LOS ANGELES, Feb. 1, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- 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); and 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. The ceremony was live-streamed again this year at
www.annieawards.org/watch-it-live where animation enthusiasts and
those who were unable to attend the event, could watch the show. 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.
ASIFA-Hollywood is the world's first and foremost professional
organization dedicated to promoting the art of animation and
celebrating the people who create it. Today, ASIFA-Hollywood, the
largest chapter of the international organization ASIFA, supports a
range of animation activities and preservation efforts through its
membership. Current initiatives include the Animation Archive,
Animation Aid Foundation, animated film preservation, special
events, classes and screenings.
Created in 1972 by June Foray, the Annie Awards have grown in
scope and stature for the past four decades. For more information
on the Annie Awards™, please visit www.annieawards.org. For
information about ASIFA-Hollywood, visit
www.asifa-hollywood.org.
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