The Annie Award for Best Animated Video Game is awarded annually by ASIFA-Hollywood, a non-profit organization that honors contributions to animation, to the best animated video game of the year. It is one of the Annie Awards, which are given to the best contributions to animation, including producers, directors, and voice actors. The Annie Awards were created in 1972 by June Foray to honor individual lifetime contributions to animation. In 1992, the scope of the awards was expanded to honor animation as a whole; the Annie Award for Best Animated Feature was created as a result of this move, and subsequent awards have been created to recognize different contributions to animation.[3] The Annie Award for Best Animated Video Game was created in 2005, and has been awarded yearly since. To be eligible for the award, the game must have been released in the year before the next Annie Awards ceremony, and the developers of the game must send a five-minute DVD that shows the gameplay and graphics of the game to a committee appointed by the Board of Directors of ASIFA-Hollywood.[4]
As of 2008, the Annie Award for Best Animated Video Game has been awarded to three video games. The video game development company THQ has had six of its games nominated for the Annie Award for Best Animated Video Game, and one of them, Ratatouille, has won the award.[5] Among the nominees, five video games, Flushed Away,[6] Monster House,[1] Ratatouille,[7] Bee Movie Game,[8] and Transformers: The Game,[9] are adaptations of a feature film. Three nominees, SpongeBob SquarePants: Lights, Camera, Pants!,[10] SpongeBob SquarePants: Creature from the Krusty Krab,[11] and Avatar: The Last Airbender - The Burning Earth,[12] are adaptations of animated television series. Although every nominee has been released for multiple video game consoles, Resident Evil 4 had only been released on the Nintendo GameCube at the time of the 33rd Annie Awards, which were held on February 4, 2006.[13][14]
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| Year (Ceremony) |
Video game | Developer(s) | Platform(s)[A] | Result |
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| 2005 (33rd) |
Ultimate Spider-Man | Activision, Treyarch | DS, GBA, GCN, PC, PS2, Xbox | Won |
| Psychonauts | Double Fine Productions | PC, PS2, Xbox | Nominee | |
| Resident Evil 4 | Capcom | GCN | Nominee | |
| SpongeBob SquarePants: Lights, Camera, Pants! | THQ | GBA, GCN, PC, PS2, Xbox | Nominee | |
| Tak: The Great Juju Challenge | THQ | DS, GBA, GCN, PS2, Xbox | Nominee | |
| 2006 (34th) |
Flushed Away | D3 Publisher | DS, GBA, GCN, PS2 | Won |
| Monster House | THQ | DS, GBA, GCN, PS2 | Nominee | |
| SpongeBob SquarePants: Creature from the Krusty Krab | THQ | DS, GBA, GCN, PS2, PC, WII | Nominee | |
| 2007 (35th) |
Ratatouille | THQ | DS, GBA, GCN, MAC, PC, PS2, PS3, PSP, X360, Xbox | Won |
| Avatar: The Last Airbender - The Burning Earth | THQ | DS, GBA, PS2, WII, X360 | Nominee | |
| Bee Movie Game | Activision | DS, GCN, PC, PS2, WII, X360 | Nominee | |
| Transformers: The Game | Blur Studios | DS, PC, PS2, PS3, PSP, WII, X360 | Nominee | |
| 2008 (36th) |
Kung Fu Panda | Activision | Won | |
| Dead Space | Electronic Arts | Nominee | ||
| WALL·E | Heavy Iron Studios | Nominee |
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