The Annie Awards, the animation world’s prime prize, launched its Best Animated Feature award in 1992. And within the 30+ years since, there has all the time been at the very least one animated film from both Disney or Pixar nominated for that Best Animated Feature prize. In a few years, there have been a number of Disney/Pixar nominees within the class.
Until 2024. For the primary time within the award’s historical past, neither Disney nor Pixar have a nominee for Best Animated Feature on the Annie Awards. That’s regardless of the businesses releasing a number of contenders final 12 months, together with Disney’s Wish and Pixar’s Elemental.
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Instead, the Annies nominated the next 5 movies for Best Animated Feature:
- Nimona
- Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
- Suzume
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem
- The Boy and the Heron
Disney’s Beauty and the Beast was the very first winner of the Annie’s Best Animated Feature award. The undeniable fact 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 observe report and artistic consistency.
Unfortunately, it additionally speaks to how tough a 2023 Disney had. Elemental did finally flip right into a modest hit for Pixar, nevertheless it additionally acquired extraordinarily combined critiques; it was the primary Pixar movie I’ve ever given a destructive overview right here on ScreenCrush. But at the very least Elemental didn’t wind up on my checklist of 2023’s worst movies. Wish did, due to its forgettable songs and rehashed storyline.
It’s now been three years since a Pixar movie received the Annie for Best Animated Feature; 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.
Last 12 months’s Annie Award for Best Animated Feature went to Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio, which additionally received the Oscar for Best Animated Feature. This 12 months’s Annie Award winners will probably be introduced on February 17 at UCLA’s Royce Hall.
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[H/T EW.com]
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