“The Wild Robot” was the big winner at the Annie Awards on Saturday night and won nine trophies at the annual ceremony who honors the best in animation chosen by the Los Angeles branch of International Animated Film Society, Asifa-Hollywood.
The Dreamworks animation and universal release dominated a ceremony that was interrupted by a fire alarm that caused the Royce Hall to be evacuated. It won the best feature and also took awards for direction, FX, character animation, character design, music, production design, voice games and editors. It went into the show with 10 nominations and won in all categories where it was nominated, with its only loss that came in the voice -acting category, where a “The Wild Robot” actor, Kit Connor, lost to another, Lupita Nyong ‘O .
While Annies has a long history of Svep, which critics have sometimes attributed to blocking the vote, the nine victories for “The Wild Robot” are the most since Pixars “Coco” won record 11 2018.
“Flow” won two awards, one for best feature – independence and one for writing, a category where “The Wild Robot” was not nominated. “Despicable Me 4” won the only other film award for storyboarding.
“Inside Out 2” and “Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl”, both sequels for films that had won 10 years, entered the show with seven nominations each and went home without victories.
During the 23 years since the academy established the best animated functional category, Annie winner has won Oscar 15 times, but only twice in the last five years.
In TV/media categories, Netflix “Arcane” extended its reign as the most successful TV production in Annie’s history. It won seven awards, including for direction, music, character animation and storyboarding. Several awards also won by “Orion and The Dark”, “Marvel’s Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur” and “Dream Productions.”
The Dutch short film “Wander to Wonder” won in the best short subject category, where the other nominees included two shorts nominated along with the animated short Oscar, “Beautiful Men” and “In the Shadow of the Cypress.”
The ceremony took place at the UCLA -Campus in West Los Angeles. About halfway through the show, Royce Hall was evacuated after a fire alarm went off, but started after a short break.
The winners:
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: “Walk to wonder”
(Circe Films, Kaap Holland Film, Les Productions de Milou, Beast Animation, Blink Industries & Pictanovo)
Best sponsored: “Fuzzy feelings”
(Passion Pictures Hungry Man)
Best TV/Media – Preschool: “Section Tiny Manager Show”: “Tiny Manager’s Spooky Stump Spectacular”
(Imagine entertainment, Tiny Manager Productions and Nickelodeon Productions)
Best TV/Media – Children“Marvel’s Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur” – “Molecular Level” (Flying Bark Productions, Disney Television Animation, Disney Tagged Television, Cinema Gypsy)
Best TV/Media – Mature: “Bob’s Burgers” – “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 Television School)
José puts, Bernardo Angeletti
Best FX – TV/Media: “Arcane” – “The dirt under the nails”
Guillaume Degroote, Aurélien Sentécourt, Adam Bachiri, Guillaume Zaouche, Jérôme Dupré
(A riot game and fortiche production for Netflix)
Best FX – Function: “The Wild Robot”
Derek Cheung, Michael Losure, David Chow, Nyoung Kim, Steve Avoujageli
(Dreamworks animation)
Best character animation – TV/media: “Arcane”
Tom Gouill
(A riot game and fortiche production for Netflix)
Best character animation – function: “The Wild Robot”
Fabio Lignini
(Dreamworks animation)
Best character animation – live action: “Apes kingdom of the planet”
Christian Kickenweitz, Aidan Martin, Allison Orr, Radiya Alam, Howard Sly
(WETA FX)
Best character animation – video games: “Neva”
Nomada studio animation team
(Nomada studio)
Best character design – TV/media: “Marvel’s Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur -” Molecular Level “
Jose Lopez
(Disney Television Animation, Cinema Gypsy Productions)
Best character design – function: “The Wild Robot”
Genevieve Tsai
(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 direction – function: “The Wild Robot”
Chris Sanders
(Dreamworks animation)
Best Music – TV/Media: “Arcane” – “The dirt under the nails”
Ryan Jillian Santiago, Alexander Seaver, Simon Wilcox
(A riot game and fortiche production for Netflix)
Best Music – Function: “The Wild Robot”
Kris Bowers
(Dreamworks animation)
Best Production Design – TV/Media: “Arcane” – “The dirt under the nails”
Arnaud-Loris Baudry, Julien Georgel, Faustine Dumontier, Charlotte O’Neill
(A riot game and fortiche production for Netflix)
Best Production Design – Function: “The Wild Robot”
Raymond Zibach, Ritchie Sacilioc
(Dreamworks animation)
Best Storyboarding – TV/Media: “Arcane” – “killing is a bike”
Joséphine Meis
(A riot game and fortiche production for Netflix)
Best Storyboarding – Function: “Despicable Me 4”
Habib Louati
(Lighting)
Best Voice Game – TV/Media: “Dream Productions” – “Out of Body”
Paula Pell as Paula
(Pixar Animation Studios)
Best Voice Game – Function: “The Wild Robot”
Lupita nyong’o like roz
(Dreamworks animation)
Best Writing – TV/Media: “Orion and the Dark” – “Orion and the Dark”
Charlie Kaufman
(Dreamworks animation)
Best Writing – Function: “Flow”
Gints Zilbalodis, Matisse Kaža
(Take five, sacreu productions, Dream Well Studio)
Best editorial – TV/Media: “Arcane” – “Pretend it’s the first time”
Nazim Meslem, Gilad Carmel, Roberto Fernandez
(A riot game and fortiche production for Netflix)
Best editorial – function: “The Wild Robot”
Mary Blee, Collin Erker, Orlando Duenas, Lucie Lyon, Brian Parker
(Dreamworks animation)
UB IWerks Award: Alberto Menache
June Foray Award: Women in animation
Award Award: “Direct on Disney: The Original Director of Walt’s Animated Films” by Pete Docter and Don Peri Peri
Windsor McCay Award: Eunice Macaulay, Normand Roger, Aaron Blaise
