Sunday, February 18, 2024

Annie Awards: ‘Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse’ Takes Best Feature And Tops Winners

The Sony Animation sequel snared Best Feature and six other trophies the same number that SpiderMan Into the SpiderVerse scored at the 2019 Annies setting it up as the frontrunner for the Animated Feature Oscar next month. SpiderMan Into the SpiderVerse went on to take Best Animated Feature at the 91st Academy Awards. Since the Best Animated Feature Oscar category was launched in 2002, 14 of the 21 winners of the Annies top feature prize and seven of the past 11 went on to claim the golden statuette. Last year followed suit, as Netflixs Guillermo del Toros Pinocchio triumphed at both trophy shows. On Sunday, SpiderMan scored wins for Directing, Music, Production Design, Character Design, FX and editing. Gkids Hayao Miyazaki hit The Boy and the Heron and Netflixs Nimona the latter of which came into the ceremony with a leading nine nominations were the other top film winners, taking two trophies apiece Robot Dreams from Arcadia Motion Pictures won Best Feature Independent. Those three films will battle for the Academy Award next month against SpiderVerse and Disney/Pixars Elemental. Nimona won tonight for Writing and Voice Acting for Chlo Grace Moretz, while The Boy and the Heron won Best Storyboarding for its director Hayao Miyazaki and for Character Animation. Sunday marked the first time in 32 years no Disney or Pixar film was up for the Annies top prize, and their Elemental went home emptyhanded tonight. So did Paramount/Nickelodeons Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Mutant Mayhem and Tohos anime Suzume, which also were nominated for Best Feature tonight. The TV categories were a rout for Netflixs Blue Eye Samurai, which landed a halfdozen trophies, scooping up wins for Writing, editing, FX, Character Design, Production Design and Best TV/Media for Mature Audiences. Disney Television Animations Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur won three Annies, and Lucasfilms Star Wars Visions got two the only smallscreen titles to take multiple prizes. Heres the complete list of winners BEST FEATURE SpiderMan Across the SpiderVerse Sony Pictures Animation BEST FEATURE INDEPENDENT Robot Dreams Arcadia Motion Pictures BEST DIRECTION FEATURE Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers, Justin K. Thompson SpiderMan Across the SpiderVerse Sony Pictures Animation BEST DIRECTION TV/MEDIA Paul Young Star Wars Visions Episode Screechers Reach Lucasfilm Ltd. / Cartoon Saloon BEST STORYBOARDING FEATURE Hayao Miyazaki The Boy and the Heron Studio Ghibli / Distributed by Gkids BEST STORYBOARDING TV/MEDIA Ben Juwono Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur Episode Goodnight Moon Girl Disney Television Animation / Cinema Gypsy Productions BEST TV/MEDIA LIMITED SERIES Kizazi Moto Generation Fire Episode Enkai Triggerfish & Blinkink BEST TV/MEDIA MATURE Blue Eye Samurai Episode Pilot Hammerscale A Netflix Series / 3 Arts Entertainment and Blue Spirit Productions BEST TV/MEDIA CHILDREN Hilda Episode Chapter 8 The Fairy Isle Hilda Productions Limited, a Silvergate Media Company, Netflix Inc. and Mercury Filmworks BEST TV/MEDIA PRESCHOOL Ghee Happy Episode Navagraha Ghee Happy Studio BEST WRITING FEATURE Robert L. Baird, Lloyd Taylor Nimona Annapurna Animation for Netflix BEST WRITING TV/MEDIA Amber Noizumi Blue Eye Samurai Episode The Tale of the Ronin and the Bride A Netflix Series / 3 Arts Entertainment and Blue Spirit Productions BEST VOICE ACTING FEATURE Chlo Grace Moretz (character Nimona) Nimona Annapurna Animation for Netflix BEST VOICE ACTING TV/MEDIA Diamond White (character Lunella Lafayette / Moon Girl) Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur Episode Moon Girl Landing Disney Television Animation / Cinema Gypsy Productions BEST EDITORIAL FEATURE SpiderMan Across the SpiderVerse Editorial Team SpiderMan Across the SpiderVerse Sony Pictures Animation BEST EDITORIAL TV/MEDIA Yuka Shirasuna Blue Eye Samurai Episode The Tale of the Ronin and the Bride A Netflix Series / 3 Arts Entertainment and Blue Spirit Productions BEST FX FEATURE Pav Grochola, Filippo Maccari, Naoki Kato, Nicola Finizio, Edmond Boulet Gilly SpiderMan Across the SpiderVerse Sony Pictures Animation FX Sony Pictures Imageworks BEST FX TV/MEDIA Thomas Decaens, Karl Burtin, Laurent Bretonniere Blue Eye Samurai Episode All Evil Dreams and Angry Words A Netflix Series / 3 Arts Entertainment and Blue Spirit Productions FX Blue Spirit BEST CHARACTER ANIMATION FEATURE Takeshi Honda The Boy and the Heron Studio Ghibli Distributed by Gkids BEST CHARACTER ANIMATION TV/MEDIA Alex Blue Eye Samurai Episodes 101, 104 and 106 A Netflix Series / 3 Arts Entertainment and Blue Spirit Productions BEST CHARACTER ANIMATION LIVE ACTION Fernando Herrera, Chris Hurtt, Nathan McConnel, Daniel Cabral, Chris McGaw s of the Galaxy Vol. 3 Marvel Studios FX Framestore BEST CHARACTER ANIMATION VIDEO GAME Insomniac Games Animation Team Marvels SpiderMan 2 Insomniac Games BEST CHARACTER DESIGN FEATURE Jess Alonso Iglesias SpiderMan Across the SpiderVerse Sony Pictures Animation BEST CHARACTER DESIGN TV/MEDIA Jose Lopez Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur Episode The Beyonder Disney Television Animation / Cinema Gypsy Productions BEST MUSIC FEATURE Daniel Pemberton, Metro Boomin SpiderMan Across the SpiderVerse Sony Pictures Animation BEST MUSIC TV/MEDIA Markus Wormstorm, Nadia Darries, Dineo du Toit Star Wars Visions Episode Aaus Song Lucasfilm Ltd. / Triggerfish BEST SPONSORED Video Games by Tenacious D Pinreel Inc BEST SPECIAL PRODUCTION Snoopy Presents OneofaKind Marcie WildBrain Studios in association with Apple BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN FEATURE Patrick OKeefe, Dean Gordon SpiderMan Across the SpiderVerse Sony Pictures Animation BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN TV/MEDIA Toby Wilson, James Wilson, Emil Mitev Blue Eye Samurai Episode The Great Fire of 1657 A Netflix Series / 3 Arts Entertainment and Blue Spirit Production BEST SHORT SUBJECT War Is Over! Inspired by the Music of John & Yoko ElectroLeague BEST STUDENT FILM The Little Poet Student director Justine King School California Institute of the Arts Previously Announced The Winsor McCay Award for Lifetime or Career Contributions Charlotte Lotte Reiniger (posthumous) Joe Hisaishi Marcy Page The June Foray Award (Significant and benevolent or charitable impact) BRIC Foundation (Alison Mann and Nicole Hendrix, cofounders) The Ub Lwerks Award (Technical advancement affecting the animation industry) John Oxberry (posthumous)

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