The Annie Awards, the animation world’s prime prize, launched its Greatest Animated Characteristic award in 1992. And within the 30+ years since, there has at all times been at the very least one animated film from both Disney or Pixar nominated for that Greatest Animated Characteristic prize. In a few years, there have been a number of Disney/Pixar nominees within the class.
Till 2024. For the primary time within the award’s historical past, neither Disney nor Pixar have a nominee for Greatest Animated Characteristic on the Annie Awards. That’s regardless of the businesses releasing a number of contenders final 12 months, together with Disney’s Want and Pixar’s Elemental.
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As a substitute, the Annies nominated the next 5 movies for Greatest Animated Characteristic:
- Nimona
- Spider-Man: Throughout the Spider-Verse
- Suzume
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem
- The Boy and the Heron
Disney’s Magnificence and the Beast was the very first winner of the Annie’s Greatest Animated Characteristic award. The truth that at the very least one Disney or Pixar movie was nominated each single 12 months from then till now speaks to the corporate’s spectacular monitor file and inventive consistency.
Sadly, it additionally speaks to how tough a 2023 Disney had. Elemental did ultimately flip right into a modest hit for Pixar, nevertheless it additionally obtained extraordinarily blended critiques; it was the primary Pixar movie I’ve ever given a unfavorable assessment right here on ScreenCrush. However at the very least Elemental didn’t wind up on my checklist of 2023’s worst movies. Want did, due to its forgettable songs and rehashed storyline.
It’s now been three years since a Pixar movie gained the Annie for Greatest Animated Characteristic; it final occurred in 2020 when Pixar’s Soul beat the studio’s Onward, in addition to DreamWorks’ The Croods: A New Age and Trolls World Tour and Netflix’s The Willoughbys. The final Disney film that topped the Annies was 2016’s Zootopia.
Final 12 months’s Annie Award for Greatest Animated Characteristic went to Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio, which additionally gained the Oscar for Greatest Animated Characteristic. This 12 months’s Annie Award winners will likely be introduced on February 17 at UCLA’s Royce Corridor.
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[H/T EW.com]
