"Incredible" is right.
"The Incredibles," Pixar-Disney's satirical saga of a family of superheroes, leads the field of candidates for the 32nd Annual Annie Awards with 16 nominations, ASIFA-Hollywood, the International Animated Film Society, announced Tuesday in Burbank, California.
The Annies recognize the year's finest achievement in animation across film, television, commercials and short subjects. Seen as a precursor to the Oscar for animation, the Annie's are the animation industry's oldest awards.
Nominations for The Incredibles included Best Animated Feature, as well as individual nominations for Character Design, Animated Effects, Character Animation, Directing, Music, Production Design, Storyboarding, Voice Acting (Samuel L. Jackson as Lucius Best/Frozone and Brad Bird as Edna Mode) and Writing.
DreamWorks Animation garnered 14 nominations overall for Shrek 2 and Shark Tale, each with seven. Shrek 2 captured nominations for Best Animated Feature, Animated Effects, Directing, Music, Storyboarding, Voice Acting (Antonio Banderas for Puss in Boots) and Writing. Shark Tale received its nominations for Animated Effects, Character Animation, Character Design, Production Design (three nominations) and Writing.
Rounding out the nominations for top animated feature are Ghost In The Shell 2: Innocence (Innocence: Kokaku Kidotai) from Go Fish Pictures (DreamWorks Animation) and The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie from Peanut Worm Productions (Paramount Pictures).
For television, children’s favorite SpongeBob SquarePants shares the spotlight with its feature production counterpart, having picked up a nomination for Best Animated Television Production. Other nominations in this category include My Life as a Teenage Robot from Frederator/Nickelodeon, Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends and Star Wars: Clone Wars from Cartoon Network Studios, and The Batman from Warner Bros. Animation.
Society members will vote on the nominations, which were made by committee. The 32nd annual awards will be presented January 30 in Glendale.
Other categories:
Best Home Entertainment Production
The Lion King 1½ (DisneyToon Studios)
Mickey, Donald & Goofy The Three Musketeers (DisneyToon Studios)
Scooby-Doo and the Loch Ness Monster (Warner Bros. Animation)
Best Animated Short Subject
Agricultural Report (Barley Films)
It's The Cat (Mark Kausler)
Lorenzo (Walt Disney Pictures)
Rockfish (Blur Studio)
Ryan (Copper Heart Entertainment/National Film Board of Canada)
Best Animated Television Commercial
Looney Tunes AFLCA (Warner Bros. Animation)
Nintendo Freeboy (Asylum)
Quaker Chewy Bars Three Bears (Hornet Inc.)
Reebok (Blur Studio)
United Airlines Interview (Acme Filmworks)
INDIVIDUAL AWARDS
Animated Effects
Scott Cegielski (Shark Tale)
Hisashi Ezura (Ghost In The Shell 2)
Matt Hausman (The Polar Express)
Martin Nguyen (The Incredibles)
Jonathon Gibbs (Shrek 2)
Character Animation
Ken Duncan (Shark Tale)
John Kahrs (The Incredibles)
Angus MacLane (The Incredibles)
Peter Sohn (The Incredibles)
Kureha Yokoo (The Incredibles)
Character Design in an Animated Feature Production
Tony Fucile (The Incredibles)
Carlos Grangel (Shark Tale)
Joe Moshier (Home on the Range)
Teddy Newton (The Incredibles)
Character Design in an Animated Television Production
Ben Balistreri (The Fairly OddParents, "Crash Nebula")
Shakeh Haghnazarian (Hi Hi Puffy Ami Yumi)
Patrick Mat'e (Father of the Pride)
Lynn Naylor-Reccardi (Pilot "House of Bloo's," Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends)
Chris Reccardi (Powerpuff Girls, "West in Pieces")
Directing in an Animated Feature Production
Andrew Adamson, Conrad Vernon and Kelly Ashbury (Shrek 2)
Brad Bird (The Incredibles)
Will Finn and John Sanford (Home on the Range)
Stephen Hillenburg (The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie)
Mamoru Oshi (Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence)
Directing in an Animated Television Production
Keith Alcorn (The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius, "Love Potion #976/3")
Shaun Cashman and Phil Cummings (Attack of the Clowns)
Eric Pringle (Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends, "Who Let The Dogs In")
Brian Sheesley (Nursery Crimes)
Genndy Tartakovsky (Samurai Jack, "Tale of X-49")
Music in an Animated Feature Production
Michael Giacchino (The Incredibles)
Harry Gregson-Williams (Shrek 2)
Don Harper, Martin Erskine and Seth J. Friedman (The Lion King 1 1/2)
Kenji Kawai (Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence)
Gregor Narholz (The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie)
Music in an Animated Television Production
Steve D'Angelo and Terry Tompkins (Peep)
Jeff Danna and Steve Sullivan (Miss Spider's Sunny Patch Friends)
Yoko Kanno (Wolf's Rain)
Robert J. Kral (Duck Dodgers)
Production Design in an Animated Feature Production
Lou Romano (The Incredibles)
Pierre-Olivier Vincent (Shark Tale)
Sam Michlap (Shark Tale)
Armand Balthazar (Shark Tale)
Scott Fassett (Winnie the Pooh, Springtime with Roo)
Production Design in an Animated Television Production
Richard Daskas (Samurai Jack, "Season of Death")
Michael Giaimo (Hi Hi Puffy Ami Yumi, "Episode 1")
Alex Kirwan (My Life As A Teenage Robot)
John Over (Jakers! The Adventures of Piggley Winks)
Mark Whiting (Duck Dodgers)
Storyboarding in an Animated Feature Production
Chen-Yi Chang (Home on the Range)
Ted Mathot (The Incredibles)
Kevin O'Brien (The Incredibles)
Chris Otsuki (Winnie The Pooh: Springtime with Roo)
Conrad Vernon (Shrek 2)
Storyboarding in an Animated Television Production
Alex Basio (Atomic Betty, "Spindly Tam Kanushu")
Wendy Grieb (Disney's Dave the Barbarian, "The Maddening Sprite of the Stump")
Adam Van Wyk (He Man & The Masters of the Universe, "Awaken the Serpent")
Rossen Varbanov (Disney's Brandy and Mr. Whiskers, "To The Moon, Whiskers")
Matthew Youngberg (Teen Titans, "Haunted")
Voice Acting in an Animated Feature Production
Tony Anselmo (Voice of Donald Duck, Mickey, Donald & Goofy The Three Musketeers) Antonio Banderas (Voice of Puss in Boots, Shrek 2)
Brad Bird (Voice of Edna Mode, The Incredibles)
Samuel L. Jackson (Voice of Lucius Best/Frozone, The Incredibles)
Rob Paulsen (Voice of The Troubadour, Mickey, Donald & Goofy The Three Musketeers)
Voice Acting in an Animated Television Production
Maile Flanagan (Voice of Piggley Jakers, The Adventures of Piggley Winks)
Carolyn Lawrence (Voice of Cindy Vortex, The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius)
Candi Milo (Voice of Mrs. Wakeman, My Life As A Teenage Robot)
Brittany Murphy (Voice of Luane Platter, King of the Hill, "Girl, You'll Be A Giant Soon")
Russi Taylor (Voice of Ferny Jakers, The Adventures of Piggley Winks)
Writing in an Animated Feature Production
Andrew Adamson, Joe Stillman, David J. Stern and David N. Weiss (Shrek 2)
Brad Bird (The Incredibles)
Michael J. Wilson and Rob Letterman (Shark Tale)
Writing in an Animated Television Production
Ethan Cohen (King of the Hill, "Ceci N'est Pas Line")
Lauren Faust (Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends, "World Wide Wabbit")
Evan Gore and Heather Gore (Disney's Dave the Barbarian , "Ned Frischman: Man Of Tomorrow")
Butch Hartman and Steve Marmel (The FairlyOddParents, "Channel Chasers")
Brandon Sawyer (Disney's Brandy and Mr. Whiskers, "Cyranosaurus Rex")
JURIED AWARDS
June Foray Award (Significant and benevolent or charitable impact on the art and industry of animation)
Bill Moritz
Winsor McCay Award (Recognition of lifetime or career contributions to the art of animation)
Don Bluth
Virginia Davis
Arnold Stang
Ub Iwerks Award
Dr. Ed Catmull
Special Achievement
Disney's On the Front Lines DVD
Certificate of Merit
DreamWorks Animation
Sivert Glarum
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