LOS ANGELES, Jan. 26, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Netflix was
the big winner at the 47th Annual Annie
Awards™ Saturday evening, garnering top honors in 18
categories, including Best Feature – Klaus;
Best Feature – Independent – I Lost My Body;
Character Animation in an Animated Feature – Sergio Martins for Klaus; Character
Design in an Animated Television/Media Production –
Keiko Murayama for Carmen Sandiego; Directing in An Animated
Feature – Sergio Pablos for
Klaus; Music in an Animated Television/Media Production
– Rob Cairns for Love, Death
& Robots; Writing in an Animated Feature – I Lost
My Body; and Editorial in an Animated Feature –
Klaus.
How to Train Your Dragon
Homecoming (DreamWorks Animation) won Best Animated
Special Production; Best Animated Short Subject – Uncle
Thomas: Accounting for the Days (Ciclope Filmes, National
Film Board of Canada, Les
Armateurs); Best Animated TV/Media Commercial – The Mystical
Journey of Jimmy Page's '59
Telecaster (Nexus Studios); Best General Audience Animated
TV/Media Production BoJack Horseman
Eps. The New Client (Torante Productions, LLC for
Netflix); and Best Animated TV/Media Production for Children
Disney Mickey Mouse Eps.
Carried Away (Disney TV Animation/Disney Channel; Best
Animated TV/Media Production for Preschool Children Ask the
StoryBots Eps. Why Do We Have To Recycle? (JibJab Bros.
Studios for Netflix); and Outstanding Achievement for Character
Animation in a Live Action Production Avengers:
Endgame (Weta Digital).
For years, we've described ASIFA-Hollywood as a sort of United
Nations of Animation. This year, that comparison rings even more
clearly," remarked Frank Gladstone,
ASIFA's executive director. "With nearly 2,000 submissions from
productions world-wide, the award is becoming much more an
international event. Many more films, many more artists and many
new names we are learning to pronounce!"
The evening began with a special tribute to Richard Williams,
Canadian–British animator, director, and writer, best known as
animation director on Who Framed Roger
Rabbit (1988), for which he won two of his three Academy
Awards (the third for A Christmas Carol in 1973), and for
his unfinished feature film The Thief and the
Cobbler (1993).
VIP Guests and Presenters included, Frank Marshall, Christopher Lloyd,
Ed Asner, Henry Selick, Jorge R.
Gutierrez, Ron Clements,
John Musker, Glen Keane, Diedrich
Bader, Katy Mixon,
Yeardley Smith, Sergio Pablos,
Chris Butler, Jeremy Chapin, Pat
Fraley, Margaret Kerry,
Bill Farmer, Julie Nathanson, Ashley
Boettcher, Todd Wilderman,
Tenzing Norgay Trainor and Taro
Morishima.
Juried Awards were presented honoring unparalleled achievement
and exceptional contributions to animation.
Three Winsor McCay
Award recipients were selected by the ASIFA-Hollywood
Board of Directors for their exemplary industry careers –
Satoshi Kon (posthumously),
Japanese manga artist, director, animator and screenwriter on
the now classic films Perfect Blue, Millennium Actress, Tokyo
Godfathers and Paprika; Henry
Selick, stop motion director, producer and writer,
best known for directing the stop-motion films The
Nightmare Before Christmas, James and the Giant Peach,
and Coraline; and Ron
Clements & John
Musker, animators, animation directors, screenwriters,
producers and one of Walt Disney Animation Studio's leading
director teams with nearly 40 years of animation credits, from
The Little Mermaid to Moana and many others, too
numerous to mention.
The June Foray Award was presented
to Jeanette Bonds,
writer, independent animator, and co-founder and director of GLAS
Animation; and the Ub Iwerks Award was presented to
Jim Blinn, computer scientist
who first became widely known for his early work in computer
animation, and as a graphics expert at NASA's Jet
Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), particularly on the pre-encounter
animations for the Voyager project.
The Annie Awards™ honor overall excellence as well as individual
achievement in a total of 36 categories from best feature, best
feature – independent, production design, character animation, and
effects animation to storyboarding, writing, music, editing and
voice acting, and have often been a predictor of the annual Academy
Award for Best Animated Feature. The ceremony was live-streamed
again this year
at www.annieawards.org/watch-it-live where
animation enthusiasts and those unable to attend the event, could
watch the show. A complete list of winners can be viewed at
www.annieawards.org. Photos will be posted on the Annie
Awards social media sites and video highlights of the ceremony will
be uploaded to the Annies website in the next few
days.
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