Annie Awards Winners List (Updating Live)

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The 49th annual Annie Awards are underway Saturday night, with the virtual ceremony presented by ASIFA-Hollywood honoring the year’s best in animated fare across movies, TV and video games.

Deadline is following along and updating winners in 36 categories in real time. Keep track below.Coming into the night, Walt Disney Animation Studios’ Raya and the Last Dragon and Encanto lead the nominations 10 and nine Annie noms, respectively, followed by Pixar’s Luca with eight.

Illumination’s Sing 2 and The Mitchells vs. the Machines, from Sony Pictures Animation for Netflix, join them in the running in the marquee Best Feature category. (See the full list of nominees here.)Last year, eventual Oscar Animated Feature winner Soul from Pixar was named Best Feature among seven total Annie wins.

It marked the 14th time in 20 years that the Annies’ Best Feature winner went on to claim the Oscar.Presenters at tonight’s ceremony, which is virtual for a second year in a row, are expected to include Tom Kenny, Guillermo del Toro, Diane Warren, Tomm Moore, Ross Stewart, Mamoru Hosoda, Charlie Saxton, Pierre Perffiel and Lilly Singh.Honorary awards to be presented tonight include Ruben Aquino, Lillian Schwartz and Studio Ghibli producer Toshio Suzuki receiving the Winsor McCay Award for career contributions to the art of animation; Renzo & Sayoko Kinoshita, founders of the Hiroshima International Animation Festival, with the June Foray Award for significant and benevolent or charitable impact; the Ub Iwerks Award for technical advancement to Python Foundation.Artist and author Glen Vilppu will receive the Special Achievement Award recognizing the unique and significant impact on the art and industry of animation, while the Certificate of