2015 Awards -- Annie Award Nominations

The Annie Awards are one I particularly enjoy, as I have a strong fondness for animation in all it's forms. This year, we have a mixed bag of techniques represented. Stop-motion and CGI taking the forefront. The nominees from the International Animated Film Society are...

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE

• Anomalisa -- Paramount Picture
• The Good Dinosaur -- Pixar Animation Studios
• Inside Out -- Pixar Animation Studios
• The Peanuts Movie -- Blue Sky Studios & Twentieth Century Fox Animation
• Shaun the Sheep The Movie -- Aardman Animations

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE - INDEPENDENT

• The Boy and the Beast -- Studio Chizu
• Boy and the World -- Filme de Papel
• Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet -- Ventanarosa
• When Marnie Was There -- Studio Ghibli

ANIMATED EFFECTS IN AN ANIMATED FEATURE

• The Good Dinosaur
• Home
• Hotel Transylvania 2
• Inside Out
• Minions
• The Spongebob Movie: Sponge Out of Water

ANIMATED EFFECTS IN A LIVE-ACTION PRODUCTION

• The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
• Jurassic World
• Marvel's Avengers: Age of Ultron
• Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials

CHARACTER ANIMATION IN AN ANIMATED FEATURE

• The Good Dinosaur - Mark C. Harris
• The Good Dinosaur - K.C. Roeyer
• Home - Mark Donald
• Inside Out - Travis Hathaway
• Inside Out - Allison Rutland
• Minions - Hichem Arfaoui
• The Peanuts Movie - B.J. Crawford

CHARACTER ANIMATION IN A LIVE-ACTION PRODUCTION

• The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies - Azog
• The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies - Smaug
• Jurassic World - Indominus Rex
• Marvel's Avengers: Age of Ultron - The Hulk
• Marvel's Avengers: Age of Ultron - Ultron
• The Revenant - The Bear

CHARACTER DESIGN IN AN ANIMATED FEATURE

• The Good Dinosaur
• Hotel Transylvania 2
• Inside Out
• Minions

DIRECTING OF AN ANIMATED FEATURE

• Anomalisa - Charlie Kaufman & Duke Johnson
• Extraordinary Tales - Raul Garcia
• Inside Out - Pete Docter
• Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet - Roger Allers
• The Peanuts Movie - Steve Martino
• Shaun the Sheep The Movie - Mark Burton & Richard Starzak
• When Marnie Was There - Hiromasa Yonebayashi

EDITORIAL OF AN ANIMATED FEATURE

• Anomalisa - Garret Elkins
• Inside Out - Kevin Nolting
• Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet - Jennifer Dolce & Ernesto Matamoros
• Shaun the Sheep The Movie - Sim Evan-Jones

MUSIC IN AN ANIMATED FEATURE

• Anomalisa
• Batman Unlimited: Monster Mayhem
• Boy and the World
• The Good Dinosaur
• Inside Out

PRODUCTION DESIGN IN AN ANIMATED FEATURE

• Boy and the World
• The Good Dinosaur
• He Named Me Malala
• Home
• Inside Out
• Minions
• Shaun the Sheep The Movie

STORYBOARDING OF AN ANIMATED FEATURE

• Extraordinary Tales - Antonio Santamaria
• The Good Dinosaur - Bill Presing
• The Good Dinosaur - Rosana Sullivan
• The Good Dinosaur - J.P. Vine, Tony Rosenast & Enrico Casarosa
• Hotel Transylvania 2 - Mike Smukavic
• Inside Out - Tony Rosenast
• Inside Out - Domee Shi
• Minions - Habib Louati

VOICE ACTING IN AN ANIMATED FEATURE

• Anomalisa - Jennifer Jason Leigh - Lisa Hesselman
• Inside Out - Amy Poehler - Joy
• Inside Out - Phyllis Smith - Sadness
• Minions - Pierre Coffin - The Minions
• Minions - Jon Hamm - Herb Overkill
• The Peanuts Movie - Alex Garfin - Linus
• The Peanuts Movie - Hadley Belle Miller - Lucy
• The Spongebob Movie: Sponge Out of Water - Tom Kenny - Spongebob

WRITING OF AN ANIMATED FEATURE

• Inside Out - Pete Docter, Meg LeFauve & Josh Cooley
• Shaun the Sheep The Movie - Mark Burton & Richard Starzak
• When Marnie Was There - Keiko Niwa, Masashi Ando & Hiromasa Yonebayashi