11 Awards to ‘Coco’ at 45th Annie Awards
11 Awards to ‘Coco’ at 45th Annie Awards

February 06th, 2018
ASIFA-Hollywood held its 45th Annie Awards ceremony Saturday night, honoring the best in animation production and individual achievement across 36 categories (including this year’s six special juried awards recipients). Industry Icons including director Nora Twomey, animator Floyd Norman, and familiar Annies face Tom Kenny (who scored an award for voicing SpongeBob) presented the Awards.
With so much incredible work under consideration Pixar’s awards season favorite Coco came out on top with an impressive 11 wins.
The evening was dedicated to the late, legendary June Foray — an accomplished voice actress and the driving visionary force behind the Annies.
Winners are as below...
Best
Animated Feature
COCO Pixar Animation Studios
Best
Animated Feature-Independent
THE BREADWINNER Cartoon Saloon/Aircraft
Pictures/Melusine Productions
Best
Animated Special Production
REVOLTING RHYMES Magic Light Pictures
Best
Animated Short Subject
DEAR BASKETBALL Glen Keane Productions, Kobe
Studios, Believe Entertainment Group
Best
Animated Television/Broadcast Commercial
JUNE Broad Reach Pictures/Chromosphere/Lyft
Best
Animated Television/Broadcast Production For Preschool Children
OCTONAUTS “Operation Deep Freeze”
Vampire Squid Productions Limited, a Silvergate Media company, in association
with Brown Bag Films
Best
Animated Television/Broadcast Production For Children
WE BARE BEARS “Panda’s Art”
Cartoon Network Animation Studios
Best
General Audience Animated Television/Broadcast Production
RICK AND MORTY “Pickle Rick”
Williams Street Productions
Best
Student Film
POLES APART Paloma Baeza
Animated
Effects in an Animated Production
COCO Pixar Animation Studios
Shaun Galinak, Dave Hale, Jason Johnston, Carl Kaphan, Keith Daniel Klohn
Character
Animation in an Animated Television / Broadcast Production
TROLLHUNTERS “Homecoming”
DreamWorks Animation Television
Bruno Chiou, Yi-Fan Cho, Kevin Jong , Chun-Jung Chu
Character
Animation in an Animated Feature Production
COCO Pixar Animation Studios
John Chun Chiu Lee
Character
Animation in a Live Action Production
WAR FOR THE PLANET OF THE APES Chernin
Entertainment, TSG Entertainment, River Road Entertainment, 20th Century Fox
Daniel Barrett, Sidney Kombo-Kintombo, Emile Ghorayeb, Luisma Lavin Peredo,
Alessandro Bonora
Character
Animation in a Video Game
CUPHEAD Studio MDHR
Hanna Abi-Hanna
Character
Design in an Animated Television / Broadcast Production
SAMURAI JACK “Episode XCVI”
Adult Swim
Craig Kellman
Character
Design in an Animated Feature Production
COCO Pixar Animation Studios
Daniel Arriaga, Daniela Strijleva, Greg Dykstra, Alonso Martinez, Zaruhi
Galstyan
Directing
in an Animated Television / Broadcast Production
DISNEY MICKEY MOUSE “The Scariest Story Ever: A
Mickey Mouse Halloween Spooktacular!”
Walt Disney Television Animation
Dave Wasson, Eddie Trigueros, Alonso Ramirez-Ramo
Directing
in an Animated Feature Production
COCO Pixar Animation Studios
Lee Unkrich, Adrian Molina
Music
in an Animated Television / Broadcast Production
DISNEY MICKEY MOUSE” The Scariest Story Ever:
A Mickey Mouse Halloween Spooktacular!”
Walt Disney Television Animation
Christopher Willis
Music
in an Animated Feature Production
COCO Pixar Animation Studios
Michael Giacchino, Kristen Anderson-Lopez, Robert Lopez, Germaine Franco,
Adrian Molina
Production
Design in an Animated Television / Broadcast Production
SAMURAI JACK “ Episode XCIII”
Adult Swim
Scott Wills
Production
Design in an Animated Feature Production
COCO Pixar Animation Studio
Harley Jessup, Danielle Feinberg, Bryn Imagire, Nathaniel McLaughlin, Ernesto
Nemesio
Storyboarding
in an Animated Television / Broadcast Production
DISNEY MICKEY MOUSE “Bee Inspired”
Walt Disney Television Animation
Eddie Trigueros
Storyboarding
in an Animated Feature Production
COCO Pixar Animation Studios
Dean Kelly
Voice
Acting in an Animated Television / Broadcast Production
SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS Nickelodeon
Tom Kenny as SpongeBob SquarePants
Voice
Acting in an Animated Feature Production
COCO Pixar Animation Studios
Anthony Gonzalez as Miguel
Writing
in an Animated Television / Broadcast Production
RICK AND MORTY “The Ricklantis Mixup”
Williams Street Productions
Ryan Ridley, Dan Guterman
Writing
in an Animated Feature Production
COCO Pixar Animation Studios
Adrian Molina, Matthew Aldrich
Editorial
in an Animated Television / Broadcast Production
SAMURAI JACK Episodes “XCIII,” “XCIV,” “XCIX”
Adult Swim
Paul Douglas
COCO Pixar Animation Studios
Steve Bloom, Lee Unkrich, Greg Snyder, Tim Fox
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