The 47th Annie Awards – Winners
The Stateside ASIFA Annie Awards have announced their 2020 winners. Among those awarded were Henry Selick (director of The Nightmare Before Christmas, James and the Giant Peach and Coraline), Ron Clements and John Musker (who have worked as one of Walt Disney Animation Studio’s leading director teams over the past three decades) and, posthumously, Satoshi Kon (acclaimed manga artist and director of such films as Perfect Blue and Paprika), all whom were selected by the ASIFA-Hollywood Board of Directors tp receive Winsor McCay Awards for exemplary industry careers.
The receipient of the June Foray Award (significant and benevolent/charitable impact on the art/industry of animation) was independent director and GLAS Animation founder Jeanette Bonds, with the Ub Iwerks Award (technical advancement in the art of animation) presented to computer graphics expert and pioneer Jim Blinn.
The results indicate changing tides with the award for over half of the categories going to Netflix productions I Lost My Body, Love Death + Robots and, at the top of the leaderboard with seven wins including Best Animated Feature, Klaus. The full list of winners is as follows:
Best Animated Feature
Klaus
Netflix/The SPA Studios/Atresmedia Cine
Best Independent Animated Feature
I Lost My Body
Xilam/Netflix
Best Animated Special
How to Train Your Dragon Homecoming
DreamWorks Animation
Best Animated Short Subject
Uncle Thomas: Accounting for the Days
Ciclope Filmes/National Film Board of Canada/Les Armateurs
Best VR Production
Bonfire
Baobab Studios
Best Animated Television/Media Commercial
The Mystical Journey of Jimmy Page’s ‘59 Telecaster
Nexus Studios
Best Animated Television/Media Production For Preschool Children
Ask The Storybots: Why Do We Have To Recycle?
JibJab Bros. Studios/Netflix
Best Animated Television/Media Production For Children
Disney Mickey Mouse: Carried Away
Disney TV Animation/Disney Channel
Best General Audience Animated Television/Media Production
BoJack Horseman: The New Client
Tornante Productions, LLC/Netflix
Best Student Film
Michelle Chua
The Fox & The Pigeon
Sheridan College
Animated Effects in an Animated Television/Media Production
Viktor Németh, Szabolcs Illés, Ádám Sipos, Vladimir Zhovna
Love, Death & Robots: The Secret War
Blur/Netflix
Animated Effects in an Animated Feature Production
Benjamin Fiske, Alex Moaveni, Jesse Erickson, Dimitre Berberov, Kee Nam Suong
Frozen 2
Walt Disney Animation Studios
Character Animation in an Animated Television / Broadcast Production
Aulo Licinio (lorek)
His Dark Materials: Episode 7
BBC Studios
Character Animation In An Animated Feature Production
Sergio Martins (Alva)
Klaus
Netflix/The SPA Studios/Atresmedia Cine
Character Animation in a Live Action Production
Sidney Kombo-Kintombo, Sam Sharplin, Keven Norris, Tim Teramoto, Jacob Luamanuvae-Su’a
Avengers: Endgame
Weta Digital
Character Animation in a Video Game
Sebastien Parodi (Heroes Kid version, Underworld NPC)
Nicolas Leger (Wukong, Kihong, Sandmonk, Sanzang, Enemies, cinematics)
Unruly Heroes
Magic Design Studios
Character Design in an Animated Television/Media Production
Keiko Murayama
Carmen Sandiego: The Chasing Paper Caper
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing/DHX Media/Netflix
Character Design in an Animated Feature Production
Torsten Schrank
Klaus
Netflix/The SPA Studios/Atresmedia Cine
Directing in an Animated Television/Media Production
Alonso Ramirez Ramos
Disney Mickey Mouse: For Whom the Booth Tolls
Disney TV Animation/Disney Channel
Directing in an Animated Feature Production
Sergio Pablos
Klaus
Netflix/The SPA Studios/Atresmedia Cine
Music in an Animated Television/Media Production
Rob Cairns
Love, Death & Robots: Sonnie’s Edge
Blur/Netflix
Music in an Animated Feature Production
Dan Levy
I Lost My Body
Xilam/Netflix
Production Design in an Animated Television/Media Production
Alberto Mielgo
Love, Death & Robots: The Witness
Blur/Netflix
Production Design In An Animated Feature Production
Szymon Biernacki, Marcin Jakubowski
Klaus
Netflix/The SPA Studios/Atresmedia Cine
Storyboarding in an Animated Television/Media Production
Kenny Park
Carmen Sandiego: Becoming Carmen Sandiego, Part 1
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing/DHX Media/Netflix
Storyboarding in an Animated Feature Production
Sergio Pablos
Klaus
Netflix/The SPA Studios/Atresmedia Cine
Voice Acting in an Animated Television/Media Production
H. Jon Benjamin (Bob)
Bob’s Burgers: Roamin’ Bob-iday
20th Century FOX/Bento Box Entertainment
Voice Acting in an Animated Feature Production
Josh Gad (Olaf)
Frozen 2
Walt Disney Animation Studios
Writing in an Animated Television/Media Production
Shauna McGarry
Tuca & Bertie: The Jelly Lakes
Tornante Productions, LLC for Netflix
Writing in an Animated Feature Production
Jérémy Clapin, Guillaume Laurant
I Lost My Body
Xilam/Netflix
Editorial in an Animated Television/Media Production
Bo Juhl, Stacy Auckland, Valerian Zamel
Love, Death & Robots: Alternate Histories
Blur/Netflix
Editorial in an Animated Feature Production
Pablo García Revert
Klaus
Netflix/The SPA Studios/Atresmedia Cine
What do you think of the results? Any favourites you’d had in mind that got unjustly snubbed? Get in touch via Twitter or in the comments below!