49th Annie Awards

Sony Pictures Animation was a big winner Saturday evening during the 49th Virtual Annie Awards™. The Mitchells vs The Machines received eight Annies including Best Feature, Best FX (Christopher Logan, Man-Louk Chin, Devdatta Nerurkar, Pav Grochola, Filippo Maccari), Character Design (Lindsey Olivares), Direction (Mike Rianda, Jeff Rowe), Production Design (Lindsey Olivares, Toby Wilson, Dave Bleich), Voice Acting (Abbi Jacobson as the voice of Katie Mitchell), Writing (Mike Rianda, Jeff Rowe) and Editorial (Greg Levitan, Collin Wightman, T.J.Young, Tony Ferdinand, Bret Allen).

Arcane (A Riot Games and Fortiche Production for Netflix) garnered nine Annies for Best TV/Media – General Audience, Best FX (Guillaume Degroote, Aurélien Ressencourt, Martin Touzé, Frédéric Macé, Jérôme Dupré) Character Animation (Léa Chervet), Character Design (Evan Monteiro), Direction (Pascal Charue, Arnaud Delord, Barthelemy Maunoury) Production Design (Julien Georgel, Aymeric Kevin, Arnaud Baudry), Storyboarding (Simon Andriveau), Voice Acting (Ella Purnell as the voice of Jinx), and Writing (Christian Linke, Alex Yee).

Best Independent Feature went to Flee (NEON, Final Cut For Real, Sun Creature, Vivement Lundi !, MostFilm, Mer Film, VICE, Left HandFilms, Participant); Namoo (Baobab Studios) won Best Animated Special Production, and Best Animated Short Subject – Bestia (Trebol 3 Producciones, MALEZA Estudio). Encanto (Walt Disney Animation Studios) took home three Annies for Music (Score: Germaine Franco, Lin-Manuel Miranda); Storyboarding (Jason Hand); and Character Animation (Dave Hardin).

Annies also went to Best Sponsored Production – A Future Begins (Nexus Studios) and Best Animated TV/Media Production for Children –Maya and the Three (A Netflix Series); Best Animated TV/Media Production for Preschool Children – Ada Twist, Scientist (Laughing Wild, Higher Ground Productions, Wonder Worldwide, Netflix); and Character Animation in a Live Action Production – Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (Karl Rapley, Sebastian Trujillo, Richard John Moore, Merlin Bela Wassilij Maertz, Pascal Raimbault) (Marvel Entertainment, Weta Digital).

The evening’s presenters included Tom Kenny, Emma Berman and Jack Dylan Grazer, Diane Warren, Charlie Saxton and Guillermo Del Toro, Young Dylan, Jessie T. Usher, Blythe Danner, Pierre Perffiel and Lilly Singh, Mamoru Hosoda, Tomm Moore and Ross Stewart, and John Leguizamo.

Winsor McCay Award Recipients
The Winsor McCay Award for career contributions to the art of animation were presented to three recipients – Ruben Aquino, legendary Disney animator; Lillian Schwartz, computer animation pioneer; and Toshio Suzuki, prolific Studio Ghibli producer. The June Foray Award for significant and benevolent or charitable impact on the art and industry of animation will be awarded to Renzo & Sayoko Kinoshita, influential animation filmmakers and founders of the Hiroshima International Animation Festival.

The Ub Iwerks Award for technical advancement that has made a significant impact on the art and industry of animation was presented to Python Foundation, promoting, protecting and advancing the open-source Python programming language, and facilitating the growth of the diverse Python community. The Special Achievement Award recognizing the unique and significant impact on the art and industry of animation was presented to Glen Vilppu, artist and author internationally known for teaching and training animation professionals. The Certificate of Merit for service to the art and industry was presented to Evan Vernon.

Corporate Sponsors
Many thanks for the generous support from this year’s sponsors and advertisers: Platinum Level – Cartoon Network Studios/Warner Bros. Animation, DreamWorks Animation, LA Times, Netflix, Variety and Walt Disney Animation Studios/Pixar Animation Studios; Gold Level – Disney TV Animation, Illumination Entertainment and Riot Games; Silver Level – The Animation Guild LATSE Local 839, Pixar Animation Studios, Sony Pictures Animation and Walt Disney Animation Studios; Bronze Level – Epic Games/Unreal Engine, GKIDS, Nickelodeon and Skydance Animation; and Education/Nonprofit Level – Sheridan College.

[kaazledazzle]

Damn Arcane got 9 nominations and 9 awards that’s wild

[Zavrael]

Realise Arcane is going to be mentioned and is gong to knock it out the park... *cries manly tears all over again* :')

[JaKoMaGrp]

28:26 So, so true, the Arcane team did a more than fantastic job of making me see pass the character's animation and just see real human actions, flaws, nuances and truths. I know I was watching an animation but in my mind they existed as humans.

[The_Art_Style]

Arcane literally GG ez'ed the whole show and honestly they deserved it nice show

Also no one slapped anyone 0/10 unwatchable

[PicoHobbies]

40:13 Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart Winners In Annie Awards 2022🥇👏🎊🎉…..

[LilMizRandom]

I so wish this could have happened as normal in person. I know why it couldn't, but the thought of the Arcane group going up on that stage every single time to collect their prize, the excitement and joy that would have been felt!

[SonicFanDU]

Sad Belle didn't win any Annie Awards this year.
Congrats to Arcane & The Mitchells vs. the Machines!

[ItsSimmeRin]

9 nominations and won 9 awards, fingers crossed for this year with the 7 nominations

[nuomation]

Are you guys gonna upload the whole awards someday?

[leonardolopez]

Here is a list of people who I think should get the Winsor McCay Award at some point in time:

Jerry Beck
Tom Sito
Alice Davis
Don Hahn
Trey Parker and Matt Stone
Seth MacFarlane
Angela Lansbury
Kathryn Beaumont
Tom Ruegger
Bud Luckey
Alan Menken
Howard Ashman
Elton John
Tim Rice
Bill Farmer
Tony Anselmo
Randy Newman
Hans Zimmer
Russi Taylor
Wayne Allwine
Burny Mattinson
Oliver Wallace
Robin Williams
Steve Jobs (Co-founder of Pixar)
Tress MacNeille
Tara Strong
Jim Cummings
Dan Castellaneta
David Silverman
Peter Cullen
Frank Welker
Tom Kenny
Rob Paulsen
Billy West
Jeff Bennett
Kevin Michael Richardson
Jim Henson
Dee Bradley Baker
Maurice Lamarche
Nancy Cartwright
Kelly Asbury
Brenda Chapman
Chris Sanders
Dean Dublois
Sergio Pablos
Pete Docter
Andrew Stanton
Jeff Pidgeon
Jim Reardon
Vicky Jenson
Lee Unkrich
Phil Nibbelink
Lauren Faust
Mike Giaimo
Craig McCracken
Kirk Wise
Gary Trousdale
Jorge Gutierrez
Phil Lord and Christopher Miller
Jerry Rees
Arlene Klasky and Gábor Csupó
Chris Buck
Glenn McQueen
Hal Hickel
Rusty Mills
Tom McGrath
Bob Camp
Chris Reccardi
Paul Rudish
Joe Letteri
Dennis Muren
Gary Goldman
John Pomeroy
Chris Williams
Sylvain Chomet
Simon Wells
Jim Davis
Joe Alaskey
Kath Soucie
Jess Harnell
Peter Lord
David Sproxton
Peter Sallis
Bonnie Arnold
Yoshiaki Kawajiri
Leon Schlesinger
John Randolph Bray
Yoshiyuki Tomino
Richard Rich
Paul Grimault
Ted Nichols
William Reeves
Ed Catmull
Paul Terry
Arthur Rankin Jr. and Jules Bass
Steve Box
Byron Howard
Rich Moore
Tomm Moore
Chris Meledandri
Pierre Coffin
Chris Renaud
Clark Spencer
Darla K. Anderson
Brad Lewis
Chris Wedge
Carlos Saldanha
Don Hall
Fred Quimby
Scott Bradley
Chris Bailey
Mike Gabriel
Gary Rydstrom
Theodor Geisel (Dr. Seuss)
Matthew O’Callaghan
Randy Thom
Lee Harrison III
John DiMaggio
Hank Azaria
Grey DeLisle
Mark Hamil
Paul Smith
George Bruns
Irwin Kostal
Tim Conway

[scarecrow]

What the biz!?! Why did it cut off there??? Where's the rest of the awards show!?

[annafowdy]

Uh, why did you only post half of the ceremony?

[RossieJen]

50:53 The Trollhunters movie had some of the best visual effects but its ending sucks

[MundoJuanci]

There are several categories missing...

[lexibrowning]

Is there a reason why anime isn’t part of this? I mean we had a couple groundbreaking animations this year

[hunterolaughlin]

Give The Mitchells vs the Machines Best Animated Feature, Best Achievement for Character Design in an Animated Feature Production and Outstanding Achievements for Directing, Writing, Production Design, Editorial and Animated Effects in an Animated Feature Production, but Outstanding Achievement for Voice Acting in an Animated Feature Production should have gone to Stephanie Beatriz for Encanto. I’ve nothing against Abbi Jacobson. She did a good job as Katie Mitchell, but her performance isn’t really the best compared to other voice performances from last year’s animated films. Almost all of them are better than her voice performance and would be more deserving.

[deadmanslastwish]

yay. that's what we all need. more propaganda.