Cars Has Most Annie Award Nominations

L.A. Times' The Envelope reports that the Cars film is leading the pack at the Annie Awards with a total of nine nominations. Other films with multiple nomations include Flushed Away and Over the Hedge.
Leading the pack for the Annie Awards for film, television and home video animation was DreamWorks Animation SKG, with 17 nods for two features, "Flushed Away" and "Over the Hedge."

But Disney-Pixar's "Cars" was the biggest film nominee. The sentimental story of a cocky race car who winds up stuck in a Route 66 town filled with eccentric individuals garnered nine nominations, including best animated feature and best director for John Lasseter, who helped put Pixar on the map when he directed "Toy Story."

"Flushed Away," the story of an uptown rat who gets flushed down the toilet from his penthouse apartment, ending in the sewers of London, earned eight film nominations, including voice acting for Ian McKellen. It also got a nomination as best animated video game, a category unrelated to the movie.
The Envelope also said that the winner of the best animated film award at the Annie Awards has gone on to win the animaton Oscar every since the animation film Oscar was added in 2002. Here is a list of films up for the Best Animated Feature award.

  • Cars Pixas Animation Studios
  • Happy Feet Warner Bros. Pictures presents in association with Village Roadshow Pictures, a Kennedy Miller Production in association with Animal Logic Film
  • Monster House Columbia Pictures Presents an ImageMovers/Amblin Production
  • Open Season Sony Pictures Animation/Columbia Pictures
  • Over The Hedge DreamWorks Animation

    You can see a complete list of the nominations here on the Annie Awards website.


    Posted on December 4, 2006





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