4st Annie Award Nominees Revealed

ASIFA-Hollywood has announced the nominations for its 41st Annual Annie Awards recognizing the year's best in the field of animation.

The Annie Awards cover 30 categories and include Best Animated Feature, Best Animated Special Production, Commercials, Short and Outstanding Individual Achievements.

The slate of nominations for Best Animated Features this year include: A Letter to Momo (GKIDS), Despicable Me 2 (Universal Pictures), Ernest & Celestine (GKIDS), Frozen (Walt Disney Animation Studios), Monsters University (Pixar Animation Studios), The Croods (DreamWorks Animations), and The Wind Rises (Studio Ghibli and The Walt Disney Studios).

I am very excited about this years slate of nominees! remarked ASIFA-Hollywood President Frank Gladstone. We had more submissions to choose from this year running the gamut from big-studio features to indie films, television series to Internet shows, games, shorts and student films, as well as a wonderful group of juried award recipients, all showcasing the huge variety of venues, creativity, technical innovation and storytelling that our art form has to offer.

Juried awards, honoring career achievement and exceptional contributions to animation, will also be presented. Three Winsor McCay recipients have been selected by the ASIFA-Hollywood Board of Directors: Katsuhiro Otomo, Steven Spielberg, and Phil Tippett for their career contributions to the art of animation. The June Foray Award will be given to Alice Davis for her significant and benevolent or charitable impact on the art and industry of animation. A Certificate of Merit will go to I Know That Voice (documentary).

Winners will be announced at the 41st Annual Annie Awards ceremony on Saturday, February 1, 2014, at UCLAs Royce Hall, in Los Angeles.

ASIFA-Hollywood is the worlds first and foremost professional organization dedicated to promoting the art of animation and celebrating the people who create it. Today, ASIFA-Hollywood, the largest chapter of the international organization ASIFA, supports a range of animation activities and preservation efforts through its membership. Current initiatives include the animation archive, animation film preservation, special events, classes and screenings.

Created in 1972 by veteran voice talent June Foray, the Annie Awards have grown in scope and stature for four decades.

2013 ANNIE AWARD NOMINATIONS PRODUCTION CATEGORIES 1 - Best Animated Feature

A Letter to Momo - GKIDS

Despicable Me 2 - Universal Pictures

Ernest & Celestine - GKIDS

Frozen - Walt Disney Animation Studios

Monsters University - Pixar Animation Studios

The Croods - DreamWorks Animation

The Wind Rises - The Walt Disney Studios

2 - Annie Award for Best Animated Special Production

Chipotle Scarecrow - Moonbot Studios

Listening Is an Act of Love - StoryCorps

Room on the Broom - Magic Light Pictures

Toy Story OF TERROR! - Pixar Animation Studios

3 - Best Animated Short Subject

Despicable Me 2 - Puppy - Universal Pictures

Get A Horse! - Walt Disney Animation Studios

Gloria Victoria - National Film Board of Canada

My Mom is an Airplane - Acme Filmworks

The Numberlys - Moonbot Studios

4 - Best Animated TV/Broadcast Commercial

Despicable Me 2 - Cinemark - Universal Pictures

Sound of the Woods - Acme Filmworks

The Polar Bears Movie - CAA Marketing

5 - Best General Audience Animated TV/Broadcast Production For Preschool Children

Bubble Guppies - Nickelodeon Animation Studio

Disney Sofia the First - Disney Television Animation

Doc McStuffins - Disney Television Animation

Justin Time - Guru Studio

Peter Rabbit - Nickelodeon Animation Studio

6 - Best Animated TV/Broadcast Production For Childrens Audience

Adventure Time - Cartoon Network Studios

Beware the Batman - Warner Bros. Animation

Disney Gravity Falls - Disney Television Animation

Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness - Nickelodeon Animation Studio

Regular Show - Cartoon Network Studios

Scaredy Squirrel - Nelvana Ltd.

Teen Titans Go! - Warner Bros. Animation

The Legend of Korra - Nickelodeon Animation Studio

7 - Best General Audience Animated TV/Broadcast Production

Archer - FX Networks

Bobs Burgers - Bento Box Entertainment

Disney Tron Uprising - Disney Television Animation

Futurama - 20th Century Fox Television

Motorcity - Titmouse Inc.

8 - Best Animated Video Game

Diggs Nightcrawler - Moonbot Studios

Tiny Thief - 5 ANTS

The Last of Us - Naughty Dog

9 - Best Student Film

Chicken or the Egg - Ringling College of Art and Design

Kellerkind - Filmakademie Baden-Wuerttemberg

Miss Todd - Kristina Yee

Move Mountain - Kirsten Lepore

SEM FORO - University of Southern California

The Final Straw - Ringling College of Art and Design

Trusts & Estates - CalArts

Wedding Cake - Filmakademie Baden-Wuerttemberg

INDIVIDUAL ACHIEVEMENT CATEGORIES

10 - Animated Effects in an Animated Production

Alen Lai, David Quirus, Diego Garzon Sanchez, Ilan Gabai - Epic - Blue Sky Studios

David Jones - Dragons: Defenders of Berk - DreamWorks Animation

Joshua Jenny, Jason Johnston, Matthew Wong, Eric Froemling, Enrique Vila - Monsters University - Pixar Animation Studios

Jeff Budsberg, Andre Le Blanc, Louis Flores, Jason Mayer - The Croods - DreamWorks Animation

Greg Gladstone, Nikita Pavlov, Allen Ruilova, Matt Titus, Can Yuksel - Turbo - DreamWorks Animation

11 - Animated Effects in a Live Action Production

Jonathan Paquin, Brian Goodwin, Gray Horsfield, Mathieu Chardonnet, Adrien Toupet - Man Of Steel - Weta Digital

Ben OBrien, Karin Cooper, Lee Uren, Chris Root - Star Trek: Into Darkness - Industrial Light & Magic

Dan Pearson, Jay Cooper, Jeff Grebe, Amelia Chenoweth - Star Trek: Into Darkness - Industrial Light & Magic

Michael Balog, Ryan Hopkins, Patrick Conran, Florian Witzel - Pacific Rim - Industrial Light & Magic

12 - Character Animation in an Animated Television/Broadcast Production

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