The 50th Annies: ‘Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio’ and ‘Marcel the Shell’ Are Among Top Winners

Netflix’s Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio and A24’s Marcel the Shell with Shoes On were the winners of the Best Feature and Best Indie Feature Awards at the 50^th Annie Awards on Saturday. Apple TV+/Bad Robot’s The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse received the Best Special Production prize, while Portuguese director João Gonzalez’s Ice Merchants was the winner of the Best Short Subject Annie.

The Annies for Best Direction (Features) were awarded to Guillermo del Toro and Mark Gustafson for Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio, while the prize for Best Direction (TV/Media) was received by Peter Baynton and Charlie Mackesy for The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse. 

[Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio was the winner of the Best Animated Feature prize at the Producers Guild Awards, which was held on the same night. Del Toro had to do double duty, picking up his PGA prize at the Beverly Hilton first and then rushing to Annies Award ceremony at UCLA’s Royce Hall later that same night.]

On the TV/streaming side, Disney/Imagine Ent.’ The Tiny Chef Show, DreamWorks’ Abominable and the Invisible City and FOX/Bento Box’s Bob’s Burger received the Annies for Best Preschool, Children and Mature TV/Media. Netflix/Tonko House’s acclaimed ONI: Thunder God’s Tale took home the Best TV/Media Limited Series prize.

Overall, the biggest multiple award winners were Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio (5 Annies), The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse (4 Annies), Love, Death + Robots (4 Annies) and Marcel the Shell with Shoes On (3 Annies). Netflix dominated the night with an impressive overall win of 12 Annies, while Apple TV+, DreamWorks Animation received four trophies each.

Here is the complete list of Annie winners:

Best Feature:

• Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio — Netflix Presents A Double Dare You! Film / A ShadowMachine Production in association with The Jim Henson Company

Best Indie Feature:

• Marcel the Shell with Shoes On — Marcel the Movie LLC

Best Special Production:

• The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse — A NoneMore and Bad Robot Production for Apple TV+ and BBC

Best Short Subject:

• Ice Merchants — COLA Animation production & Wild Stream

Best Sponsored:

• Save Ralph — Arch Model Studio

Best TV/Media: Preschool:

• The Tiny Chef Show “Pancakes” — Tiny Chef Productions LLC /Imagine Entertainment

Best TV/Media, Children:

• Abominable and the Invisible City “Everest Returns” — DreamWorks Animation

Best TV/Media, Mature:

• Bob’s Burgers “Some Like it Bot Part 1: Eighth Grade Runner” — 20th Television / Bento Box Entertainment

Best TV Media: Limited Series

• Oni: Thunder God’s Tale “The Demon Moon Rises” — A Netflix Series / A Tonko House Production

Best Student Film:

• The Soloists — Student directors: Mehrnaz Abdollahinia, Feben Elias Woldehawariat, Razahk Issaka, Celeste Jamneck & Yi Liu — School: Gobelins, l’école de l’image

Best FX – TV/Media:

• Kirby Miller, Igor Zanic, Joseph H. Coleman, Steven Dupuy, Josh Schwartz — Love, Death + Robots “Bad Traveling” — Blur Studio for Netflix

Best FX – Features:

• Johnathan M. Nixon, David Moraton, Nicholas Illingworth, David Caeiro Cebrian, Alex Nowotny — Avatar: The Way of Water — 20th Century Studios / Disney Studios — Wētā FX

Best Character Animation TV/Media:

• Tim Watts — The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse — A NoneMore and Bad Robot Production for Apple TV+ and BBC

Best Character Animation, Feature:

• Tucker Barrie — Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio — Netflix Presents A Double Dare You! Film / A Shadowmachine Production in association with The Jim Henson Company

Best Character Animation, Live Action:

• Daniel Barrett, Stuart Adcock, Todd Labonte, Douglas McHale, Stephen Cullingford — Avatar: The Way of Water — 20th Century Studios / Disney Studios — Wētā FX

Best Character Animation, Video Game:

• Chad Moldenhauer, Hanna Abi-Hanna — Cuphead – The Delicious Last Course — Studio MDHR

Best Character Design TV/Media:

• Alberto Mielgo — Love, Death + Robots “Jibaro” — Blur Studio for Netflix

Best Character Design, Feature:

• Taylor Krahenbuhl — The Bad Guys — DreamWorks Animation

Best Direction, TV/Media:

• Peter Baynton, Charlie Mackesy — The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse — A NoneMore and Bad Robot Production for Apple TV+ and BBC

Best Direction, Feature:

• Guillermo Del Toro, Mark Gustafson — Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio — Netflix Presents A Double Dare You! Film / A ShadowMachine Production in association with The Jim Henson Company

Best Music, TV/Media

• Ego Plum, Dave Wasson, Cosmo Segurson — The Cuphead Show! “Carn-Evil” —Netflix Animation

Best Music, Feature :

• Alexandre Desplat, Roeban Katz, Guillermo del Toro, Patrick McHale — Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio — Netflix Presents A Double Dare You! Film / A ShadowMachine Production in association with The Jim Henson Company

Best Production Design, TV/Media:

• Robert Kondo, Rachel Tiep-Daniels, Lia Tin, Yohei Hashizume, Masa Inada — Oni: Thunder God’s Tale “The Demon Moon Rises” — A Netflix Series / A Tonko House Production

Best Production Design, Features:

• Curt Enderle, Guy Davis — Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio — Netflix Presents A Double Dare You! Film / A ShadowMachine Production in association with The Jim Henson Company

Best Storyboarding, TV/Media:

• Emily Dean — Love, Death + Robots “The Very Pulse of the Machine” — Blur Studio for Netflix

Best Storyboarding, Feature:

• Anthony Holden — Puss in Boots: The Last Wish — DreamWorks Animation

Best Voice Acting, TV/Media:

• Maurice LaMarche (Character: Mr. Big) — Zootopia+ “The Godfather of the Bride” —  Walt Disney Animation Studios

Best Voice Acting, Feature:

• Jenny Slate (character: Marcel) — Marcel the Shell with Shoes On — Marcel the Movie LLC

Best Writing, TV/Media

• Andrew Kevin Walker — Love, Death + Robots “Bad Traveling” — Blur Studio for Netflix

Best Writing, Feature:

• Dean Fleischer Camp, Jenny Slate, Nick Paley, Elisabeth Holm — Marcel the Shell with Shoes On — Marcel the Movie LLC

Best Editorial, TV/Media:

• Daniel Budin — The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse — A NoneMore and Bad Robot Production for Apple TV+ and BBC

Best Editorial, Feature:

• James Ryan ACE, Jacquelyn Karambelas, Natalla Cronembold, Joe Butler,

Katie Parody — Puss in Boots: The Last Wish — Dreamworks Animation

The Juried Awards:

The Winsor McCay Award:

• Pete Docter
• Evelyn Lambert
• Craig McCracken

The June Foray Award:

• Mindy Johnson
  

The Ub Iwerks Award:

• Visual Effects Reference Platform,
• Nick Cannon/Francois Chardavoine

The Certificate of Merit Award:

• John Omohundro

For more info, visit annieawards.org.