2016 Annie Award Nominations Announced; Disney’s ‘Zootopia’ Leads the Field

Nominations for the 44th Annie Awards were announced Monday. Celebrating the finest achievements in animation. With rich and diverse field to chose from this past year, the field is fairly competitive – as the case will likely be for the five films selected in the Best Animated Feature category at next year’s Academy Awards. It was Disney’s spring blockbuster Zootopia that narrowly headed the pack with 11 nominations, including mentions in the top category as well as acknowledgements in directing, writing, voice acting and a multitude of craft category mentions. Laika’s Kubo and the Two Strings, DreamWorks’ Kung Fu Panda 3, Pixar’s Finding Dory and Disney’s Moana rounded out the Best Animated Feature category.

Check out the film nominations below. Winners will be announced on February 4th at a ceremony that will take place on the UCLA campus.

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE

• Finding Dory
• Kubo and the Two Strings
• Kung Fu Panda 3
• Moana
• Zootopia

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE – INDEPENDENT

• Long Way North
• Miss Hokusai
• My Life as a Zucchini
• The Red Turtle
• Your Name

OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT IN DIRECTING

• Claude Barras, My Life as a Zucchini
• Michael Dubok De Wit, The Red Turtle
• Byron Howard, Rich Moore, Zootopia
• Travis Knight, Kubo and the Two Strings
• Makoto Shinkai, Your Name

OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT IN VOICE ACTING

• Jason Bateman, Zootopia
• Auli’i Cravalho, Moana
• Katie Crown, Storks
• Zooey Deschanel, Trolls
• Art Parkinson, Kubo and the Two Strings

OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT IN WRITING

• Kubo and the Two Strings – Marc Haimes, Chris Butler
• My Life as a Zucchini – Céline Sciamma
• The Red Turtle – Pascale Ferran
• Zootopia – Jared Bush, Phil Johnston

BEST ANIMATED SHORT SUBJECT

• Blind Vaysha
• Deer Flower
• Path Title Sequence
• Pearl
• Piper

OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT IN MUSIC

• Batman: Return of the Caped Crusader – Kristopher Carter, Lolita Ritmanis, Michael McCuistion
• The Little Prince – Hans Zimmer
• The Red Turtle – Laurent Perez Del Mar
• The Secret Life of Pets – Alexandre Desplat
• Sing – Joby Talbot

OUSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT IN PRODUCTION DESIGN

• Kubo and the Two Strings – Nelson Lowry, Trevor Dalmer, August Hall, Ean NcNamara
• Kung Fu Panda 3 – Raymond Zibach, Max Boas
• The Little Prince – Lou Romano, Alexander Juhasz, Celine Desrumaux
• Trolls – Kendal Cronkhite, Tim Lamb
• Zootopia – David Goetz, Mathias Lechner

OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT IN STORYBOARDING

• Finding Dory – Trevor Jimenez
• Kubo and the Two Strings – Mark Garcia
• Moana – Normand Lemay
• Trolls – Claire Morrissey
• Zootopia – Dean Wellins

OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT, ANIMATED EFFECTS (Animated Film)

• Kubo and the Two Strings
• Kung Fu Panda 3
• Moana
• The Red Turtle
• Zootopia

OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT, ANIMATED EFFECTS (Live-Action Film)

• The BFG
• Deepwater Horizon
• Doctor Strange
• Ghostbusters
• Warcraft

OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT, CHARACTER ANIMATION (Animated Film)

• Finding Dory
• Kubo and the Two Strings
• Kung Fu Panda 3
• Zootopia
• Zootopia

OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT, CHARACTER ANIMATION (Live-Action Film)

• Captain America: Civil War
• Game of Thrones
• The Jungle Book
• The Jungle Book
• Warcraft

OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT, CHARACTER DESIGN (Animated Film)

• Kubo and the Two Strings
• Moana
• The Secret Life of Pets
• Trolls
• Zootopia

SPECIAL ACHIEVEMENT AWARD

• Life, Animated

Full list of nominations here.