2009 Annie Awards Announced

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tahlula54

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I'm surprised there is no thread on this yet.

Anyway, last night was held the Annie Awards, the American animation industry's most prestigious award ceremony. In an interesting development for the upcoming Oscars, Kung Fu Panda beat out Wall-E in a 13-Annie clean sweep, including Best Animated Feature.

In other developments, Futurama: The Beast with a Billion Backs won Best Animated Home Entertainment Production, Wallace & Gromit: A Matter of Loaf and Death won Best Animated Short Subject, Robot Chicken: Star Wars Episode II won three awards including Best Animated Television Production, and Avatar: The Last Airbender won two awards including Best Animated Television Production Produced for Children.

[mod edit to link official Annies site since I don't care for Variety Speak]
Full details courtesy of AnnieAwards.org.
 
What... the... ****...

Sometimes I wonder if people in the animation industry don't think of these movies as films and instead base it off what closest fits their profile of what "character animation" is. Would explain why Wall-E left Jerry Beck "cold", got Michael Barrier into a fit about Pixar "evading animation principles", etc.
 
Well, KFP does deserve all the praise it gets. It is the best CGI film Dreamworks ever did. It's just an all out fun movie.

I wouldn't be surprised if Wall-E cleans up at the Oscars.

More importantly, Avatar: The last Airbender won two awards: Best Animated Television Produced for Children, and Best Directing in Animation Television Production for the episode "Into the Inferno".

Now that's something to celebrate about!
 
I doubt they care that much. I would say it's just they prefer movies/shows where you can turn your brain off and enjoy some flashy animation and action. What they enjoyed more rather than what's highest quality, basically. Different tastes and all that.
 
I've distrusted this years Annie's ever since I found at Mickey Mouse Clubhouse was in the nominations, but; congratulations to KFP and Dreamworks all the same. An awards an award..... I'm still putting my money on Wall-E for the oscars, though....
 
well considering Most award shows anr't worth a diddly in the big scheme of things, all though im somewhat dissapointed I could care less I mean Kung Fu panda was good but I think Everybody knows wall-e was truly the Best animated film of 08 despite what the so called "proffesionals say":evil: :p :D :D
 
I'm completely disgusted by how many awards KFP won. Yes, its the most tolerable Dreamworks film since Shrek 2 didn't annoy the crap out of me way back when. Yes its a lot of fun and the animation is crisp. Yes its funny. But it is by no means awards material. Wall-E was infinitely deeper, much better animated, and equally as funny while twice or three times as meaningful as KFP, and a hundred times more original. I like them both, but Wall-E is in a different league
 
I feel bad for “Bolt”. It obviously had no chance of winning, considering the competition, but it seems like it has been ignored on many levels. I guess it’s an honor just to be nominated, but that’s not much of a consolation.
 
Something to keep in mind: Dreamworks was a "Gold Sponsor" for the night. Disney and Pixar were only "Silver Sponsors". If Kung Fu Panda just happened to get Best Animated Film but not win EVERYTHING, I'd be more forgiving, but the total sweep, given how much competition it had from Wall-E, Waltz With Bashir, and Bolt, seems a wee bit suspicious.
 
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