“The Wild Robotic” ran away with 9 wins on the 52nd annual Annie Awards on February 8 at UCLA’s Royce Corridor. The DreamWorks robotic survival journey took Finest Function together with almost ever different class (it was not nominated for Finest Writing and Finest Storyboarding).
“The Wild Robotic” moreover claimed Finest Route (for Chris Sanders, who was spotlighted at IndieWire Honors), Finest Manufacturing Design, Finest Character Design, Finest Character Animation, Finest FX, Finest Music (Oscar-nominated composer Kris Bowers), Finest Voice Performing (Lupita Nyong’o as Roz), and Finest Editorial.
In the meantime, “Stream,” the low-budget cat survival journey, grabbed Finest Unbiased Function and Finest Writing for writer-director Gints Zilbalodis.
This units up a dramatic end to the Oscar race between “The Wild Robotic,” the favourite, and “Stream,” the underdog, which is on a roll of its personal after the Golden Globes triumph. This adopted the animation prizes from the New York Movie Critics Circle, the Los Angeles Movie Critics Affiliation, the Nationwide Board of Evaluation, and the European Movie Awards.
“Stream” was additionally the Latvian Oscar submission for Finest Worldwide Function and landed a nomination, which could possibly be important. Whereas “The Wild Robotic” clearly acquired robust trade assist from ASIFA-Hollywood members on the Annies, the Academy’s influential worldwide voter base may put “Stream” excessive, because it did final yr with Hayao Miyazaki’s “The Boy and the Heron,” which beat the closely favored “Spider-Man: Throughout the Spider-Verse.
Different Annie highlights: Season 2 of Riot/Netflix’s “Arcane” took dwelling seven TV/Media awards for Finest Route, Finest Manufacturing Design, Finest Character Animation, Finest FX, Finest Music, Finest Storyboarding, and Finest Editorial.
Different notable winners had been Oscar favourite “Wander to Surprise” (Finest Quick), twentieth’s “Bob’s Burgers” (Finest Mature TV/Media), Pixar’s “Dream Productions” (Finest Restricted Collection TV/Media), DreamWorks’ “Orion and the Darkish” (Finest Particular Manufacturing), and “Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes” (Finest Reside Motion Character Animation, from Wētā FX).
Listed here are the beforehand introduced Juried Awards: The Winsor McCay Awards went to “Magnificence and the Beast” and “Aladdin” animator Aaron Blaise, Academy-Award profitable British animator Eunice Macaulay (the Oscar-winning brief “Particular Supply”), receiving posthumous recognition, and Canadian composer, sound designer, and sound editor Normand Roger (the Oscar-winning brief “Father and Daughter”). This yr’s June Foray Award was collectively awarded to Ladies in Animation, whereas the Ub Iwerks Award went to Alberto Menache for his work in visible results (2002’s “Spider-Man). Lastly, animation historian Don Peri and Pixar director/chief inventive officer Pete Docter acquired the Particular Achievement Award for his or her work on “Directing at Disney: The Authentic Administrators of Walt’s Animated Movies.”
Learn the entire record of Annie winners under:
Finest Function
The Wild Robotic
DreamWorks Animation
Finest Function – Unbiased
Stream
Sacrebleu Productions, Take 5, Dream Nicely Studio
Finest Particular Manufacturing
Orion and the Darkish
DreamWorks Animation
Finest Quick Topic
Wander to Surprise
Circe Movies, Kaap Holland Movie, Les Productions de Milou, Beast Animation, Blink Industries &
Pictanovo
Finest Sponsored
Fuzzy Emotions
Ardour Footage Hungry Man
Finest TV/Media – Preschool
The Tiny Chef Present
Think about Leisure, Tiny Chef Productions and Nickelodeon Productions Episode: Tiny
Chef’s Spooky Stump Spectacular
Finest TV/Media – Kids
Marvel’s Moon Woman and Satan Dinosaur – “The Molecular Degree”
Flying Bark Productions, Disney Tv Animation, Disney Branded Tv, Cinema Gypsy
Finest TV/Media – Mature
Bob’s Burgers – “They Slug Horses, Don’t They?”
twentieth Tv Animation / FOX Leisure
Finest TV/Media – Restricted Collection
Dream Productions – “A Evening to Keep in mind”
Pixar Animation Studios
Finest Pupil Movie
Adiós
Nationwide Movie and Tv College
José Prats, Bernardo Angeletti
Finest FX – Function
The Wild Robotic
Derek Cheung, Michael Losure, David Chow, Nyoung Kim, Steve Avoujageli
DreamWorks Animation
Finest FX – TV/Media
Arcane – “The Grime Underneath Your Nails”
Guillaume Degroote, Aurélien Ressencourt, Adam Bachiri, Guillaume Zaouche, Jérôme Dupré
A Riot Video games and Fortiche Manufacturing for Netflix
Finest Character Animation – Function
The Wild Robotic
Fabio Lignini
DreamWorks Animation
Finest Character Animation – TV/Media
Arcane
Tom Gouill
A Riot Video games and Fortiche Manufacturing for Netflix
Finest Character Animation – Reside Motion
Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes
Christian Kickenweitz, Aidan Martin, Allison Orr, Radiya Alam, Howard Sly
Weta FX
Finest Character Animation – Video Sport
Neva
Nomada Studio Animation Group
Nomada Studio
Finest Character Design – Function
The Wild Robotic
Genevieve Tsai
DreamWorks Animation
Finest Character Design – TV/Media
Marvel’s Moon Woman and Satan Dinosaur – “The Molecular Degree”
Jose Lopez
Disney Tv Animation, Cinema Gypsy Productions
Finest Route – Function
The Wild Robotic
Chris Sanders
DreamWorks Animation
Finest Route – TV/Media
Arcane – The Grime Underneath Your Nails
Arnaud Delord, Pascal Charrue, Bart Maunoury
A Riot Video games and Fortiche Manufacturing for Netflix
Finest Music – Function
The Wild Robotic
Kris Bowers
DreamWorks Animation
Finest Music – TV/Media
Arcane – “The Grime Underneath Your Nails”
Ryan Jillian Santiago, Alexander Seaver, Simon Wilcox
A Riot Video games and Fortiche Manufacturing for Netflix
Finest Manufacturing Design – Function
The Wild Robotic
Raymond Zibach, Ritchie Sacilioc
DreamWorks Animation
Finest Manufacturing Design – TV/Media
Arcane – “The Grime Underneath Your Nails”
Arnaud-Loris Baudry, Julien Georgel, Faustine Dumontier, Charlotte O’Neill
A Riot Video games and Fortiche Manufacturing for Netflix
Finest Storyboarding – Function
Despicable Me 4
Habib Louati
Illumination
Finest Storyboarding – TV/Media
Arcane – “Killing is a Cycle”
Joséphine Meis
A Riot Video games and Fortiche Manufacturing for Netflix
Finest Voice Performing – Function
The Wild Robotic
Lupita Nyong’o as Roz
DreamWorks Animation
Finest Voice Performing – TV/Media
Dream Productions – “Out of Physique”
Paula Pell as Paula
Pixar Animation Studios
Finest Writing – Function
Stream
Gints Zilbalodis, Matiss Kaža
Take 5, Sacrebleu Productions, Dream Nicely Studio
Finest Writing – TV/Media
Orion and the Darkish – “Orion and the Darkish”
Charlie Kaufman
DreamWorks Animation
Finest Editorial – Function
The Wild Robotic
Mary Blee, Collin Erker, Orlando Duenas, Lucie Lyon, Brian Parker
DreamWorks Animation
Finest Editorial – TV/Media
Arcane – “Fake Like It’s the First Time”
Nazim Meslem, Gilad Carmel, Roberto Fernandez
A Riot Video games and Fortiche Manufacturing for Netflix
