The Annie Awards

[Akash]

I agree. Peter O'Toole's last act "appearance" is the final democratic moment (the film's perspective is always shifting) where the entire film turns so that the critic can have his say. It's a wonderfully self-conscious moment, with O'Toole's character pronouncing the dish a success, and essentially lauding the film.



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[atomicage]

I'm kinda surprised he didn't. He was quite terrific in Ratatouille.

Not to fit into the crowd, but I actually was too. He and Ian Holm were the two actors who I had read the most about in terms of their voice-work. Needless to say, with O'Toole not on the list, I had to go with Holm.

[OscarGuy]

I'm kinda surprised he didn't. He was quite terrific in Ratatouille.

[dreaMaker]

Pure shame Peter O'Toole didn't get a voice nomination!

[atomicage]

Best Animated Feature
Ratatouille - Pixar Animation Studios

Best Home Entertainment Production
Futurama "Bender's Big Score" – The Curiosity Company in association with 20th Century Fox Television

Best Animated Short Subject
How to Hook Up Your Home Theater – Walt Disney Feature Animation

(Where the heck was Lifted in this category?)

Best Animated Television Commercial
CVS Watering Can – Acme Filmworks

(I really have no idea; I haven't seen any of these)

Best Animated Television Production
Robot Chicken Star Wars- ShadowMachine

Best Animated Television Production for Children
The Backyardigans – Nickelodeon

Best Animated Video Game
Avatar: The Last Airbender "The Burning Earth" – THQ, Inc.

(with Transformers: The Game right behind)

The rest of it is all guesses on me

Animated Effects
Gary Bruins – "Ratatouille" – Pixar Animation Studios

Animation Production Artist
Michael Isaak – "Bee Movie" – DreamWorks Animation

Character Animation in a Feature Production
Michal Makarewicz – "Ratatouille" – Pixar Animation Studios

Character Animation in a Television Production
Carter Goodrich – "Ratatouille" – Pixar Animation Studios

Character Design in an Animated Television Production
Jorge R. Gutierrez – El Tigre "Fistful of Collars" - Nickelodeon

Directing in an Animated Feature Production
Brad Bird "Ratatouille" – Pixar Animation Studios


Directing in an Animated Television Production
Seth Green "Robot Chicken Star Wars" – ShadowMachine

Music in an Animated Feature Production
Michael Giacchino – "Ratatouille" – Pixar Animation Studios

Music in an Animated Television Production
Alf Clausen & Michael Price – The Simpsons "Yokel Chords" – Gracie Films in association with 20th Century Fox


Production Design in an Animated Feature Production
Harley Jessup – "Ratatouille" – Pixar Animation Studios


Storyboarding in an Animated Feature Production
Ted Mathot – "Ratatouille" – Pixar Animation Studios

Storyboarding in an Animated Television Production
Steve Fonti – Family Guy "No Chris Left Behind" – Fox TV Animation/Fuzzy Door Productions

Voice Acting in an Animated Feature Production
Ian Holm – Voice of Skinner – "Ratatouille" – Pixar Animation Studios

(Patton Oswalt – Voice of Remy – "Ratatouille", is Holm's only competition, I think)

Voice Acting in an Animated Television Production
Tom Kenny – Voice of SpongeBob – SpongeBob SquarePants "Spy Buddies" – Nickelodeon

Writing in an Animated Feature Production
Brad Bird – "Ratatouille" – Pixar Animation Studios


Writing in an Animated Television Production
Ian Maxtone-Graham & Billy Kimball – The Simpsons "24 Minutes" – Gracie Films

Notice I nominated Ratatouille for practically everything. I just thought that would be safe, but my guess is that Surf's Up and Persepolis may steal a couple from them; TV was all guessed.

[rain Bard]

I noticed that Beowulf got only a single nomination, the same number as TMNT.

Seems like, as with Polar Express, animators unsurprisingly don't consider what Zemeckis & Co. are up to a good example of their artform.

[Zahveed]

My predictions:


Best Animated Feature
Ratatouille

Best Home Entertainment
Futurama:Bender's Big Score

Best Animated Short Subject
How to Hook up your Home Theater

Best Animated Television Production
Robot Chicken - Star Wars

[anonymous1980]

...or as Damien calls them, the Goddamn Cartoon awards.

The nominations.