2009 Annie Awards Announced

And they seem to enjoy CGI talking-animal comedies more than higher quality ones with people or robots. First "Ratatouille," now this.

I was actually expecting "Wall-E" to win the Annies.

But unfortunately, the Looney Tunes have STILL never gained an Annie Award. :( Not counting that commercial with Wile E. versus the Energizer Bunny, though...
 
Probably doesn't bother too many others, but I'm always disappointed to see the voice acting-related categories have so few nominees, year after year. The Feature category has the full 5 nominees represented this year, but TV has only three. Some years there have been fewer than 3 nominated in one or both VA categories.

I was hoping James Hong would win the Feature film VA category. He's been in more films and TV shows than most of the talent in Hollywood have combined, and he's gotten so few awards for his work. And he's been doing voiceovers since the 50's.

And it leaves a bad taste in my mouth and an ill feeling in my stomach to see Ahmed Best win an Annie for voicing Jar Jar, even in a Star Wars spoof.

I'd like to challenge that.

2004: The Duck Dodgers series wins "Best Music in an Animated Television Production"

2001: The Chuck Jones Show wins for "Outstanding Achievement in an Animated Special Project"

1997: Space Jam wins "Best Individual Achievement: Technical Achievement"

1997: June Foray wins "Best Individual Achievement: Voice Acting by a Female Performer in a TV Production" for The Sylvester & Tweety Mysteries

1995: Wile E. Coyote – Helicopter Eveready Batteries ad wins "Best Animated Promotional Production"

1992: The Nike Hare Jordan ad wins "Best Animated Television Commercial"

You also have to consider that ASIFA didn't start doing individual categories for the Annies until the early 90's, and the number of LT projects produced has been rather scrawny since then (if you don't count "Space Jam" and "Back In Action").
 
It seems like Wall-E is pretty popular, personaly I didn't see the attraction and have yet to see the movie and probably wont see it anytime soon, if ever. It has been nominated for a boatload of awards this year though, which is cool because it helps to bring people into looking at animation as a true form of storytelling.
 
You know, even if these weren't rigged (and the more I look at the results the less I believe so), the Annies tried way too hard on actually making them look rigged. First, KFP wins every movie-related category, then the Dreamworks short wins almost everything, and KFP wins best video game. That screams rigged all over the place.

I also hate the mentality of "Eh, it's going to win at that other ceremony so let's give it some recognition here". It's because of that nobody takes these awards seriously. I mean, where's the fairness in that?

Believe what you want about these results but it won't change the fact that a lot of people will look at these results and think it's rigged. Heck, I've ran into various people who think KFP is the better film and still think this was rigged.

Yes, everyone wants his/her favorite film to get recognition. But not like this. Not at the expense and humilliation of another films that deserved it much more. I think KFP had a good chance of winning plenty of awards on its own merits (mainly voice acting and storyboards), but this... it just doesn't FEEL right.
 
In your opinion. Had WALL-E swept the Annies, I doubt the people complaining now would be complaining because apparently it wouldn't be rigged since WALL-E is "just that good." :yawn: It just seems a tad hypocritical to me.

Incidentally, "The Simpsons" has won best animated show several past Annie awards in a row. Anyone think that's a conspiracy too?
 
In my opinion, and in the opinion of the general mainstream audience and most critics out there.

And look back at the topic. I DID say that if Wall-E had clean swept it would have been just as suspicious. But of course, for the clean sweeping to be on the same level, Wall-E would have had to win every category, then "Presto" would have had to win everything, and the Wall-E video game would have had to won. That would have definitely been one big "WTF" from me.
 
Things become more clear when you look at the awards numerically. There were 24 categories this year, and Dreamworks took home the awards for 14 of them, almost 2/3's of the year's Annies, and that's not even counting the award for the KFP game. That's fishy.
 
I don't see how anyone could not think something fishy is going on. KFP takes home every award, including best short film and best video game, and Dreamworks just so happened to be a "Gold Sponsor". I'd be thinking the same thing had WALL-E taken every single award and Disney were a Gold Sponsor.
 
I have'nt seen either of the movies yet, Syaoran Li, and I can easily see how this is annoying the hell out of you. You rooted for the underdog, and the underdog won. But then people accused the underdog of cheating.

Still, though.... a clean sweep.... no company should make a clean sweep. I don't even think Disney's ever done that, or Warner Bros.
 
Because the Internet is serious business, right? :p

Hey, just because I can't take something seriously doesn't mean I can't discuss it.
 
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