42nd Annie Award Nominations Announced

ASIFA-Hollywood, has announced the nominations for its 42nd annual Annie Awards. In the animated features Laika’s The Boxtrolls has received the most nominations with 13 nominations, followed by DreamWorks Animation’s How to Train Your Dragon 2 with 10

In the animated short category there are five films that are currently shortlisted for an Oscar: Alan Holly’s Coda, Glen Keane’s Duet, Patrick Osborne’s Feast, Torill Kove’s Me and My Moulton
, and Robert Kondo and Dice Tsutsumi’s The Dam Keeper. Will the Annie’s predict the oscar outcome? To find out we will have to wait until the winners are announced at the 42nd Annual Annie Awards ceremony on January 31, 2015, at Royce Hall on the UCLA campus.

A list of nominees is below:

PRODUCTION CATEGORIES

Best Animated Feature

Big Hero 6 – 
Walt Disney Animation Studios
Cheatin’ – Plymptoons Studio
How to Train Your Dragon 2 – DreamWorks Animation
Song of the Sea – GKIDS/Cartoon Saloon
The Book of Life – Reel FX
The Boxtrolls – Focus Features/Laika
The LEGO Movie -Warner Bros. Pictures
The Tale of The Princess Kaguya – GKIDS/Studio Ghibli

Best Animated Special Production

Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey – Voyager Pictures LLC
Dawn of the Dragon Racers – DreamWorks Animation
How Murray Saved Christmas – Universal Television
Polariffic – Bent Image Lab
Toy Story That Time Forgot – Pixar Animation Studios

Best Animated Short Subject

Coda
– 62 George Street
Duet
– Glen Keane Productions
Feast
– Walt Disney Animation Studios
Inside Homer – The Simpsons Couch Gag (Episode #549) – Acme Filmworks
Me and My Moulton
- National Film Board of Canada
Silent -
Creative Artists Agency
The Dam Keeper 
- Tonko House LLC
The Raven – Moonbot Studios

Best Animated TV/Broadcast Commercial

Citizen M: “Swan Song” – Stoopid Buddy Stoodios
Flight of the Stories – Aardman Animations
LEGO Batman 3: Beyond Gotham 
- Plastic Wax

Best General Audience Animated TV/Broadcast Production For Preschool Children

Doc McStuffins 
- Disney Channel / Disney XD
Peter Rabbit – 
Nickelodeon Animation Studio
Tumble Leaf
– Amazon Studios
Wallykazam! – 
Nickelodeon Animation Studio
Zack & Quack
– Zodiak Kids

Best Animated TV/Broadcast Production For Children’s Audience

Adventure Time
 – Cartoon Network
Gravity Falls – 
Disney Television Animation
Legend of Korra – Nickelodeon Animation Studio
Over The Garden Wall
 – Cartoon Network
Wander Over Yonder 
- Disney Television Animation

Best General Audience Animated TV/Broadcast Production

Archer
 – FX Networks
Back To Backspace
- Cartoon Network Studios
Bob’s Burgers
 – Bento Box Entertainment
Rick and Morty 
- Starburns Industries, Inc.
Mike Tyson Mysteries 
- Warner Bros. Animation
Regular Show 
- Cartoon Network Studios
The Simpsons
 – The Simpsons

Best Animated Video Game

Forza Horizon 2 – Microsoft – Turn 10 Studios
Valiant Hearts: The Great War – Ubisoft
Child of Light – Ubisoft

Best Student Film

After School – Junyi Xiao
Dead Over Heels – Jose Matheu
El Coyote
 – Javier Barboza
Frog’s Legs -
 Katie Tamboer
My Big Brother 
- Jason Rayner
Tiny Nomad 
- Toniko Pantoja

For a full list of nominees visit The Annie Awards website