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Ai 51° Annie Awards, i maggiori riconoscimenti al cinema d’animazione assegnati ogni anno dalla ASIFA – Hollywood dai professionisti della tecnica animata, vince ben sette premi Spider-Man: Across The Spiderverse, sequel targato Marvel/Sony campione d’incassi in tutto il mondo e favorito della vigilia all’Oscar di categoria.
Tra gli altri vincitori, lo spagnolo Il mio amico Robot come miglior film d’animazione indipendente, Il ragazzo e l’airone di Hayao Miyazaki con due riconoscimenti tecnici (storyboarding e character design) e Nimona, per la miglior sceneggiatura.
Best Feature
“Nimona”
“Spider-Man. Across The Spiderverse”
“Suzume”
“Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem”
“The Boy and the Heron”
Best Feature – Independent
“Ernest & Celestine: A Trip to Gibberitia”
“Four Souls of Coyote”
“Robot Dreams”
“The Inventor”
“White Plastic Sky”
Best Short Subject
“Carne de Dios”
“Daffy in Wackyland”
“Humo”
“Pina”
“War Is Over! Inspired by the Music of John & Yoko”
Best FX – Feature
“Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget”
“Elemental”
“Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse”
“Suzume”
“The Peasants”
Best Character Animation – Feature
“Elemental”
“Nimona”
“Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken”
“Suzume”
“The Boy and the Heron” (Studio Ghibli/Distributed by GKids, Takeshi Honda)
Best Character Design – Feature
“Elemental”
Pixar Animation Studios / Maria Yi
“Merry Little Batman”
Amazon MGM Studios, Warner Bros. Animation, DC Entertainment / Nikolas Ilic
“Nimona”
Annapurna Animation for Netflix Aidan Sugano
“Robot Dreams”
Arcadia Motion Pictures / Daniel Fernandez Casas
“Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse”
Sony Pictures Animation /Jesús Alonso Iglesias
Best Direction – Feature
“Nimona”
Annapurna Animation for Netflix / Nick Bruno, Troy Quane
“Robot Dreams”
Arcadia Motion Pictures /Pablo Berger, Benoît Feroumont
“Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse”
Sony Pictures Animation / Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers, Justin K. Thompson
“Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem”
Paramount Pictures and Nickelodeon Movies / Jeff Rowe, Kyler Spears
“The Boy and the Heron”
Studio Ghibli / Distributed by GKIDS / Hayao Miyazaki
Best Music – Feature
“Elemental”
Pixar Animation Studios / Thomas Newman, Ari “LAUV” Leff
“Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse”
Sony Pictures Animation / Daniel Pemberton, Metro Boomin
“Suzume”
Crunchyroll/Sony/ Kazuma Jinnouchi, RADWIMPS
“Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem”
Paramount Pictures and Nickelodeon Movies / Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross
“The Boy and the Heron”
Studio Ghibli / Distributed by GKIDS / Joe Hisaishi
Best Production Design – Feature
“Elemental”
Pixar Animation Studios / Don Shank, Maria Yi, Dan Holland, Jennifer Chang, Laura Meyer
“Nimona”
Annapurna Animation for Netflix / Aidan Sugano, Jeff Turley
“Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse”
Sony Pictures Animation / Patrick O’Keefe, Dean Gordon
“Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem”
Paramount Pictures and Nickelodeon Movies / Yashar Kassai, Arthur, Tiffany Lam
“The Boy and the Heron”
Studio Ghibli / Distributed by GKIDS / Yoji Takeshige
Best Storyboarding – Feature
“Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget”
Netflix Presents An Aardman Production / Richard Phelan
“Nimona”
Annapurna Animation for Netflix / Esteban Bravo
“Robot Dreams”
Arcadia Motion Pictures / Maca Gil
“Suzume”
Crunchyroll/Sony / Makoto Shinkai
“The Boy and the Heron”
Studio Ghibli / Distributed by GKIDS / Hayao Miyazaki
Best Voice Acting – Feature
“Merry Little Batman”
Amazon MGM Studios, Warner Bros. Animation, DC Entertainment / David Hornsby (Character: Joker)
“Migration”
Illumination / Tresi Gazal (Character: Gwen)
“Nimona”
Annapurna Animation for Netflix / Chloë Grace Moretz (Character: Nimona)
“Suzume”
Crunchyroll/Sony / Hokuto Matsumura (Character: Souta Munakata)
“The Super Mario Bros. Movie”
Illumination / Jack Black (Character: Bowser)
Best Writing – Feature
“Nimona”
Annapurna Animation for Netflix / Robert L. Baird, Lloyd Taylor
“Robot Dreams”
Arcadia Motion Pictures / Pablo Berger
“Suzume”
Crunchyroll/Sony / Makoto Shinkai
“Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem”
Paramount Pictures and Nickelodeon Movies / Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg, Jeff Rowe, Dan Hernandez, Benji Samit
“The Boy and the Heron”
Studio Ghibli / Distributed by GKIDS / Hayao Miyazaki
Best Editorial – Feature
“Elemental”
Pixar Animation Studios / Stephen Schaffer, Amera Rizk, Gregory Snyder, Jen Jew, Kevin Rose-Williams
“Leo”
Happy Madison for Netflix / Patrick Voetberg, Joseph Titone, Darrian M. James, Danny Miller, Brian Robinson
“Nimona”
Annapurna Animation for Netflix / Randy Trager, Erin Crackel, Stephen Schwartz, Ashley Calle
“Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse”
Sony Pictures Animation / Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse Editorial Team
“Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem”
Paramount Pictures and Nickelodeon Movies /Greg Levitan, Illya Quinteros, David Croomes, Myra Owyang
Fonte: IndieWire