2020 Annie Awards: ‘Klaus’ and ‘I Lost My Body’ win as Netflix dominates
KLAUS (Netflix) I LOST MY BODY (Netflix)
It was Christmas in January for Netflix as the streamer absolutely dominated the 47th Annie Awards, winning the top two animated feature prizes: Best Indie Feature for I Lost My Body and Best Feature for the holiday film Klaus. Klaus made a clean sweep, winning all seven of its nominations while I Lost My Body took home three of its six nods. Netflix led the overall nomination total with 39 and won 19.
Disney’s Frozen II and LAIKA’s Missing Link lead the 47th Annie Award nominations with eight apiece but managed just a two wins between them, both for Frozen II.
Netflix ruled the television side too, with Carmen Sandiego, Tuca & Bertie, BoJack Horseman and Love, Death and Robots eating up the lion’s share of wins.
Juried Awards were presented honoring unparalleled achievement and exceptional contributions to animation. Winsor McCay Award recipients have been selected by the ASIFA-Hollywood Board of Directors for their exemplary industry careers – Satoshi Kon (posthumously), Japanese film director, animator, screenwriter and manga artist; Henry Selick, stop motion director, producer and writer who is best known for directing the stop-motion animation films The Nightmare Before Christmas, James and the Giant Peach, and Coraline; and Ron Clements & John Musker, for more than 30 years one of Walt Disney Animation Studios’ leading director teams.
The June Foray Award was presented to Jeanette Bonds, writer, independent animator, and co-founder and director of GLAS Animation; and the Ub Iwerks Award will be presented to Jim Blinn, computer scientist who first became widely known for his work as a computer graphics expert at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), particularly his work on the pre-encounter animations for the Voyager project.
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The awards opened with a tribute to the late Academy Award-winning animator Richard Williams (Who Framed Roger Rabbit?) and a statement by Frank Marshall that the whole ceremony will be dedicated to him.
See below for the complete list of 47th Annie Awards winners:
Best Feature
Klaus; Netflix Presents A Production of The Spa Studios and Atresmedia Cine
Best Feature-Independent
I Lost My Body; Xilam for Netflix
Best Special Production
How to Train Your Dragon Homecoming; DreamWorks Animation
Best Short Subject
Uncle Thomas: Accounting for the Days; Ciclope Filmes, National Film Board of Canada, Les Armateurs
Best Virtual Reality Production
Bonfire; Baobab Studios
Best Animated TV/Media Commercial
The Mystical Journey of Jimmy Page’s ‘59 Telecaster; Nexus Studios
Best TV/Media Production for Preschool Children
Ask the Storybots, Episode: Why Do We Have To Recycle?; JibJab Bros. Studios for Netflix
Best TV/Media Production for Children
Disney Mickey Mouse, Episode: Carried Away; Disney TV Animation/Disney Channel
Best General Audience TV/Media Production
BoJack Horseman, Episode: The Client; Tornante Productions for Netflix
Best Student Film
The Fox & The Pigeon; Michelle Chua
Animated Effects in an Animated TV/Media Production
Love, Death & Robots, Episode: The Secret War; Blur for Netflix; Viktor Németh, Szabolcs Illés, Ádám Sipos, Vladimir Zhovna
Animated Effects in an Animated Feature Production
Frozen 2; Walt Disney Animation Studios; Benjamin Fiske, Alex Moaveni, Jesse Erickson, Dimitre Berberov, Kee Nam Suong;
Character Animation in an Animated TV/Broadcast Production
His Dark Materials, Episode 7; BBC Studios; Lead Animator: Aulo Licinio; Character: Iroek
Character Animation in an Animated Feature Production
Klaus, Netflix Presents a Production of The Spa Studios and Atresmedia Cine; Animation Supervisor: Sergio Martins; Character: Alva
Character Animation in a Live Action Production
Avengers: Endgame, Weta Digital; Animation Supervisor: Sidney Kombo-Kintombo
Character Animation in a Video Game
Unruly Heroes, Magic Design Studios; Character Animator: Sebastien Parodi (Characters: Heroes Kid version, Underworld NPC); Lead Animator: Nicolas Leger (Characters: Heroes Wukong, Kihong, Sandmonk and Sanzang), all enemies except Underworld levels, and cinematics)
Character Design in an Animated TV/Media Production
Carmen Sandiego, Episode: The Chasing Paper Caper; Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing and DHX Media for Netflix; Character Designer: Keiko Murayama (Characters: Carmen Sandiego, Paper Star, Player, Shadowsan, Chief, Julia Argent, Chase Devineaux)
Character Design in an Animated Feature Production
Klaus; Netflix Presents a Production of The Spa Studios and Atresmedia Cine; Character Designer: Torsten Schrank
Directing in an Animated TV/Media Production
Alonso Ramirez Ramos, Disney Mickey Mouse, Episode: For Whom the Booth Tolls; Disney TV Animation/Disney Channel
Directing in an Animated Feature Production
Sergio Pablos, Klaus; Netflix Presents a Production of The Spa Studios and Atresmedia Cine
Music in an Animated TV/Media Production
Rob Cairns, composer/lyricist; Love, Death & Robots, Episode: Sonnie’s Edge; Blur for Netflix
Music in an Animated Feature Production
Dan Levy, composer; I Lost My Body; Xilam for Netflix
Production Design in an Animated TV/Media Production
Love, Death & Robots, Episode: The Witness; Blur for Netflix; Production Design: Alberto Mielgo
Production Design in an Animated Feature Production
Klaus; Netflix Presents a Production of The Spa Studios and Atresmedia Cine; Production Design: Szymon Biernaki, Marcin Jakubowski
Storyboarding in an Animated TV/Media Production
Carmen Sandiego, Episode: Becoming Carmen Sandiego: Part 1; Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing and DHX Media for Netflix; Storyboard Artist: Kenny Park
Storyboarding in an Animated Feature Production
Klaus, Netflix Presents a Production of The Spa Studios and Atresmedia Cine; Storyboard Artist: Sergio Pablos
Voice Acting in an Animated TV/Media Production
H. Jon Benjamin as Bob in Bob’s Burgers, Episode: Roamin’ Bob-iday, 20th Century Fox/Bento Box Entertainment
Voice Acting in an Animated Feature Production
Josh Gad as Olaf in Frozen 2; Walt Disney Animation Studios
Writing in an Animated TV/Media Production
Tuca & Bertie, Episode: The Jelly Lakes; Tornante Productions, LLC for Netflix; Writer: Shauna McGarry
Writing in an Animated Feature Production
I Lost My Body; Xilam for Netflix; Writers: Jérémy Clapin, Guillaume Laurant
Editorial in an Animated TV/Media Production
Love, Death & Robots, Episode: Alternate Histories; Blur for Netflix; Bo Juhl, Stacy Auckland and Valerian Zamel
Editorial In An Animated Feature Production
Klaus; Netflix Presents a Production of The Spa Studios and Atresmedia Cine; Pablo García Revert
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