Saturday, February 17, 2024

2024 Annie Award Predictions!

 2023

1. Best Feature

The Boy and the Heron

Studio Ghibli / Distributed by GKIDS


2. Best Feature-Independent

Ernest & Celestine: A Trip to Gibberitia

Folivari, Mélusine Productions, Studio Canal / Distributed by GKIDS


3. Best Special Production

Shape Island: The Winter Blues

Bix Pix Entertainment in association with Apple


4. Best Short Subject


Daffy in Wackyland

Warner Bros. Animation


5. Best Sponsored

"Video Games" by Tenacious D

Pinreel Inc.


6. Best TV/Media - Preschool

StoryBots: Answer Time

Episode: Fractions

JibJab Bros. Studios for Netflix


7. Best TV/Media - Children


Hilda

Episode: Chapter 8: The Fairy Isle

Hilda Productions Limited, a Silvergate Media Company, Netflix Inc. and Mercury Filmworks


8. Best TV/Media - Mature


Blue Eye Samurai

Episode: Pilot: Hammerscale

A Netflix Series / 3 Arts Entertainment and Blue Spirit Productions


9. Best TV/Media – Limited Series


Only You: An Animated Shorts Collection

Episode: Yellowbird

An Afterman production in association with Max/Warner Bros. Discovery


10. Best Student Film


The Little Poet

Student Director: Justine King

Student Producer: Justine King

School: California Institute of the Arts


11. Best FX - TV/Media

Blue Eye Samurai

Episode: All Evil Dreams and Angry Words

Production Company: A Netflix Series / 3 Arts Entertainment and Blue Spirit Productions

FX Production Company: Blue Spirit

Thomas Decaens, Karl Burtin, Laurent Bretonniere


12. Best FX - Feature

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

Production Company: Sony Pictures Animation

FX Production Company: Sony Pictures Imageworks

Pav Grochola, Filippo Maccari, Naoki Kato, Nicola Finizio, Edmond Boulet-Gilly


13. Best Character Animation - TV/Media


THE AMAZING DIGITAL CIRCUS: PILOT

Episode: 1

Glitch Productions

Kevin Temmer


14. Best Character Animation - Feature


The Boy and the Heron

Studio Ghibli / Distributed by GKIDS

Takeshi Honda


15. Best Character Animation - Live Action

Ahsoka

Production Company: Lucasfilm Ltd.

FX Production Company: Industrial Light & Magic

Rick O’Connor, Mike Beaulieu, Stewart Alves, Kevin Reuter, Wai Kit Wan


16. Best Character Animation - Video Game


Hogwarts Legacy

Avalanche Software

The Hogwarts Legacy Animation Team


17. Best Character Design - TV/Media


Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur

Episode: 515M-106 (The Beyonder)

Disney Television Animation / Cinema Gypsy Productions

Jose Lopez


18. Best Character Design - Feature


Nimona

Annapurna Animation for Netflix

Aidan Sugano


19. Best Direction - TV/Media


Pokémon Concierge

Episode: #2 What’s on Your Mind, Psyduck?

dwarf studios for Netflix

Iku Ogawa


20. Best Direction - Feature


Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

Sony Pictures Animation

Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers, Justin K. Thompson


21. Best Music - TV/Media

Animaniacs

Episode: Talladega Mice

Warner Brothers Animation/Amblin Entertainment/HULU Originals

Steven Bernstein, Julie Bernstein


22. Best Music - Feature


The Boy and the Heron

Studio Ghibli / Distributed by GKIDS

Joe Hisaishi


23. Best Production Design - TV/Media


Star Wars: Visions

Episode: Sith

Lucasfilm Ltd.

Carlos Salgado


24. Best Production Design - Feature


The Boy and the Heron

Studio Ghibli / Distributed by GKIDS

Yoji Takeshige


25. Best Storyboarding - TV/Media

Craig Before The Creek

Episode: Craig Before The Creek

Cartoon Network Studios

Erik Fountain


26. Best Storyboarding - Feature


The Boy and the Heron

Studio Ghibli / Distributed by GKIDS

Hayao Miyazaki


27. Best Voice Acting - TV/Media


Craig Before The Creek

Episode: Craig Before The Creek

Cartoon Network Studios

Vico Ortiz (Character: Serena)



28. Best Voice Acting - Feature


The Super Mario Bros. Movie

Illumination

Jack Black (Character: Bowser)


29. Best Writing - TV/Media


Rock, Paper, Scissors

Episode: Birthday Police

Nickelodeon Animation Studios

Josh Lehrman, Kyle Stegina, Aram Spencer Porter, Julia Prescott, Mike Trapp


30. Best Writing - Feature

Nimona

Annapurna Animation for Netflix

Robert L. Baird, Lloyd Taylor


31. Best Editorial - TV/Media


Hilda

Episode: Chapter 6: The Forgotten Lake

Hilda Productions Limited, a Silvergate Media Company, Netflix Inc. and Mercury Filmworks

John Mckinnon, Mike Stefanelli


32. Best Editorial - Feature

Elemental

Pixar Animation Studios

Stephen Schaffer, Amera Rizk, Gregory Snyder, Jen Jew, Kevin Rose-Williams