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Best Feature: “Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio”Best Indie Feature: “Marcel the Shell With Shoes On”Best Special Production: “The Boy, the Mole, the Fox, and the Horse”Best Animated Short Subject: “Ice Merchants”Best Animated Sponsored Project: “Save Ralph”Best Animated Television Production for Preschool Children: “The Tiny Chef Show”Episode: “Pancakes”Best Animated Television/Media Production for Children: “Abominable and the Invisible City”Episode: “Everest Returns”Best Animated Television/Media Production for Mature Audiences: “Bob’s Burgers”Episode: “Some Like It Bot Part 1: Eighth Grade Runner”Best Animated Television/Media Production, Limited Series: “Oni: Thunder God’s Tale”Episode: “The Demon Moon Rises”Best Student Film: “The Soloists”Student directors: Mehrnaz Abdollahinia, Feben Elias Woldehawariat, Razahk Issaka, Celeste Jamneck & Yi LiuBest Animated Effects in a Television/Media Production: “Love, Death + Robots”FX Team: Kirby Miller, Igor Zanic, Joseph H. Coleman, Steven Dupuy, Josh SchwartzEpisode: “Bad Traveling”Best Animated Effects in an Animated Feature Production: “Avatar: The Way of Water”FX Team: Johnathan M.

Oppenheimer, Maestro, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse and Society of the Snow were the big film winners at the Motion Picture Sound Editors‘ 71st Golden Reel Awards, which were handed out Sunday night at the Wilshire Ebell Theatre in Los Angeles. See the full list below.

the 51st Annie Awards, where “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse” won best feature and collected seven prizes in total. “Across the Spider-Verse” is nominated for best animated feature at the Academy Awards — and the Annie Awards can often be a good predictor of winner.The 2024 box office has gotten off to a sobering start for Hollywood, and the disappointing result for “Madame Web” won’t help. Moviegoing has slowed to a crawl in recent weeks, while 2023’s strikes have impacted this year’s release schedules.

Ethan Shanfeld Season 2 of Netflix’s League of Legends series “Arcane” will arrive on the streamer inNovember 2024, . The animated show, created by Christian Linke and Alex Yee and based on the Riot Games sensation, was renewed by Netflix in November 2021. Hailee Steinfeld and Ella Purnell will reprise their roles as sisters Vi and Jinx, who are caught on opposing sides of a conflict in the utopian city of Piltover and its poor underbelly, Zaun.

For editorial inquiries, please contact Peter Caranicas at [email protected]. SVP, AnimationBad Robot(Film & TV) Agbaje, 36, helped to bring Charlie Mackesy’s “The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse” to life, earning Academy Award and BAFTA wins for animated short film, as well as four Annie Awards. Bad Robot is working on diverse animation projects across film and TV, including a two-season order for Bruce Timm’s “Batman: Caped Crusader” at Amazon, and an adaptation of “Oh, the Places You’ll Go!” for Warner Bros.Enduring power of animation: “I’ve seen such a resurgence and celebration of animation in different forms,” says Agbaje.

Elsa Keslassy International Correspondent Charades (“Mirai,” “I Lost My Body”) has acquired “Flow,” a 3D animated feature directed by Gints Zilbalodis, the Annie-nominated filmmaker of “Away”. Produced by Sacrebleu Productions, Dream Well Studio and Take Five, “Flow” will be presented in the Work-in-Progress section in Annecy. Zilbalodis penned the feature with Matiss Kaza at Dream Well Studio and Ron Dyens (“Barking Island”) at Sacrebleu Productions who are acting as co-writers and producers. “Flow” is currently in production in Marseille, Paris and Bruxelles, with an expected delivery date during the second quarter of 2024.

A version of this story about Charlie Mackesy and “The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse” will appear in the Down to the Wire issue of TheWrap’s awards magazine.Charlie Mackesy’s bestselling 2019 book “The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse” is a slim illustrated volume in which very little happens apart from a conversation between four different creatures about kindness, love and accepting oneself. A delicate and philosophical creation, it has been adapted into a 34-minute film that adds just enough plot without ever betraying the heart of the original book.The film, which is available on Apple TV+, is nominated in the Best Animated Short category at the Oscars.

Top Gun: Maverick, Elvis and Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio were among the big film winners at the Motion Picture Sound Editors’ 70th Golden Reel Awards, which were handed out Sunday night at the Wilshire Ebell Theatre in Los Angeles. See the full list below.

Terry Flores “Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio” has picked up another award on its march to the Oscars, nabbing the feature prize at the 50th Annie Awards, presented by ASIFA-Hollywood, on Saturday evening. In addition to being named the top film by the animation industry, “Pinocchio” led the winners’ list with five trophies overall, including the award for best direction for del Toro and fellow director Mark Gustafson. The stop-motion movie also picked up wins for music (Alexandre Desplat, Roeban Katz, del Toro and Patrick McHale), production design (Curt Enderle and Guy Davis) and character design (Tucker Barrie). Del Toro, who came directly from the PGA Awards where he received the trophy for producing ‘Pinocchio,’ was thrilled to win the Annie for direction alongside Gustafson. “Can I say this? I wanted the fucking Annie so much. It’s the most gorgeous thing in the world!” He noted that the Annies ceremony was the one place that he didn’t have to point out that animation is a medium and not a genre. “What I can say is about ‘Pinocchio’ is that it was done by artists, and the animators were treated like cast and not technicians.”

Spy x Family leads the field with 19 nominations for Crunchyroll’s seventh annual Anime Awards, which be handed out in March. Ranking of Kings is next with 16, spread across two seasons, followed by Cyberpunk: Edgerunners with 13 noms, which were revealed today. See the full list below.

Rich Moore, the Oscar-winning filmmaker behind such titles as Zootopia and Wreck-It Ralph, has entered into an exclusive, multi-year overall deal with Skydance Animation, which will see him create, develop and produce original animated features for the studio.

League of Legends publisher and developer Riot Games will deepen its relationship with Fortiche Production, the studio behind its breakout Netflix animated series Arcane. Announced on Monday, Riot closed an equity investment under which the gaming company now holds a non-controlling stake in Fortiche.

“Encanto” is the odds on favorite to take the Oscar for Animated Feature, but the voting members of the Los Angeles branch of the International Animated Film Association, ASIFA-Hollywood, had other ideas. The animators’ organization handed out their 2022 Annie Awards on Saturday night and the big winner was “The Mitchells vs.

Terry Flores Netflix owned the Annie Awards on Saturday, picking up 20 of the night’s 31 competitive trophies during the virtual show. The streamer’s “The Mitchells vs.

Wilson Chapman editorThe 49th annual Annie Awards, which honor the best in animation of the past year, are set for this Saturday, March 12.Produced by ASIFA-Hollywood, the Annie Awards were initially scheduled as a live ceremony on Feb. 26, but the event was delayed and made virtual in January due to concerns regarding the COVID-19 surge. The ceremony will stream live on the Annie Awards website, starting 7 p.m.

Terry Flores For the second year in a row, the 49th Annie Awards will be virtual after ASIFA-Hollywood, the organization behind the event, decided to pivot amid the omicron-driven surge in COVID-19 cases.The show was originally going to be an in-person affair Feb. 26 at Royce Hall on the campus of UCLA.

Terry Flores Netflix’s investment in animation has paid off in a big way, as the streamer picked up a whopping 52 nominations at the 49th Annie Awards. Following behind is Disney, which received 29 bids between its film and TV projects.Taking place on Feb.

Terry Flores Netflix’s investment in animation has paid off in a big way as the streamer’s content picked up a whopping 52 nominations for the 49th Annie Awards. The next closest was Disney, which received 29 bids between its film and TV projectsNetflix’s nominations haul was led by “Arcane,” its series based on the multiplayer online game League of Legends by Riot Games, with nine, it’s hit film from Sony Pictures Animation “The Mitchells vs.

Disney films are the ones to beat at the 49th annual Annie Awards, whose nominations were announced this morning. Walt Disney Animation Studios’ Raya and the Last Dragon and Encanto scored a leading 10 and nine noms, respectively, followed by Pixar’s Luca with eight.

John Hopewell Chief International CorrespondentSony Pictures has boarded Alê Abreu’s buzzed up animated feature “Perlimps,” the acclaimed Brazilian director’s follow up to “Boy and the World” which was nominated for best animated feature at the 2016 Academy Awards.A best animated feature-winner in the independent category at the 43rd Annie Awards, “Boy and the World” also took the top Cristal at the 2014 Annecy Festival.Several excerpts for the film will be screened on June 17 in this year’s

Pixar's Soul and Apple TV+/GKIDS'Wolfwalkers shared the wins in all of the animated feature categories during the 48th Annie Awards, which were presented Friday by ASIFA-Hollywood during a virtual ceremony. Soul won seven awards including best animated feature, and Wolfwalkerswon five including best independent animated feature.

Terry Flores Pixar’s “Soul” continued its awards season dominance on Friday by winning seven Annie Awards,  including feature. The jazzy look at the before-life also won for music (Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross and Jon Batiste), writing (Pete Docter.

Pixar’s “Soul” and Cartoon Saloon and Apple TV’s “Wolfwalkers” led all films in nominations for the 48th annual Annie Awards, the most comprehensive awards show devoted strictly to animation. The two films each received 10 nominations, with “Onward” receiving seven and “The Willoughbys” and “Over the Moon” receiving six.“Soul,” “Onward,” “The Croods: A New Age,” “The Willoughbys” and “Trolls World Tour” were nominated in the Best Feature category.

Emilio Mayorga Sergio Pablos’ “Klaus,” Netflix’s first foray into original animated feature production, walked off with best feature at Saturday’s 3rd Quirino Awards, which celebrate outstanding animation in Latin America, Spain and Portugal.The first feature as a director of Sergio Pablos, a co-creator of “Despicable Me,” “Klaus” has already scored an Oscar nomination as well as proving the big winner at this year’s Annie Awards.Produced by Netflix with Pablos’ Madrid-based SPA Studios and

Emilio Mayorga Of all Spain’s film sectors, none has grown its international impact in recent years more than animation. At January’s Annie Awards, “Klaus,” made at Sergio Pablos’ Madrid-based SPA Studios, which produced with Spain’s Atresmedia Cine, won best feature, having just snagged an Academy Award nomination.“Buñuel in the Labyrinth of the Turtles” took an Annecy Jury Award in 2019.

Yesterday saw a deluge of precursor results hit the Oscar race, including one of the biggest Guilds chiming in. Obviously, we know already that last night the Directors Guild of America gave their top prize to Sam Mendes for 1917, but Saturday evening also saw the American Society of Cinematographers Awards, the Annie Awards, the Cinema Audio Society Awards, and the USC Scripter Awards, in addition to the Directors Guild of America Awards.

In case you thought it was going to be a quiet Saturday, think again. Tonight is one of the bigger precursor days of the season, with several awards being given out that could tangibly impact the Oscar race.