The 42nd Annie Awards Winners List

The 42nd Annie Awards ceremony took place last weekend, 31^st January, 2015, and How To Train Your Dragon 2 and Disney Television Animation came out as the night’s big winners.

After the Oscar snub, How To Train Your Dragon 2 gets another vindication by getting ASIFA’s top prize, as this year’s Best Animated Feature.  They went on to win six trophies for the night, including Director, Character Animation, and Storyboard for Animated Feature.  This is a great follow up to their Golden Globe win as Best Animated Feature Film beating out the other four Oscar nominees.

Disney Television Animation brought home eight trophies including the Director award for Animated TV/Broadcast Production for Disney Mickey Mouse.  The longest running animated series The Simpsons bagged their 13^th win for television’s top prize as Best General Audience Animated TV/Broadcast Production.

The voice acting awards went to Ben Kingsley as the diabolical Archibald Snatcher in Laika’s stop-motion feature film The Boxtroll, and Bill Farmer for voicing Goofy and Grandma in Disney’s Disney Mickey Mouse.

 

Here is the complete list of winners.

Best Animated Feature
How to Train Your Dragon 2 – DreamWorks Animation SKG

Best Animated Special Production
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 and Bix Pix Entertainment

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 Twentieth Century Fox Television

Best Animated Video Game
Valiant Hearts: The Great War – Ubisoft Montpellier

Best Student Film
My Big Brother – Jason Rayner

 

Outstanding Achievement, Animated Effects in an Animated Production
Michael Kaschalk, Peter DeMund, David Hutchins, Henrik Falt, John Kosnik – Big Hero 6 – Walt Disney Animation Studios

Outstanding Achievement, Animated Effects in a Live Action Production
Steve Avoujageli, Atsushi Ikarashi, Pawel Grochola, Paul Waggoner, Viktor Lundqvist – Edge of Tomorrow – Warner Bros./Village Roadshow Pictures

Outstanding Achievement, Character Animation in an Animated Television/Broadcast Production
Justin Nichols – Wander Over Yonder – Disney Television Animation

Outstanding Achievement, Character Animation in a Feature Production
Fabio Lignini – How to Train Your Dragon 2 – DreamWorks Animation SKG

Outstanding Achievement, Character Animation in a Live Action Production
Daniel Barrett, Paul Story, Eteuati Tema, Alessandro Bonora, Dejan Momcilovic – Dawn of the Planet of the Apes – Chernin Entertainment/Ingenious Media/TSG Entertainment

Outstanding Achievement, Character Animation in a Video Game
Mike Mennillo – Assassin’s Creed Unity – Ubisoft Montreal

Outstanding Achievement, Character Design in an Animated TV/Broadcast Production
Benjamin Balistreri – Wander Over Yonder – Disney Television Animation

Outstanding Achievement, Character Design in an Animated Feature Production
Paul Sullivan, Sandra Equihua, Jorge R. Gutierrez – The Book of Life – Reel FX Animation Studios/Twentieth Century Fox

Outstanding Achievement, Directing in an Animated Feature Production
Dean DeBlois – How to Train Your Dragon 2 – DreamWorks Animation SKG

Outstanding Achievement, Music in an Animated TV/Broadcast Production
Christopher Willis – Disney Mickey Mouse – Disney Television Animation

Outstanding Achievement, Music in an Animated Feature Production
John Powell, Jónsi – How to Train Your Dragon 2 – DreamWorks Animation SKG

Outstanding Achievement, Production Design in an Animated TV/Broadcast Production
Narina Sokolova – Mickey Shorts – Disney

Outstanding Achievement, Production Design in an Animated Feature Production
Paul Lasaine, Tom McClure & August Hall – The Boxtrolls – Focus Features/Laika

Outstanding Achievement, Storyboarding in an Animated TV/Broadcast Production
Joaquim Dos Santos – Legend of Korra – Nickelodeon

Outstanding Achievement, Storyboarding in an Animated Feature Production
Truong “Tron” Son Mai – How to Train Your Dragon 2 – DreamWorks Animation SKG

Outstanding Achievement, Voice Acting in an Animated TV/Broadcast Production
Bill Farmer as the voices of Goofy and Grandma – Disney Mickey Mouse – Disney Television Animation

Outstanding Achievement, Voice Acting in an Animated Feature Production
Sir Ben Kingsley as the voice of Archibald Snatcher – The Boxtrolls – Focus Features/Laika

Outstanding Achievement, Writing in an Animated TV/Broadcast Production
Darrick Bachman – Disney Mickey Mouse – Disney Television Animation

Outstanding Achievement, Writing in an Animated Feature Production
Phil Lord & Christopher Miller – The LEGO Movie – Warner Bros. Pictures

Outstanding Achievement, Editorial in an Animated TV/Broadcast Production
Illya Owens – Disney Mickey Mouse – Disney Television Animation

Outstanding Achievement, Editorial in an Animated Feature Production
John K. Carr – How to Train Your Dragon 2 – DreamWorks Animation SKG

 

The Annie Award is presented by the Los Angeles branch of the International Animated Film Association, ASIFA-Hollywood since 1972 to honour outstanding accomplishments in animation.  The 2015 Annie Awards was held on the campus of UCLA.