Animazione Americana

Questa notte si è tenuta a Los Angeles la cerimonia di premiazione della 46° edizione degli Annie Awards, i premi dedicati alle produzioni animate consegnati dagli stessi addetti ai lavori, attraverso l’associazione degli animatori americani.

Il vincitore assoluto della serata, come prevedibile, è stato Spider-Man: Un Nuovo Universo, con ben sette vittorie (miglior film, miglior regia, miglior sceneggiatura, migliori scenografie, migliore character animation, miglior character design e miglior montaggio) per i Sony Pictures Studios. Due, invece, i premi de Gli Incredibili 2 (miglior colonna sonora e migliori storyboard) e quattro quelli assegnati a Il Ritorno di Mary Poppins per il lavoro sulle sequenze animate.

Infine, tre sono stati i Winsor McCay Awards (i premi ispirati all’omonimo e celebre fumettista) consegnati a: Ralph Eggleston, Andrea Romano (entrambi animatori dei Pixar Animation Studios) e Frank Braxton (animatore dei Warner Bros. Studios scomparso negli anni ’70).

Di seguito tutte le categorie e i relativi vincitori:

• Best Animated Feature
  “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse” (Sony Pictures Animation)
• Best Animated Feature-Independent
  “Mirai” (Studio Chizu)
• Best Animated Special Production
  “Mary Poppins Returns” (Walt Disney Studios)
• Best Animated Short Subject
  “Weekends” (Past Lives Productions)
• Best Virtual Reality Production
  “Crow: The Legend” (Baobab Studios)
• Best Animated Television/Broadcast Commercial
  “Greenpeace: There’s a Rang-Tan In My Bedroom” (Passion Animation Studios)
• Best Animated Television/Broadcast Production For Preschool Children
  “Ask the StoryBots,” Episode: How Do Computers Work? (JibJab Bros. Studios for Netflix)
• Best Animated Television/Broadcast Production For Children
  “Hilda” Episode: Chapter 1: The Hidden People (Hilda Productions Limited, a Silvergate Media Company, Netflix Inc. and Mercury Filmworks)
• Best General Audience Animated Television/Broadcast Production
  “BoJack Horseman,” Episode: The Dog Days are Over (Tornante Productions, LLC for Netflix)
• Best Student Film
  “Best Friend,” Nicholas OLIVIERI, Yi SHEN, Juliana DE LUCCA, Varun NAIR, David FELIU (Gobelins, lécole de l’image)
• Animated Effects in an Animated Television/Broadcast Production
  David M.V. Jones, Vincent Chou, Clare Yang, “Tales of Arcadia: Trollhunters,” Episode: “The Eternal Knight Part 2” (DreamWorks Animation Television)
• Animated Effects in an Animated Feature Production
  Cesar Velazquez, Marie Tollec, Alexander Moaveni, Peter DeMund, Ian J. Coony
  “Ralph Breaks The Internet” (Walt Disney Animation Studios)
• Character Animation in an Animated Television / Broadcast Production
  Scott Lewis, “Hilda” (Hilda Productions Limited, a Silvergate Media Company, Netflix Inc. and Mercury Filmworks)
• Character Animation In An Animated Feature Production
  David Han, “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse” (Sony Pictures Animation Animator)
• Character Animation in a Live Action Production
  Chris Sauve, James Baxter, Sandro Cleuz, “Mary Poppins Returns” (Walt Disney Pictures)
• Character Animation in a Video Game
  Adrian Miguel, Adrian Garcia, “GRIS” (Nomada Studio)
• Character Design in an Animated Television / Broadcast Production
  Amanda Jolly, “Rapunzel’s Tangled Adventure,” Episode: Freebird (Walt Disney Television Animation)
• Character Design In An Animated Feature Production
  Shiyoon Kim, “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse” (Sony Pictures Animation)
• Directing in an Animated Television / Broadcast Production
  Eddie Trigueros, “Disney Mickey Mouse,” Episode: “Feed the Birds” (Disney Television Animation)
• Directing In An Animated Feature Production
  Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey, Rodney Rothman, “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse” (Sony Pictures Animation)
• Music in an Animated Television / Broadcast Production
  Christopher Willis, “Disney Mickey Mouse,” Episode: “Springtime” (Disney Television Animation)
• Music in an Animated Feature Production
  Michael Giacchino, “Incredibles 2,” (Pixar Animation Studios)
• Production Design in an Animated Television / Broadcast Production
  Céline Desrumaux, Jasmin Lai, “Age of Sail” (Google Spotlight Stories, Broad Reach Pictures)
• Production Design In An Animated Feature Production
  Justin K. Thompson, “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse” (Sony Pictures Animation)
• Storyboarding in an Animated Television / Broadcast Production
  Alonso Ramirez Ramos, “Disney Mickey Mouse,” Episode: “Carnaval”
  (Disney Television Animation)
  (tie)
  Kevin Molina-Ortiz, “Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles”
  Episode: “Mystic Mayhem” (Nickelodeon Animation Studio)
• Storyboarding in an Animated Feature Production
  Dean Kelly, “Incredibles 2” (Pixar Animation Studios)
• Voice Acting in an Animated Television / Broadcast Production
  Will Arnett (as Bojack), “BoJack Horseman,” Episode: “Free Churro”
  (Tornante Productions, LLC for Netflix)
• Voice Acting in an Animated Feature Production
  Bryan Cranston (as Chief), “Isle of Dogs” (Fox Searchlight Pictures / Indian Paintbrush / American Empirical Pictures)
• Writing in an Animated Television / Broadcast Production
  Stephanie Simpson, “Hilda,” Episode: “Chapter 8: The Tide Mice” (Hilda Productions Limited, a Silvergate Media Company, Netflix Inc. and Mercury Filmworks)
• Writing In An Animated Feature Production
  Phil Lord, Rodney Rothman, “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse” (Sony Pictures Animation)
• Editorial in an Animated Television / Broadcast Production
  Charles Jones, Joe Molinari, Dao Le, Vartan Nazarian, “Big Hero 6: The Series”
  (Walt Disney Television Animation)
• Editorial In An Animated Feature Production
  Bob Fisher, Andrew Leviton, Vivek Sharma, “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse”
  (Sony Pictures Animation)