LOS ANGELES, Feb. 7, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Pixar
Animation Studios was the big winner at the 43rd Annual Annie
Awards, Saturday evening at UCLA's
Royce Hall. 'Inside Out' won
Best Animated Feature along with 11 other categories, including
Outstanding Music – Michael
Giacchino; Outstanding Editing – Kevin Nolting; Outstanding Production Design –
Ralph Eggleston; Outstanding Voice
Acting – Phyllis Smith as 'Sadness';
Outstanding Writing – Pete Docter,
Meg LeFauve and Josh Cooley; and Best Directing – Pete Docter. This year was the first for the new
category Best Animated Feature, Independent with Filme de Papel's
'Boy and the World' taking this top honor.
The Best Animated Special Production was awarded to 'He Named
Me Malala' (Parkes-MacDonald/Little Door); Best Animated Short
Subject 'World of Tomorrow' (Don
Hertzfeldt); Best Animated TV/Broadcast Commercial 'Man
and Dog' (Psyop); Best General Audience Animated TV/Broadcast
Production for Preschool Children 'Tumble Leaf' –
Mirror (Amazon Studios and Bix Pix Entertainment); Best
Animated TV/Broadcast Production for Children 'Wander Over
Yonder' – The Breakfast (Disney Television Animation); Best
Animated TV/Broadcast Production for a General Audience 'The
Simpsons' - Halloween of Horror
(Gracie Films in Association with 20th Century Fox Television);
Outstanding Achievement for Character Animation in a Live Action
Production: 'The Revenant' – The Bear (Regency Enterprises,
New Regency Pictures, Anonymous Content, M Productions, Appian Way,
RatPac-Dune Entertainment; and Best Student Film 'ed'
(Sheridan College – Taha
Neyestani).
"The Annies are drawing more attention from both our industry
and the general motion picture industry," said ASIFA-Hollywood
Executive Director, Frank Gladstone.
"We wait all year for this event and it never disappoints! It was a
fun evening looking back at our history and celebrating what we
have accomplished over this past year."
Presenting the coveted Annie trophies this year were actor,
producer & director Edward James
Olmos with actress Rita
Moreno; actor & writer Tom Kenny (SpongeBob SquarePants) with
actress Laraine Newman (Dawn
Of The Croods); actors Alexander
Garfin and Hadley Belle
Miller ("Linus and Lucy" from The Peanuts Movie)
& Snoopy via Video; actress Kristen Schaal (Bob's Burgers),
composerChristophe Beck;
Phyllis Smith (voice of 'Sadness'
from Inside Out) with Bing Bong (Richard
Kind) via video; Anomalisa co-directors Charlie Kaufman and Duke Johnson,
John Musker and ASIFA-Hollywood
President, Jerry Beck and Executive
Director, Frank Gladstone.
This year's Juried Award recipients included Winsor McCay lifetime achievement award –
Joe Ranft (posthumously),
Phil Roman and Isao Takahata. The Winsor McCay Award is one of the highest honors
given to an individual in the animation industry in recognition for
career contributions to the art of animation. Don Hahn was this year's June Foray
award recipient which honors an individual who has given
significant and benevolent contributions to the art and industry of
animation.
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 and highlights of the ceremony will
be uploaded to the Annies website in the next few weeks.
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