Pinocchio di Guillermo del Toro e Marcel the Shell with Shoes On hanno vinto rispettivamente come miglior film e miglior film indipendente alla 50a edizione degli Annie Awards.
Il film Netflix ha inoltre vinto i premi per: miglior regia (film) di Guillermo del Toro e Mark Gustafson; miglior animazione di un personaggio (Tucker Barrie); miglior colonna sonora (Alexandre Desplat, Roeban Katz, Guillermo del Toro, Patrick McHale), miglior scenografia (Curt Enderle, Guy Davis).
La pellicola di A24 invece ha vinto anche nelle categorie: miglior doppiaggio di un personaggio (Jenny Slate, Marcel); sceneggiatura (film): Dean Fleischer Camp, Jenny Slate, Nick Paley, Elisabeth Holm.
Il bambino, la talpa, la volpe e il cavallo di Apple TV+/Bad Robot ha vinto il Best Special Production e la miglior regia (TV/Media), mentre Ice Merchants di João Gonzalez ha vinto come miglior corto.
ONI: Thunder God’s Tale di Netflix/Tonko House ha invece vinto come miglior serie limitata TV/Media.
Riassumendo il maggior numero di premi vinti: Pinocchio (5), Il bambino, la talpa, la volpe e il cavallo (4), Love, Death + Robots (4) e Marcel the Shell with Shoes On (3).
Netflix ha vinto un totale di 12 Annie, seguito con quattro ciascuno da Apple TV+, DreamWorks Animation.
La lista completa dei vincitori
Best Feature:
- Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio — Netflix Presents A Double Dare You! Film / A ShadowMachine Production in association with The Jim Henson Company
Best Indie Feature:
- Marcel the Shell with Shoes On — Marcel the Movie LLC
Best Special Production:
- The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse — A NoneMore and Bad Robot Production for Apple TV+ and BBC
Best Short Subject:
- Ice Merchants — COLA Animation production & Wild Stream
Best Sponsored:
- Save Ralph — Arch Model Studio
Best TV/Media: Preschool:
- The Tiny Chef Show “Pancakes” — Tiny Chef Productions LLC /Imagine Entertainment
Best TV/Media, Children:
- Abominable and the Invisible City “Everest Returns” — DreamWorks Animation
Best TV/Media, Mature:
- Bob’s Burgers “Some Like it Bot Part 1: Eighth Grade Runner” — 20th Television / Bento Box Entertainment
Best TV Media: Limited Series
- Oni: Thunder God’s Tale “The Demon Moon Rises” — A Netflix Series / A Tonko House Production
Best Student Film:
- The Soloists — Student directors: Mehrnaz Abdollahinia, Feben Elias Woldehawariat, Razahk Issaka, Celeste Jamneck & Yi Liu — School: Gobelins, l’école de l’image
Best FX – TV/Media:
- Kirby Miller, Igor Zanic, Joseph H. Coleman, Steven Dupuy, Josh Schwartz — Love, Death + Robots “Bad Traveling” — Blur Studio for Netflix
Best FX – Features:
- Johnathan M. Nixon, David Moraton, Nicholas Illingworth, David Caeiro Cebrian, Alex Nowotny — Avatar: The Way of Water — 20th Century Studios / Disney Studios — Wētā FX
Best Character Animation TV/Media:
- Tim Watts — The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse — A NoneMore and Bad Robot Production for Apple TV+ and BBC
Best Character Animation, Feature:
- Tucker Barrie — Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio — Netflix Presents A Double Dare You! Film / A Shadowmachine Production in association with The Jim Henson Company
Best Character Animation, Live Action:
- Daniel Barrett, Stuart Adcock, Todd Labonte, Douglas McHale, Stephen Cullingford — Avatar: The Way of Water — 20th Century Studios / Disney Studios — Wētā FX
Best Character Animation, Video Game:
- Chad Moldenhauer, Hanna Abi-Hanna — Cuphead – The Delicious Last Course — Studio MDHR
Best Character Design TV/Media:
- Alberto Mielgo — Love, Death + Robots “Jibaro” — Blur Studio for Netflix
Best Character Design, Feature:
- Taylor Krahenbuhl — The Bad Guys — DreamWorks Animation
Best Direction, TV/Media:
- Peter Baynton, Charlie Mackesy — The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse — A NoneMore and Bad Robot Production for Apple TV+ and BBC
Best Direction, Feature:
- Guillermo Del Toro, Mark Gustafson — Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio — Netflix Presents A Double Dare You! Film / A ShadowMachine Production in association with The Jim Henson Company
Best Music, TV/Media
- Ego Plum, Dave Wasson, Cosmo Segurson — The Cuphead Show! “Carn-Evil” —Netflix Animation
Best Music, Feature :
- Alexandre Desplat, Roeban Katz, Guillermo del Toro, Patrick McHale — Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio — Netflix Presents A Double Dare You! Film / A ShadowMachine Production in association with The Jim Henson Company
Best Production Design, TV/Media:
- Robert Kondo, Rachel Tiep-Daniels, Lia Tin, Yohei Hashizume, Masa Inada — Oni: Thunder God’s Tale “The Demon Moon Rises” — A Netflix Series / A Tonko House Production
Best Production Design, Features:
- Curt Enderle, Guy Davis — Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio — Netflix Presents A Double Dare You! Film / A ShadowMachine Production in association with The Jim Henson Company
Best Storyboarding, TV/Media:
- Emily Dean — Love, Death + Robots “The Very Pulse of the Machine” — Blur Studio for Netflix
Best Storyboarding, Feature:
- Anthony Holden — Puss in Boots: The Last Wish — DreamWorks Animation
Best Voice Acting, TV/Media:
- Maurice LaMarche (Character: Mr. Big) — Zootopia+ “The Godfather of the Bride” — Walt Disney Animation Studios
Best Voice Acting, Feature:
- Jenny Slate (character: Marcel) — Marcel the Shell with Shoes On — Marcel the Movie LLC
Best Writing, TV/Media
- Andrew Kevin Walker — Love, Death + Robots “Bad Traveling” — Blur Studio for Netflix
Best Writing, Feature:
- Dean Fleischer Camp, Jenny Slate, Nick Paley, Elisabeth Holm — Marcel the Shell with Shoes On — Marcel the Movie LLC
Best Editorial, TV/Media:
- Daniel Budin — The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse — A NoneMore and Bad Robot Production for Apple TV+ and BBC
Best Editorial, Feature:
- James Ryan ACE, Jacquelyn Karambelas, Natalla Cronembold, Joe Butler,
Katie Parody — Puss in Boots: The Last Wish — Dreamworks Animation
I premi della giuria:
The Winsor McCay Award:
- Pete Docter
- Evelyn Lambert
- Craig McCracken
The June Foray Award:
The Ub Iwerks Award:
- Visual Effects Reference Platform,
- Nick Cannon/Francois Chardavoine
The Certificate of Merit Award: