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 all the time been no less than 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 yr, 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 no less than one Disney or Pixar movie was nominated each single yr from then till now speaks to the corporate’s spectacular observe report 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, but it surely additionally obtained extraordinarily blended opinions; it was the primary Pixar movie I’ve ever given a destructive overview right here on ScreenCrush. However no less than Elemental didn’t wind up on my listing of 2023’s worst movies. Want did, because of 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 yr’s Annie Award for Greatest Animated Characteristic went to Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio, which additionally gained the Oscar for Greatest Animated Characteristic. This yr’s Annie Award winners can be introduced on February 17 at UCLA’s Royce Corridor.
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Gallery Credit score: Emma Stefansky
[H/T EW.com]
