Annie Awards 2023 – Here are the Winners!

1. Best Feature

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

Turning Red

Pixar Animation Studios

Wendell & Wild

Netflix Presents A Monkeypaw Production / A Gotham Group Production

2. Best Indie Feature

Charlotte

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

Inu-Oh

Asmik Ace / Science SARU / Distributed by GKIDS

Little Nicholas, Happy As Can Be

On Classics (Mediawan) / Bidibul Productions

Marcel the Shell with Shoes On

Marcel the Movie LLC

My Father’s Dragon

Cartoon Saloon for Netflix

3. Best Special Production

Prehistoric Planet

BBC Studios in association with Apple

Superworm

Magic Light Pictures

The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse

A NoneMore and Bad Robot Production for Apple TV+ and BBC

The House

Nexus Studios for Netflix

The Sandman

A Netflix Original Series / A Warner Bros. Television Production

4. Best Short Subject

Amok

Boddah, in co-production with Safe Frame

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

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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

8. 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

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

9. 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

10. 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

11. 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 Travelling

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

Elliot Newman, Andy Hargreaves, Suresh Hari, Abdel Halim Garess, Jane Sun

The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse

Episode: special production

Production Company: A NoneMore and Bad Robot Production for Apple TV+ and BBC

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

12. 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

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

Lightyear

Production Company: Pixar Animation Studios

FX Production Company: Pixar

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

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

13. 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 Barone

The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse

Episode: special production

A NoneMore and Bad Robot Production for Apple TV+ and BBC

Tim Watts

The House

Episode: special production

Nexus Studios for Netflix

Kecy Salangad

14. Best Character Animation – Feature

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

Turning Red

Pixar Animation Studios

Teresa Falcone

Turning Red

Pixar Animation Studios

Eric Anderson

15. 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

16. 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

17. 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

18. Best Character Design – Feature

Luck

Skydance LLC, Apple Original Films

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

19. 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

Yuzo —

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

A NoneMore and Bad Robot Production for Apple TV+ and BBC

Peter Baynton, Charlie Mackesy

20. Best Direction – Feature

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

Turning Red

Pixar Animation Studios

Domee Shi

Wendell & Wild

Netflix Presents A Monkeypaw Production / A Gotham Group Production

Henry Selick

21. 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

A NoneMore and Bad Robot Production for Apple TV+ and BBC

Isobel Waller-Bridge, Charlie Mackesy

The Cuphead Show!

Episode: Carn-Evil

Netflix Animation

Ego Plum, Cosmo Segurson, Dave Wasson

The House

Episode: special production

Nexus Studios for Netflix

Gustavo Santaolalla

22. Best Music – Feature

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 Mancina, Nell Benjamin, Laurence O’Keefe

Turning Red

Pixar Animation Studios

Ludwig Göransson, Billie Eilish, Finneas O’Connell

23. 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

A NoneMore and Bad Robot Production for Apple TV+ and BBC

Mike McCain

The House

Episode: special production

Nexus Studios for Netflix

Niklas Nilsson, Alexandra Walker

24. 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

25. Best Storyboarding – TV/Media

Cyberpunk: Edgerunners

Episode: Let You Down

CD Projekt Red in association with Netflix

Yoshiyuki Kaneko

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

26. 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

Strange World

Walt Disney Animation Studios

Javier Ledesma Barbolla

27. 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 Tatasciore (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)

28. 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

29. 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 Travelling

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

30. Best Writing – Feature

ETERNAL SPRING (長春)

Lofty Sky Entertainment Inc.

Jason Loftus

Inu-Oh

Asmik Ace / Science SARU

AKIKO NOGI

Marcel the Shell with Shoes On

Marcel the Movie LLC

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

Turning Red

Pixar Animation Studios

Domee Shi, Julia Cho

31. Best Editorial – TV/Media

Amphibia

Episode: All In

Disney TV Animation

Andrew Sorcini, Yoonah Yim, Jennifer Calbi, Julie Anne Lau, David Vasquez

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 Least Dangerous Game

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

Andy Maxwell, Zach Lamplugh, Paul Mazzotta, Caleb Yoder

The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse

Episode: special production

A NoneMore and Bad Robot Production for Apple TV+ and BBC

Daniel Budin

32. Best Editorial – Feature

Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio

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

Ken Schretzmann, Holly Klein, Emily Chiu, Hamilton Barrett

Lightyear

Pixar

Tony Greenberg, Katie Bishop, Chloe Kloezeman, Axel Geddes, Tim Fox

Puss in Boots: The Last Wish

Dreamworks Animation

James Ryan, ACE, Jacquelyn Karambelas, Natalia Cronembold, Joseph Butler, Katie Parody

The Sea Beast

Netflix

Joyce Arrastia, ACE, Will Erokan, Vivek Sharma, Michael Hugh O’Donnell, Daniel Ortiz

Turning Red

Pixar Animation Studios

Nicholas Smith, Steve Bloom, David Suther, Anna Wolitzky, Christopher Zuber

Juried Awards

Juried Awards will also be presented honoring unparalleled achievement and exceptional contributions to animation. Winsor McCay Award recipients have been selected by the ASIFA-Hollywood Board of Directors for their exemplary industry careers.

This year’s McCays will go to Pete Docter, Evelyn Lambart and Craig McCracken.

The June Foray Award will be presented to Mindy Johnson. The Visual Effects Reference Platform, initially developed by Nick Cannon and Francois Chardavoine will receive The Ub lwerks Award. The Certificate of Merit Award for service to the art and industry will be presented to John Omohundro.