Annie Awards: Last News

Terry Flores The board of ASIFA-Hollywood, the organization behind the 52nd annual Annie Awards, pondered, like many other organizers behind events on the awards season calendar, whether the show should be postponed or scaled back because of the devastating fires that ravaged Los Angeles in early January. Many members of the animation community are among those who’ve been severely impacted. “We represent the animation community and it’s really important to us, especially at this time, that we support them a thousand percent,” says ASIFA-Hollywood executive director Aubry Mintz.

Wicked, Dune: Part Two, Saturday Night, The Wild Robot and Emilia Pérez were among the film winners at the Motion Picture Sound Editors‘ 72nd Golden Reel Awards, which were handed out Sunday night at the Wilshire Ebell Theatre in Los Angeles.

It’s shaping up to be a big night for The Wild Robot at the 52nd annual Annie Awards, which are being handed out tonight at UCLA’s Royce Hall. The Universal/DreamWorks Animation pic came into the ceremony with a leading 10 nominations from ASIFA-Hollywood, and it has won four already: Character Animation, Character Design, Production Design and Music.

Terry Flores Major players in the animation industry have come together with ASIFA-Hollywood, the professional organization behind the annual Annie Awards, to support members of the community affected by the Palisades and Eaton fires with a fundraising initiative that will be unveiled during the 52nd Annies on Saturday at UCLA’s Royce Hall. The effort, called AnimAID, aims to raise $5 million over the next months to help the more than 60 families within the animation community who have lost or been displaced from their homes by the devastating fires.

Oppenheimer, Maestro, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse and Society of the Snow were the big film winners at the Motion Picture Sound Editors‘ 71st Golden Reel Awards, which were handed out Sunday night at the Wilshire Ebell Theatre in Los Angeles. See the full list below.

the 51st Annie Awards, where “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse” won best feature and collected seven prizes in total. “Across the Spider-Verse” is nominated for best animated feature at the Academy Awards — and the Annie Awards can often be a good predictor of winner.The 2024 box office has gotten off to a sobering start for Hollywood, and the disappointing result for “Madame Web” won’t help. Moviegoing has slowed to a crawl in recent weeks, while 2023’s strikes have impacted this year’s release schedules.

Ethan Shanfeld Season 2 of Netflix’s League of Legends series “Arcane” will arrive on the streamer inNovember 2024, . The animated show, created by Christian Linke and Alex Yee and based on the Riot Games sensation, was renewed by Netflix in November 2021. Hailee Steinfeld and Ella Purnell will reprise their roles as sisters Vi and Jinx, who are caught on opposing sides of a conflict in the utopian city of Piltover and its poor underbelly, Zaun.

For editorial inquiries, please contact Peter Caranicas at peter.caranicas@variety.com. SVP, AnimationBad Robot(Film & TV) Agbaje, 36, helped to bring Charlie Mackesy’s “The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse” to life, earning Academy Award and BAFTA wins for animated short film, as well as four Annie Awards. Bad Robot is working on diverse animation projects across film and TV, including a two-season order for Bruce Timm’s “Batman: Caped Crusader” at Amazon, and an adaptation of “Oh, the Places You’ll Go!” for Warner Bros.Enduring power of animation: “I’ve seen such a resurgence and celebration of animation in different forms,” says Agbaje.

Elsa Keslassy International Correspondent Charades (“Mirai,” “I Lost My Body”) has acquired “Flow,” a 3D animated feature directed by Gints Zilbalodis, the Annie-nominated filmmaker of “Away”. Produced by Sacrebleu Productions, Dream Well Studio and Take Five, “Flow” will be presented in the Work-in-Progress section in Annecy. Zilbalodis penned the feature with Matiss Kaza at Dream Well Studio and Ron Dyens (“Barking Island”) at Sacrebleu Productions who are acting as co-writers and producers. “Flow” is currently in production in Marseille, Paris and Bruxelles, with an expected delivery date during the second quarter of 2024.

Top Gun: Maverick, Elvis and Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio were among the big film winners at the Motion Picture Sound Editors’ 70th Golden Reel Awards, which were handed out Sunday night at the Wilshire Ebell Theatre in Los Angeles. See the full list below.

Terry Flores “Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio” has picked up another award on its march to the Oscars, nabbing the feature prize at the 50th Annie Awards, presented by ASIFA-Hollywood, on Saturday evening. In addition to being named the top film by the animation industry, “Pinocchio” led the winners’ list with five trophies overall, including the award for best direction for del Toro and fellow director Mark Gustafson. The stop-motion movie also picked up wins for music (Alexandre Desplat, Roeban Katz, del Toro and Patrick McHale), production design (Curt Enderle and Guy Davis) and character design (Tucker Barrie). Del Toro, who came directly from the PGA Awards where he received the trophy for producing ‘Pinocchio,’ was thrilled to win the Annie for direction alongside Gustafson. “Can I say this? I wanted the fucking Annie so much. It’s the most gorgeous thing in the world!” He noted that the Annies ceremony was the one place that he didn’t have to point out that animation is a medium and not a genre. “What I can say is about ‘Pinocchio’ is that it was done by artists, and the animators were treated like cast and not technicians.”

Spy x Family leads the field with 19 nominations for Crunchyroll’s seventh annual Anime Awards, which be handed out in March. Ranking of Kings is next with 16, spread across two seasons, followed by Cyberpunk: Edgerunners with 13 noms, which were revealed today. See the full list below.

Rich Moore, the Oscar-winning filmmaker behind such titles as Zootopia and Wreck-It Ralph, has entered into an exclusive, multi-year overall deal with Skydance Animation, which will see him create, develop and produce original animated features for the studio.

League of Legends publisher and developer Riot Games will deepen its relationship with Fortiche Production, the studio behind its breakout Netflix animated series Arcane. Announced on Monday, Riot closed an equity investment under which the gaming company now holds a non-controlling stake in Fortiche.

Wilson Chapman editorThe 49th annual Annie Awards, which honor the best in animation of the past year, are set for this Saturday, March 12.Produced by ASIFA-Hollywood, the Annie Awards were initially scheduled as a live ceremony on Feb. 26, but the event was delayed and made virtual in January due to concerns regarding the COVID-19 surge. The ceremony will stream live on the Annie Awards website, starting 7 p.m.

Terry Flores For the second year in a row, the 49th Annie Awards will be virtual after ASIFA-Hollywood, the organization behind the event, decided to pivot amid the omicron-driven surge in COVID-19 cases.The show was originally going to be an in-person affair Feb. 26 at Royce Hall on the campus of UCLA.

Terry Flores Netflix’s investment in animation has paid off in a big way as the streamer’s content picked up a whopping 52 nominations for the 49th Annie Awards. The next closest was Disney, which received 29 bids between its film and TV projectsNetflix’s nominations haul was led by “Arcane,” its series based on the multiplayer online game League of Legends by Riot Games, with nine, it’s hit film from Sony Pictures Animation “The Mitchells vs.

Disney films are the ones to beat at the 49th annual Annie Awards, whose nominations were announced this morning. Walt Disney Animation Studios’ Raya and the Last Dragon and Encanto scored a leading 10 and nine noms, respectively, followed by Pixar’s Luca with eight.