Annie Awards Livestream & Winners List

 The 43rd annual Annie Awards are being handed out tonight at UCLA’s Royce Hall, and Deadline will be updating the winners list live. ASIFA-Hollywood will present hardware in 36 categories covering film, TV, commercials and video games. You can follow along in a non-animated fashion by checking out the livestream above. The winners list and some color from Royce Hall are below.

 

A heads up: Things are a bit different this year. For the first time, the top film prize has been split into two categories, with indie fare getting its own competition for Best Animated Feature – Independent to complement the now studio based Best Animated Feature. Up for the latter award are Oscar favorite Inside Out, Anomalisa, Shaun The Sheep The Movie, The Peanuts Movie and The Good Dinosaur, which topped its fellow Pixar toon for three of the four trophies for animated features at the VES Awards on Tuesday. Since the Best Animated Oscar category was launched in 2002, nine of the 14 winners of the top Annies prize went on to take the Academy Award.
On the small-screen side, four series are up for the top prize of Best General Audience Animated Television/Broadcast Production: Fox’s Bob Burgers and The Simpsons, Netflix’s BoJack Horseman and Comedy Central’s Rob Lowe starring newbie Moonbeam City.
So follow the list of winners here, with some color from Deadline’s Dominic Patten at Royce Hall:
Directing in an Animated Feature ProductionInside Out
Pixar Animation Studios
Director: Pete Docter
Directing in an Animated Feature ProductionInside Out
Pixar Animation Studios
Director: Pete Docter

Directing in an Animated Television/Broadcast ProductionGravity Falls
Episode: “Northwest Mansion Mystery”
Disney Television Animation
Director: Matt Braly

Boy and the World is nominated also for Best Animated Picture at the Academy Awards. This is the new Annies category introduced this year.

Best Animated Feature – IndependentBoy and the World
Filme de Papel

The Simpsons boss Matt Groening says he did watch GOP debate tonight and the Annies “is a lot less cartoon-y.” Needless to say, the audience in Royce Hall loved that.

Best General Audience Animated Television/Broadcast ProductionThe Simpsons
Episode: “Halloween of Horror”
Gracie Films in Association with 20th Century Fox Television
Johannesburg native Sharlto Copley and Michael-Leon Wooley riff on Copley being African-American. The bit is funny but goes overlong. Wooley wraps it by declaring, “Black cartoons matter.”
Best Animated Television/Broadcast Production For ChildrenWander Over Yonder
Episode: “The Breakfast”
Disney Television Animation
Best Animated Television/Broadcast Production For Preschool ChildrenTumble Leaf
Episode: “Mirror”
Amazon Studios and Bix Pix Entertainment

Writing in an Animated Feature ProductionInside Out
Pixar Animation Studios
Writer: Pete Docter
Writer: Meg LeFauve
Writer: Josh Cooley

Writing in an Animated Television/Broadcast ProductionBob’s Burgers
Episode: “The Hauntening”
Twentieth Century Fox Television/Bento Box Entertainment
Writer: Steven Davis
Writer: Kelvin Yu
There were two cast members from Inside Out up for the Feature Voice Acting Award: Amy Poehler and winner Phyllis Smith. The latter’s Sadness obviously made a lot of people very happy.
Voice Acting in an Animated Feature ProductionInside Out
Pixar Animation Studios
Cast: Phyllis Smith
Character: Sadness

Nice to see Bob’s Burgers getting some Annie love tonight. The show has a lot of animation competition on Fox (hiya, The Simpsons and Family Guy) but never fails to shine with wit.

She’s not just the most high-energy presenter tonight, Kristen Schaal was, to paraphrase her acceptance speech, “killing it” as a winner too. Make Schaal the Tina Fey and Amy Poehler of the Annies.
Voice Acting in an Animated Television/Broadcast ProductionBob’s Burgers
Episode: “Hawk & Chick”
Twentieth Century Fox Television/Bento Box Entertainment
Starring: Kristen Schaal
Character: Louise Belcher
Best Animated Television/Broadcast CommercialMan and Dog
Psyop
Best Animated Special ProductionHe Named Me Malala
Parkes-MacDonald / Little Door
Another win for Inside Out? Start getting ready to place those Best Animated Feature bets, folks.
Production Design in an Animated Feature ProductionInside Out
Pixar Animation Studios
Production Design: Ralph Eggleston
Production Design in an Animated Television/Broadcast ProductionThe Mr. Peabody and Sherman Show
Episode: “Peabody’s Parents/Galileo”
DreamWorks Animation Televsion
Production Design: Kevin Dart
Production Design: Sylvia Liu
Production Design: Chris Turnham
Production Design: Eastwood Wong
Kenny: “When are we gonna start calling these awards the Pixies?
Character Animation in an Animated Feature ProductionInside Out
Pixar Animation Studios
Animator: Allison Rutland
Character: All Characters
Character Animation in an Animated Television/Broadcast ProductionDragons: Race to the Edge
Episode: “Have Dragon Will Travel, Part 1”
DreamWorks Animation Television
Character Animator: Chi-Ho Chan
Character: Heather, Windshear, Dagur, Savage, Hiccup, Toothless, Berserkers
Laraine Newman is mortified as Kenny goes with Boo-Boo saying, “Gee, Yogi, I don’t think you should rape Leonardo DiCaprio — Mister Ranger won’t like it.”
Tom Kenny on The Revenant clip: “Nothing like a little bear rape to get us back into the mood. A little interspecies romance there.” It contrasted with the joyful music playing over clip.
Character Animation in a Live Action ProductionThe Revenant – Judy
Regency Enterprises, New Regency Pictures, Anonymous Content, M Productions, Appian Way, RatPac-Dune Entertainment
Animation Supervisor: Matthew Shumway
Lead Digital Artist: Adrian Millington
Digital Artist: Blaine Toderian
Digital Artist: Alexander Poei
Digital Artist: Kevin Lan
Character Animation in a Video GameEvolve
2K Games
Character Animator: David Gibson
Character: Daisy, Goliath, Kraken
Dozens of hands in Royce Hall go up when Joe Ranft’s brother asks who had been influenced or had their lives touched by Joe.
Final Winsor recipient is Joe Ranft, the Pixar original who died in 2005. He was head of story on Pixar’s first two films, Toy Story and A Bug’s Life and also worked on Monsters Inc. and Cars. He also worked on such pics as Who Framed Roger Rabbit, The Lion King and Beauty and the Beast.
Next Winsor recipient to Phil Roman, the six-time Emmy winner whose credits include The Simpsons, King of the Hill, Garfield & Friends, The Critic, How the Grinch Stole Christmas! and the Peanuts holiday specials.
First Winsor McCay Award of the night to Isao Takahata, the Japanese filmmaker behind such films as Grave of the Fireflies, The Tale of the Princess Kaguya — an Oscar nominee — and Only Yesterday.
Best Animated Short SubjectWorld of Tomorrow
Don Hertzfeldt
Animated Effects in an Animated ProductionThe Good Dinosaur
Pixar Animation Studios
Effects Supervisor: Jon Reisch
Effects Lead: Stephen Marshall
Volumetric Clouds Architect: Magnus Wrenninge
Development & Effects Artist: Michael Hall
Effects Technical Lead: Michael K. O’Brien
Animated Effects in a Live Action ProductionMarvel’s Avengers: Age of Ultron – Sokovia Destruction
Marvel Studios
Creature Sim Supervisor: Michael Balog|
Creature Simulation Lead: Jim Van Allen
Effects Simulation Supervisor: Florent Andorra
Effects Lead: George Kaltenbrunner
That’s the fourth win for Inside Out — are we seeing the beginning of a sweep? Still early in the night but a good start for the Disney-Pixar blockbuster.
Music in an Animated Feature ProductionInside Out
Pixar Animation Studios
Composer: Michael Giacchino
Music in an Animated Television/ Broadcast ProductionDisney Mickey Mouse
Episode: “¡Feliz Cumpleaños!”
Disney Television Animation
Composer: Christopher Willis
The Annies is going a variety of hosts this year but they should totally get Kristen Schaal to front the awards next year. The Last Man On Earth star is owning this crowd right now.
Character Design in an Animated Television/Broadcast ProductionElf: Buddy’s Musical Christmas
Episode: “Elf: Buddy’s Musical Christmas”
Screen Novelties/Warner Bros Animation
Character Designer: Craig Kellman
Character: Buddy, Jovie, Walter Hobbs, Michael Hobbs, Mr. Greenway, Chadwick & Matthews, Santa Claus, Background Characters
Character Design in an Animated Feature Production
Inside Out
Pixar Animation Studios
Character Art Director: Albert Lozano
Character: All Characters
Character Artist: Chris Sasaki
Character: All Characters
Don Hahn receives the June Foray Award, named for the founder of the Annie Awards. Among a long line of credits, he worked as an Associate Producer on Who Framed Roger Rabbit, was a producer on The Lion King and Beauty and the Beast (which was the first animated pic to be nominated for Best Picture at the Oscars) and most recently was an EP on Disney’s Maleficent.
Hahn got a big laugh when he thanked the crowd for “skipping the Republican debate to be here … difficult choice” He got an even bigger round of applause when he noted that women have directed some of animation’s biggest movies – “more of that,” Hahn said. The producer got another huge laugh when he said in jest that he’d seen Jeffrey Katzenberg get mauled by an adult male lion.
Editorial in an Animated Feature ProductionInside Out
Pixar Animation Studios
Nominee: Kevin Nolting
Editorial in an Animated Television/Broadcast ProductionDisney Mickey Mouse
Episode: “Coned”
Disney Television Animation
Nominee: Illya Owens
That’s the first win tonight for any of the pics up for Best Animated Feature.
Storyboarding in an Animated Feature ProductionInside Out
Pixar Animation Studios
Storyboard Artist: Tony Rosenast
The Annies may have just kicked off but the crowd inside Royce Hall is ready to blow the roof off this place, so enthused.
As one of the first presenters, Charlie Kaufman noted that the play that Anomalisa is based on was actually first performed on the stage at Royce Hall over a decade ago.
Storyboarding in an Animated Television/Broadcast ProductionDisney Mickey Mouse
Episode: “¡Feliz Cumpleaños!”
Disney Television Animation
Storyboard Artist: Alonso Ramirez Ramos
Best Student Filmed
Taha Neyestani