Animated Events: the 44th Annie Awards

This Saturday, February 4th at 7 p.m. PST (10 p.m. EST), ASIFA Hollywood will be streaming the annual Annie Awards, a celebration of the best our industry has to offer.

Both the Production and Individual Achievement categories are listed on the Nominees page, however some highlights are below:

Best Animated Feature

• Finding Dory - Pixar Animation Studios
• Kubo and the Two Strings - LAIKA
• Kung Fu Panda 3 - DreamWorks Animation
• Moana - Walt Disney Animation Studios
• Zootopia - Walt Disney Animation Studios

Best Animated Feature - Independent

• Long Way North - Produced by Sacrebleu Productions, Maybe Movies, Norlum Studios, France 3 Cinéma and 2 Minutes
• Miss Hokusai - Production I.G
• My Life As A Zucchini - Rita Productions, Blue Spirit Productions, Gebeka Films, KNM
• The Red Turtle - Studio Ghibli – Wild Bunch – Why Not Productions
• Your Name. - CoMix Wave Films

Best Animated Short Subject

• Blind Vaysha - National Film Board of Canada
• Deer Flower - Studio ZAZAC
• Path Title Sequence - Acme Filmworks
• Pearl - Google Spotlight Stories/Evil Eye Pictures
• Piper - Pixar Animation Studios

Best Student Film

• Citipati - Filmakademie Baden-Wuerttemberg
• FISHWITCH - Adrienne Dowling
• The Abyss - Liying Huang
• The Wrong End of the Stick - Terri Matthews
• Twiddly Things - Adara Todd

In addition to the Production and Individual Acheivement awards, they'll also be presenting the Juried Awards for the following:

• the Winsor McCay Award - 'for their career contributions to the art of animation',
• the Ub Iwerks Award - 'for technical advancement in the art of animation',
• the Special Achievement Award,
• the June Foray Award - 'for their significant and benevolent or charitable impact on the art and industry of animation', and
• the Certificate of Merit.

You can watch the 44th Annie Awards ceremony live right 'here' on the Annie Awards website.

Congratulations to all the nominees!