You guys ever hear of the Annie Awards?
The Dreamworks Animation box office hit How to Train Your Dragon leads this year’s Annie Awards with 15 nominations. This was in stark contrast to the Disney/Pixar favourite Toy Story 3 which only picked up 3 awards. This can be explained though by the decision of Disney and Pixar to withdraw from the organisation and participating in the awards in August, after raising concerns over the Annies’ judging process.
Despicable Me, Tangled and the traditionally hand-drawn The Illusionist from France’s The Triplets of Belleville director Sylvain Chomet will compete alongside Toy Story 3 and How to Train Your Dragon in the Best Feature Prize. With the Academy only having three spaces in this year’s Best Animated Film category it will be interesting to see which three from these makes it to Oscars night.
The Annie Awards ceremony will be held at UCLA’s Royce Hall on February 5th.