Toy Story 3 received three nominations today from the International Animated Film Society, ASIFA-Hollywood for the upcoming 38th Annual Annie Awards:- Best Animated Feature
- Directing in a Feature Production (Lee Unkrich)
- Writing in a Feature Production (Michael Arndt)
Day & Night, directed by Teddy Newton, was nominated for Best Animated Short Subject.
Today's nominations come less than four months after Pixar and Walt Disney Animation Studios officially withdrew support for the organization due to its inequitable voting and judging rules.
Pixar artists were free to submit their work for consideration, but it appears that they decided to show solidarity with the studio by not doing so.
As a result, Toy Story 3 was shut out of many of the individual achievement categories it richly deserved to be nominated in, such as Animated Effects, Character Animation, Character Design (Lotso!), and so forth. In a couple of these, every nominee this year is from DreamWorks Animation.
It's a shame to see this happen to the Annie Awards. The fault lies squarely with the board of ASIFA-Hollywood. The Annies are dangerously close to becoming the "DreamWorks Awards"—a total loss of legitimacy.
Winners will be announced on Saturday, February 5.
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The Juried Awards are as follows:
Winsor McCay Award — Brad Bird, Eric Goldberg, Matt Groening
June Foray — Ross Iwamoto
Ub Iwerks Award — Autodesk
Special Achievement — “Waking Sleeping Beauty”
I personally quit following the Annie Awards now. Dreamworks is great, but Pixar is better. Seriously.
I guess that means there aren't any good award-givers... the Oscars totally suck when it comes to deciding the wins. They couldn't figure out what's great and what's not if it came and slapped them right in the face.
I completely disagree with you here. How to Train a Dragon was also a fantastic film. And The Illusionist represents the best of animation that I have seen in quite some time. For once, a good film didn't have to rely completely on computers.
Oh, and I do realize that this is a Pixar site, but what's with the hating? Yah, the Annies may have been a Dreamworks awards in 2009 and again now, but Pixar wins EVERYTHING ELSE. Yah, they deserve it, but it gets to be a bit boring after a while.
although disapointing,it was to be expected.dreamworks has ben supurting the annies since the beginig,wouldnt be suprised if the won every category.(how to train your dragon was great though)
True, it might as well be the Dreamworks Awards. Award shows are just weird, even the Oscars. They pick independent films to win every year when there's a separate awards ceremony specifically for independent films.
@Anonymous #2, so it's okay for Dreamworks to illegitimize an awards show because it's "boring" that Pixar often wins? A deserving film should win. There's no quota for each studio's recognition.
I don't hate Dreamworks at all... I'm probably the oddball. But that doesn't make the fact that Pixar is better any less. Pixar wins a lot of stuff because they're one of the BEST FREAKING STUDIOS CURRENTLY OUT THERE. Animation or live-action. Flat out. Dreamworks goes on the top 5 as well, but Pixar goes in the top 3. Pixar could well actually be the best, but I love Warner Bros due to them being the guys who made "The Dark Knight," which is the best film of the 21st Century.
These awards should be changed into the "Katzies"
AB - there's also a separate awards ceremony for animated films and blockbuster movies (Blockbuster Movie Awards)...so then what's the point of your argument
@Anonymous, I'll concede that. My main point was the Annies being illegitimized.
Unlike last year, Dreamworks has now three good films to push to the Annies. Last year, when they could not win any award with that Monsters vs. Ailien, so Annie instead gave Kats special achievement award to console Dreamworks. Dreamworks will continue to bribe the Annie as long as they have good films that might deserve awards. I know Kats has done a lot of innovative things when he was in Disney and now in Dreamworks, but he only now deserves something worse than a Razzi for his corrupted mind.
DreamWorks has been buying their employees ASIFA memberships for years. All through those years that Finding Nemo, The Incredibles, Ratatouille, and even Cars won for best animated feature. Last year Up won in that category as well. Last year every single ASIFA member was allowed to vote for the best animated feature category, including members from DreamWorks, and Up won.
People working in the animation industry vote for what they think is the best work done that year. Period.
Take for instance The Iron Giant winning the best animated feature annie over A Bug's Life in 1999, or Spirited Away winning over both Monsters Inc. and Lilo & Stitch in 2002. And yes Kung Fu Panda winning over Wall-E in 2008.
More than just people working at DreamWorks liked Kung Fu Panda better than Wall-E as ANIMATED feature. People all over the industry did.
The only reason there are so many DreamWorks noms this year is because Disney/Pixar pulled out of the awards, and it's also likely that other studios like Blue Sky, Sony, ect. didn't submit much for the individual artist categories either.
AB - I am anonymous # 2.
There are other good animated films beside those that come out of Pixar. You have to agree that UP, though better than Cars and A Bug's Life and maybe even Monster's, Inc., was not as good as some of their other films (Toy Story 1 & 2, Nemo, Ratatouille, et. all). 2009, having 5 nominees, showed it was one of the best years for animated movies. I liked UP, really I did...but I was more moved by Coraline. That movie, with its combination of physical animation (much harder to do these days than computer animation), precisely timed music, great lighting, and superb character development and a heart-touchingly beautiful story made for a winning combo. HOWEVER...it was not a Pixar production, so therefore it could not win.
Pixar rules and Dreamworks drools!
Anonymous #2: So you're saying that if an animated film isn't Pixar (like Coraline, which I haven't watched yet), then that automatically means it can't/shouldn't win? Seems ridiculous to me.
Now Pixar is the best animation studio currently out there. But that doesn't mean we should be SOOOOO quick to discriminate other movies from winning such awards.
Anonymous above me:
Heh. If Pixar and Dreamworks actually did have a war, I could see one tough fight coming up. DREAMWORKS DOES NOT DROOL. Pixar is better. But Dreamworks also is great--mainly because of their great humor. Honestly, is every Pixar fan a Dreamworks hater? I don't get it.
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