Netflix was the big winner at the 47th Annual Annie Awards Saturday evening, garnering top honors in 18 categories, including Best Feature – Klaus; Best Feature – Independent – I Lost My Body; Character Animation in an Animated Feature – Sergio Martins for Klaus; Character Design in an Animated Television/Media Production – Keiko Murayama for Carmen Sandiego; Directing in An Animated Feature – Sergio Pablos for Klaus; Music in an Animated Television/Media Production – Rob Cairns for Love, Death & Robots; Writing in an Animated Feature – I Lost My Body; and Editorial in an Animated Feature – Klaus.

How to Train Your Dragon Homecoming (DreamWorks Animation) won Best Animated Special Production; Best Animated Short Subject – Uncle Thomas: Accounting for the Days (Ciclope Filmes, National Film Board of Canada, Les Armateurs); Best Animated TV/Media Commercial – The Mystical Journey of Jimmy Page’s ’59 Telecaster (Nexus Studios); Best General Audience Animated TV/Media Production BoJack Horseman Eps. The New Client (Torante Productions, LLC for Netflix); and Best Animated TV/Media Production for Children Disney Mickey Mouse Eps. Carried Away (Disney TV Animation/Disney Channel; Best Animated TV/Media Production for Preschool Children Ask the StoryBots Eps. Why Do We Have To Recycle? (JibJab Bros. Studios for Netflix); and Outstanding Achievement for Character Animation in a Live Action Production Avengers: Endgame (Weta Digital).

Sergio Pablos, director of KLAUS, accepts his award.

The evening began with a special tribute to Richard Williams, Canadian–British animator, director, and writer, best known as animation director on Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988), for which he won two of his three Academy Awards (the third for A Christmas Carol in 1973), and for his unfinished feature film The Thief and the Cobbler (1993).

VIP Guests and Presenters included, Frank Marshall, Christopher Lloyd, Ed Asner, Henry Selick, Jorge R. Gutierrez, Ron Clements, John Musker, Glen Keane, Diedrich Bader, Katy Mixon, Yeardley Smith, Sergio Pablos, Chris Butler, Jeremy Chapin, Pat Fraley, Margaret Kerry, Bill Farmer, Julie Nathanson, Ashley Boettcher, Todd Wilderman, Tenzing Norgay Trainor and Taro Morishima.

Juried Awards were presented honoring unparalleled achievement and exceptional contributions to animation. Three Winsor McCay Award recipients were selected by the ASIFA-Hollywood Board of Directors for their exemplary industry careers – Satoshi Kon (posthumously), Japanese manga artist, director, animator and screenwriter on the now classic films Perfect Blue, Millennium Actress, Tokyo Godfathers and Paprika; Henry Selick, stop motion director, producer and writer, best known for directing the stop-motion films The Nightmare Before Christmas, James and the Giant Peach, and Coraline; and Ron Clements & John Musker, animators, animation directors, screenwriters, producers and one of Walt Disney Animation Studio’s leading director teams with nearly 40 years of animation credits, from The Little Mermaid and Aladdin to Moana and many others, too numerous to mention. \

John Musker (left) and Ron Clements (right) accept their Winsor McCay Award

The June Foray Award was presented to Jeanette Bonds, writer, independent animator, and co-founder and director of GLAS Animation; and the Ub Iwerks Award was presented to Jim Blinn, computer scientist who first became widely known for his early work in computer animation, and as a graphics expert at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), particularly on the pre-encounter animations for the Voyager project.

Here are the major winners at the 47th Annie Awards:

Best Animated Feature
Klaus
Netflix Presents A Production of The Spa Studios and Atresmedia Cine

Best Animated Feature-Independent
I Lost My Body
Xilam for Netflix

Best Animated Special Production
How to Train Your Dragon Homecoming
DreamWorks Animation

Best Animated Short Subject
Uncle Thomas: Accounting for the Days
Ciclope Filmes, National Film Board of Canada, Les Armateurs

Best Virtual Reality Production
Bonfire
Baobab Studios

Best Animated Television/Media Commercial
The Mystical Journey of Jimmy Page’s ‘59 Telecaster
Nexus Studios

Best Animated Television/Media Production For Preschool Children
Ask The Storybots
Episode: Why Do We Have To Recycle?
JibJab Bros. Studios for Netflix

Best Animated Television/Media Production For Children
Disney Mickey Mouse
Episode: Carried Away
Disney TV Animation/Disney Channel

Best General Audience Animated Television/Media Production
BoJack Horseman
Episode: The New Client
Tornante Productions, LLC for Netflix

Best Student Film
The Fox & The Pigeon
Michelle Chua
Sheridan College

A complete list of winners can be viewed at www.annieawards.org.

Henry Selick accepts his Lifetime Achievement Award from Jorge Gutierrez and Brooke Keesling

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