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2007 Annie Movie NominationsInternational Animated Film Society,ASIFA-Hollywood Pick Best Toons
Here are the nominees for the 25th Annual Annie Awards, which will be presented February 8, 2008 at UCLA's Royce Hall, in Los Angeles, CA.
Yes, the award season is starting again, and by far the most accurate indicator of how The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will vote when it comes to animation is the Annie Awards. This year is the 35th time the International Film Society, ASIFA-Hollywood is putting on the show, meant to honour the best in animated feature films and television productions in a given year. Until last year, the winner of the Best Picture always went on to win the Oscar for Best Animated Feature Film. That winning streak snapped when AMPAS honoured Warner Bros.' Happy Feet instead of the Annies' pick, Disney/Pixar's Cars. Disney/Pixar's Ratatouille is the heavyweight this year with 13 nominations, including Best Animated Feature and individual nominations for directing, writing, character animation, animated effects (two nominations), production design, storyboarding, character design, character animation, music and voice acting (three nominations). Sony Pictures Animations' Surf's Up has 10 feature nominations for feature, animated effects, animation production artists, character animation (two nominations), character design, and directing. Here is the full list of nominees below. 2007 ANNIE AWARD NOMINATIONS BY CATEGORYPRODUCTION CATEGORIESBest Animated Feature- Bee Movie (DreamWorks Animation) - Persepolis (Sony Pictures Classics) - Ratatouille (Pixar Animation Studios) - Surf's Up (Sony Pictures Animation) - The Simpsons Movie (Twentieth Century Fox) Best Animated Short Subject- Everything Will Be OK (Bitter Films) - How to Hook Up Your Home Theater (Walt Disney Feature Animation) - Shorty McShorts Shorts "Mascot Prep" (Walt Disney Television Animation) - The Chestnut Tree (Picnic Pictures) - Your Friend the Rat (Pixar Animation Studios) Best Animated Video Game- Avatar: The Last Airbender "The Burning Earth" (THQ, Inc.) - Bee Movie Game (Activision) - Ratatouille (THQ, Inc.) - Transformers: The Game (Blur Studios) INDIVIDUAL ACHIEVEMENT CATEGORIESAnimated Effects- Gary Bruins Ratatouille (Pixar Animation Studios) - Deborah Carlson Surf's Up (Sony Pictures Animation) - Ryan Laney Spider-Man 3 (Sony Pictures Imageworks) - James Mansfield "How to Hook Up Your Home Theater" (Walt Disney Feature Animation) - Jon Reisch Ratatouille (Pixar Animation Studios) Animation Production Artist- John Clark Surf's Up (Sony Pictures Animation) - Michael Isaak Bee Movie (DreamWorks Animation) - Hyun-Min Lee The Chestnut Tree (Picnic Pictures) - Natasha Liberman Growing Up Creepie "Creepie & The Candy Factory" (Taffy Entertainment LLC, Telegrael Teoranta, Discovery Communications Inc., SunWoo Entertainment, Peach Blossom Media) - Jim Worthy My Gym Partner's A Monkey "Meet the Spidermonkeys" (Cartoon Network Studios) Character Animation in a Feature Production- Dave Hardin Surf's Up (Sony Pictures Animation) - Alan Hawkins Surf's Up (Sony Pictures Animation) - Michal Makarewicz Ratatouille (Pixar Animation Studios) Character Design in an Animated Feature Production- Sylvain Deboissy Surf's Up (Sony Pictures Animation) - Carter Goodrich Ratatouille (Pixar Animation Studios) Directing in an Animated Feature Production- Brad Bird Ratatouille (Pixar Animation Studios) - Ash Brannon & Chris Buck Surf's Up (Sony Pictures Animation) - Chris Miller & Raman Hui Shrek The Third (DreamWorks Animation) - Vincent Paronnaud & Marjane Satrapi Persepolis (Sony Pictures Classics) - David Silverman The Simpsons Movie (Twentieth Century Fox) Music in an Animated Feature Production- Olivier Bernet Persepolis (Sony Pictures Classics) - Danny Elfman, Rufus Wainwright & Rob Thomas Meet The Robinsons (Walt Disney Feature Animation) Michael Giacchino "Ratatouille" Pixar Animation Studios - Rupert Gregson-Williams Bee Movie (DreamWorks Animation) - Amy Powers, Russ DeSalvo & Jeff Danna "Disney Princess Enchanted Tales" (DisneyToon Studios/Walt Disney Video/Disney Enterprises, Inc.) Production Design in an Animated Feature Production- Doug Chiang Beowulf (Paramount Pictures) - Harley Jessup Ratatouille (Pixar Animation Studios) - Marcelo Vignali Surf's Up (Sony Pictures Animation) Storyboarding in an Animated Feature Production- Don Hall Meet The Robinsons (Walt Disney Feature Animation) - Denise Koyama Surf's Up (Sony Pictures Animation) - Ted Mathot Ratatouille (Pixar Animation Studios) - Sean Song Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (IMAGI Animation Studios) - Nassos Vakalis Bee Movie (DreamWorks Animation) Voice Acting in an Animated Feature Production- Janeane Garofalo Voice of Collette Ratatouille (Pixar Animation Studios) - Ian Holm Voice of Skinner Ratatouille (Pixar Animation Studios) - Julie Kavner Voice of Marge Simpson The Simpsons Movie (Twentieth Century Fox) - Patton Oswalt Voice of Remy Ratatouille (Pixar Animation Studios) - Patrick Warburton Voice of Ken Bee Movie (DreamWorks Animation) Writing in an Animated Feature Production- Brad Bird Ratatouille (Pixar Animation Studios) - James L. Brooks, Matt Groening, Al Jean, Ian Maxtone-Graham, George Meyer, David, Mirkin, Mike Reiss, Mike Scully, Matt Selman, John Swartzwelder & Jon Vitti The Simpsons Movie (Twentieth Century Fox) - Don Rhymer and Ash Brannon & Chris Buck & Christopher Jenkins Surf's Up (Sony Pictures Animation) - Marjane Satrapi & Vincent Paronnaud Persepolis (Sony Pictures Classics) WINSOR MCCAY AWARD WINNERSThere will also be three Winsor McCay winners this year. The lifetime achievement award honours those who have made career contributions to the art of animation. Their names, plus a short bio courtesy of ASIFA-Hollywood, appear below. John Canemaker - Animation historian, educator, Oscar winning filmmaker. Canemaker's tomes on Windsor McCay and Felix The Cat, his numerous books on Disney history (The Nine Old Men, Mary Blair, etc.) are esstential references. Canemaker is Chair of NYU's Animation Program and won an Academy Award for his animated short The Moon And The Son: An Imagined Conversation. Glen Keane - One of the leading lights in the current generation of Disney character animators, Keane's artistry has been the bedrock of many classic animated features since 1977. Most notably, Keane was lead animator of Ariel in The Little Mermaid, The Beast in Beauty and The Beast, and animated the characters Aladdin, Tarzan, Pocahontas in their respective Disney films. Aside from Disney he's worked on animated films of Star Trek and Alvin and the Chipmunks. John Kricfalusi - Notorious animator Kricfalusi created the influential Ren & Stimpy Show in 1991. He restored an individual look to TV animation, pushing the envelope during the "creator-driven" movement of the 1990s. He also pioneered the use of artist-driven Flash animation. His animated films and design style currently influences a new generation of cartoonists, with which he communicates personally to through his blog. Other Special Annie AwardsThe June Foray Award, for significant and benevolent or charitable impact on the art and industry of animation, goes to animation historian Jerry Beck. Ub Iwerks Award for technical achievement goes to Jonathan Gay, Gary Grossman and Robert Tatsumi, who created FLASH computer software. A Special Achievement Annie Award will be awarded for Edward R. Leonard, who promoted the Linux open system for animation in animation studios and gaming software development. And finally, Certificates of Merit go to Marcus Adams, Jo Jo Batista, Steve Gattuso, Jon Reeves Gemma, and Ross Woodbury University.
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