DreamWorks Animation’s “Kung Fu Panda” leads the field with 17 nominations out of 27 overall for the studio, including Best Animated Feature, and individual nominations for character animation, character design, directing, music, production design, storyboarding, voice acting and writing. Walt Disney Animation Studios and its Best Animated Feature “Bolt” received 9 nominations and Pixar Animation Studios and its Best Animated Feature “Wall-E” received 8 nominations. Completing the Best Animated Feature category is Sony Pictures Classics “Waltz With Bashir” and Sherman Pictures/Lama Films “$9.99.” (press release)
2006 Annie Award Nominations
Best Animated Feature
- Bolt – Walt Disney Animation Studios
- Kung Fu Panda – DreamWorks Animation
- $9.99 – Sherman Pictures/Lama Films
- Wall•E – Pixar Animation Studios
- Waltz With Bashir – Sony Pictures Classics/Bridgit Folman, Les Films D’ici, Razor Films
(full list of nominees after the cut)
Best Animated Home Entertainment Production
- Batman: Gotham Knight – Warner Bros. Animation
- Christmas Is Here Again – Easy To Dream Entertainment
- Futurama: The Beast with a Billion Backs – The Curiosity Company in association with 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
- Justice League: The New Frontier – Warner Bros. Animation
- The Little Mermaid: Ariel’s Beginning – DisneyToon Studios
Best Animated Short Subject
- Glago’s Guest – Walt Disney Animation Studios
- Hot Dog – Bill Plympton Studio
- Presto – Pixar Animation Studios
- Sebastian’s Voodoo – Joaquin Baldwin
- Wallace & Gromit: A Matter of Loaf and Death – Aardman Animations Ltd.
Best Animated Television Commercial
- Giant Monster – Curious Pictures
- Long Legs Mr. Hyde – Curious Pictures
- Rotofugi: The Collectors – Screen Novelties
- Sarah – Z Animation
- United Airlines “Heart” – Duck Studios
Best Animated Television Production
- King of the Hill – 20th Century Fox TV
- Moral Orel – ShadowMachine
- Phineas and Ferb – Disney Television Animation
- Robot Chicken: Star Wars Episode II – ShadowMachine
- The Simpsons – Gracie Films/Fox TV
Best Animated Television Production Produced for Children
- A Miser Brothers Christmas – Warner Bros. Animation
- Avatar: The Last Airbender – Nickelodeon
- Foster’s Home for Imaginary Friends “Destination Imagination” – Cartoon Network Studios
- The Mighty B! – Nickelodeon
- Underfist: Halloween Bash – Cartoon Network Studios
Best Animated Video Game
- Dead Space – Electronic Arts
- Kung Fu Panda – Activision
- Wall•E – Heavy Iron Studios, a division of THQ, Inc.
INDIVIDUAL ACHIEVEMENT CATEGORIES
Animated Effects
- Alen Lai “Dr. Seuss’ Horton Hears A Who” – Blue Sky Studios
- Li-Ming Lawrence Lee “Kung Fu Panda” – DreamWorks Animation
- Fangwei Lee “Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa” – DreamWorks Animation
- Kevin Lee “Bolt” – Walt Disney Animation Studios
- Enrique Vila “Wall•E” – Pixar Animation Studios
Character Animation in a Feature Production
- James Baxter “Kung Fu Panda” – DreamWorks Animation
- Jeff Gabor “Dr. Seuss’ Horton Hears A Who” – Blue Sky Studios
- Philippe Le Brun “Kung Fu Panda” – DreamWorks Animation
- Victor Navone “Wall•E” – Pixar Animation Studios
- Dan Wagner “Kung Fu Panda” – DreamWorks Animation
Character Animation in a Television Production or Short Form
- Sandro Cleuzo “Secrets of the Furious Five” – DreamWorks Animation
- Joshua A. Jennings “Robot Chicken: Star Wars Episode II” – ShadowMachine
- Pierre Perifel “Secrets of the Furious Five” – DreamWorks Animation
Character Design in an Animated Feature Production
- Valerie Hadida “Igor” – Exodus Film Group
- Sang Jun Lee “Dr. Seuss’ Horton Hears A Who” – Blue Sky Studios
- Nico Marlet “Kung Fu Panda” – DreamWorks Animation
Character Design in an Animated Television Production or Short Form
- Bryan Arnett – Mighty B! “Bat Mitzah Crashers” – Nickelodeon
- Ben Balistreri – Foster’s Home for Imaginary Friends “Mondo Coco” – Cartoon Network Studios
- Sean Galloway “The Spectacular Spider-Man” – Sony Pictures Television
- Jorge Gutierrez – El Tigre: The Adventures of Manny Rivera “The Good, The Bad, The Tigre” – Nickelodeon
- Nico Marlet “Secrets of the Furious Five” – DreamWorks Animation
Directing in an Animated Feature Production
- Sam Fell, Rob Stevenhagen “The Tale Of Despereaux” – Universal Pictures
- Ari Folman “Waltz With Bashir” – Sony Pictures Classics/Bridgit Folman, Les Films D’ici, Razor Films
- Tatia Rosenthal “$9.99” – Sherman Pictures/ Lama Films
- John Stevenson & Mark Osborne “Kung Fu Panda” – DreamWorks Animation
- Andrew Stanton “Wall•E” – Pixar Animation Studios
Directing in an Animated Television Production or Short Form
- Bob Anderson – The Simpsons “Treehouse of Horror XIX” – Gracie Films/Fox TV
- Joaquim Dos Santos – Avatar: The Last Airbender “Sozin’s Comet Pt. 3” – Nickelodeon
- Craig McCracken, Rob Renzetti – Foster’s Home for Imaginary Friends “Destination Imagination” – Cartoon Network Studios
- Chris McKay – Moral Orel “Passing” – ShadowMachine
- Alan Smart – SpongeBob SquarePants “Penny Foolish” – Nickelodeon
Music in an Animated Feature Production
- Kevin Manthei – “Batman: Gotham Knight” – Warner Bros. Animation
- John Powell – “Dr. Seuss’ Horton Hears A Who” – Blue Sky Studios
- Max Richter – “Waltz With Bashir” – Sony Pictures Classics/Bridgit Folman, Les Films D’ici, Razor Films
- William Ross – “The Tale Of Despereaux” – Universal Pictures
- Hans Zimmer & John Powell – “Kung Fu Panda” – DreamWorks Animation
Music in an Animated Television Production or Short Form
- Carl Finch & Brave Combo – Click and Clack’s “As the Wrench Turns” – CTTV Productions
- Henry Jackman, Hans Zimmer & John Powell – “Secrets of the Furious Five” – DreamWorks Animation
- Kevin Kiner – “Star Wars The Clone Wars: Rising Malevolence” – Lucasfilm Animation Ltd.
- Guy Moon – Back at the Barnyard “Cowman: The Uddered Avenger” – Nickelodeon/Omation
- Guy Michelmore – “Growing Up Creepie: Rockabye Freakie” – Taffy Entertainment LLC
Production Design in an Animated Feature Production
- Ralph Eggleston “Wall•E” – Pixar Animation Studios
- Paul Felix “Bolt” – Walt Disney Animation Studios
- Tang Heng “Kung Fu Panda” – DreamWorks Animation
- Evgeni Tomov “The Tale Of Despereaux” – Universal Pictures
- Raymond Zibach “Kung Fu Panda” – DreamWorks Animation
Production Design in an Animated Television Production or Short Form
- Andy Harkness “Glago’s Guest” – Walt Disney Animation Studios
- Tang Heng “Secrets of the Furious Five” – DreamWorks Animation
- Seonna Hong – The Mighty B! “Bee Patients” – Nickelodeon
- Dan Krall – Chowder “The Heavy Sleeper” – Cartoon Network Studios
- Raymond Zibach “Secrets of the Furious Five” – DreamWorks Animation
Storyboarding in an Animated Feature Production
- Alessandro Carloni – “Kung Fu Panda” – DreamWorks Animation
- Ronnie Del Carmen – “Wall•E” – Pixar Animation Studios
- Joe Mateo “Bolt” – Walt Disney Animation Studios
- Jen Yuh Nelson – “Kung Fu Panda” – DreamWorks Animation
- Rob Stevenhagen – “The Tale Of Despereaux” – Universal Pictures
Storyboarding in an Animated Television Production or Short Form
- Butch Hartman – Fairly OddParents “Mission: Responsible” – Nickelodeon
- Andy Kelly – Ni Hao, Kai-Lan “Twirly Whirly Flyers” – Nickelodeon Productions/Nelvana
- Andy Schuler – “Secret of the Furious Five” – DreamWorks Animation
- Eddie Trigueros “The Mighty B! “Name Shame”– Nickelodeon
- Chris Williams “Glago’s Guest” – Walt Disney Animation Studios
Voice Acting in an Animated Feature Production
- Ben Burtt – Voice of Wall•E – “Wall•E” – Pixar Animation Studios
- Dustin Hoffman – Voice of Shifu – “Kung Fu Panda” – DreamWorks Animation
- James Hong – Voice of Mr. Ping – “Kung Fu Panda” – DreamWorks Animation
- Ian McShane – Voice of Tai Lung – “Kung Fu Panda” – DreamWorks Animation
- Mark Walton – Voice of Rhino – “Bolt” – Walt Disney Animation Studios
Voice Acting in an Animated Television Production or Short Form
- Ahmed Best – Voice of Jar Jar Binks – “Robot Chicken: Star Wars Episode II” – ShadowMachine
- Seth MacFarlane – Voice of Peter Griffin – Family Guy “I Dream of Jesus” – Fox TV Animation/Fuzzy Door Productions
- Dwight Schultz – Voice of Mung Daal – Chowder “Apprentice Games” – Cartoon Network Studios
Writing in an Animated Feature Production
- Jon Aibel & Glenn Berger – “Kung Fu Panda” – DreamWorks Animation
- Etan Cohen and Eric Darnell & Tom McGrath – “Madagascar:Escape 2 Africa” – DreamWorks Animation
- Ari Folman – “Waltz With Bashir” – Sony Pictures Classics/Bridgit Folman, Les Films D’ici, Razor Films
- Cinco Paul and Ken Daurio – “Dr. Seuss’ Horton Hears A Who” – Blue Sky Studios
Writing in an Animated Television Production or Short Form
- Joel H. Cohen – The Simpsons “The Debarted” – Gracie Films/Fox TV
- Scott Kreamer – El Tigre: The Adventures of Manny Rivera “Mustache Love” – Nickelodeon
- Paul McEvoy and Todd Berger – “Secrets of the Furious Five” – DreamWorks Animation
- Tom Root, Douglas Goldstein, Hugh Davidson, Mike Fasolo, Seth Green, Dan Milano, Matthew Senreich, Kevin Shinick, Zeb Wells – “Robot Chicken: Star Wars Episode II” – ShadowMachine
- Chris Williams – “Glago’s Guest” – Walt Disney Animation Studios
JURIED AWARDS
- Winsor McCay recipients – Mike Judge, John Lasseter and Nick Park for career contributions to the art of animation
- June Foray award – Bill Turner for significant and benevolent or charitable impact on the art and industry of animation
- Certificate of Merit award – Amir Avini, Mike Fontanelli, Kathy Turner, Alex Vassilev
31 Responses for "Kung Fu Panda leads Annie Award Nominees"
i guess we got everything before the cut/but that’s cool.
i’m gonna see $9.99 because i noticed Etgar Keret name mentioned in the credits. and any name that was behind the film jellyfish 300% has my attention. i hope i like this film !!!!!!!
and maybe looking ahead to the next wave of annie awards ???
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2008/nov/27/hayaomiyazaki
No writing award for Stanton? Seriously…
Wall * E was snubbed for Music in an Animated Feature Production category! And I had no idea someone could be nominated for just saying EVA! yet Jack Black was snubbed for his work as Po.
Anyway glad to see Avatar getting some love it is a GREAT show. One of the best things Nick has going for it…correction the ONLY thing nickelodeon has going for it.
Right. Kung Fu Panda had better music than Wall-E. Right. Madagascar 2 had better writing than Wall-E. Right.
Other than those two unforgivable snubs, this looks okay. It seems that most of KFP’s nods were multiples in storyboarding or character design. Which is fine, but obviously can only be judged by people in the animation field.
no writing and music noms for Wall e make no sense to me.
I guess we’ll see ‘Horton Hears A Who’ getting a screenplay nod at the Oscars this year…. whatever. The lack of ‘Wall-E’ nominations in some key categories are mind-boggling.
I gotta say, as much as I think Wall-E had a good score, I don’t think it was anything new from Newman. If you listen to Finding Nemo and combine it with A Series of Unfortunate Events, you get the Wall-E soundtrack. I’m not shocked that it was snubbed.
I’m excited to hear The Tale Of Despereaux soundtrack now that it was nominated.
[...] “Kung Fu Panda,” snubbed just a few hours ago by the Satelittes, have scored a massive 17 Annie nominations this year, including individual nominations for character animation, character design, directing, music, production design, storyboarding, voice acting and writing, over “WALL-E’s” 8, and “Bolt’s” 9. WALL-E is certainly a lock in terms of taking home the Best Animated Feature award, but the love for Kung Fu Panda in most of the other categories sure is deserved. For the full nominee list, AwardsDaily has your back. [...]
Well, as someone who liked Kung Fu Panda better than Wall*E, I should say that I am not surprised by this at all.
Here’s to the BNL’s Wall*E merchandise at 50% off over the Black Friday.
Please recycle.
And don’t litter.
Still at 50% sale.
RichardA – and don’t forget, there are no cars in the pile of refuse the Earth becomes in Wall-E – okay, maybe there were two cars! (I suppose it would have been uncomfortable to run 4 car ads before the show and then put them in those piles of refuse.) As for the writing, what writing was there in Wall-E, except that moralizing stuff at the end?
Kung Fu Panda has a gorgeous score–I don’t even remember WALL-E having a score. I think they need to have a lead and supporting category for voice acting. Jack Black’s absence is a travesty, and I think Jim Carrey deserves one for Horton too. I think one major talent that was overlooked was Susie Essman as Mittens in Bolt–I have not heard a cat with a dryer wit since Lorenzo Music voiced Garfield in the 80s. I didn’t find there was anything particularly memorable in Ian McShane’s perf–he sounded like Ian McShane doing Ian McShane.
It really baffles me that people on this board think “Writing” is just dialogue. I’m a screenwritng major, and trust me, dialogue is basically the last thing you think about when writing a screenplay. You have to write the story, the scenes, the different beats, descriptions of settings, basically a blueprint for what is seen and heard on the screen. Wall-E’s dialogue was minimal, but the story was just beautiful, and in the screenplay is the description of the trash-covered Earth, the Axiom, everything that the animators and the sound designers do, the screenwriter has to offer them a blueprint for that. That is what writing is, and because of that, I think Wall-E’s snub from the writing category is baffling (though maybe expected, since there are people who think screenwriting is just giving actors a bunch of words to say). I will say, I really enjoyd both Bolt and Kung Fu Panda, and would be championing them this year if Wall-E had come out in another year (and I loved Dustin Hoffmans voice work as Chifu in Kung Fu Panda).
Haha, just plain ridiculous, WALL-E without a writing nom and even worse, without a score nom, which is kind of a lock for an oscar nod and anything else having a score category. Truly embarassing for the Annies.
Isaac – an hour and a half of cute anthropomorphic beeps and gestures followed by some weird, Disney style moralizing just doesn’t do it for me.
You just don’t get it, do you? EVERY little thing, every little move, every little detail, every little piece of plot construction and character movement, EVERYTHING you see on the screen is the script. Everything that MOVES on the screen is the script. Everything that went into the movie like plot design, construction of themes and characters, everything is the script. It is a massive achievement. Quit being ignorant and impossible.
The Natural – I am not doing this to be contentious, I really and truly think Wall-E was inane, the action, the plot, the dialogue, the anthropomorphic sentimentality of the damed robots, all of it, was a bunch of inane hooey. That is what I think. Please don’t ascribe something to me I haven’t put forward on my blog or on these pages. I loathed Wall-E, I thought it was commercialized crap.
Look, Dan, I’m not going to try and change your opinion, but the reason I thought Wall-E was brilliant is because it portrayed a future that feels very close and very possible. The trash-covered Earth was one thing, but what really shocked me was the Axiom and all those grotesquely over-weight humans going around the Axiom, sitting on their chairs, moving around, unable to move their feet or arms, not because their bad people, but because they don’t know any better. It feels like a picture of what human beings could become if we don’t stop trying to make our lives more comfortable rather than making ourselves healthier. And, I loved the characters of Wall-E and EVE and their love story. It reminded me of Charlie Chaplin shorts, only with robots. I think a film that can be as adorable and poignant as Wall-E is a masterpiece in my book. And, I’ll say it one more time, it all had to be written before it was filmed.
I agree that Wall-E should’ve been a lock for both its writing and score. The fact that the film wasn’t nominated is ridiculous.
I liked WALL-E enough, but I felt at times it was rather pedantic with its message. I also couldn’t help but feel that there were too many resonances with Short Circuit in the robot design and its behaviour, but that’s just me. I still feel that Stanton’s work with Finding Nemo was far superior–it just felt like it had more heart and soul, which is why it’s one of my favourite films of all time. I was expecting more from WALL-E than I got. I’m really looking forward to Up next year, though, as well as the new Miyazaki film.
I don’t think you can explain the concept of screenplay that quickly. Perhaps if you try to see more movies and see them with attention to every action and word, Dan’ll see the WALL-E script as more than blips and beeps. I don’t think he has even read the script, which Disney’s given out to the public. The first 40 minutes of WALL-E are absolutely priceless storytelling.
And Alan, Stanton only brought in the trash planet because it gave him opportunities for the story. He always wanted to do the lonely robot thing and needed a reason why people should leave earth. Perhaps he could’ve chosen some kind of virus spreading on earth or something, but that’s been done to death. He never planned for the film to be environmental. And I think he put far more heart and soul in this film, which he worked on months unofficially, under the rader, just for himself as a private project. He even did it when he was given a year time to go on vacation.
Dan: as an unabashed lover of Wall-E, your post (17) was the inane hooey, not the film. WTH is wrong with encouraging good stewardship of our planet? If that is moralizing, then I’m damn proud to be a moralizer. Your response to TheNatural’s post basically proved his point.
RichardA: I don’t know about merchandise, but WALL-E just kicked that overgrown throw-rug’s behind in DVD sales, making more in one week ($112M from 6.2M units) than KFP did in three weeks ($101M from 5.96M).
Isaac: your explanation of what goes into screenwriting was very enlightening. I had only a vague idea of how involved the process is. BTW, are you new here? I don’t recall seeing ’round these parts.
WALL-E should definitely been nominated for music, but I can understand why it didn’t get as many noms as KFP. It didn’t have as many speaking parts. However, the character design snub has me a little confused. How did Wall-E not get nominated, but KFP, Igor, and Horton did?
[...] Antes he mentido un poco, toda esta serie de eventos (premios de asociaciones de críticos, de gremios de directores, productores, etc., y demás) ya comenzó ayer o antes de ayer con las nominaciones a los premios Annie, que se dan a las mejores películas de animación, pero estos me importaban menos. ¡No os confundáis! En Crocant respetamos mucho al cine de animación, pero no a los premios Annie. Para los interesados diré que sorprendieron las 17 nominaciones de “Kung Fu Panda” con respecto a las 7 de “Wall-E”. Y los podéis ver pinchando aquí. [...]
elessar – drive those cars home quickly on Earth Day, to turn off the lights!
Or why not run your home generator with wind power, like Dan does, elessar?
In Wall-E, there is no poverty in the future, everyone has all their needs taken care of! It’s a big lazy utopia! The Earth is covered with trash, but it seems there were no cars at all at the end, cause there are none in the piles of garbage! Also, all you have to do is say the right thing, and everyone will follow! Also, if you just look at the trees, you will understand how beautiful the world is!
Oh Snap!!!!
It’s the sense of the world and the future in Wall-E that disturbs me – not the implied turning of the world into garbage, but that all our social ills, even at that cost, are solved by technology.
It’s only some sentimental attachment to green that leads us back, there is nothing inherently wrong with the utopian ideal.
My contention is that Wall-E has no cars in it because that would make it too relevant. It is the Earth Day of conservation, not Greenpeace, or the old Pollution Probe, or Eugene Smith at Minamata.
It is complacent. It doesn’t even depict any real social ills at all.
Reduce, reuse, recycle. That’s great. But what reality does Wall-E posit, does it assume?
Kung Fu Panda is better than Wall-e. For music score, screenplay, cinematography, voices, sound mixing, sound editing…
I hope WALL-E ends up on the Best Picture Nod. If it doesn’t, I will not watch the oscars.
WALL-E costed 180,000,000 to make, just as much as the Dark Knight. So many people worked so hard on it. Ben Burtt did amazing voice design, Stanton wrote his most daring script, the computer graphics were realistic (with the exception of the human characters), Newman did a beautiful themed score (WHY DID HE NOT GET A NOD FOR BEST MUSIC AT THE ANNIES?!), etc.,etc.
I also find WALL-E to be better than Beauty and the Beast. That was a great movie, but WALL-E told the better story.
WALL-E is not one of the bloated romance films like the great, but overrated Titanic. Titanic did nothing but circled around Jack and Rose romance. There were many things going on beside WALL-E’s and EVE’s romance- There was a lethargic society, a polluted Earth, and machines discovering life. And WALL-E romance with EVE affected humanity.
WALL-E is certainly better than Kung Fu Panda. Kung Fu Panda only took 130 million to make. Kung Fu Panda is certainly funnier, but comedy is not enough to define a good movie. Kung Fu Panda had a excellent storyline, but it is what it is, it was only meant to make children laugh and enjoy it. Kung Fu Panda is not of the universal. Young children will love the cuteness of WALL-E, and teens and adults will love the allegorical story.
Dreamworks may be funnier, but Pixar suceeds in mixed comedy with out-of-this world storylines. Storylines matter more than comedy.
Because you think comedy defines how good a movie is, you are one of those inconsiderate people who give no damn toward the hard effort.
What use is an Annie Award to WALL-E? WALL-E is no animated movie, it’s a romance made by animation. Saying that WALL-E is an animated movie is discriminating.
If WALL-E doesn’t show up on the Best Picture category, I will never watch the Oscars again. Mark my words.
caroline,you don’t have to watch/ you can just be part of the live blog thing here oscar night !!!!!
yeah, i know you hope you can do both. but we’ll be here just in case…
I think Wall-E is going to take away the oscar for best animated but I would rather see Kung Fu Panda or Waltz with Bashir take it away for an upset.
I never saw Kung Fu Panda but the kids say it was great. I used tohave to take them to certain movies but the wife does these days, thank God. I like to take them but not to some of these animation ones.
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