ASIFA-Hollywood, the international animated film society, has announced the nominees for their 38th annual Annie Awards, honoring the best in animation. The awards ceremony, where they’ll be announcing the winners, will be held on Saturday 5 February 2011 at UCLA’s Royce Hall (Los Angeles, California). The Annies honor excellence in animation in many media, and though they’re not all sf/f/h productions, there’s a lot of cross-over on this list, so we’ve decided to include them all.
Concurrent with announcing the nominees, ASIFA-Hollywood announced the recipients of this year’s juried awards. The Winsor McCay Award goes to: Brad Bird, Eric Goldberg, and Matt Groening. The Winsor McCay Award (see this page) is given “in recognition of lifetime or career contributions to the art of animation in producing, directing, animating, design, writing, voice acting, sound and sound effects, technical work, music, professional teaching, or for other endeavors which exhibit outstanding contributions to excellence in animation.”
The June Foray Award, for “individuals who have made a significant and benevolent or charitable impact on the art and industry of animation”: Ross Iwamoto (see this page).
The Ub Iwerks Award for “individuals or companies for technical advancements that make a significant impact on the art or industry of animation”: Autodesk (see this page).
The Special Achievement Award for “unique and outstanding achievement”: Waking Sleeping Beauty (see this page).
The other nominees, in a wide variety of categories, are:
Production Categories:
Best Animated Feature:
Despicable Me, Illumination Entertainment
How to Train Your Dragon, DreamWorks Animation
Tangled, Disney
The Illusionist, Django Films
Toy Story 3, Disney/Pixar
Best Animated Short Subject:
Coyote Falls, Warner Bros. Animation
Day & Night, Pixar
Enrique Wrecks the World, House of Chai
The Cow Who Wanted to be a Hamburger, Plymptoons Studio
The Renter, Jason Carpenter
Best Animated Television Commercial:
Children’s Medical Center DUCK Studios
Frito Lay Dips “And Then There Was Salsa”, LAIKA/house
“How to Train Your Dragon” Winter Olympic Interstitial “Speed Skating”, DreamWorks Animation
McDonald’s “Spaceman Stu”, DUCK Studios
Pop Secret “When Harry Met Sally”, Nathan Love
Best Animated Television Production:
Futurama, The Curiosity Company in association with 20th Century Fox Television
Kung Fu Panda Holiday, DreamWorks Animation
Scared Shrekless, DreamWorks Animation
Star Wars: The Clone Wars “Arc Troopers”, Lucasfilm Animation, Ltd.
The Simpsons, Gracie Films
Best Animated Television Production for Children:
Adventure Time, Cartoon Network Studios
Cloudbread, GIMC
Fanboy & Chum Chum, Nickelodeon, Frederator
Regular Show, Cartoon Network Studios
SpongeBob SquarePants, Nickelodeon
Best Animated Video Game:
Heavy Rain, Quantic Dream
Kirby’s Epic Yarn, Good-Feel & HAL Laboratory
Limbo, Playdead
Shank, Klei Entertainment Inc.
Individual Achievement Categories:
Animated Effects in an Animated Production:
Andrew Young Kim for Shrek Forever After, DreamWorks Animation
Jason Mayer for How to Train Your Dragon, DreamWorks Animation
Brett Miller for How to Train Your Dragon, DreamWorks Animation
Sebastian Quessy for Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole, Warner Bros. Pictures
Kryzstof Rost for Megamind, DreamWorks Animation
Character Animation in a Television Production:
Nicolas A. Chauvelot for Scared Shrekless, DreamWorks Animation
Savelon Forrest for Robot Chicken: Star Wars Episode III, ShadowMachine
Elizabeth Havetine for Robot Chicken: Star Wars Episode III, ShadowMachine
David Pate for Kung Fu Panda Holiday, DreamWorks Animation
Nideep Varghese for Scared Shrekless, DreamWorks Animation
Character Animation in a Feature Production:
Mark Donald for Megamind, DreamWorks Animation
Anthony Hodgson for Megamind, DreamWorks Animation
Gabe Hordos for How to Train Your Dragon, DreamWorks Animation
Jakob Hjort Jensen for How to Train Your Dragon, DreamWorks Animation
David Torres for How to Train Your Dragon, DreamWorks Animation
Character Animation in a Live Action Production:
Quentin Miles for Clash of the Titans
Ryan Page for Alice in Wonderland
Character Design in a Television Production:
Andy Bialk for The Ricky Gervais Show, W!LDBRAIN Entertainment
Stephan DeStefano for Sym-Bionic Titan, Cartoon Network
Ernie Gilbert for T.U.F.F. Puppy, Nickelodeon
Gordon Hammond for T.U.F.F. Puppy, Nickelodeon
Steve Lam for Fanboy & Chum Chum, Nickelodeon, Frederator
Character Design in a Feature Production:
Sylvain Chomet for The Illusionist< Django Films
Carter Goodrich for Despicable Me, Illumination Entertainment
Timothy Lamb for Megamind, DreamWorks Animation
Nico Marlet for How to Train Your Dragon, DreamWorks Animation
Directing in a Television Production:
Bob Anderson for The Simpsons, Gracie Films
Peter Chung for Firebreather, Cartoon Network Studios
Duke Johnson for Frankenhole: Humanitas, ShadowMachine
Tim Johnson for Kung Fu Panda Holiday, DreamWorks Animation
Gary Trousdale for Scared Shrekless, DreamWorks Animation
Directing in a Feature Production:
Sylvain Chomet for The Illusionist Django Films
Pierre Coffin for Despicable Me, Illumination Entertainment
Mamoru Hosoda for Summer Wars, Madhouse/Funimation
Chris Sanders and Dean DeBlois for How to Train Your Dragon, DreamWorks Animation
Lee Unkrich for Toy Story 3, Disney/Pixar
Music in a Television Production:
J. Walter Hawkes for The Wonder Pets!, Nickelodeon Production & Little Airplane Productions
Henry Jackman, Hans Zimmer, and John Powell for Kung Fu Panda Holiday, DreamWorks Animation
Tim Long, Alf Clausen, Bret McKenzie, and Jemaine Clement for The Simpsons: Elementary School Musical, Gracie Films
Shawn Patterson for Robot Chicken’s DP Christmas Special, ShadowMachine
Jeremy Wakefield, Sage Guyton, Nick Carr, and Tuck Tucker for SpongeBob SquarePants, Nickelodeon
Music in a Feature Production:
Sylvain Chomet for The Illusionist, Django Films
David Hirschfelder for Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole, Warner Bros. Pictures
John Powell for How to Train Your Dragon, DreamWorks Animation
Harry Gregson Williams for Shrek Forever After, DreamWorks Animation
Pharrell Williams and Heitor Pereira for Despicable Me, Illumination Entertainment
Production Design in a Television Production:
Alan Bodner for Neighbors from Hell, 20th Century Fox Television
Barry Jackson for Firebreather, Cartoon Network Studios
Pete Oswald for Doubtsourcing, Badmash Animation Studios
Richie Sacilioc for Kung Fu Panda Holiday, DreamWorks Animation
Scott Wills for Sym-Bionic Titan, Cartoon Network Studios
Production Design in a Feature Production:
Yarrow Cheney for Despicable Me< Illumination Entertainment
Eric Guillon for Despicable Me, Illumination Entertainment
Dan Hee Ryu for Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole, Warner Bros. Pictures
Pierre Olivier Vincent for How to Train Your Dragon DreamWorks Animation
Peter Zaslav for Shrek Forever After, DreamWorks Animation
Storyboarding in a Television Production:
Sean Bishop for Scared Shrekless, DreamWorks Animation
Fred Gonzales for T.U.F.F. Puppy, Nickelodeon
Tom Owens for Kung Fu Panda Holiday, DreamWorks Animation
Dave Thomas for Fairly OddParents, Nickelodeon
Storyboarding in a Feature Production:
Alessandro Carloni for How to Train Your Dragon, DreamWorks Animation
Paul Fisher for Shrek Forever After, DreamWorks Animation
Tom Owens for How to Train Your Dragon, DreamWorks Animation
Catherine Yuh Rader for Megamind, DreamWorks Animation
Voice Acting in a Television Production:
Jeff Bennett as The Necronomicon in Fanboy & Chum Chum, Nickelodeon & Frederator
Corey Burton as Baron Papanoida in Star Wars: The Clone Wars, Cartoon Network
Nika Futterman as Asajj Ventress in Star Wars: The Clone Wars, Cartoon Network
Mike Henry as Cleveland Brown in The Cleveland Show, Fox Television Animation
James Hong as Mr. Ping in Kung Fu Panda Holiday, DreamWorks Animation
Voice Acting in a Feature Production:
Jay Baruchel as Hiccup in How to Train Your Dragon, DreamWorks Animation
Gerard Butler as Stoick in How to Train Your Dragon, DreamWorks Animation
Steve Carrell as Gru in Despicable Me, Illumination Entertainment
Cameron Diaz as Fiona in Shrek Forever After, DreamWorks Animation
Geoffrey Rush as Ezylryb in Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole, Warner Bros. Pictures
Writing in a Television Production:
Daniel Arkin for Star Wars: The Clone Wars: Heroes on Both Sides, Lucasfilm Animation Ltd.
Jon Colton Barry & Piero Piluso for Phineas & Ferb: Nerds of a Feather, Disney Channel
Geoff Johns, Matthew Beans, Zeb Wells, Hugh Sterbakov, Matthew Senreich, Breckin Meyer, Seth Green, Mike Fasolo, Douglas Goldstein, Tom Root, Dan Milano, Kevin Shinick, & Hugh Davidson for Robot Chicken: Star Wars Episode III, ShadowMachine
Billy Kimball & Ian Maxtone-Graham for The Simpsons: Stealing First Base, Gracie Films
Michael Rowe for Futurama, The Curiosity Company in association with 20th Century Fox Television
Writing in a Feature Production:
Michael Arndt for Toy Story 3, Disney/Pixar
Sylvain Chomet for The Illusionist, Django Films
William Davies, Dean DeBlois, and Chris Sanders for How to Train Your Dragon, DreamWorks Animation
Dan Fogelman for Tangled, Disney
Alan J. Schoolcraft and Brent Simons for Megamind, DreamWorks Animation