“Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio” has continued its streak as the most awarded animated film of 2022, leading all films in nominations for the 50th Annie Awards, which were announced Tuesday morning.
A week after winning the Golden Globe and two days after winning the Critics Choice Award, “Pinocchio” earned nine nominations at the Annie Awards, the premier awards show devoted entirely to animation. That total was two more than Pixar’s “Turning Red” and three more than “Puss in Boots: The Last Wish” and “The Sea Beast.” Those four films compete with “Wendell & Wild” in the Best Feature category, while the Best Indie Feature list consists of “Charlotte,” “Inu-Oh,” “Little Nicholas, Happy as Can Be,” “Marcel the Shell With Shoes On” and “My Father’s Dragon”.
“Turning Red” and “Marcel the Shell With Shoes On” were the only films nominated for Best Feature (or Best Indie Feature), Best Director and Best Screenplay, and the latter film was the only nominee in all of those categories. as well as voice acting. (“Pinocchio” was nominated for all but writing.)
With “Pinocchio,” “The Sea Beast” and “Wendell & Wild,” Netflix had three of the Best Picture nominees, the first time a company other than Disney/Pixar has garnered so many nominations in the top category.
In two of the past three years, a Netflix-distributed film has won the Best Annies Movie category over a Disney or Pixar favorite, with “Klaus” beating out “Toy Story 4” and “The Mitchells vs. the Machines” beating out to “Charm”. .” “Pinocchio” will likely be a clear favorite over “Turning Red” this year.
Most years, the Best Animated Feature Oscar nominees are a mix of Annie nominees in the Best Picture and Best Indie Feature categories.
In television categories, top nominees included “Oni: Thunder God’s Tale,” “The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse,” “Love Death + Robots,” and “The House.”
The Annies also announced six juried awards. The Windsor McCay Award, an animation lifetime achievement award, will go to Pixar director and CEO Pete Docter, the late filmmaker Evelyn Lambert and television creator Craig McCracken. June’s Foray Award for Charitable Impact will go to author and historian Mindy Johnson. The Ub Iwerks Award for technical advancement will go to the Visual Effects Reference Platform, and the Certificate of Merit Award for service to the animation industry will go to John Omohundro.
The Annie Awards are presented by ASIFA-Hollywood, the International Society for Animated Film. The ceremony will take place on Saturday, February 26.
Here are the nominated movies and shows. For a full list of nominees in each category, go to https://annieawards.org.
BEST FEATURE
“turning red”
“Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio”
“Puss in Boots: The Last Wish”
“The Beast from the Sea”
“Wendell and Savage”
BEST INDIE FEATURE FILM
“Charlotte”
“Inu-Oh”
“Little Nicholas, as happy as can be”
“Marcel the shell with his shoes on”
“My Father’s Dragon”
BEST SPECIAL PRODUCTION
“Prehistoric Planet”
“Superworm”
“The boy, the mole, the fox and the horse”
“Home”
“5. The Sandman”
BEST SHORT SUBJECT
“Crazy”
“black slide”
“Ice Merchants”
“I Love Dad”
“The Flying Sailor”
BEST SPONSORED
“You can’t negotiate the melting point of ice”
“Minions: The Rise of Gru” / “The Office”
“Save Ralph”
“Ted Lasso: The Missing Christmas Mustache”
“Today’s festive moments are tomorrow’s memories”
BEST TV/MEDIA – PRESCHOOL
“Elinor wonders why”, episode: “Rest is the best”
“Gabby’s Dollhouse”, Episode: “Cakey’s Cupcake Cousins”
“Stand Up, Sing”, Episode: “Name Tag”
“Spirit Rangers”, episode: “Thunder Mountain”
“5. The Tiny Chef Show”, episode: “Pancakes”
BEST TV/MEDIA – KIDS
“Abominable and the Invisible City”, episode: “Everest Returns”
“Big Nate”, Episode: “The Legend of Gunting”
“Moominvalley”, episode: “Lonely Mountain”
“The Owl House”, Episode: “King Tide”
“We Baby Bears”, episode: “The Real Crayon”
BEST TV/MEDIA – MATURE
“Bob’s Burgers”, Episode: “Some Like The Bot Part 1: 8th Grade Runner”
“Harley Quinn”, episode: “Batman Begins Forever”
“Rick and Morty”, episode: “Family Night”
“The Simpsons – The Tree House of Horror XXXIII”
“Tuca & Bertie”, episode: “The Garden of Pain”
BEST TV/MEDIA – LIMITED SERIES
“BAYMAX!” episode: “Sofia”
“El Sordo”, episode: “Everyone sounds so weird”
“HouseBroken”, episode: “Who’s Having a Happy Trashmas?”
“Oni: Thunder God’s Tale”, episode: “The Demon Moon Rises”
“Undone”, Episode: “Rectify”
BEST STUDENT FILM
“Au revoir Jerome!” Gobelins, l’école de l’image
“Song of the Birds”, California Institute of the Arts
“Synchronie Passagere”, Supinfocom Rubika
“The most boring grandmother in the world”, Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg GmbH
“The soloists”, Gobelins, l’école de l’image
BEST FX – TV/MEDIA
“Cars on the Road”, episode: “Road Rumblers”
“Love Death + Robots”, episode: “Bad Traveling”
“3. Prehistoric planet”, episode: “Coasts”
“The boy, the mole, the fox and the horse”
“Home”
BEST FX – FEATURE
“Avatar: The Path of Water”
“Light-year”
“Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio”
“Minions: The Rise of Gru”
“The Beast from the Sea”
BEST CHARACTER ANIMATION – TV/MEDIA
“entergalactic”
“Oni: Thunder God’s Tale”, episode: “The Mighty Gods of the Storm”
“StoryBots: Response Time”, Episode: “Taste”
“The boy, the mole, the fox and the horse”
“Home”
BEST CHARACTER ANIMATION – FEATURE FILM
“Getting Red” (Teresa Falcone)
“Going Red” (Eric Anderson)
“Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio” (Tucker Barrie)
“The bad guys” (Jorge Capote)
“Bad Boys” (Min Hong)
BEST CHARACTER ANIMATION – LIVE ACTION
“Avatar: The Path of Water”
“Beast”
“Finch”
“Jurassic World Dominion”
“Pacifier”
BEST CHARACTER ANIMATION – VIDEO GAME
“Cuphead – The Delicious Last Course”
“God of War Ragnarök”
“Forbidden Horizon West”
“Moss: Book II”
“Potionomics”
BEST CHARACTER DESIGN – TV/MEDIA
“Amphibia”, episode: “The most difficult”
“entergalactic”
“Love Death + Robots”, episode: “Jibaro”
“Oni: Thunder God’s Tale”, episode: “The Demon Moon Rises”
“Spirit Rangers”, episode: “The Belly of the Beast”
BEST CHARACTER DESIGN – ARTICLE
“Luck”
“Puss in Boots: The Last Wish”
“Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Movie”
“The Bad Boys”
“Wendell and Savage”
BEST DIRECTION – TV/MEDIA
“BAYMAX!” episode: “Sofia”, Lissa Treiman
“Exception / エクセプション”, Episode: “Misprint”, Yuzo Sato
“More Than I Want to Remember”, Amy Bench, Maya Edelman
“Oni: Thunder God’s Tale”, episode: “The Demon Moon Rises”, Daisuke “Dice” Tsutsumi
“The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse”, Peter Baynton, Charlie Mackesy
BEST DIRECTOR – FEATURE FILM
“Going Red”, Domee Shi
Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio, Guillermo del Toro, Mark Gustafson
“Marcel the shell with his shoes on”, Dean Fleischer Camp, Kirsten Lepore, Stephen Chiodo
“My Father’s Dragon”, Nora Twomey
“Wendell and Nature”, Henry Selick
BEST MUSIC – TV/MEDIA
“Love Death + Robots”, episode: “The Very Pulse of the Machine”
“Oni: Thunder God’s Tale”, episode: “Onari’s Kushi Power”
“The boy, the mole, the fox and the horse”
“The Cuphead Show!” episode: “Carn-Evil”
“Home”
BEST MUSIC – FEATURE FILM
“turning red”
“Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio”
“Mad God”
“The Bad Boys”
“The Beast from the Sea”
BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN – TV/MEDIA
“Genndy Tartakovsky’s Primal”, Episode: “Echoes of Eternity”
“Stories from the Shopping Center – Atilla la Grilla”
“Oni: Thunder God’s Tale”, episode: “The Demon Moon Rises”
“The boy, the mole, the fox and the horse”
“Home”
BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN – FEATURE FILM
“Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio”
“Mad God”
“Puss in Boots: The Last Wish”
“The Bad Boys”
“The Beast from the Sea”
BEST STORY GUIDE – TV/MEDIA
“Cyberpunk: Edgerunners”, episode: “Let You Down”
“Kung Fu Panda: The Dragon Knight”, episode: “The Knight’s Code”
“Looney Tunes Cartoons”, Episode: “Haunting Appeal”
“Love Death + Robots”, episode: “The Very Pulse of the Machine”
“The Cuphead Show!” episode: “A Very Devilish Christmas”
BEST STORY – FEATURE FILM
Minions: The Rise of Gru (Nima Azarba)
Minions: The Rise of Gru (Dave Feiss)
Puss in Boots: The Last Wish (Anthony Holden)
“Strange World” (Jeff Snow)
“Strange world” (Javier Ledesma Barboll)
BEST VOICE ACTING – TV/MEDIA
“Looney Tunes Cartoons”, Episode: “Hex Appeal” – Candi Milo
“StoryBots: Response Time”, Episode: “Glue” – Fred Tatsciore
“Teen Titans go! & DC Super Hero Girls Mayhem in the Multiverse” – Tara Strong
“The Proud Family: Stronger and Prouder”, Episode: “New Kids on the Block” – Karen Malina White
“Zootopia+”, episode: “The Best Man of the Bride” – Maurice LaMarche
BEST VOICE ACTING – FEATURE FILM
“Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio” – David Bradley
“Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio” – Gregory Mann
“Marcel the Shell with his shoes on” – Jenny Slate
“Puss in Boots: The Last Wish” – Wagner Moura
“The Sea Beast” – Zaris-Angel Hator
BEST WRITING – TV/MEDIA
“BAYMAX!” episode: “Sofia”
“Big Nate”, Episode: “The Legend of Gunting”
“Love Death + Robots”, episode: “Bad Traveling”
“Home”
“Tuca & Bertie”, episode: “The Garden of Pain”
BEST WRITING – FEATURE FILM
“turning red”
“Eternal Spring”
“Inu-Oh”
“Marcel the shell with his shoes on”
BEST EDITORIAL – TV/MEDIA
“Amphibia”, episode: “All In”
“Green Eggs and Ham”, Episode: “The Sam Who Came in in from the Cold”
“Karma’s World”, Episode: “Keys, The Inventor”
“Star Trek: Lower Decks”, Episode: “The Stars at Night”
“The boy, the mole, the fox and the horse”
BEST EDITORIAL – FEATURE FILM
“Disney and Pixar Light Year”
“turning red”
“Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio”
“Puss in Boots: The Last Wish”
“The Beast from the Sea”
JURY AWARDS
Windsor McCay Award: Pete Doctor
Windsor McCay Award: Evelyn Lambert
Windsor McCay Award: Craig McCracken
June Raid Award: Mindy Johnson
Ub Iwerks Award: Reference platform for visual effects
Certificate of Merit Award: John Omohundro
