Saturday, January 31, 2009

Skiddoosh! It's a shocker at the Annies as Kung Fu Panda lays the smack down on Wall-E

Kung Fu Panda dominated the Annies, surprising all who expected Wall-E in a similar position. Here's the list of winners:

PRODUCTION CATEGORIES
Best Animated Feature

Kung Fu Panda – DreamWorks Animation

Best Animated Home Entertainment Production
Futurama: The Beast with a Billion Backs – The Curiosity Company in association with 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment

Best Animated Short Subject
Wallace & Gromit: A Matter of Loaf and Death – Aardman Animations Ltd.

Best Animated Television Commercial
United Airlines “Heart” – Duck Studios

Best Animated Television Production
Robot Chicken: Star Wars Episode II - ShadowMachine

Best Animated Television Production Produced for Children
Avatar: The Last Airbender – Nickelodeon

Best Animated Video Game
Kung Fu Panda – Activision

INDIVIDUAL ACHIEVEMENT CATEGORIES
Animated Effects

Li-Ming Lawrence Lee Kung Fu Panda – DreamWorks Animation

Character Animation in a Feature Production
James Baxter Kung Fu Panda – DreamWorks Animation

Character Animation in a Television Production or Short Form
Pierre Perifel Secrets of the Furious Five – DreamWorks Animation

Character Design in an Animated Feature Production
Nico Marlet Kung Fu Panda – DreamWorks Animation

Character Design in an Animated Television Production or Short Form
Nico Marlet Secrets of the Furious Five – DreamWorks Animation

Directing in an Animated Feature Production
John Stevenson & Mark Osborne Kung Fu Panda – DreamWorks Animation

Directing in an Animated Television Production or Short Form
Joaquim Dos Santos – Avatar: The Last Airbender “Sozin’s Comet Pt. 3” – Nickelodeon

Music in an Animated Feature Production
Hans Zimmer & John Powell – Kung Fu Panda – DreamWorks Animation

Music in an Animated Television Production or Short Form
Henry Jackman, Hans Zimmer & John Powell – Secrets of the Furious Five – DreamWorks Animation

Production Design in an Animated Feature Production
Tang Heng -- Kung Fu Panda – DreamWorks Animation

Production Design in an Animated Television Production or Short Form
Tang Heng -- Secrets of the Furious Five – DreamWorks Animation

Storyboarding in an Animated Feature Production
Jen Yuh Nelson – Kung Fu Panda – DreamWorks Animation

Storyboarding in an Animated Television Production or Short Form
Chris Williams -- Glago’s Guest – Walt Disney Animation Studios

Voice Acting in an Animated Feature Production
Dustin Hoffman – Voice of Shifu – Kung Fu Panda – DreamWorks Animation

Voice Acting in an Animated Television Production or Short Form
Ahmed Best – Voice of Jar Jar Binks – Robot Chicken: Star Wars Episode II - ShadowMachine

Writing in an Animated Feature Production
Jon Aibel & Glenn Berger – Kung Fu Panda – DreamWorks Animation

Writing in an Animated Television Production or Short Form
Tom Root, Douglas Goldstein, Hugh Davidson, Mike Fasolo, Seth Green, Dan Milano, Matthew Senreich, Kevin Shinick, Zeb Wells, Breckin Meyer – Robot Chicken: Star Wars Episode II – ShadowMachine

JURIED AWARDS
Winsor McCay recipients
- Mike Judge, John Lasseter and Nick Park for career contributions to the art of animation
June Foray award - Bill Turner for significant and benevolent or charitable impact on the art and industry of animation
Certificate of Merit award - Amir Avni, Mike Fontanelli, Kathy Turner, Alex Vassilev

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