The nominees for the 45th Annual Annie Awards have been announced by the International Animated Film Society and Pixar’s Coco leads the list with 13, including Best Animated Feature Film, Music in an Animated Feature Production, and Directing in an Animated Feature Production. Cartoon Saloon’s The Breadwinner followed with 10 nominations including Best Animated Feature-Independent, a category that spotlights the work of smaller distributors.
Winners of the 2018 Annie Awards will be announced during a ceremony on Saturday, February 3, 2018 at UCLA’s Royce Hall.
“The Annies continue to grow in the number of submissions again this year, pointing out animation’s diversity in both style and storytelling, not only from our local community, but from the industry world-wide,” stated ASIFA’s Executive Director Frank Gladstone. “That the Annies are now an established and important part of the ‘Award Season’ is enormously gratifying for all of us who tell our stories frame by frame.”
“No doubt about it, our nominees represent the best work in the field,” said ASIFA-Hollywood President Jerry Beck. “I am particularly proud of the diversity of voices, techniques and artistic styles displayed in the feature films, television programming, independent shorts, commercials and gaming we screened this year. The animation community embodies the finest qualities of the creative arts – and our Annie nominees this year certainly bare that out.”
ASIFA Hollywood will also be recognizing achievements and contributions to the world of animation with special Juried Awards. The 2018 recipients include British character animator, James Baxter; SpongeBob SquarePants creator, Stephen Hillenburg; and the Canadian animation duo, Wendy Tilby & Amanda Forbis, for their career contributions to the art of animation. Animation historian Didier Ghez will receive the June Foray Award for “his significant and benevolent or charitable impact on the art and industry of animation.”
Annie Awards Nominees:
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Best Animated Feature
“Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie” – DreamWorks Animation
“Cars 3″ – Pixar Animation Studios
“Coco” – Pixar Animation Studios
“Despicable Me 3″ – Illumination
“The Boss Baby” – DreamWorks Animation
Best Animated Feature-Independent
“In This Corner of the World” – Taro Maki, GENCO, Inc. and Masao Maruyama, MAPPA Co., Ltd
“Loving Vincent” – BreakThru Films, Production Company Trademark Films, Co-Production Company
“Napping Princess” – Nippon TV
“The Big Bad Fox & Other Tales” – Folivari/Panique!/Studiocanal
“The Breadwinner” – Cartoon Saloon/Aircraft Pictures/Melusine Productions
Best Animated Special Production
Imaginary Friend Society “Feeling Sad”
“Olaf’s Frozen Adventure”
“Pig: The Dam Keeper Poems”
“Revolting Rhymes”
“Tangled Before Ever After”
Best Animated Short Subject
“Dear Basketball”
“Hedgehog’s Home”
“Negative Space”
“Scavengers”
“Son of Jaguar”
Best Animated Television/Broadcast Commercial
“Biscotti. Una storia buona”
“June”
“League of Legends ‘Legends Never Die’”
“Please the Cheese”
“Sainsbury’s ‘The Greatest Gift’”
Best Animated Television/Broadcast Production For Preschool Children
“Mickey and the Roadster Racers” / Episode: Goofy Gas!
“Octonauts” / Episode: Operation Deep Freeze
“Peg + Cat, The Mariachi Problem” / Episode: 220B, The Mariachi Problem
“The Stinky & Dirty Show” / Episode: HaHaHigher / The Waiting Game
“Through the Woods” / Episode: A Snowy Morning
Best Animated Television/Broadcast Production For Children
“Buddy Thunderstruck” / Episode: To Protect and Swerve / Robo Truck of the Future
“Lost in Oz” / Episode: The Pearl of Pingaree
“Niko and the Sword of Light” / Episode: From the Cliffs of Catastrophe to the Pools of Destiny
“Tangled: The Series” / Episode: Queen for a Day
“We Bare Bears” / Episode: Panda’s Art
Best General Audience Animated Television/Broadcast Production
“Big Mouth” / Episode: Am I Gay?
“BoJack Horseman” / Episode: Stupid Piece of Sh*t
“Rick and Morty” / Episode: 303 -“Pickle Rick”
“Robot Chicken” / Episode: Freshly Baked: The Robot Chicken Santa Claus Pot Cookie Freakout Special: Special Edition
“Samurai Jack” / Episode: XCIII
Best Student Film
“Cradle” – Devon Manney
“Elsewhere” – Junyi Xiao
“Good Night, Everybuds!” – Director: Benedikt Hummel, Sound Design & Mix: Lena Beck, Music: Andreas Pfeiffer, Producer: Stefan Michel
“Once a hero” – Xia Li
“Poles Apart” – Director: Paloma Baeza; Producer: Ser En Low, All Student Crew
Animated Effects in an Animated Production
“Avatar Flight of Passage”
“Cars 3”
“Coco”
“Despicable Me 3”
“Olaf’s Frozen Adventure”
Character Animation in an Animated Television / Broadcast Production
“DreamWorks Trolls Holiday” – Character Animator: Kevan Shorey (Character: All Characters)
“DreamWorks Trolls Holiday” – Lead Animator: Ben Willis (Character: All Characters)
“DreamWorks Trolls Holiday” – Character Animator: Onur Yeldan (Character: All Characters)
“Trollhunters” / Episode: 205 – “Homecoming” – Character Animator: Bruno Chiou; Yi-Fan Cho (Character: Blinky, Dictatious, Aaarrrgghh!!); Lead Animator: Kevin Jong; Chun-Jung Chu (Character: Blinky, Dictatious, Aaarrrgghh!!)
“Tumble Leaf” / Episode: Rutabagels / Okra-Ball – Character Animator: Michael Granberry (Character: Maple, Fig, Stick and Okra); Joe Heinen (Character: Fig, Gourd, Coco, Maple, Pine, Zucchini, Okra, Grubs, Chicks and Beetle Bus); Rachel Larsen (Character: Coco, Pine, Maple, Fig, Stick and Okra); Hilary Lile (Character: Maple, Fig and Okra); Dan MacKenzie (Character: Pine, Fig, Gourd, Rutabaga, Beetles, Coco, Okra and Maple)
Character Animation in an Animated Feature Production
“Coco” – Animator: John Chun Chiu Lee (Character: All characters)
“Coco” – Animator: Allison Rutland (Character: All characters)
“The Big Bad Fox & Other Tales” – Animator: Marco Nguyen (Character: all characters in scene); Directing Animator: Benjamin Renner (Character: all characters in scene); Supervising Animator: Patrick Imbert (Character: all characters in scene)
“The Boss Baby” – Animation Supervisor: Bryce McGovern (Character: various)
“The Boss Baby” – Animation Supervisor: Rani Naamani (Character: various)
Character Animation in a Live Action Production
“Game of Thrones” / S7 Ep.6 Beyond The Wall
“Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2”
“Kong: Skull Island”
“Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets”
“War for the Planet of the Apes”
Character Animation in a Video Game
“Cuphead” – Lead Animator: Hanna Abi-Hanna (Characters: The Devil, Grim Matchstick, Beppi The Clown, Werner Werman)
“Cuphead” – Lead Animator: Tina Nawrocki (Characters: Baroness Von Bon Bon, Hopus Pocus, Pirouletta, Giant, Tipsy Troupe, Lobster, Porkrind, Dragonfly, The Devil – DEATH)
“Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice” – Character Animator: Chris Goodall; Jitaik Lim; Kirill Spiridonov (Character: Senua)
“Horizon Zero Dawn” – Lead Animator: Richard Oud (Character: All mechanical creatures); Kevin Quaid (Character: All humanoids); Character Animator: Niek Neervens, Jonathan Colin (Character: All humanoids); Character Animator: Peer Lemmers (Character: All mechanical creatures)
“Uncharted: The Lost Legacy” – Lead Animator: Almundena Soria, Keith Paciello, Paul Augustus Davies (Character: All Characters);
Character Design in an Animated Television / Broadcast Production
“Buddy Thunderstruck” / Episode: Buddy Double / Beaver Dam Fast Pizza
“Danger & Eggs” / Episode: Tube of Pain / Broccoli
“Samurai Jack” / Episode: XCVI
“Tangled: The Series” / Episode: Tangled Before Ever After
“Trollhunters” / Episode: Ep 201 – “Escape from the Darklands”
Character Design in an Animated Feature Production
“Coco”
“Despicable Me 3”
“Smurfs: The Lost Village”
“The Boss Baby”
“The Breadwinner”
Directing in an Animated Television / Broadcast Production
“Disney Mickey Mouse” / Episode: The Scariest Story Ever: A Mickey Mouse Halloween Spooktacular!
“Dragons: Race to the Edge” / Episode: Sandbusted
“Tangled: The Series” / Episode: Tangled Before Ever After
“The Simpsons – Treehouse of Horror XXVIII”
“Trollhunters” / Episode: Ep 211 – “Unbecoming”
Directing in an Animated Feature Production
“Coco” – Director: Lee Unkrich Pixar; Co-Director: Adrian Molina
“The Big Bad Fox & Other Tales” – Co-Director: Benjamin Renner; Co-Director: Patrick Imbert
“The Boss Baby” – Director: Tom McGrath
“The Breadwinner” – Director: Nora Twomey
“The LEGO Batman Movie” – Director: Chris McKay
Music in an Animated Television / Broadcast Production
“Disney Mickey Mouse” / Episode: The Scariest Story Ever: A Mickey Mouse Halloween Spooktacular!
“Home Adventures With Tip & Oh” / Episode: Ep 030A – “Chercophonie”
“Lego Star Wars: The Freemaker Adventures / Episode: Trouble on Tibalt
“The Powerpuff Girls” / Episode: Home, Sweet Homesick
“Tumble Leaf” / Episode: The Nature Of Friendship / The Ship Shop
Music in an Animated Feature Production
“Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie”
“Coco”
“Loving Vincent”
“Olaf’s Frozen Adventure”
“The Breadwinner”
Production Design in an Animated Television / Broadcast Production
“Big Hero 6 The Series” / Episode: Baymax Returns
“Disney Mickey Mouse” / Episode: The Scariest Story Ever: A Mickey Mouse Halloween Spooktacular!
“June”
“Samurai Jack” / Episode: XCIII
“The Loud House” / Episode: “Tricked!”
Production Design in an Animated Feature Production
“Coco”
“Ferdinand”
“LEAP!”
“Mary and The Witch’s Flower”
“The Breadwinner”
Storyboarding in an Animated Television / Broadcast Production
“Disney Mickey Mouse” / Episode: Bee Inspired – Storyboard Artist: Eddie Trigueros
“Home for the Holidays” / Episode: Ep 900 – “Tip and Oh: Home for the Holidays” – Storyboard Artist: Ben Bury
“Niko and the Sword of Light” / Episode: From the Phantom Woods to the Mountains of Misery – Storyboard Artist: Kim Arndt; Alexandria Kwan
“Trollhunters” / Episode: 205 – “Hero with a Thousand Faces” – Storyboard Artist: David Woo
“Trollhunters” / Episode: 213 – “In the Hall of the Gumm-Gumm King” – Storyboard Artist: Hyunjoo Song
Storyboarding in an Animated Feature Production
“Coco” – Storyboard Artist: Dean Kelly
“Coco” – Storyboard Artist: Madeline Sharafian
“The Boss Baby” – Storyboard Artist: Glenn Harmon
“The Breadwinner” – Storyboard Artist: Julien Regnard
“The Star” – Storyboard Artist: Louie del Carmen
Voice Acting in an Animated Television / Broadcast Production
“BoJack Horseman” / Episode: Time’s Arrow – Wendie Malick as Beatrice Horseman
“Bunsen Is a Beast” – Jeremy Rowley as Bunsen
“Disney Mickey Mouse” / Episode: The Scariest Story Ever: A Mickey Mouse Halloween Spooktacular! – Chris Diamantopoulos as Mickey Mouse
“SpongeBob SquarePants” – Tom Kenny as SpongeBob SquarePants
“The Amazing World of Gumball” / Episode: The Grades – Nicolas Cantu as Gumball
Voice Acting in an Animated Feature Production
“Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie” – Nick Kroll as Professor Poopypants
“Coco” – Anthony Gonzalez as Miguel
“The Breadwinner” – Saara Chaudry as Parvana
“The Breadwinner” – Laara Sadiq as Fattema
“The LEGO Batman Movie” – Zach Galifianakis as Joker
Writing in an Animated Television / Broadcast Production
“Archer” / Episode: Archer Dreamland: Jane Doe
“Disney Mickey Mouse” / Episode: Locked in Love
“Milo Murphy’s Law” / Episode: The Island of the Lost Dakotas
“Rick and Morty” / Episode: 307 – “The Ricklantis Mixup”
“Trollhunters” / Episode: 201 – “Escape from the Darklands”
Writing in an Animated Feature Production
“Coco” – Writer: Adrian Molina; Matthew Aldrich
“Loving Vincent” – Writer: Dorota Kobiela, Hugh Welchman; Jacek Dehnel
“Mary and The Witch’s Flower” – Writer: Riko Sakaguchi, Hiromasa Yonebayashi, David Freedman, Lynda Freedman
“The Breadwinner” – Writer: Anita Doron
Editorial in an Animated Television / Broadcast Production
“Bob’s Burgers” / Episode: Bob, Actually
“BoJack Horseman” / Episode: Stupid Piece of Sh*t
“Dinotrux” / Episode: Ep 053 – “Superchargers”
“Pickle and Peanut” / Episode: Bear-I-cade
“Samurai Jack” / Episode: XCIII, XCIV, XCIX
Editorial in an Animated Feature Production
“Coco”
“Ferdinand”
“The Breadwinner”
“The LEGO Batman Movie”
“The Star”
