Animation’s biggest night is often considered to be represented by the Annie Awards, which focuses solely on honoring achievements in the world of animation. Pixar’s 2013 feature film, Monsters University, and television special, Toy Story OF TERROR!, were major hits among audiences but also garnered a combined fourteen Annie nominations. The awards were held last night in Hollywood, and the animation studio walked away with five trophies! See the categories Pixar’s projects won after the break!
Monsters University‘s Greg Snyder, Gregory Amundson, and Steve Bloom won for their Editorial work, while Dean Kelly won for Storyboarding, giving the film two Annie Awards. Meanwhile, Toy Story of Terror‘s Kureha Yokoo won for Character Animation, Daniel Chong for Storyboarding, and Angus MacLane for directing. MacLane’s directing award was Pixar’s biggest award of the night, a nice nod to the great TV special. Pixar is currently developing a Toy Story Christmas special for this year, and if it approaches the quality of the Halloween special, we are in for a treat.
View the five categories that Pixar won below:
Outstanding Achievement, Editorial in an Animated Feature Production
- Darren Holmes – The Croods – DreamWorks Animation
- James Ryan – Turbo – DreamWorks Animation
- Fabienne Alvarez-Giro – Ernest & Celestine – GKIDS
- Greg Snyder, Gregory Amundson, Steve Bloom – Monsters University – Pixar Animation Studios
- Jeff Draheim – Frozen – Walt Disney Animation Studios
Outstanding Achievement, Storyboarding in an Animated Feature Production
- Steven MacLeod – The Croods – DreamWorks Animation
- Eric Favela – Despicable Me 2 – Illumination Entertainment/Universal Pictures
- Dean Kelly – Monsters University – Pixar Animation Studios
- Jason Hand – Planes – Disneytoon Studios
- John Ripa – Frozen – Walt Disney Animation Studios
Outstanding Achievement, Character Animation in an Animated Television/Broadcast Production
- Brad Schaffer – Friendship All-Stars of Friendship: Wrong Number – Stoopid Buddy Stoodios
- Eric Urban – Ubermansion – Stoopid Buddy Stoodios
- JC Tran Quang Thieu – Toy Story OF TERROR! – Pixar Animation Studios
- David DeVan – Toy Story OF TERROR! – Pixar Animation Studios
- Kureha Yokoo – Toy Story OF TERROR! – Pixar Animation Studios
- Keith Kellogg – Star Wars: The Clone Wars – Lucasfilm Animation
Outstanding Achievement, Directing in an Animated TV/Broadcast Production
- Colin Heck – The Legend of Korra – Nickelodeon Animation
- Elaine Bogan – Dragons: Defenders of Berk – DreamWorks Animation
- Stephan Franck – The Smurfs: The Legend of Smurfy Hollow – Sony Pictures Animation
- John Aoshima – Disney Gravity Falls – Disney Television Animation
- Aaron Springer – Disney Mickey Mouse – Disney Television Animation
- Angus MacLane – Toy Story OF TERROR! – Pixar Animation Studios
- Harold Harris – Justin Time – Guru Studio
Outstanding Achievement, Storyboarding in an Animated TV/Broadcast Production
- Piero Piluso – Monsters vs. Aliens – Nickelodeon Animation Studio
- Douglas Lovelace – Dragons: Riders of Berk – DreamWorks Animation
- Adam Ford, Deke Wightman, Kevin Mellon, Justin Wagner, Benji Williams – Archer – FX Networks
- Alonso Ramos-Ramirez – Disney Mickey Mouse – Disney Television Animation
- Daniel Chong – Toy Story of TERROR! – Pixar Animation Studios
- Alonso Ramos-Ramirez – Gravity Falls – Disney Television Animation
- Guillermo Del Toro, Guy Davis, Ralph Sosa – The Simpsons — “Treehouse of Horror XXIV” — Gracie Films in Association with 20th Century Fox TV
- Paul Watling – Justin Time – Guru Studio
Congratulations to the projects’ creative teams on their big wins!
Frozen had a huge night for Disney Animation. Read more about that here!
