Annie Awards: Pinocchio di Del Toro ottiene 9 nomination

Pinocchio (Netflix) di Guillermo del Toro è il frontrunner agli Annie Awards, la pellicola Netflix si è aggiudicata ben 9 candidature; seguita da Red (Disney/Pixar) con 7 nomination e con 6 da Il gatto con gli stivali 2 – L’ultimo desiderio (Universal/DreamWorks) e Il mostro dei mari (Netflix). Con 5 invece Troppo cattivi (Universal/DreamWorks).

Per quanto riguarda le serie e gli speciali con il maggior numero di candidature è andato a Il bambino, la talpa, la volpe e il cavallo (Apple TV+), seguito con 6 da The House (Netflix) e da Oni: Thunder God’s Tale (Netflix) della Tonko House; con 5 da Love, Death + Robots (Netflix) e infine 3 nomination per BAYMAX! (Disney+).

INU-OH di Masaki Yuasa ha ricevuto due nomination: miglior lungometraggio indipendente e miglior sceneggiatura. Cyberpunk: Edgerunners dello Studio Trigger è stato nominato per miglior storyboard in TV/Media mentre Exception della Tatsunoko ha ricevuto una candidatura per miglior regia in TV/Media.

L’episodio Treehouse of Horror XXXIII dei Simpsons (20th Television Animation), che contiene la parodia di Death Note dello studio Sud-Coreao DR Movie è stato nominato nella categoria Maturo di TV/Media. Assieme a Bob’s Burgers (20th TV, Bento Box); Harley Quinn (Warner Bros. Animation); Rick and Morty (Rick and Morty, LLC); e Tuca & Bertie (The Tornante Company).

Premi della giuria

Il Premio Winsor McCay come riconoscimento per i contributi di una vita o nel corso della carriera andrà a:

• Pete Docter, sceneggiatore/regista di lungometraggi d’animazione e amministratore delegato della Pixar.
• Evelyn Lambart (postumo), collaboratrice del National Film Board of Canada, che ha realizzato una serie significativa di cortometraggi.
• Craig McCracken, prolifico e influente creatore di serie televisive.

– Mindy Johnson, autrice, storica ed educatrice riceverà il premio June Foray per l’impatto significativo e benevolo o caritatevole.

– Il Premio Ub Iwerks per il progresso tecnico nell’industria dell’animazione sarà assegnato alla Visual Effects Reference Platform, sviluppata inizialmente da Nick Cannon e Francois Chardavoine per eliminare le incompatibilità tra i software di creazione di contenuti digitali.

– John Omohundro riceverà il Certificate of Merit Award per il servizio reso all’arte e all’industria.

La cerimonia di premiazione si terrà il 25 febbraio all’UCLA’s Royce Hall.

Ecco l’elenco completo delle nomination nelle 30 categorie della 50a edizione degli Annie Awards, annunciato oggi dall’ASIFA-Hollywood.

BEST FEATURE

• Turning Red – Pixar Animation Studios
• Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio– Netflix Presents A Double Dare You! Film / A ShadowMachine Production in association with The Jim Henson Company
• Puss in Boots: The Last Wish– DreamWorks Animation
• The Sea Beast – Netflix
• Wendell & Wild – Netflix Presents A Monkeypaw Production / A Gotham Group Production

BEST INDIE FEATURE

• Charlotte – January Films, Ltd., Balthazar Productions, and Walking the Dog
• Inu-Oh – Science SARU
• Little Nicholas, Happy as Can Be – On Classics (Mediawan) / Bidibul Productions
• Marcel the Shell with Shoes On – Marcel the Movie LLC
• My Father’s Dragon – Cartoon Saloon for Netflix

BEST SPECIAL PRODUCTION

• Prehistoric Planet – BBC Studios in association with Apple
• Superworm – Magic Light Pictures
• The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse – NoneMore Productions and Bad Robot Productions
• The House – Nexus Studios for Netflix
• The Sandman – A Netflix Original Series / A Warner Bros. Television Production

BEST SHORT SUBJECT

• Amok – Boddah
• Black Slide – The Hive Studio, in co-production with FlipBook Studio
• Ice Merchants – COLA Animation production & Wild Stream
• Love, Dad – 13ka, in co-production with FAMU & nutprodukcia
• The Flying Sailor – National Film Board of Canada

BEST SPONSORED

• Can’t Negotiate the Melting Point of Ice – NOMINT
• Minions: The Rise of Gru / The Office – Illumination
• Save Ralph – Arch Model Studio ●
• Ted Lasso: The Missing Christmas Mustache – Apple presents a Doozer Production in association with Warner Bros. Television and Universal Television
• Today’s Holiday Moments Are Tomorrow’s Memories – Hornet

BEST TV/MEDIA – PRESCHOOL

• Elinor Wonders Why “Rest Is Best” – SHOE Ink. LLC
• Gabby’s Dollhouse “Cakey’s Cupcake Cousins” – DreamWorks Animation
• Rise Up, Sing Out “Name Tag” – Disney TV Animation
• Spirit Rangers “Thunder Mountain” – Laughing Wild / Netflix
• The Tiny Chef Show “Pancakes” – Tiny Chef Productions LLC / Imagine Entertainment

BEST TV/MEDIA – CHILDREN

• Abominable and the Invisible City “Everest Returns” – DreamWorks Animation
• Big Nate “The Legend of the Gunting” – Nickelodeon Animation
• Moominvalley “Lonely Mountain” – Gutsy Animations
• The Owl House “King’s Tide” – Disney TV Animation
• We Baby Bears “A Real Crayon” – Cartoon Network Studios

BEST TV/MEDIA – MATURE

• Bob’s Burgers “Some Like it Bot Part 1: Eighth Grade Runner” – 20th Television/Bento Box Entertainment
• Harley Quinn “Batman Begins Forever” – Warner Bros. Animation
• Rick and Morty “Night Family” – Rick and Morty LLC
• The Simpsons “Treehouse of Horror XXXIII” – A Gracie Films Production in Association with 20th Television Animation
• Tuca & Bertie “The Pain Garden” – The Tornante Company

BEST TV/MEDIA – LIMITED SERIES

• BAYMAX! “Sofia” – Walt Disney Animation Studios
• El Deafo “Everybody Sounds So Weird” – Lighthouse Studios in association with Apple
• HouseBroken “Who’s Having a Merry Trashmas?” – Kapital Entertainment and FOX Entertainment
• Oni: Thunder God’s Tale “The Demon Moon Rises” – A Netflix Series / A Tonko House Production
• Undone “Rectify” – Tornante Company and Amazon Studios

BEST STUDENT FILM

• Au revoir Jérôme! – Student director: Adam Sillard, Gabrielle Selnet & Chloé Farr | Gobelins, l’école de l’image
• Birdsong – Student director/producer: Michelle Cheng | California Institute of the Arts
• Synchronie Passagère – Student director: Julia Le Bras-Juarez | Supinfocom Rubika
• The Most Boring Granny in the Whole World – Student director: Damaris Zielke | Student producer: Jiayan Chen | Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg GmbH
• The Soloists – Student directors: Mehrnaz Abdollahinia, Feben Elias Woldehawariat, Razahk Issaka, Celeste Jamneck & Yi Liu | Gobelins, l’école de l’image

BEST FX – TV/MEDIA

• Cars on the Road “Road Rumblers” – Pixar Animation Studios – Christopher Foreman, Elana Lederman, John Lockwood, Jae Jun Yi, Justin Ritter
• Love Death + Robots “Bad Traveling” – Blur Studio for Netflix | FX Production Company: Blur Studio – Kirby Miller, Igor Zanic, Joseph H. Coleman, Steven Dupuy, Josh Schwartz
• Prehistoric Planet “Coasts” – BBC Studios in association with Apple | FX Production Company: MPC
• The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse – NoneMore Productions and Bad Robot Productions | FX Production Company: NoneMore Productions – Peter Baynton, Raymond Pang, Martial Coulon
• The House – Nexus Studios for Netflix | FX Production Company: Nexus Studios – Germán Díez, Álvaro Alonso Lomba, Hugo Vieites Caamaño

BEST FX – FEATURE

• Avatar: The Way of Water – 20th Century Studios / Disney Studios | FX Production Company: Wētā FX – Johnathan M. Nixon, David Moraton, Nicholas Illingworth, David Caeiro Cebrian, Alex Nowotny
• Lightyear – Pixar Animation Studios | FX Production Company: Pixar – Carl Kaphan, Cody Harrington, Hope Schroers, Jon Barry, Nate Skeen
• Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio – Netflix Presents A Double Dare You! Film / A ShadowMachine Production in association with The Jim Henson Company | FX Production Company: MPC – Aaron Weintraub, Warren Lawtey, Alireza Malmiri, Baptiste Malbranque, Mikhail Donchenko
• Minions: The Rise of Gru – Illumination – Frank Baradat, Simon Pate, Milan Voukassovitch, Milo Riccarand
• The Sea Beast – Netflix | FX Production Company: Sony Pictures Imageworks – Spencer Lueders, Dmitriy Kolesnik, Kiel Gnebba, Oleksandr (Alex) Loboda, Jeremy Hoey

BEST CHARACTER ANIMATION – TV/MEDIA

• Entergalactic – Netflix / Mad Solar / Khalabo Ink Society / Edelgang – Aziz Kocanagullari
• Oni: Thunder God’s Tale “The Mighty Storm Gods” – A Netflix Series / A Tonko House Production – Toshihiro Nakamura
• StoryBots: Answer Time “Taste” – JibJab Bros. Studios for Netflix – Henrique Baron
• The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse – NoneMore Productions and Bad Robot Productions – Tim Watts
• The House – Nexus Studios for Netflix – Kecy Salangad

BEST CHARACTER ANIMATION – FEATURE

• Turning Red – Pixar Animation Studios – Teresa Falcone
• Turning Red – Pixar Animation Studios – Eric Anderson
• Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio – Netflix Presents A Double Dare You! Film / A ShadowMachine Production in association with The Jim Henson Company – Tucker Barrie
• The Bad Guys – DreamWorks Animation – Jorge Capote
• The Bad Guys – DreamWorks Animation – Min Hong

BEST CHARACTER ANIMATION – LIVE ACTION

• Avatar: The Way of Water – 20th Century Studios / Disney Studios | FX Production Company: Wētā FX – Daniel Barrett, Stuart Adcock, Todd Labonte, Douglas McHale, Stephen Cullingford
• Beast – Universal Pictures, RVK Studios, Will Packer Productions | FX Production Company: Framestore – Alvise Avati, Chris McGaw, Bora Şahin, Krzysztof Boyoko, Laurent Benhamo
• Finch – Amblin Partners, Apple Original Films | FX Production Company: MPC – Simon Allen, Harinarayan Rajeev, Paul Nelson, Matthias Schoenegger
• Jurassic World Dominion – Amblin Entertainment & Universal Pictures | FX Production Company: Industrial Light & Magic – Jance Rubinchik, Alexander Lee, Rich Bentley, Antoine Verney Carron, Sally Wilson
• Peacemaker – HBO Max | FX Production Company: Wētā FX – Michael Cozens, Mark Smith, Kai-Hua Lan, Selene McLean, Richard John Moore

BEST CHARACTER ANIMATION – VIDEO GAME

• Cuphead – The Delicious Last Course – Studio MDHR – Chad Moldenhauer, Hanna Abi-Hanna
• God of War Ragnarök – Santa Monica Studio
• Horizon Forbidden West – Guerrilla – Richard Oud, Jan-Erik Sjovall, Guerrilla Animation Team
• Moss: Book II – Polyarc – Richard Lico
• Potionomics – Voracious Games – Emily Lattanavong , Anguel Bogoev

BEST CHARACTER DESIGN – TV/MEDIA

• Amphibia “The Hardest Thing” – Disney TV Animation – Joe Sparrow
• Entergalactic – Netflix / Mad Solar / Khalabo Ink Society / Edelgang – Meybis Ruiz Cruz
• Love Death + Robots “Jibaro” – Blur Studio for Netflix – Alberto Mielgo
• Oni: Thunder God’s Tale “The Demon Moon Rises” – A Netflix Series / A Tonko House Production – Rebecca Chan
• Spirit Rangers “Belly of the Beast” – Laughing Wild / Netflix – Marie Delmas

BEST CHARACTER DESIGN – FEATURE

• Luck – Skydance LLC – Massimiliano Narciso
• Puss in Boots: The Last Wish – DreamWorks Animation – Jesús Alonso Iglesias
• Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Movie – Nickelodeon Animation Studio – Ida Hem
• The Bad Guys – DreamWorks Animation – Taylor Krahenbuhl
• Wendell & Wild – Netflix Presents A Monkey Paw Production / A Gotham Group Production – Pablo Lobato

BEST DIRECTION – TV/MEDIA

• BAYMAX! “Sofia” – Walt Disney Animation Studios – Lissa Treiman
• exception / エクセプション “Misprint” – Studio 5 / Tatsunoko Production Co., Ltd. for Netflix – Yûzô Satô | サトウユーゾー
• More Than I Want to Remember – Mugeni Film LLC, MTV Entertainment Studios – Amy Bench, Maya Edelman
• Oni: Thunder God’s Tale “The Demon Moon Rises” – A Netflix Series / A Tonko House Production – Daisuke ” Dice” Tsutsumi
• The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse – NoneMore Productions and Bad Robot Productions – Peter Baynton, Charlie Mackesy

BEST DIRECTION – FEATURE

• Turning Red – Pixar Animation Studios – Domee Shi
• Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio – Netflix Presents A Double Dare You! Film / A ShadowMachine Production in association with The Jim Henson Company – Guillermo Del Toro, Mark Gustafson
• Marcel the Shell with Shoes On – Marcel the Movie LLC – Dean Fleischer Camp, Kirsten Lepore, Stephen Chiodo
• My Father’s Dragon – Cartoon Saloon for Netflix – Nora Twomey
• Wendell & Wild – Netflix Presents A Monkey Paw Production / A Gotham Group Production – Henry Selick

BEST MUSIC – TV/MEDIA

• Love Death + Robots “The Very Pulse of the Machine” – Blur Studio for Netflix – Rob Cairns
• Oni: Thunder God’s Tale “Onari’s Kushi Power” – A Netflix Series / A Tonko House Production – Zach Johnston, Matteo Roberts
• The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse – NoneMore Productions and Bad Robot Productions – Isobel Waller-Bridge, Charlie Mackesy
• The Cuphead Show! “Carn-Evil” – Netflix Animation – Ego Plum
• The House – Nexus Studios for Netflix – Gustavo Santaolalla

BEST MUSIC – FEATURE

• Turning Red – Pixar Animation Studios – Ludwig Göransson, Billie Eilish, Finneas O’Connell
• Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio – Netflix Presents A Double Dare You! Film / A ShadowMachine Production in association with The Jim Henson Company – Alexandre Desplat, Roeban Katz, Guillermo del Toro, Patrick McHale
• Mad God – Tippett Studio – Dan Wool
• The Bad Guys – DreamWorks Animation – Daniel Pemberton
• The Sea Beast – Netflix – Mark Mancia, Nell Benjamin, Laurence O’Keefe

BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN – TV/MEDIA

• Genndy Tartakovsky’s Primal “Echoes of Eternity” – Adult Swim ○ Scott Wills
• Mall Stories – Atilla the Grilla – Chromosphere / Kikutowne – Jasmin Lai, Lauren Zurcher, Junyi Wu
• Oni: Thunder God’s Tale “The Demon Moon Rises” – A Netflix Series / A Tonko House Production – Robert Kondo, Rachel Tiep-Daniels, Lia Tin, Yohei Hashizume, Masa Inada
• The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse – NoneMore Productions and Bad Robot Productions – Mike McCain
• The House – Nexus Studios for Netflix – Niklas Nilsson, Alexandra Walker

BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN – FEATURE

• Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio – Netflix Presents A Double Dare You! Film / A ShadowMachine Production in association with The Jim Henson Company – Curt Enderle, Guy Davis
• Mad God – Tippett Studio – Phil Tippett
• Puss in Boots: The Last Wish – DreamWorks Animation – Nate Wragg, Joseph Feinsilver, Claire Keane, Wayne Tsay, Naveen Selvanathan
• The Bad Guys – DreamWorks Animation – Luc Desmarchelier, Floriane Marchix
• The Sea Beast – Netflix – Matthias Lechner, Jung Woonyoung

BEST STORYBOARDING – TV/MEDIA

• Cyberpunk: Edgerunners “Let You Down” – CD Projekt Red in association with Netflix – Kaneko Yoshiyuk
• Kung Fu Panda: The Dragon Knight “The Knight’s Code” – DreamWorks Animation – Grace Liu
• Looney Tunes Cartoons “Hex Appeal” – Warner Bros. Animation – Mike Ruocco
• Love Death + Robots Episode “The Very Pulse of the Machine” – Blur Studio for Netflix – Emily Dean
• The Cuphead Show! “A Very Devil Christmas” – Netflix Animation – Karl Hadrika

BEST STORYBOARDING – FEATURE

• Minions: The Rise of Gru – Illumination – Nima Azarba
• Minions: The Rise of Gru – Illumination – Dave Feiss
• Puss in Boots: The Last Wish – DreamWorks Animation – Anthony Holden
• Strange World – Walt Disney Animation Studios – Jeff Snow
• Strange World – Walt Disney Animation Studios – Javier Ledesma Barboll

BEST VOICE ACTING – TV/MEDIA

• Looney Tunes Cartoons “Hex Appeal” – Warner Bros. Animation – Candi Milo (character: Witch Hazel)
• StoryBots: Answer Time “Glue” – JibJab Bros. Studios for Netflix – Fred Tatsciore (character: Bang)
• Teen Titans Go! & DC Super Hero Girls Mayhem in the Multiverse – Warner Bros Animation – Tara Strong (character: Harley Quinn)
• The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder “New Kids on the Block” – Disney TV Animation – Karen Malina White (character: Dijonay Jones)
• Zootopia+ “The Godfather of the Bride” – Walt Disney Animation Studios – Maurice LaMarche (Character: Mr. Big)

BEST VOICE ACTING – FEATURE

• Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio – Netflix Presents A Double Dare You! Film / A Shadowmachine Production in association with The Jim Henson Company – David Bradley (character: Geppetto)
• Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio – Netflix Presents A Double Dare You! Film / A Shadowmachine Production in association with The Jim Henson Company – Gregory Mann (character: Pinocchio)
• Marcel the Shell with Shoes On – Marcel the Movie LLC – Jenny Slate (character: Marcel)
• Puss in Boots: The Last Wish – DreamWorks Animation – Wagner Moura (character: Wolf)
• The Sea Beast – Netflix – Zaris-Angel Hator (character: Maisie Brumble)

BEST WRITING – TV/MEDIA

• BAYMAX! “Sofia” – Walt Disney Animation Studios – Cirocco Dunlap
• Big Nate “The Legend of the Gunting” – Nickelodeon Animation Studio – Mitch Watson, Emily Brundige, Ben Lapides, Sarah Allan
• Love Death + Robots “Bad Traveling” – Blur Studio for Netflix – Andrew Kevin Walker
• The House – Nexus Studios for Netflix – Enda Walsh
• Tuca & Bertie “The Pain Garden” – The Tornante Company ○ Lisa Hanawalt

BEST WRITING – FEATURE

• Turning Red – Pixar Animation Studios – Domee Shi, Julia Cho
• Eternal Spring (長春) – Lofty Sky Entertainment Inc. – Jason Loftus
• Inu-Oh – Science SARU – Akiko Nogi
• Marcel the Shell with Shoes On – Marcel the Movie LLC –  Dean Fleischer Camp, Jenny Slate, Nick Paley, Elisabeth Holm

BEST EDITORIAL – TV/MEDIA

• Amphibia “All In” – Disney TV Animation – Andrew Sorcini, Yoonah Yim, Jennifer Calbi, Julie Anne Lau, Louis Russell
• Green Eggs and Ham “The Sam Who Came in from the Cold” – Gulfstream Pictures/ A Stern Talking To/A Very Good Production in association with Warner Bros. Animation for Netflix – Margaret Hou
• Karma’s World “Keys, The Inventor” – 9 Story Media Group, Brown Bag Films and Karma’s World Entertainment for Netflix – Damien Dunne, Ultan Murphy, Emma O’Brien, Fred O’Connor, Aiden McKenna
• Star Trek: Lower Decks “The Stars at Night”– CBS’s Eye Animation Productions, Titmouse; Secret Hideout; and Roddenberry Entertainment – Andy Maxwell, Zach Lamplugh, Brandon Brocker, Paul Mazzotta
• The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse – NoneMore Productions and Bad Robot Productions – Daniel Budin

BEST EDITORIAL – FEATURE

• Lightyear – Pixar Animation Studios – Tony Greenberg, Katie Bishop, Chloe Kloezeman, Axel Geddes, Tim Fox
• Turning Red – Pixar Animation Studios – Nicholas Smith, Steve Bloom, David Suther, Anna Wolitzky, Christopher Zuber
• Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio – Netflix Presents A Double Dare You! Film / A ShadowMachine Production in association with The Jim Henson Company – Ken Schretzmann, Holly Klein, Emily Chiu, Hamilton Barrett
• Puss in Boots: The Last Wish – DreamWorks Animation – James Ryan, ACE, Jacquelyn Karambelas, Natalla Cronembold, Joe Butler, Katie Parody
• The Sea Beast – Netflix – Joyce Arrastica, ACE, Will Erokan, Vivek Sharma, Michael Hugh O’Donnell, Daniel Ortiz

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