The Annie Awards Announce Their Noms

This year’s Annie Award nominees have been announced and Disney and Pixar’s Cars led the way with the most individual nominations while DreamWorks Animation had the most of any studio with a total of 17 nominations thanks to Over the Hedge and Flushed Away.

The list of feature film nominations is below, for a complete list of nominees click here.

PRODUCTION CATEGORIES

Best Animated Feature

  • Cars – Pixar Animation Studios
  • Happy Feet – Warner Bros. Pictures presents in association with Village Roadshow Pictures, a Kennedy Miller Production in association with Animal Logic Film
  • Monster House – Columbia Pictures Presents an ImageMovers/Amblin Production
  • Open Season – Sony Pictures Animation/Columbia Pictures
  • Over The Hedge – DreamWorks Animation

Best Home Entertainment Production

  • Bambi II – DisneyToon Studios
  • The Adventures of Brer Rabbit – Universal Animation Studios
  • Winnie the Pooh: Shapes & Sizes – DisneyToon Studios

INDIVIDUAL ACHIEVEMENT CATEGORIES

Animated Effects

  • Scott Cegielski – Flushed Away – DreamWorks Animation & Aardman Features
  • Keith Klohn – Cars – Pixar Animation Studios
  • David Stephens – Open Season – Sony Pictures Animation/Columbia Pictures
  • Erdem Taylan – Cars – Pixar Animation Studios
  • John David Thornton – Ice Age: The Meltdown – Blue Sky Studios

Character Animation in a Feature Production

  • Line Andersen – Flushed Away – DreamWorks Animation & Aardman Features
  • Carlos Baena – Cars – Pixar Animation Studios
  • Gabe Hordos – Flushed Away – DreamWorks Animation & Aardman Features
  • Bobby Podesta – Cars – Pixar Animation Studios
  • Kristof Serrand – Over The Hedge – DreamWorks Animation

Character Design in an Animated Feature Production

  • Peter DeSeve – Ice Age: The Meltdown – Blue Sky Studios
  • Carter Goodrich – Open Season – Sony Pictures Animation/Columbia Pictures
  • Nicolas Marlet – Over The Hedge – DreamWorks Animation

Directing in an Animated Feature Production

  • David Bowers & Sam Fell – Flushed Away – DreamWorks Animation & Aardman Features
  • Tim Johnson & Karey Kirkpatrick – Over The Hedge – DreamWorks Animation
  • Gil Kenan – Monster House – Columbia Pictures ImageMovers/Amblin Entertainment
  • ohn Lasseter – Cars – Pixar Animation Studios
  • Carlos Saldanha – Ice Age: The Meltdown – Blue Sky Studios

Music in an Animated Feature Production

  • John Debney – The Ant Bully – Warner Bros. Pictures Presents in Association with Legendary Pictures, a Playtone Production in Association with DNA Productions
  • Gordon Goodwin – Bah Humduck! A Looney Tunes Christmas – Warner Bros. Animation
  • Laura Karpman – A Monkey’s Tale – Dedica Group
  • Randy Newman – Cars – Pixar Animation Studios
  • John Powell – Ice Age: The Meltdown – Blue Sky Studios

Production Design in an Animated Feature Production

  • William Cone – Cars – Pixar Animation Studios
  • Andy Harkness – Open Season – Sony Pictures Animation/Columbia Pictures
  • Michael Humphries – Open Season – Sony Pictures Animation/Columbia Pictures
  • Paul Shardlow – Over The Hedge – DreamWorks Animation
  • Pierre-Olivier Vincent – Flushed Away – DreamWorks Animation & Aardman Features

Storyboarding in an Animated Feature Production

  • Thom Enriquez Over The Hedge – DreamWorks Animation
  • William H. Frake III Ice Age: The Meltdown – Blue Sky Studios
  • Gary Graham Over The Hedge – DreamWorks Animation
  • Kris Pearn Open Season – Sony Pictures Animation/Columbia Pictures
  • Simon Wells Flushed Away – DreamWorks Animation & Aardman Features

Voice Acting in an Animated Feature Production

  • Maggie Gyllenhaal – Voice of Zee – Monster House – Columbia Pictures ImageMovers/Amblin Entertainment
  • Sam Lerner – Voice of Chowder – Monster House – Columbia Pictures ImageMovers/Amblin Entertainment
  • Spencer Locke – Voice of Jenny – Monster House – Columbia Pictures ImageMovers/Amblin Entertainment
  • Ian McKellen – Voice of the Toad – Flushed Away – DreamWorks Animation & Aardman Features
  • Wanda Sykes – Voice of Stella – Over The Hedge – DreamWorks Animation

Writing in an Animated Feature Production

  • Rich Burns – Brother Bear 2 – DisneyToon Studios
  • Dick Clement & Ian La Frenais and Chris Lloyd & Joe Keenan and Will Davies – Flushed Away – DreamWorks Animation & Aardman Features
  • Dan Harman, Rob Schrab & Pamela Pettler – Monster House – Columbia Pictures Presents an ImageMovers/Amblin Entertainment
  • Dan Fogelman – Cars – Pixar Animation Studios
  • George Miller, John Collee, Judy Morris & Warren Coleman – Happy Feet – Warner Bros. Pictures Presents in Association with Village Roadshow Pictures, A Kennedy Miller Production in Association with Animal Logic Film

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