It's a very tight race for this year's Annie Awards
Friday, December 6, 2019 at 9:00AM 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...