50th Annie Awards

Annual Annie Awards ceremony held in 2023

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The 50th ceremony of the Annie Awards, honoring excellence in the field of animation for the year of 2022, was held on February 25, 2023, at the University of California, Los Angeles's Royce Hall in Los Angeles, California in a live ceremony after two years as a virtual event.^[1]^[2]

The nominees were announced on January 17, 2023, Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio led the nominations with nine, followed by Turning Red with seven.^[3]^[4]

Winners and nominees

Productions Categories

Best Animated Feature	Best Animated Feature — Independent
Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio – Netflix presents a Double Dare You! Film / a ShadowMachine production in association with The Jim Henson Company Puss in Boots: The Last Wish – DreamWorks Animation The Sea Beast – Netflix Turning Red – Pixar Animation Studios Wendell & Wild – Netflix presents a Monkeypaw production / a Gotham Group production	Marcel the Shell with Shoes On – Marcel the Movie LLC, A24 Charlotte – January Films, Ltd., Balthazar Productions, and Walking the Dog Inu-Oh – Science SARU Little Nicholas: Happy As Can Be – On Classics (Mediawan) / Bidibul Productions My Father's Dragon – Cartoon Saloon, Netflix
Best Animated Special Production	Best Animated Short Subject
The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse – NoneMore Productions and Bad Robot Productions The House – Nexus Studios for Netflix Prehistoric Planet – BBC Studios in association with Apple The Sandman – A Netflix Original Series / a Warner Bros. Television Production Superworm – Magic Light Pictures	Ice Merchants – COLA Animation production & Wild Stream Amok – Boddah Black Slide – The Hive Studio, in co-production with FlipBook Studio The Flying Sailor – National Film Board of Canada Love, Dad – 13ka, in co-production with FAMU & nutprodukcia
Best Sponsored Production	Best Animated Television/Broadcast Production for Preschool Children
Save Ralph – Arch Model Studio "Can't Negotiate the Melting Point of Ice" – NOMINT Minions: The Rise of Gru / The Office – Illumination Ted Lasso: The Missing Christmas Mustache – Apple presents a Doozer production in association with Warner Bros. Television and Universal Television "Today's Holiday Moments are Tomorrow's Memories" – Hornet	The Tiny Chef Show: "Pancakes" – Tiny Chef Productions LLC, Imagine Entertainment Elinor Wonders Why: "Rest is Best" – SHOE Ink. LLC Gabby's Dollhouse: "Cakey's Cupcake Cousins" – DreamWorks Animation Rise Up, Sing Out: "Name Tag" – Disney TV Animation Spirit Rangers: "Thunder Mountain" – Laughing Wild, Netflix
Best Animated Television/Broadcast Production for Children	Best Mature Audience Animated Television/Broadcast Production
Abominable and the Invisible City: "Everest Returns" – DreamWorks Animation Big Nate: "The Legend of the Gunting" – Nickelodeon Animation Moominvalley: "Lonely Mountain" – Gutsy Animations The Owl House: "King's Tide" – Disney TV Animation We Baby Bears: "The Real Crayon" – Cartoon Network Studios	Bob's Burgers: "Some Like it Bot Part 1: Eighth Grade Runner" – 20th Television, Bento Box Entertainment Harley Quinn: "Batman Begins Forever" – Warner Bros. Animation Rick and Morty: "Night Family" – Rick and Morty LLC The Simpsons: "Treehouse of Horror XXXIII" – A Gracie Films production in association with 20th Television Animation Tuca & Bertie: "The Pain Garden" – The Tornante Company
Best Animated Limited Series	Best Student Film
Oni: Thunder God's Tale: "The Demon Moon Rises" – A Netflix Series / A Tonko House Production Baymax!: "Sofia" – Walt Disney Animation Studios El Deafo: "Everybody Sounds So Weird" – Lighthouse Studios in association with Apple HouseBroken: "Who's Having a Merry Trashmas?" – Kapital Entertainment, FOX Entertainment Undone: "Rectify" – The Tornante Company, Amazon Studios	The Soloists – Mehrnaz Abdollahinia, Feben Elias Woldehawariat, Razahk Issaka, Celeste Jamneck & Yi Liu, director (Gobelins, l'école de l'image) Au revoir Jérôme ! – Adam Sillard, Gabrielle Selnet & Chloé Farr, directors (Gobelins, l'école de l'image) Birdsong – Michelle Cheng, director and producer (California Institute of the Arts) Synchronie Passagère – Julia Le Bras-Juarez, director (Supinfocom Rubika) The Most Boring Granny in the Whole World – Damaris Zielke, director; Jiayan Chen, producer (Film Academy Baden-Württemberg)

Individual achievement categories

Outstanding Achievement for Animated Effects in an Animated Television/Broadcast Production	Outstanding Achievement for Animated Effects in an Animated Production
Love Death + Robots: "Bad Traveling" – Kirby Miller, Igor Zanic, Joseph H. Coleman, Steven Dupuy, Josh Schwartz The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse – Peter Baynton, Raymond Pang, Martial Coulon Cars on the Road: "Road Rumblers" – Christopher Foreman, Elana Lederman, John Lockwood, Jae Jun Yi, Justin Ritter The House – Germán Díez, Álvaro Alonso Lomba, Hugo Vieites Caamaño Prehistoric Planet: "Coasts"	Avatar: The Way of Water – Johnathan M. Nixon, David Moraton, Nicholas Illingworth, David Caeiro Cebrian, Alex Nowotny Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio – Aaron Weintraub, Warren Lawtey, Alireza Malmiri, Baptiste Malbranque, Mikhail Donchenko Lightyear – Carl Kaphan, Cody Harrington, Hope Schroers, Jon Barry, Nate Skeen Minions: The Rise of Gru – Frank Baradat, Simon Pate, Milan Voukassovitch, Milo Riccarand The Sea Beast – Spencer Lueders, Dmitriy Kolesnik, Kiel Gnebba, Oleksandr (Alex) Loboda, Jeremy Hoey
Outstanding Achievement for Character Animation in an Animated Television / Broadcast Production	Outstanding Achievement for Character Animation in an Animated Feature Production
The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse – Tim Watts Entergalactic – Aziz Kocanaogullari The House – Kecy Salangad Oni: Thunder God's Tale: "The Mighty Storm Gods" – Toshihiro Nakamura StoryBots: Answer Time: "Taste" – Henrique Baron	Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio – Tucker Barrie The Bad Guys – Jorge Capote The Bad Guys – Min Hong Turning Red – Teresa Falcone Turning Red – Eric Anderson
Outstanding Achievement for Character Animation in a Live Action Production	Outstanding Achievement for Character Animation in a Video Game
Avatar: The Way of Water – Daniel Barrett, Stuart Adcock, Todd Labonte, Douglas McHale, Stephen Cullingford Beast – Alvise Avati, Chris McGaw, Bora Şahin, Krzysztof Boyoko, Laurent Benhamo Finch – Simon Allen, Harinarayan Rajeev, Paul Nelson, Matthias Schoenegger Jurassic World Dominion – Jance Rubinchik, Alexander Lee, Rich Bentley, Antoine Verney Carron, Sally Wilson Peacemaker – Michael Cozens, Mark Smith, Kai-Hua Lan, Selene McLean, Richard John Moore	Cuphead: The Delicious Last Course – Chad Moldenhauer, Hanna Abi-Hanna God of War Ragnarök – Santa Monica Studio team Horizon Forbidden West – Richard Oud, Jan-Erik Sjovall, Guerrilla Animation Team Moss: Book II – Richard Lico Potionomics – Emily Lattanavong, Anguel Bogoev
Outstanding Achievement for Character Design in an Animated Television / Broadcast Production	Outstanding Achievement for Character Design in an Animated Feature Production
Love Death + Robots: "Jibaro" – Alberto Mielgo Amphibia: "The Hardest Thing" – Joe Sparrow Entergalactic – Meybis Ruiz Cruz Oni: Thunder God's Tale: "The Demon Moon Rises" – Rebecca Chan Spirit Rangers: "Belly of the Beast" – Marie Delmas	The Bad Guys – Taylor Krahenbuhl Luck – Massimiliano Narciso Puss in Boots: The Last Wish – Jesús Alonso Iglesias Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Movie – Ida Hem Wendell & Wild – Pablo Lobato
Outstanding Achievement for Directing in an Animated Television / Broadcast Production	Outstanding Achievement for Directing in an Animated Feature Production
The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse – Peter Baynton, Charlie Mackesy Baymax!: "Sofia" – Lissa Treiman e∞ception: "Misprint" – Yûzô Satô More Than I Want to Remember – Amy Bench, Maya Edelman Oni: Thunder God's Tale: "The Demon Moon Rises" – Daisuke "Dice" Tsutsumi	Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio – Guillermo del Toro, Mark Gustafson Marcel the Shell with Shoes On – Dean Fleischer Camp, Kirsten Lepore, Stephen Chiodo My Father's Dragon – Nora Twomey Turning Red – Domee Shi Wendell & Wild – Henry Selick
Outstanding Achievement for Editorial in an Animated Television / Broadcast Production	Outstanding Achievement for Editorial in an Animated Feature Production
The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse – Daniel Budin Amphibia: "All In" – Andrew Sorcini, Yoonah Yim, Jennifer Calbi, Julie Anne Lau, David Vasquez Green Eggs and Ham: "The Sam Who Came In From the Cold" – Margaret Hou Karma's World: "Keys, The Inventor" – Damien Dunne, Ultan Murphy, Emma O'Brien, Fred O'Connor, Aiden McKenna Star Trek: Lower Decks: "The Least Dangerous Game" – Andy Maxwell, Zach Lamplugh, Caleb Yoder, Paul Mazzotta	Puss in Boots: The Last Wish – James Ryan, Jacquelyn Karambelas, Natalla Cronembold, Joe Butler, Katie Parody Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio – Ken Schretzmann, Holly Klein, Emily Chiu, Hamilton Barrett Lightyear – Tony Greenberg, Katie Bishop, Chloe Kloezeman, Axel Geddes, Tim Fox The Sea Beast – Joyce Arrastica, Will Erokan, Vivek Sharma, Michael Hugh O'Donnell, Daniel Ortiz Turning Red – Nicholas Smith, Steve Bloom, David Suther, Anna Wolitzky, Christopher Zuber
Outstanding Achievement for Music in an Animated Television / Broadcast Production	Outstanding Achievement for Music in an Animated Feature Production
The Cuphead Show!: "Carn-Evil" – Ego Plum, Dave Wasson, Cosmo Segurson The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse – Isobel Waller-Bridge, Charlie Mackesy The House – Gustavo Santaolalla Love Death + Robots: "The Very Pulse of the Machine" – Rob Cairns Oni: Thunder God's Tale: "Onari's Kushi Power" – Zach Johnston, Matteo Roberts	Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio – Alexandre Desplat, Roeban Katz, Guillermo del Toro, Patrick McHale The Bad Guys – Daniel Pemberton Mad God – Dan Wool The Sea Beast – Mark Mancina, Nell Benjamin, Laurence O'Keefe Turning Red – Ludwig Göransson, Billie Eilish, Finneas O'Connell
Outstanding Achievement for Production Design in an Animated Television / Broadcast Production	Outstanding Achievement for Production Design in an Animated Feature Production
Oni: Thunder God's Tale: "The Demon Moon Rises" – Robert Kondo, Rachel Tiep-Daniels, Lia Tin, Yohei Hashizume, Masa Inada The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse – Mike McCain Genndy Tartakovsky's Primal: "Echoes of Eternity" – Scott Wills The House – Niklas Nilsson, Alexandra Walker Mall Stories – Atilla the Grilla – Jasmin Lai, Lauren Zurcher, Junyi Wu	Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio – Curt Enderle, Guy Davis The Bad Guys – Luc Desmarchelier, Floriane Marchix Mad God – Phil Tippett Puss in Boots: The Last Wish – Nate Wragg, Joseph Feinsilver, Claire Keane, Wayne Tsay, Naveen Selvanathan The Sea Beast – Matthias Lechner, Jung Woonyoung
Outstanding Achievement for Storyboarding in an Animated Television / Broadcast Production	Outstanding Achievement for Storyboarding in an Animated Feature Production
Love Death + Robots: "The Very Pulse of the Machine" – Emily Dean The Cuphead Show!: "A Very Devil Christmas" – Karl Hadrika Cyberpunk: Edgerunners: "Let You Down" – Kaneko Yoshiyuk Kung Fu Panda: The Dragon Knight: "The Knight's Code" – Grace Liu Looney Tunes Cartoons: "Hex Appeal" – Mike Ruocco	Puss in Boots: The Last Wish – Anthony Holden Minions: The Rise of Gru – Nima Azarba Minions: The Rise of Gru – Dave Feiss Strange World – Jeff Snow Strange World – Javier Ledesma Barboll
Outstanding Achievement for Voice Acting in an Animated Television / Broadcast Production	Outstanding Achievement for Voice Acting in an Animated Feature Production
*Maurice LaMarche as Mr. Big in Zootopia+: "The Godfather of the Bride"* Candi Milo as Witch Hazel in Looney Tunes Cartoons: "Hex Appeal" Fred Tatasciore as Bang in StoryBots: Answer Time: "Glue" Tara Strong as Batgirl, Harley Quinn and Raven in Teen Titans Go! & DC Super Hero Girls: Mayhem in the Multiverse Karen Malina White as Dijonay Jones in The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder: "New Kids On the Block"	Jenny Slate as Marcel in Marcel the Shell with Shoes On Gregory Mann as Pinocchio in Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio David Bradley as Geppetto in Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio Wagner Moura as Wolf / Death in Puss in Boots: The Last Wish Zaris-Angel Hator as Maisie Brumble in The Sea Beast
Outstanding Achievement for Writing in an Animated Television / Broadcast Production	Outstanding Achievement for Writing in an Animated Feature Production
Love Death + Robots: "Bad Traveling" – Andrew Kevin Walker Baymax!: "Sofia" – Cirocco Dunlap Big Nate: "The Legend of the Gunting" – Mitch Watson, Emily Brundige, Ben Lapides, Sarah Allan The House – Enda Walsh Tuca & Bertie: "The Pain Garden" – Lisa Hanawalt	Marcel the Shell with Shoes On – Dean Fleischer Camp, Jenny Slate, Nick Paley, Elisabeth Holm Eternal Spring – Jason Loftus Inu-Oh – Akiko Nogi Turning Red – Domee Shi, Julia Cho

Juried awards

June Foray Award

Mindy Johnson

The Certificate of Merit Award

John Omohundro

Ub Iwerks Award

Visual Effects Reference Platform

Winsor McCay Lifetime Achievement Awards

Multiple awards and nominations

Films

The following films received multiple nominations:

Nominations	Film
9	Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio
7	Turning Red
6	Puss in Boots: The Last Wish
6	The Sea Beast
5	The Bad Guys
4	Marcel the Shell with Shoes On
4	Minions: The Rise of Gru
3	Wendell & Wild
2	Avatar: The Way of Water
	My Father's Dragon
	Strange World
	Mad God
	Inu-Oh
	Lightyear

The following films received multiple awards:

Wins	Film
5	Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio
3	Marcel the Shell with Shoes On
2	Avatar: The Way of Water
2	Puss in Boots: The Last Wish

Television/Broadcast

The following shows received multiple nominations:

Nominations	Show
7	The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse
6	The House
6	Oni: Thunder God's Tale
5	Love, Death & Robots
3	Baymax!
2	Amphibia
	Big Nate
	The Cuphead Show!
	Entergalactic
	Looney Tunes Cartoons
	Prehistoric Planet
	Spirit Rangers
	StoryBots: Answer Time
	Tuca & Bertie

The following shows received multiple awards:

Wins	Show
4	The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse
4	Love, Death & Robots
2	Oni: Thunder God's Tale

References

^ "50th ANNIE AWARDS CELEBRATION SET FOR SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 2023 UCLA – ROYCE HALL". annieawards.org. Retrieved 2022-03-06.
^ Giardina, Carolyn (25 February 2023). "'Guillermo Del Toro's Pinocchio' Wins Five Trophies Including the Top Prize at the 50th Annie Awards". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 30 March 2023.
^ Pedersen, Erik (January 17, 2023). "Annie Awards Nominations: Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio & Marcel The Shell Lead Field". Deadline. Retrieved January 17, 2023.
^ Giardina, Carolyn (January 17, 2023). "Annie Awards: Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio Leads Feature Competition With Nine Noms". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved January 17, 2023.