“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 Greatest Characteristic together with practically ever different class (it was not nominated for Greatest Writing and Greatest Storyboarding).
“The Wild Robotic” moreover claimed Greatest Route (for Chris Sanders, who was spotlighted at IndieWire Honors), Greatest Manufacturing Design, Greatest Character Design, Greatest Character Animation, Greatest FX, Greatest Music (Oscar-nominated composer Kris Bowers), Greatest Voice Performing (Lupita Nyong’o as Roz), and Greatest Editorial.
In the meantime, “Movement,” the low-budget cat survival journey, grabbed Greatest Unbiased Characteristic and Greatest Writing for writer-director Gints Zilbalodis.
This units up a dramatic end to the Oscar race between “The Wild Robotic,” the favourite, and “Movement,” 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 Evaluate, and the European Movie Awards.
“Movement” was additionally the Latvian Oscar submission for Greatest Worldwide Characteristic and landed a nomination, which could possibly be vital. Whereas “The Wild Robotic” clearly acquired sturdy business help from ASIFA-Hollywood members on the Annies, the Academy’s influential worldwide voter base might put “Movement” 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 house seven TV/Media awards for Greatest Route, Greatest Manufacturing Design, Greatest Character Animation, Greatest FX, Greatest Music, Greatest Storyboarding, and Greatest Editorial.
Different notable winners had been Oscar favourite “Wander to Surprise” (Greatest Quick), twentieth’s “Bob’s Burgers” (Greatest Mature TV/Media), Pixar’s “Dream Productions” (Greatest Restricted Collection TV/Media), DreamWorks’ “Orion and the Darkish” (Greatest Particular Manufacturing), and “Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes” (Greatest Stay Motion Character Animation, from Wētā FX).
Listed below 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 Girls 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 artistic 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 listing of Annie winners beneath:
Greatest Characteristic
The Wild Robotic
DreamWorks Animation
Greatest Characteristic – Unbiased
Movement
Sacrebleu Productions, Take 5, Dream Properly Studio
Greatest Particular Manufacturing
Orion and the Darkish
DreamWorks Animation
Greatest Quick Topic
Wander to Surprise
Circe Movies, Kaap Holland Movie, Les Productions de Milou, Beast Animation, Blink Industries &
Pictanovo
Greatest Sponsored
Fuzzy Emotions
Ardour Photos Hungry Man
Greatest TV/Media – Preschool
The Tiny Chef Present
Think about Leisure, Tiny Chef Productions and Nickelodeon Productions Episode: Tiny
Chef’s Spooky Stump Spectacular
Greatest TV/Media – Kids
Marvel’s Moon Lady and Satan Dinosaur – “The Molecular Stage”
Flying Bark Productions, Disney Tv Animation, Disney Branded Tv, Cinema Gypsy
Greatest TV/Media – Mature
Bob’s Burgers – “They Slug Horses, Don’t They?”
twentieth Tv Animation / FOX Leisure
Greatest TV/Media – Restricted Collection
Dream Productions – “A Night time to Keep in mind”
Pixar Animation Studios
Greatest Scholar Movie
Adiós
Nationwide Movie and Tv College
José Prats, Bernardo Angeletti
Greatest FX – Characteristic
The Wild Robotic
Derek Cheung, Michael Losure, David Chow, Nyoung Kim, Steve Avoujageli
DreamWorks Animation
Greatest 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
Greatest Character Animation – Characteristic
The Wild Robotic
Fabio Lignini
DreamWorks Animation
Greatest Character Animation – TV/Media
Arcane
Tom Gouill
A Riot Video games and Fortiche Manufacturing for Netflix
Greatest Character Animation – Stay Motion
Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes
Christian Kickenweitz, Aidan Martin, Allison Orr, Radiya Alam, Howard Sly
Weta FX
Greatest Character Animation – Video Recreation
Neva
Nomada Studio Animation Staff
Nomada Studio
Greatest Character Design – Characteristic
The Wild Robotic
Genevieve Tsai
DreamWorks Animation
Greatest Character Design – TV/Media
Marvel’s Moon Lady and Satan Dinosaur – “The Molecular Stage”
Jose Lopez
Disney Tv Animation, Cinema Gypsy Productions
Greatest Route – Characteristic
The Wild Robotic
Chris Sanders
DreamWorks Animation
Greatest Route – TV/Media
Arcane – The Grime Underneath Your Nails
Arnaud Delord, Pascal Charrue, Bart Maunoury
A Riot Video games and Fortiche Manufacturing for Netflix
Greatest Music – Characteristic
The Wild Robotic
Kris Bowers
DreamWorks Animation
Greatest 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
Greatest Manufacturing Design – Characteristic
The Wild Robotic
Raymond Zibach, Ritchie Sacilioc
DreamWorks Animation
Greatest 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
Greatest Storyboarding – Characteristic
Despicable Me 4
Habib Louati
Illumination
Greatest Storyboarding – TV/Media
Arcane – “Killing is a Cycle”
Joséphine Meis
A Riot Video games and Fortiche Manufacturing for Netflix
Greatest Voice Performing – Characteristic
The Wild Robotic
Lupita Nyong’o as Roz
DreamWorks Animation
Greatest Voice Performing – TV/Media
Dream Productions – “Out of Physique”
Paula Pell as Paula
Pixar Animation Studios
Greatest Writing – Characteristic
Movement
Gints Zilbalodis, Matiss Kaža
Take 5, Sacrebleu Productions, Dream Properly Studio
Greatest Writing – TV/Media
Orion and the Darkish – “Orion and the Darkish”
Charlie Kaufman
DreamWorks Animation
Greatest Editorial – Characteristic
The Wild Robotic
Mary Blee, Collin Erker, Orlando Duenas, Lucie Lyon, Brian Parker
DreamWorks Animation
Greatest 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