. Two other DreamWorks’ animated features also fared well with Annie voters: Megamind with six nominations and Shrek Forever After with five. Disney/Pixar followed with three nominations for Toy Story [...]

DreamWorks Animation’s How to Train Your Dragon — instead of Disney/Pixar’s Toy Story 3 (above) — topped the International Animated Film Society’s 2011 Annie Award nominations. [Full list of Annie Awards 2011 nominees.] Directed by Chris Sanders and Dean DeBlois, How to Train Your Dragon received a total of 15 nods, including Best Animated Feature. In that category, it’ll be competing against Toy Story 3 [...]

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 [...]