{"id":1516,"date":"2007-12-04T07:26:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-04T07:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pixarplanet.com\/blog\/annie-award-nominees-announced"},"modified":"2007-12-04T07:26:00","modified_gmt":"2007-12-04T07:26:00","slug":"annie-award-nominees-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pixarplanet.com\/blog\/annie-award-nominees-announced\/","title":{"rendered":"Annie Award Nominees Announced"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bp1.blogger.com\/_nIqrDPD-Np8\/R1R1nvq11SI\/AAAAAAAAA2k\/yEVABvwmVzg\/s1600-R\/annieawards.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 10px; cursor: pointer; \" src=\"http:\/\/bp1.blogger.com\/_nIqrDPD-Np8\/R1R1nvq11SI\/AAAAAAAAA2k\/_ZGH4ruT8MI\/s200\/annieawards.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nNominations for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.annieawards.org\/\">35th Annual Annie Awards<\/a> have been announced, with <em>Ratatouille<\/em> leading the awards for animation with 13 nominations including <em>Best Animated Feature<\/em>. In the category it is up against:<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold; \">Bee Movie<\/span> &ndash; DreamWorks Animation <br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold; \">Persepolis<\/span> &ndash; Sony Pictures Classics <br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold; \">Surf&#8217;s Up<\/span> &ndash; Sony Pictures Animation <br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold; \">The Simpsons Movie<\/span> &ndash; Twentieth Century Fox <\/p>\n<p>Other categories <em>Ratatouille<\/em> has been nominated in are:<\/p>\n<p>2 x <span style=\"font-weight: bold; \">Animated Effects<br \/>\nCharacter Animation in a Feature Production<br \/>\nCharacter Animation in a Television Production<br \/>\nDirecting in an Animated Feature Production<br \/>\nMusic in an Animated Feature Production<br \/>\nProduction Design in an Animated Feature Production<br \/>\nStoryboarding in an Animated Feature Production<\/span><br \/>\n3 x <span style=\"font-weight: bold; \">Voice Acting in an Animated Feature Production<br \/>\nWriting in an Animated Feature Producti<\/span>on<\/p>\n<p>Other award nominations for Pixar and Pixar related productions include:<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold; \">Best Animated Short Subject<\/span> (<em>Your Friend the Rat<\/em>)<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold; \">Best Animated Video Game<\/span> (<span class=\"caps\">THQ<\/span> Inc.)<\/p>\n<p>The full list is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.comingsoon.net\/news\/movienews.php?id=39881\">here<\/a>. And if my memory serves me correctly, no winner of the Best Animated Feature at the Annie&#8217;s has gone on to not win the Oscar for Best Animated Feature (bar of course, the Academy&#8217;s blunder when they gave that penguin film the award instead of <em>Cars<\/em>. Surely there is no doubt in their minds this year. I guess this article is also a good segue into this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/11\/28\/movies\/awardsseason\/28rata.html?_r=2&#038;ref=movies&#038;oref=slogin&#038;oref=slogin\">New York Times<\/a> article on the issue of Disney putting <em>Ratatouille<\/em> up for Best Picture this year also.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"tmnf_excerpt\"><p>Nominations for the 35th Annual Annie Awards have been announced, with Ratatouille leading the awards for animation with 13 nominations including Best Animated Feature. In the category it is up against: Bee Movie &ndash; DreamWorks Animation Persepolis &ndash; Sony Pictures Classics Surf&#8217;s Up &ndash; Sony Pictures Animation The Simpsons Movie &ndash; Twentieth Century Fox Other &hellip;<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":4020,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,47,32,52,2,22,64,46,53],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Annie Award Nominees Announced - Upcoming Pixar<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/pixarplanet.com\/blog\/annie-award-nominees-announced\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Annie Award Nominees Announced - Upcoming Pixar\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Nominations for the 35th Annual Annie Awards have been announced, with Ratatouille leading the awards for animation with 13 nominations including Best Animated Feature. 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