Up Triumphs At Annie Awards

09 February 2010

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Up's Oscar chances were given a real boost at the weekend by taking home the top prize at the Annie Awards.

The latest Pixar picture has become just the second animation movie to find itself nominated for Best Picture at this year's Oscars and is the favourite to win Best Animated Feature.

The Annie Awards celebrate everything animation and Up saw off tough competition from Coraline, Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs, Fantastic Mr Fox, The Princess And The Frog and The Secret of Kells.

Up was the best animation movie of 2009 it’s vivid and bright and has been crafted with obvious care.

But it’s a story that is set in reality and something that many people in the audience can identify with. But what’s also great about this movie is it tells us that it is never too late to achieve your dream.

So often movies have a young a central character going off on these amazing adventures it’s so nice to see Pixar break that mould.

Up also won the award for Best Director for Pete Docter's work on the movie that dominated the box office last year.

It was also a good night for The Princess And The Frog as the film walked away with Animated Effects, Character Animation in a Feature Production and Voice Acting in a Feature Production for Jen Cody.

Coraline was another Oscar nominee that took home three awards Production Design in a Feature Production, Music in a Feature Production and Character Design in a Feature Production.

While the Fantastic Mr Fox took home the award for Writing in a Feature Production.

Last year's winner of Best Animated Feature was Kung Fu Panda, seeing off favourite Wall-E which went on to scoop the Oscar.

The full list of winners:

Best Animated Feature - Up, Pixar Animation Studios

Best Home Entertainment Production - Futurama: Into the Wild Green Yonder, The Curiosity Company in association with 20th Century

Best Animated Short Subject - Robot Chicken: Star Wars 2.5, ShadowMachine

Best Animated Television Commercial - Spanish Lottery Deportees, Acme Filmworks, Inc.

Best Animated Television Production - Prep and Landing, ABC Family/Walt Disney Animation Studios

Best Animated Television Production for Children - The Penguins of Madagascar, Nickelodeon and DreamWorks Animation

Animated Effects - James Mansfield 'The Princess and the Frog', Walt Disney Animation Studios

Character Animation in a Television Production - Phillip To 'Monsters vs. Aliens: Mutant Pumpkins from Outer Space', DreamWorks Animation

Character Animation in a Feature Production - Eric Goldberg 'The Princess and the Frog', Walt Disney Animation Studios

Character Design in a Television Production - Bill Schwab 'Prep and Landing', Walt Disney Animation Studios

Character Design in a Feature Production - Shane Prigmore 'Coraline', Laika

Directing in a Television Production - Bret Haaland 'The Penguins of Madagascar - Launchtime', Nickelodeon and DreamWorks Animation

Directing in a Feature Production - Pete Docter 'Up', Pixar Animation Studios
 
Music in a Television Production - Guy Moon 'The Fairly OddParents: Wishology-The Big Beginning', Nickelodeon

Music in a Feature Production - Bruno Coulais 'Coraline', Laika

Production Design in a Television Production - Andy Harkness 'Prep and Landing', Walt Disney Animation Studios

Production Design in a Feature Production - Tadahiro Uesugi 'Coraline', Laika

Storyboarding in a Television Production - Robert Koo 'Merry Madagascar', DreamWorks Animation

Storyboarding in a Feature Production - Tom Owens 'Monsters vs. Aliens', DreamWorks Animation

Voice Acting in a Television Production - Tom Kenny - Voice of SpongeBob - 'SpongeBob SquarePants Truth or Square', Nickelodeon

Voice Acting in a Feature Production - Jen Cody - Voice of Charlotte - 'The Princess and the Frog', Walt Disney Animation Studios

Writing in a Television Production - Daniel Chun - 'The Simpsons: Treehouse of Horror XX', Gracie Films

Writing in a Feature Production - Wes Anderson and Noah Baumbach - 'Fantastic Mr. Fox', 20th Century Fox

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