Monday, February 3, 2014

"Frozen" the Coolest at 41st Annie Awards - Complete List of Winners

by Leroy Douresseaux

ASIFA-Hollywood, the Los Angeles, California branch of the International Animated Film Society, presents the Annie Awards.  The Annie honors achievements in animation as a whole, including current animated productions, as well as career and lifetime achievements.

At the 41st Annie Awards, Walt Disney Animation Studios’ Frozen won five awards, including “Best Animated Feature,” “Outstanding Achievement, Directing in an Animated Feature Production” (Chris Buck, Jennifer Lee), and a voice acting award for Josh Gad as “Olaf” the snowman. Frozen is already the fifth highest-grossing animated feature in history ($360+ million domestically and $864.3 million world), as of this writing.  Frozen is practically a juggernaut, and this Annie win probably seals the deal for a best animated feature Oscar for the animated musical.

The 41st Annual Annie Awards were held on Saturday, February 1, 2014 at UCLA’s Royce Hall, in Los Angeles, California.  They ceremony was hosted by noted voice actor, Patrick Warburton.  Director Steven Spielberg (The Adventures of Tintin) was presented with the Winsor McCay Award at the ceremony.

41st (2014) Annual Annie Awards Winners (for the year in film and TV 2013):

PRODUCTION CATEGORIES

Best Animated Feature
•Frozen - 
Walt Disney Animation Studios

Best Animated Special Production
•Chipotle Scarecrow
 - Moonbot Studios

Best Animated Short Subject
•Get A Horse!
 - Walt Disney Animation Studios

Best Animated TV/Broadcast Commercial
•Despicable Me 2 - Cinemark
 - Universal Pictures

Best General Audience Animated TV/Broadcast Production For Preschool Children
•Disney Sofia the First
 - Disney Television Animation

Best Animated TV/Broadcast Production For Children’s Audience
•Adventure Time - 
Cartoon Network Studios

Best General Audience Animated TV/Broadcast Production
•Futurama
 - 20th Century Fox Television

Best Animated Video Game
•The Last of Us - 
Naughty Dog

Best Student Film
•Wedding Cake - 
Filmakademie Baden-Wuerttemberg

INDIVIDUAL ACHIEVEMENT CATEGORIES

Outstanding Achievement, Animated Effects in an Animated Production
•Jeff Budsberg, Andre Le Blanc, Louis Flores, Jason Mayer - The Croods - 
DreamWorks Animation

Outstanding Achievement, Animated Effects in a Live Action Production
•Michael Balog, Ryan Hopkins, Patrick Conran, Florian Witzel - Pacific Rim
 - Industrial Light & Magic

Outstanding Achievement, Character Animation in an Animated Television/Broadcast Production
•Kureha Yokoo - Toy Story OF TERROR! - Pixar Animation Studios Character

Outstanding Achievement, Character Animation in a Feature Production
•Jakob Jensen - The Croods - 
DreamWorks Animation

Outstanding Achievement, Character Animation in a Live Action Production
•Jeff Capogreco, Jedrzej Wojtowicz, Kevin Estey, Alessandro Bonora, Gino Acevedo - The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey - Gollum
 - Weta Digital

Outstanding Achievement, Character Design in an Animated TV/Broadcast Production
•Paul Rudish - Disney Mickey Mouse
 - Disney Television Animation

Outstanding Achievement, Character Design in an Animated Feature Production
•Carter Goodrich, Takao Noguchi, Shane Prigmore - The Croods
 - DreamWorks Animation

Outstanding Achievement, Directing in an Animated TV/Broadcast Production
•Angus MacLane - Toy Story OF TERROR!
 - Pixar Animation Studios

Outstanding Achievement, Directing in an Animated Feature Production
•Chris Buck, Jennifer Lee - Frozen
 - Walt Disney Animation Studios

Outstanding Achievement, Music in an Animated TV/Broadcast Production
•Christopher Willis - Disney Mickey Mouse
 - Disney Television Animation

Outstanding Achievement, Music in an Animated Feature Production
•Kristen Anderson-Lopez, Robert Lopez, Christophe Beck - Frozen
 - Walt Disney Animation Studios 


Outstanding Achievement, Production Design in an Animated TV/Broadcast Production
•Angela Sung, William Niu, Christine Bian, Emily Tetri, Frederic Stewart - The Legend of Korra
 - Nickelodeon Animation Studio

Outstanding Achievement, Production Design in an Animated Feature Production
•Alonso Ramos-Ramirez - Disney Mickey Mouse
 - Disney Television Animation

Outstanding Achievement, Storyboarding in an Animated Feature Production
•Dean Kelly - Monsters University
 - Pixar Animation Studios

Outstanding Achievement, Voice Acting in an Animated TV/Broadcast Production
•Tom Kenny as the voice of Ice King - Adventure Time - 
Cartoon Network Studios

Outstanding Achievement, Voice Acting in an Animated Feature Production
•Josh Gad as the voice of Olaf - Frozen
 - Walt Disney Animation Studios

Outstanding Achievement, Writing in an Animated TV/Broadcast Production
•Lewis Morton - Futurama
 - 20th Century Fox Television

Outstanding Achievement, Writing in an Animated Feature Production
•Miyazaki Hayao – The Wind Rises
- The Walt Disney Studios

Outstanding Achievement, Editorial in an Animated TV/Broadcast Production
•Illya Owens - Disney Mickey Mouse - 
Disney Television Animation

Outstanding Achievement, Editorial in an Animated Feature Production
•Greg Snyder, Gregory Amundson, Steve Bloom - Monsters University
 - Pixar Animation Studios

JURIED AWARDS
Winsor McCay Award — Katsuhiro Otomo, Steven Spielberg & Phil Tippett

June Foray Award — Alice Davis

Ub Iwerks —DZED Systems for Dragonframe stop-motion animation software

Special Achievement Award —  Creative Talent Network (CTN) Animation eXpo

Certificate of Merit — “I Know That Voice” (Documentary)

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