Toon Zone Talkback - "Up", "Prep and Landing", "Futurama", "Robot Chicken" Take Annies

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The most amazing thing is how, on the film front at least, equitable and evenly spread the wins were this year. Ponyo goes home empty handed... again (which I still think doesn't bode well for anime in the West. If even Hayao Miyazaki can't get recognition anymore....), but virtually no other major animated film released this year does. It's almost as if the ASIFA is saying "Up was good, but not that good" and "Jeffery Katzenberg, you're not rigging the awards THIS year."

EDIT: Ice Age 3 is also nowhere to be found, but no one will lament that.
 
A bit sad for Miyazaki, on the other hand, I'm a bit intrigued then South Park was only nominated just one time in 1998 for the Annie awards and wasn't re-nominated again since that time.
 
Hasn't been mentioned here yet, but I've seen asked via Facebook and a couple other forums why Avatar was "snubbed" by the Annies.

Well, for starters, ASIFA-Hollywood's own submission rules explain that:

http://annieawards.org/rules_and_categories.html

And Avatar wasn't released until Dec. 18th. Even if ASIFA members would have thought it was worthy of a nomination for an Annie, in October no one had any way of knowing yet what kind of impact Avatar would have. Even animation fans and those in the animation industry expected just another big-budget live-action/CGI extravaganza.

As Ed mentioned in his rabroad blog post, Avatar's generally not considered a genuine "animated feature" (even Avatar director James Cameron doesn't consider it to be one). And even in Annie Award "feature film"-related categories where Avatar might have been deemed an appropriate entry, those categories are also for wholly-animated features and not for live-action/animation hybrids.

I believe Avatar's worthy of its accolades -- it's a quality film, to be sure. But I don't feel it should have been recognized by the animation industry when compared with fully-animated feature films.
 
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