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ASIFA-Hollywood
The 51st Annual Annie Awards will be presented tonight at UCLA’s Royce Hall, and Deadline updates the list of winners as they are announced.
See the titles and people honored by ASIFA-Hollywood below, where you can also watch the live broadcast of the ceremony.
Netflix nimona enter the ceremony with top nine nominationsbefore the success of Hayao Miyazaki of Gkids The boy and the heron and sony global crush Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Versewho have seven nominations each.
Spiderman has already gotten the first shots among the favorites tonight, scoring first wins for Daniel Pemberton and Metro Boomin in music, production design, character design, special effects and editing. The boy and the heron took the award for Best Character Animation. On the television side, Netflix blue eyed samurai has won four trophies so far to lead the way.
Nimona, Spider-Man and The boy and the heron are up for Best Picture tonight along with the Toho anime Suzumewhich also earned seven Annie nominations, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem from Paramount and Nickelodeon Film, which scored six. It is the first time in 32 years that no Disney or Pixar film is competing for the Annies’ top prize.
Since the Academy Awards’ Best Animated Feature category was launched in 2002, 14 of the 21 winners of the Annies’ top prize (and seven of the last 11) have gone on to win Oscar gold. Last year it did the same, since Netflix Pinocchio by Guillermo del Toro he triumphed in both trophy shows.
This year the race for the Oscar for Best Animated Feature is between Nimona, The Boy and the Heron, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, Elemental and Robot dreams. The winners will be announced on March 10 at the Dolby Theater in Hollywood.
Here are the 2024 Annie Awards winners so far, including the previously announced juried awards:
BEST EDITORIAL – ARTICLE
Spider-Man: Via the Spider-Verse Editorial Team
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
Sony Image Animation
BEST EDITORIAL – TV/MEDIA
Yuka Shirasuna
blue eyed samurai
Episode: The Tale of 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
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
Sony Image Animation
Effects: Sony Pictures Imageworks
BEST FX – TV/MEDIA
Thomas Decaens, Karl Burtin, Laurent Bretonniere
blue eyed samurai
Episode: All the bad dreams and angry words
A Netflix series / 3 Arts Entertainment and Blue Spirit Productions
FX: Blue Spirit
BEST CHARACTER ANIMATION – FEATURE
Sling
The boy and the heron
Studio Ghibli Distributed by Gkids
BEST CHARACTER ANIMATION – TV/MEDIA
Alex Bardo
blue eyed 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
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
marvel studios
FX: frame shop
BEST CHARACTER ANIMATION – VIDEO GAME
Insomniac Games Animation Team
Marvel’s Spider-Man 2
Games for insomniacs
BEST CHARACTER DESIGN – ARTICLE
Jesus Alonso Iglesias.
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
Sony Image Animation
BEST CHARACTER DESIGN – TV/MEDIA
Jose Lopez
Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur
Episode: The Afterlife
Disney Television Animation / Film Gypsy Productions
BEST MUSIC – ARTICLE
Daniel Pemberton, Metro Boomin
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
Sony Image Animation
BEST MUSIC – TV/MEDIA
Markus Wormstorm, Nadia Darries, Dineo du Toit
Star Wars: Visions
Episode: Aau’s Song
Lucasfilm Ltd. / Triggerfish
BEST SPONSORED
“Video Games” by Tenacious D
Pinreel Inc.
BEST SPECIAL PRODUCTION
Snoopy presents: Marcie, one of a kind
WildBrain Studios in partnership with Apple
BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN – ARTICLE
Patrick O’Keefe, Dean Gordon
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
Sony Image Animation
BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN – TV/MEDIA
Toby Wilson, James Wilson, Emil Mitev
blue eyed samurai
Episode: The Great Fire of 1657
A Netflix series / 3 Arts Entertainment and production by Blue Spirit
BEST SHORT THEME
War is over! Inspired by the music of John and Yoko
ElectroLiga
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 Professional Contributions
Charlotte “Lotte” Reiniger (posthumous)
Joe Hisaishi
marcy page
The June Raid Award (Significant and benevolent or charitable impact)
BRIC Foundation (Alison Mann and Nicole Hendrix, co-founders)
UB Lwerks Award (Technical advance that affects the animation industry)
John Oxberry (posthumous)
The Special Achievement Award (Unique and outstanding achievement not recognized within the existing award category structure)
Walt Disney Animation Artists