Pressemitteilung:
DreamWorks Animation’s ‘How to Train Your Dragon 2’ took Best
Animated Feature top honors at the 42nd Annual Annie Awards held
Saturday, January 31 at UCLA’s Royce Hall.
The Best Animated Special
Production was awarded to ‘Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey’ (Voyager
Pictures LLC);
Best Animated Short Subject ‘Feast’ (Walt Disney
Animation Studios);
Best Animated TV/Broadcast Commercial ‘Flight of the
Stories’ (Aardman Animations);
Best General Audience Animated
TV/Broadcast Production for Preschool Children ‘Tumble Leaf’ (Amazon
Studios);
Best Animated TV/Broadcast Production for Children’s Audience
‘Gravity Falls’ (Disney Television Animation);
Best General Audience
Animated TV/Broadcast Production ‘The Simpsons’ (Gracie Films in
association with 20th Century Fox Television);
Best Animated Video Game
‘Valiant Hearts: The Great War’ (Ubisoft);
Best Student Film ‘My Big
Brother’ (Savannah College of Art and Design, Jason Rayner).
The Annie Awards™ honor overall excellence as well as individual
achievement in a total of 36 categories from best feature, production
design, character animation, and effects animation to storyboarding,
writing, music, editing and voice acting, and have often been a
predictor of the annual Academy Award for Best Animated Feature.
A complete list of winners can be viewed at
www.annieawards.org and highlights of the ceremony will be uploaded to the Annies website in the next few weeks.
“Our industry waits all year for this event and it never disappoints,
said ASIFA-Hollywood Executive Director, Frank Gladstone. “This was a
terrific night with something for everyone. It was fun to take a look
back at our history, celebrate and honor what we have accomplished over
the past year, and even look forward a little to what is in store for
2015 and beyond.”
Presenting the coveted Annie trophies this year were the comedy-folk
duo Garfunkel & Oates – actress-songwriters Riki Lindhome and Kate
Mucucci; Veteran voice talent and industry legend June Foray; Songwriter
and music director Richard Sherman, Filmmaker and artist Tomm Moore;
Industry professionals Leslie Iwerks, John Musker, Ron Clements and
ASIFA-Hollywood president Jerry Beck and Executive Director, Frank
Gladstone.
This year’s Juried Award recipients included Winsor McCay lifetime
achievement award – producers Didier Brunner and Lee Mendelson, and
legendary animator Don Lusk; June Foray benevolent service award –
author and critic Charles Solomon; Ub Iwerks technical achievement award
– DreamWorks Animation’s Apollo Software; and the Annie Special
Achievement award – The Walt Disney Family Museum.
