Incredibles 2 (Pixar)Ralph Breaks the Internet (Disney)Mary Poppins Returns (Disney) Incredibles 2 and Ralph Breaks the Internet stormed the Annie Awards nominations today with 11 and 10 apiece, respectively. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse and Early Man came in with 8 and 7, respectively, and all were nominated in the top category of Best Animated Feature alongside Isle of Dogs. The …
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Disney/Pixar’s Coco completely dominated the 45th Annie Awards tonight, winning 11 of its 13 nominations including Animated Feature, Directing and Writing. The winner of Animated Feature has gone on to win the Oscar 11 out of the last 16 years and Coco is far and away the favorite to win there too. Disney Mickey Mouse, Samurai Jack and Rick & Morty …
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Coco earned a field-best 13 nominations from this morning from the 45th Annie Awards with The Breadwinner earning 10. The two films are currently the frontrunners in the Animated Feature Oscar race. For the Annies, the two films are competing in separate races for the top prizes – Coco for Best Animated Feature and The Breadwinner for Best Animated Feature …
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Disney’s Zootopia won Best Animated Feature at tonight’s Annie Awards, just one of 10 wins for the studio. The Oscar frontrunner also took home awards for Storyboarding, Writing and Character Design, as well as a Voice Acting win for Jason Bateman (in a tie with Moana‘s Auli’i Cravalho). Last year’s winner, Inside Out, also went on to win the Oscar. Since the …
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Two major Oscar contenders for Animated Feature, Zootopia and Kubo and the Two Strings, led the 44th ANNIE award nominations today with 11 and 10 apiece, respectively. Joining those in the top category of Best Animated Feature were Finding Dory, Kung Fu Panda 3 and Moana. Independent animated features have a separate category, which makes Oscar predicting here more difficult. …
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Disney/Pixar’s INSIDE OUT was the big winner of tonight 43rd ANNIE Awards, grabbing 10 awards including Best Animated Feature. Winners of the 43rd Annie Awards were revealed during a ceremony on Saturday, February 6, 2016 at UCLA’s Royce Hall in Los Angeles, California. PRODUCTION CATEGORIES Best Animated Feature “Inside Out” – Pixar Animation Studios Best Animated Special Production “He Named …
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Best Animated Feature Anomalisa – Paramount Pictures Inside Out – Pixar Animation Studios Shaun the Sheep The Movie – Aardman Animations The Good Dinosaur – Pixar Animation Studios The Peanuts Movie – Blue Sky Studios, Twentieth Century Fox Animation Best Animated Special Production Elf: Buddy’s Musical Christmas – Warner Bros. Animation He Named Me Malala – Parkes-MacDonald / Little …
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Although The Boxtrolls lead the nomination tally going into the awards, How to Train Your Dragon 2 won six awards at the 42nd ANNIE Awards this weekend, including Directing, Editing, Music, Storyboarding, Character Animation in an Animated Feature as well as the big one itself, Best Animated Feature. The Boxtrolls won Best Production Design and Best Voice Acting (Ben Kingsley) …
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While most awards pundits kept their eyes glued on the NYFCC today (or at least their Twitter account), the animators guild quietly revealed their own set of nominations today. This article would be far too lengthy if we would list all of their 327 categories, but we can say that Focus Features’ The Boxtrolls took in a big haul with …
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It was a quiet week, but suddenly they come in droves…. Next to the Writers Guild of America today, the American Society of Cinematographers as well as ASIFA-Hollywood (that’s the animators) announced their winners for the year. The cinematographers chose Gravity, in a not so unexpected move. Already highly acclaimed and the heavy favorite for the Oscar, this all but …
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