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Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio and Netflix Dominate 2023 Annie Award Nominations


When it comes to Awards Season there's nothing quite like the Annies. One of the few awards that is dedicated to animation, it celebrates every aspect of the animation industry. This year the Annnie Awards celebrate their 50th Anniversary.

This year Netflix dominate the nominees with a whopping 50 nominations across the categories. Chief among them is Guillermo del Toro's Pinnochio, which leads the field with nine nods. Pinnochio competes in the Best Feature category alongside fellow Netflix titles The Sea Beast and Wendell and Wild. The category is rounded out with Disney and Pixar's Turning Red and DreamWorks Animation's Puss and Boots: The Last Wish. Netflix also nabbed a nomination in the Best Indie Feature category with Cartoon Saloon's My Father's Dragon. Also nominated are Masaaki Yuasa's Inu Oh, Little Nicholas Happy As Can Be, Marcel The Shell With Shoes On and Charlotte.

Turning Red is the biggest success for Disney, with an impressive seven nominations including Best Feature and Directing In A Feature. DreamWorks scored six nominations for Puss In Boots: The Last Wish and five for The Bad Guys. Netflix Animation's The Sea Beast picked up six nominations, Wendell and Wild three, while Lightyear and Disney's Strange World picked up two each.

In the TV and media categories, the most successful title was The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse from Apple and the BBC with seven nominations. Other titles with multiple nominations include Love, Death + Robots,  The House, Oni: Thunder Gods Tale, Amphibia and Baymax.

The recipients of this year's juried Winsor McCay Awards are Pete Docter, Evelyn Lambart and Craig McCracken.  Mindy Johnson will receive the June Foray Award. The Visual Effects Reference Platform, initially developed by Nick Cannon and Francois Chardavoine will receive The Ub lwerks Award. John Omohundro will receive the Certificate Of Merit for service to the art and industry. 

ASIFA-Hollywood's 50th Annie Awards will take place in Hollywood, California on Saturday, February 25th. The full list of nominees are below.



Full list of nominees 

Best Feature

Disney and Pixar's Turning Red

Pixar Animation Studios


Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio

Netflix Presents A Double Dare You! Film / A Shadowmachine Production in association with The Jim Henson Company


Puss in Boots: The Last Wish

DreamWorks Animation

The Sea Beast

Netflix


Wendell & Wild

Netflix Presents A Monkeypaw Production / A Gotham Group Production

Star

 

Best Indie Feature

Charlotte

January Films, Ltd., Balthazar Productions, and Walking the Dog


Inu-Oh

Science SARU


Little Nicholas, Happy As Can Be

On Classics (Mediawan) / Bidibul Productions

Star

Marcel the Shell with Shoes On

Marcel the Movie LLC


My Father's Dragon

Cartoon Saloon for Netflix


Best Special Production

Prehistoric Planet

BBC Studios in association with Apple


Superworm

Magic Light Pictures


The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse

NoneMore Productions and Bad Robot Productions


The House

Nexus Studios for Netflix


The Sandman

A Netflix Original Series / A Warner Bros. Television Production




 Best Short Subject

Amok

Boddah


Black Slide

The Hive Studio, in co-production with FlipBook Studio


Ice Merchants

COLA Animation production & Wild Stream


Love, Dad

13ka, in co-production with FAMU & nutprodukcia


The Flying Sailor

National Film Board of Canada





 Best Sponsored

Can't Negotiate the Melting Point of Ice

NOMINT


Minions: The Rise of Gru / The Office

Illumination


Save Ralph

Arch Model Studio


Ted Lasso: The Missing Christmas Mustache

Apple presents a Doozer Production in association with Warner Bros. Television and Universal Television


Today's Holiday Moments are Tomorrow's Memories

Hornet


 Best TV/Media - Preschool

Elinor Wonders Why

Episode: 136B - Rest is Best

SHOE Ink. LLC


Gabby's Dollhouse

Episode: Cakey's Cupcake Cousins

DreamWorks Animation


Rise Up, Sing Out

Episode: Name Tag

Disney TV Animation


Spirit Rangers

Episode: Thunder Mountain

Laughing Wild / Netflix


The Tiny Chef Show

Episode: Pancakes

Tiny Chef Productions LLC / Imagine Entertainment


Best TV/Media - Children

Abominable and the Invisible City

Episode: Everest Returns

DreamWorks Animation


Big Nate

Episode: The Legend of the Gunting

Nickelodeon Animation


Moominvalley

Episode: Lonely Mountain

Gutsy Animations


The Owl House

Episode: King's Tide

Disney TV Animation


We Baby Bears

Episode: The Real Crayon

Cartoon Network Studios





 Best TV/Media - Mature

Bob's Burgers

Episode: Some Like it Bot Part 1: Eighth Grade Runner

20th Television/Bento Box Entertainment


Harley Quinn

Episode: Batman Begins Forever

Warner Bros. Animation


Rick and Morty

Episode: Night Family

Rick and Morty LLC

Star

The Simpsons - Treehouse of Horror XXXIII

Episode: Treehouse of Horror XXXIII

A Gracie Films Production in Association with 20th Television Animation


Tuca & Bertie

Episode: The Pain Garden

The Tornante Company


 Best TV/Media – Limited Series

BAYMAX!

Episode: Sofia

Walt Disney Animation Studios


El Deafo

Episode: Everybody Sounds So Weird

Lighthouse Studios in association with Apple


HouseBroken

Episode: Who's Having A Merry Trashmas?

Kapital Entertainment and FOX Entertainment


Oni: Thunder God's Tale

Episode: The Demon Moon Rises

A Netflix Series / A Tonko House Production


Undone

Episode: Rectify

Tornante Company and Amazon Studios


 Best Student Film

Au revoir Jérôme !

Student Director: Adam Sillard, Gabrielle Selnet & Chloé Farr

School: Gobelins, l'école de l'image


Birdsong

Student Director: Michelle Cheng

Student Producer: Michelle Cheng

School: California Institute of the Arts


Synchronie Passagère

Student Director: Julia Le Bras-Juarez

School: Supinfocom Rubika


The Most Boring Granny in the Whole World

Student Director: Damaris Zielke

Student Producer: Jiayan Chen

School: Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg GmbH


The Soloists

Student Director: Mehrnaz Abdollahinia, Feben Elias Woldehawariat, Razahk Issaka, Celeste Jamneck & Yi Liu

School: Gobelins, l'école de l'image


 Best FX - TV/Media

Cars on the Road

Episode: Road Rumblers

Production Company: Pixar Animation Studios

FX Production Company: Pixar Animation Studios

Christopher Foreman, Elana Lederman, John Lockwood, Jae Jun Yi, Justin Ritter


Love Death + Robots

Episode: Bad Traveling

Production Company: Blur Studio for Netflix

FX Production Company: Blur Studio

Kirby Miller, Igor Zanic, Joseph H. Coleman, Steven Dupuy, Josh Schwartz


Prehistoric Planet

Episode: Coasts

Production Company: BBC Studios in association with Apple

FX Production Company: MPC


The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse

Episode: special production

Production Company: NoneMore Productions and Bad Robot Productions

FX Production Company: NoneMore Productions

Peter Baynton, Raymond Pang, Martial Coulon


The House

Episode: special production

Production Company: Nexus Studios for Netflix

FX Production Company: Nexus Studios

Germán Díez, Álvaro Alonso Lomba, Hugo Vieites Caamaño






 Best FX - Feature

Avatar: The Way of Water

Production Company: 20th Century Studios / Disney Studios

FX Production Company: Wētā FX

Johnathan M. Nixon, David Moraton, Nicholas Illingworth, David Caeiro Cebrian, Alex Nowotny


Disney and Pixar's Lightyear

Production Company: Pixar Animation Studios

FX Production Company: Pixar

Carl Kaphan, Cody Harrington, Hope Schroers, Jon Barry, Nate Skeen


Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio

Production Company: Netflix Presents A Double Dare You! Film / A Shadowmachine Production in association with The Jim Henson Company

FX Production Company: MPC

Aaron Weintraub, Warren Lawtey, Alireza Malmiri, Baptiste Malbranque, Mikhail Donchenko


Minions: The Rise of Gru

Production Company: Illumination

FX Production Company: Illumination

Frank Baradat, Simon Pate, Milan Voukassovitch, Milo Riccarand


The Sea Beast

Production Company: Netflix

FX Production Company: Sony Pictures Imageworks

Spencer Lueders, Dmitriy Kolesnik, Kiel Gnebba, Oleksandr (Alex) Loboda , Jeremy Hoey



 Best Character Animation - TV/Media

Entergalactic

Episode: special production

Netflix / Mad Solar / Khalabo Ink Society / Edelgang

Aziz Kocanaogullari


Oni: Thunder God's Tale

Episode: The Mighty Storm Gods

A Netflix Series / A Tonko House Production

Toshihiro Nakamura


StoryBots: Answer Time

Episode: Taste

JibJab Bros. Studios for Netflix

Henrique Baron


The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse

Episode: special production

NoneMore Productions and Bad Robot Productions

Tim Watts


The House

Episode: special production

Nexus Studios for Netflix

Kecy Salangad


 Best Character Animation - Feature

Disney and Pixar's Turning Red

Pixar Animation Studios

Teresa Falcone


Disney and Pixar's Turning Red

Pixar Animation Studios

Eric Anderson


Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio

Netflix Presents A Double Dare You! Film / A Shadowmachine Production in association with The Jim Henson Company

Tucker Barrie


The Bad Guys

DreamWorks Animation

Jorge Capote


The Bad Guys

DreamWorks Animation

Min Hong


 Best Character Animation - Live Action

Avatar: The Way of Water

Wētā FX

Daniel Barrett, Stuart Adcock, Todd Labonte, Douglas McHale, Stephen Cullingford


Beast

Framestore

Alvise Avati, Chris McGaw, Bora Şahin, Krzysztof Boyoko, Laurent Benhamo


Finch

MPC

Simon Allen, Harinarayan Rajeev, Paul Nelson, Matthias Schoenegger


Jurassic World Dominion

Industrial Light & Magic

Jance Rubinchik, Alexander Lee, Rich Bentley, Antoine Verney Carron, Sally Wilson


Peacemaker

Wētā FX

Michael Cozens, Mark Smith, Kai-Hua Lan, Selene McLean, Richard John Moore


 Best Character Animation - Video Game

Cuphead - The Delicious Last Course

Studio MDHR

Chad Moldenhauer, Hanna Abi-Hanna, Cuphead Animation Team


God of War Ragnarök

Santa Monica Studio

God of War Ragnarök Animation Team God of War Ragnarök Animation Team


Horizon Forbidden West

Guerrilla

Richard Oud, Jan-Erik Sjovall, Guerrilla Animation Team


Moss: Book II

Polyarc

Richard Lico


Potionomics

Voracious Games

Emily Lattanavong , Anguel Bogoev




 Best Character Design - TV/Media

Amphibia

Episode: The Hardest Thing

Disney TV Animation

Joe Sparrow


Entergalactic

Episode: special production

Netflix / Mad Solar / Khalabo Ink Society / Edelgang

Meybis Ruiz Cruz


Love Death + Robots

Episode: Jibaro

Blur Studio for Netflix

Alberto Mielgo


Oni: Thunder God's Tale

Episode: The Demon Moon Rises

A Netflix Series / A Tonko House Production

Rebecca Chan


Spirit Rangers

Episode: Belly of the Beast

Laughing Wild / Netflix

Marie Delmas


 Best Character Design - Feature

Luck

Skydance LLC

Massimiliano Narciso


Puss in Boots: The Last Wish

DreamWorks Animation

Jesús Alonso Iglesias


Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Movie

Nickelodeon Animation Studio

Ida Hem


The Bad Guys

DreamWorks Animation

Taylor Krahenbuhl


Wendell & Wild

Netflix Presents A Monkeypaw Production / A Gotham Group Production

Pablo Lobato


 Best Direction - TV/Media

BAYMAX!

Episode: Sofia

Walt Disney Animation Studios

Lissa Treiman


exception / エクセプション

Episode: Misprint

Studio 5 / Tatsunoko Production Co., Ltd. for Netflix

Yûzô Satô | サトウユーゾー


More Than I Want To Remember

Episode: short subject

Mugeni Film LLC, MTV Entertainment Studios

Amy Bench , Maya Edelman


Oni: Thunder God's Tale

Episode: The Demon Moon Rises

A Netflix Series / A Tonko House Production

Daisuke " Dice" Tsutsumi


The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse

Episode: special production

NoneMore Productions and Bad Robot Productions

Peter Baynton, Charlie Mackesy


 Best Direction - Feature

Disney and Pixar's Turning Red

Pixar Animation Studios

Domee Shi


Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio

Netflix Presents A Double Dare You! Film / A Shadowmachine Production in association with The Jim Henson Company

Guillermo Del Toro, Mark Gustafson


Marcel the Shell with Shoes On

Marcel the Movie LLC

Dean Fleischer Camp, Kirsten Lepore, Stephen Chiodo


My Father's Dragon

Cartoon Saloon for Netflix

Nora Twomey


Wendell & Wild

Netflix Presents A Monkeypaw Production / A Gotham Group Production

Henry Selick


 Best Music - TV/Media

Love Death + Robots

Episode: The Very Pulse of the Machine

Blur Studio for Netflix

Rob Cairns


Oni: Thunder God's Tale

Episode: Onari's Kushi Power

A Netflix Series / A Tonko House Production

Zach Johnston, Matteo Roberts


The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse

Episode: special production

NoneMore Productions and Bad Robot Productions

Isobel Waller-Bridge, Charlie Mackesy


The Cuphead Show!

Episode: Carn-Evil

Netflix Animation

Ego Plum


The House

Episode: special production

Nexus Studios for Netflix

Gustavo Santaolalla



 Best Music - Feature

Disney and Pixar's Turning Red

Pixar Animation Studios

Ludwig Göransson, Billie Eilish, Finneas O'Connell


Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio

Netflix Presents A Double Dare You! Film / A Shadowmachine Production in association with The Jim Henson Company

Alexandre Desplat, Roeban Katz, Guillermo del Toro, Patrick McHale


Mad God

Tippett Studio

Dan Wool


The Bad Guys

DreamWorks Animation

Daniel Pemberton


The Sea Beast

Netflix

Mark Mancia, Nell Benjamin, Laurence O'Keefe


 Best Production Design - TV/Media

Genndy Tartakovsky's Primal

Episode: Echoes of Eternity

Adult Swim

Scott Wills


Mall Stories - Atilla the Grilla

Episode: short subject

Chromosphere / Kikutowne

Jasmin Lai, Lauren Zurcher, Junyi Wu


Oni: Thunder God's Tale

Episode: The Demon Moon Rises

A Netflix Series / A Tonko House Production

Robert Kondo, Rachel Tiep-Daniels, Lia Tin, Yohei Hashizume, Masa Inada


The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse

Episode: special production

NoneMore Productions and Bad Robot Productions

Mike McCain


The House

Episode: special production

Nexus Studios for Netflix

Niklas Nilsson, Alexandra Walker



 Best Production Design - Feature

Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio

Netflix Presents A Double Dare You! Film / A Shadowmachine Production in association with The Jim Henson Company

Curt Enderle, Guy Davis


Mad God

Tippett Studio

Phil Tippett


Puss in Boots: The Last Wish

DreamWorks Animation

Nate Wragg, Joseph Feinsilver, Claire Keane, Wayne Tsay, Naveen Selvanathan


The Bad Guys

DreamWorks Animation

Luc Desmarchelier, Floriane Marchix


The Sea Beast

Netflix

Matthias Lechner, Jung Woonyoung





Best Storyboarding - TV/Media

Cyberpunk: Edgerunners

Episode: Let You Down

CD Projekt Red in association with Netflix

Kaneko Yoshiyuk


Kung Fu Panda: The Dragon Knight

Episode: The Knight's Code

DreamWorks Animation

Grace Liu


Looney Tunes Cartoons

Episode: Hex Appeal

Warner Bros. Animation

Mike Ruocco


Love Death + Robots

Episode: The Very Pulse of the Machine

Blur Studio for Netflix

Emily Dean


The Cuphead Show!

Episode: A Very Devil Christmas

Netflix Animation

Karl Hadrika


 Best Storyboarding - Feature

Minions: The Rise of Gru

Illumination

Nima Azarba 


Minions: The Rise of Gru

Illumination

Dave Feiss


Puss in Boots: The Last Wish

DreamWorks Animation

Anthony Holden 


Strange World

Walt Disney Animation Studios

Jeff Snow (null)


Strange World

Walt Disney Animation Studios

Javier Ledesma Barbolla 


 Best Voice Acting - TV/Media

Looney Tunes Cartoons

Episode: Hex Appeal

Warner Bros. Animation

Candi Milo (Witch Hazel)


StoryBots: Answer Time

Episode: Glue

JibJab Bros. Studios for Netflix

Fred Tatsciore (Bang)


Teen Titans Go! & DC Super Hero Girls Mayhem in the Multiverse

Episode: Full Movie

Warner Bros Animation

Tara Strong (Batgirl, Harley Quinn, Raven)


The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder

Episode: New Kids On The Block

Disney TV Animation

Karen Malina White (Dijonay Jones)


Zootopia+

Episode: The Godfather of the Bride

Walt Disney Animation Studios

Maurice LaMarche (Mr. Big)


 Best Voice Acting - Feature

Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio

Netflix Presents A Double Dare You! Film / A Shadowmachine Production in association with The Jim Henson Company

David Bradley


Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio

Netflix Presents A Double Dare You! Film / A Shadowmachine Production in association with The Jim Henson Company

Gregory Mann


Marcel the Shell with Shoes On

Marcel the Movie LLC

Jenny Slate


Puss in Boots: The Last Wish

DreamWorks Animation

Wagner Moura


The Sea Beast

Netflix

Zaris-Angel Hator


 Best Writing - TV/Media

BAYMAX!

Episode: Sofia

Walt Disney Animation Studios

Cirocco Dunlap


Big Nate

Episode: The Legend of the Gunting

Nickelodeon Animation Studio

Mitch Watson, Emily Brundige, Ben Lapides, Sarah Allan


Love Death + Robots

Episode: Bad Traveling

Blur Studio for Netflix

Andrew Kevin Walker


The House

Episode: special production

Nexus Studios for Netflix

Enda Walsh


Tuca & Bertie

Episode: The Pain Garden

The Tornante Company

Lisa Hanawalt


 Best Writing - Feature

Disney and Pixar's Turning Red

Pixar Animation Studios

Domee Shi, Julia Cho


ETERNAL SPRING (長春)

Lofty Sky Entertainment Inc.

Jason Loftus


Inu-Oh

Science SARU

AKIKO NOGI


Marcel the Shell with Shoes On

Marcel the Movie LLC

Dean Fleischer Camp, Jenny Slate, Nick Paley, Elisabeth Holm


 Best Editorial - TV/Media

Amphibia

Episode: All In

Disney TV Animation

Andrew Sorcini, Yoonah Yim, Jennifer Calbi, Julie Anne Lau, Louis Russell


Green Eggs and Ham

Episode: The Sam Who Came In From The Cold

Gulfstream Pictures/ A Stern Talking To/ A Very Good Production in association with Warner Bros. Animation for Netflix

Margaret Hou


Karma's World

Episode: Keys, The Inventor

9 Story Media Group, Brown Bag Films and Karma’s World Entertainment for Netflix

Damien Dunne, Ultan Murphy, Emma O'Brien, Fred O'Connor, Aiden McKenna


Star Trek: Lower Decks

Episode: The Stars At Night

CBS’s Eye Animation Productions, Titmouse; Secret Hideout; and Roddenberry Entertainment

Andy Maxwell, Zach Lamplugh, Brandon Brocker, Paul Mazzotta


The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse

Episode: special production

NoneMore Productions and Bad Robot Productions

Daniel Budin


 Best Editorial - Feature

Disney and Pixar's Lightyear

Pixar


Disney and Pixar's Turning Red

Pixar Animation Studios


Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio

Netflix Presents A Double Dare You! Film / A Shadowmachine Production in association with The Jim Henson Company


Puss in Boots: The Last Wish

Dreamworks Animation


The Sea Beast

Netflix