It's a very tight race for this year's Annie Awards
Friday, December 6, 2019 at 9:00AM
NATHANIEL R in Annie Awards, Best Animated Feature, Bob's Burgers, Frozen 2, How To Train Your Dragon, I Lost My Body, Klaus, MIssing Link, Okko's Inn, Oscars (19), Weathering With You, animated films

by Nathaniel R

Oops. So much was happening this week we completely neglected the Annie nominations. The ceremony will be held on January 25th. There's no clear frontrunner this year with Missing Link and Frozen 2 tied for the most nominations. Their nearest competitors are not far behind. In other words Klaus, How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World , I Lost My Body, and Toy Story 4 were also clearly well liked enough to win big. That's 6 features and when it comes time for the Oscar nominations there can be only 5. We can't discount the possibility that another non-American film besides I Lost My Body might prove a darkhouse spoiler with the Academy's animation branch which has proven open to international films (for nominations if not wins) and isn't always keen on blockbuster sequels.  We should also keep a close eye on Japan's International Feature Oscar submission Weathering With You which got some love here at the Annies, too.

The complete list of nominations and a few comments after the jump...

Best Feature

These are looking like your frontrunners for the correlative nominations with Oscar BUT we suspect I Lost My Body will knock one of them out. 

Best Indie Feature


 

 

This category really ought to be renamed "Best International Feature" since that's what it essentially is used for. Here we have France (I Lost My Body) and Spain (Buñuel)  battling it out with three films from Japan. 

Best Special Production

 

 

Best Short Subject

 

 

Best VR

 

 

Best Commercial

FenderThe Mystical Journey of Jimmy Page’s ’59 Telecaster - Nexus Studios for Fender from Bishoy Gendi on Vimeo.

 

 

Best TV/Media – Preschool

 

 

Best TV/Media – Children

 

 

Best TV/Media – General Audience

Big Mouth "Disclosure The Movie: The Musical!"

 

 

Best Student Film

 

 

Best FX for TV/Media

Love Death + Robots "The Secret War"

 

 

 

Best FX for Feature

Abominable

 

Very strong choices. The FX work in all of these films was something else.

 

 

Best Character Animation – TV/Media

"Iroek" from His Dark Materials

 

 

Best Character Animation – Animated Feature

 

 

Best Character Animation - Live Action

 

They never list which characters for live-action movies which is odd. Nice to see Alita Battle Angel honored though because that was a real craft achievement. 

 

Best Character Animation – Video Game

 

 

Best Character Design – TV/Media

 

 

 

Best Character Design – Feature

 

 

Best Direction – TV/Media

 

 

Best Direction – Feature


 

 

Best Music – TV/Media

 

 

Best Music – Feature

 

 

Best Production Design – TV/Media

 

 

Best Production Design – Feature

 

 

Best Storyboarding – TV/Media

 

 

Best Storyboarding – Feature

 

 

Best Voice Acting – TV/Media

 

Thrilled to see H Jon Benjamin here. It's reprehensible that he's only been nominated for one Emmy and one previous Annie in the Voice-Over category when he's been doing genius work on Archer and Bob's Burgers since 2009 and 2011 respectively.

 

Best Voice Acting – Feature

Jenny Slate recording "Gidget" in Secret Life of Pets 2

 

 

Fun choices.

Best Writing – TV/Media

 

 

 

Best Writing – Feature

Weathering with You

 

 

 

Best Editorial – TV/Media

 

 

 

Best Editorial – Feature

 

 

 

 

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