In the midst of awards season buzz and entertainment industry busyness, the animated entertainment industry gets a chance to shine every year during the Annie Awards. More than 30 categories of animated television and film entertainment grace the nominations ballot, begging to take home a coveted award.
The year, Disney’s “Zootopia” swept the 44th Annie Awards by taking home six trophies, including Best Animated Feature. Disney had secured 11 bids before heading into Saturday’s ceremony at UCLA’s Royce Hall in Los Angeles. NYFA was honored to welcome “Zootopia” animator Darrin Butters as a guest speaker last year. In addition to winning Best Animated Feature, “Zootopia” took home Best Directing, Best Writing, Best Character Design, Best Storyboarding. Jason Bateman tied with “Moana” star Auli’i Cravalho for Best Voice Acting. “Moana” had been presented to NYFA students in a special sneak-peek guest speaker event with Disney animator Eric Goldberg.
While “Zootopia” scored the most nominations and secured six awards, “Kubo and the Two Strings,” came in second with 10 nominations, but only took home three awards. Disney’s “Finding Dory” and “Kung Fu Panda 3” were nominated, but the sequels didn’t take home any awards.
Here’s the complete list of 2017 Annie Awards winners:
- Best Animated Feature: “Zootopia”
- Best Animated Special Production: “Pear Cider and Cigarettes”
- Best Animated Short Subject: “Piper”
- Best Animated Television/Broadcast Commercial: “Loteria ‘Night Shift’”
- Best General Audience Animated Television/Broadcast Production: “Bob’s Burgers”
- Best Animated Television/Broadcast Production for Preschool Children: “Tumble Leaf, ”episode: “Mighty Mud Movers / Having a Ball”
- Best Animated Television/Broadcast Production for Children: “Adventure Time,” episode: “Bad Jubies”
- Best Animated Feature-Independent: “The Red Turtle”
- Best Student Film: “Citipati”
- Animated Effects in an Animated Feature Production: “Moana”
- Animated Effects in a Live Action Production: “Doctor Strange,” Mirror Dimension
- Character Animation in a Television/Broadcast Production: “Dreamworks Trollhunters,” episode: “Becoming, Part 1”
- Character Animation in a Feature Production: “Kubo and the Two Strings”
- Character Animation in a Live Action Production: “The Jungle Book”
- Character Animation in a Video Game: “Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End”
- Character Design in a TV/Broadcast Production: “Dreamworks Trollhunters,” episode: “Win, Lose or Draal”
- Character Design in an Animated Feature Production: “Zootopia”
- Directing in an Animated TV/Broadcast Production: “Pearl”
- Directing in an Animated Feature Production: “Zootopia”
- Music in a TV/Broadcast Production: “Pearl”
- Music in an Animated Feature Production: “The Little Prince”
- Production Design in an Animated TV/Broadcast Production: “Pearl”
- Production Design in an Animated Feature Production: “Kubo and the Two Strings”
- Storyboarding in a TV/Broadcast Production: “DreamWorks Trollhunters,” episode: “Win, Lose or Draal”
- Storyboarding in an Animated Feature Production: “Zootopia”
- Voice Acting in an Animated TV/Broadcast Production: “The Mr. Peabody & Sherman Show,” episode: “Ponce de LeÛn”
- Voice Acting in an Animated Feature Production (Tie): Auli’i Cravalho as Moana in “Moana” (Walt Disney Animation Studios) and Jason Bateman as Nick Wilde in “Zootopia”
- Writing in an Animated TV/Broadcast Production: “Bob’s Burgers,” episode: “The Hormone-iums”
- Writing in an Animated Feature Production:“Zootopia”
- Editorial in a TV/Broadcast Production: “Disney Mickey Mouse,” episode: “Sock Burglar”
- Editorial in an Animated Feature Production: “Kubo and the Two Strings”
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