The International Animated Film Society announced today the nominations for the 36th annual Annie Awards (2008) and unsurprisingly WALL-E and Pixar did very well.WALL-E is nominated in the following categories:
- Best Animated Feature
- Directing in an Animated Feature Production (Andrew Stanton)
- Animated Effects (Enrique Vila)
- Character Animation in a Feature Production (Victor Navone)
- Production Design in an Animated Feature Production (Ralph Eggleston)
- Storyboarding in an Animated Feature Production (Ronnie Del Carmen)
- Voice Acting in an Animated Feature Production (Ben Burtt)
- Best Animated Video Game (Heavy Iron Studios/THQ)
When it came to shorts, Presto received one nomination for Best Animated Short Subject, while BURN-E recieved none.
Disney's Bolt recieved five noms, including Best Animated Feature and a voice acting one for Mark Walton for his excellent preformance as Rhino. John Lasseter will also be recieving a Winsor McCay award, which recognisises "career contributions to the art of animation".
The awards will be presented on January 30, 2009 and are considered to be "animation's highest honor".
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Count Kung Fu Panda's awards!!! 17!!!
Uh, no, not 17 awards, but nominations.
I think the association wants to make it look like the other movies have a chance of beating WALL-E and winning the top prizes, which they don't.
I agree with Mike
It felt like something was missing in Kung Fu Panda, while in Wall-E, everything was there =)
Oh yeah... that's what I meant... nominations...
Anyway, I think that most of the movies will get some of their nominations turned into awards. I don't think there will be a total sweep from any one movie this year.
You say that no other movie could beat WALL-E for any awards, but how many of the movies have you seen? Have you even seen Kung Fu Panda? Personally, I could see one of the Kung Fu Panda voices winning over WALL-E, (maybe Ian McShane as Tai Lung?), only because there is more of an acting element, whereas Ben Burtt's WALL-E is more of an amazing sound mixing feat.
One thing I must add though... Why was Thomas Newman not nominated???
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW!!!!!!!
I have to agree with anonymous (at least in one regard) when I ask "Why the heck wasn't Tom Newman nominated?!?"
Also wondering where the nom for writing is? I have a sneaking suspicion that it's because WALL-E doesn't showcase the snappy dialogue that most animated movies do. If that's really the case, it's rather unfortunate that other (more important) aspects of screenwriting are not coming into consideration.
I too wonder about Newman being shut out of the music category...
WALL-E is going to do incredibly well. I can see it winning 7/8 of those awards, easily.
I don't think it will win voice acting, though. There just isn't enough dialogue in WALL-E to win that.
You will see wall e get nominated for the oscar best screenplay jut like last year Ratatouille.
I surely believe.
Oh , if it does, that means annie awards are bad.
Wheehee...
WALL.E rocks!
Might sound dumb but, is the ceremony televised?
The Annie awards are voted on by members of ASIFA. You can buy membership for $50. DreamWorks buys each of it's 1200 employees a membership and requires that they vote for the Annies.
DreamWorks also make sure to have as many as possible Chairs on the nomination committee - which explains why three DreamWorks artists were nomintated in the 'best animation' category and only two other studios received mention.
The Annies will no longer reflect the true measure of industry excellence any more. The audience at the Awards ceremony was greatly saddened by the DreamWorks presence and manipulation of the once joyful event.
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