“The Wild Robot” ran with nine victories at the 52nd annual Annie Awards February 8 at Ucla’s Royce Hall. Dreamworks Robot Survival Adventure took the best feature along with almost always another category (it was not nominated for best writing and best storyboarding).
“The Wild Robot” also claimed the best direction (for Chris Sanders, who was illuminated Indieview awards), Best production design, best character design, best character AnimationBest FX, best music (Oscar-nominated composer Kris Bowers), best voice game (Lupita Nyong’o as Roz) and best editorial staff.
In the meantime, “Flow,” The low-budget Cat Survival Adventure, took the best independent function and best writing for author-directors’Gintar Zilbalodis.
This sets up a dramatic finish to the Oscar race between “The Wild Robot”, the favorite and “Flow”, the Hälund, which is on a roll off after the Golden Globes Triumph. This followed the animation prices from New York Film Critics Circle, Los Angeles Film Critics Association, National Board of Review and European Film Awards.
“Flow” was also the Latvian Oscar release for best international elements and landed a nomination, which can be significant. While “The Wild Robot” obviously received strong industry support from Asifa-Hollywood members at Annies, the Academy’s influential international voter base was able to put “flow” over the top, as it did last year with Hayao Miyazaki’s “The Boy and the Heron,” which beat it Strongly favored “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse.
Other Annie -Height Points: Season 2 of Riot/Netflix “Arcane” took home seven TV/Media Awards for best direction, best production design, best character animation, best FX, best music, best storyboarding and best editors.
Other remarkable winners were Oscar favorite “Wander to wonder” (best card), 20th “Bob’s Burgers” (Best Mature TV/Media), Pixars “Dream Productions” (Best Limited Series TV/Media), Dreamworks “Orion and Dark “(Best Special Production) and” Apes Planet of the Planet “(Best Live Action Character Animation, from Wētā FX).
Here are the previously announced legal prices: Winsor McCay Awards went to “Beauty and the beast” and “Aladdin” animator Aaron Blaise, Academy-Prize-awarded British animator Eunice Macaulay (the Oscar-winning short “special lesson”), receiving the receipt of Postal Product . Recognition and Canadian composer, sound designer and audio editor Normand Roger (the Oscar-winning short “father and daughter”). This year’s Foray Award was awarded collectively Women in Animation, while the UB IWerks Award went to Alberto Menache for his work in visual effects (2002’s “Spider-Man). Finally, animation historian Don Peri and Pixar Director/Chief Creative Officer Pete Doclet Doclet Award for his work on “Direct on Disney: The Original Director of Walts Animated Movies.”
Read the full list of Annie winners below:
Best feature
The wild robot
Dreamworks animation
Best feature – independent
Flow
Sacrebleu productions, take five, dream well studio
Best special production
Orion and darkness
Dreamworks animation
Best short topic
Wander to wonder
CIRCE FILMS, Cape Holland Film, Les Productions de Milou, Beast Animation, Blink Industries &
Pictanovo
Best sponsored
Fuzzy feelings
Passion pictures hungry man
Best TV/Media – Preschool
The little chef show
Imagine Entertainment, Tiny Manager Productions and Nickelodeon Productions Section: Tiny
Chef’s spooky stump spectacular
Best TV/Media – Children
Marvel’s Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur – “Molecular Level”
Flying Bark Productions, Disney Television Animation, Disney branded -TV, Cinema Gypsy
Best TV/Media – Mature
Bob’s burger – “They snail horses, right?”
20th TV Animation / Fox Entertainment
Best TV/Media – Limited Series
Dream Productions – “A Night to Remember”
Pixar Animation Studios
Best student film
Hello
National film and TV school
José puts, Bernardo Angeletti
Best FX – Function
The wild robot
Derek Cheung, Michael Losure, David Chow, Nyoung Kim, Steve Avoujageli
Dreamworks animation
Best FX – TV/Media
Arcane – “dirt under your nails”
Guillaume Degroote, Aurélien Sentécourt, Adam Bachiri, Guillaume Zaouche, Jérôme Dupré
A riot game and fortiche production for Netflix
Best character animation – function
The wild robot
Fabio Lignini
Dreamworks animation
Best character animation – TV/media
Secret
Tom Gouill
A riot game and fortiche production for Netflix
Best character animation – live action
The kingdom of the monkey
Christian Kickenweitz, Aidan Martin, Allison Orr, Radiya Alam, Howard Sly
Wetfx
Best character animation – video games
Neva
Nomada studio animation team
Nomada studio
Best character design – function
The wild robot
Genevieve Tsai
Dreamworks animation
Best character design – TV/media
Marvel’s Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur – “Molecular Level”
Jose Lopez
Disney Television Animation, Cinema Gypsy Productions
Best direction – function
The wild robot
Chris Sanders
Dreamworks animation
Best direction – TV/Media
Arcane – dirt under the nails
Arnaud Delord, Pascal Charrue, Bart Maunoury
A riot game and fortiche production for Netflix
Best Music – Function
The wild robot
Kris Bowers
Dreamworks animation
Best Music – TV/Media
Arcane – “dirt under your nails”
Ryan Jillian Santiago, Alexander Seaver, Simon Wilcox
A riot game and fortiche production for Netflix
Best Production Design – Function
The wild robot
Raymond Zibach, Ritchie Sacilioc
Dreamworks animation
Best Production Design – TV/Media
Arcane – “dirt under your nails”
Arnaud-Loris Baudry, Julien Georgel, Faustine Dumontier, Charlotte O’Neill
A riot game and fortiche production for Netflix
Best Storyboarding – Function
Despicable Me 4
Habib Louati
Lighting
Best Storyboarding – TV/Media
Arcane – “killing is a bicycle”
Joséphine Meis
A riot game and fortiche production for Netflix
Best Voice Game – Function
The wild robot
Lupita nyong’o like roz
Dreamworks animation
Best Voice Game – TV/Media
Dream Productions – “Out of Body”
Paula Pell as Paula
Pixar Animation Studios
Best Writing – Function
Flow
Gints Zilbalodis, Matisse Kaža
Take five, sacreu Productions, Dream Well Studio
Best Writing – TV/Media
Orion and the Dark – “Orion and the Dark”
Charlie Kaufman
Dreamworks animation
Best editorial – function
The wild robot
Mary Blee, Collin Erker, Orlando Duenas, Lucie Lyon, Brian Parker
Dreamworks animation
Best editorial – TV/Media
Arcane – “pretending it is the first time”
Nazim Meslem, Gilad Carmel, Roberto Fernandez
A riot game and fortiche production for Netflix
