40th Annie Awards

The 40th Annual Annie Awards honoring the best in animation of 2012 were held on February 2, 2013 at Royce Hall in Los Angeles, California.^[1]

Production nominees

Best Animated Feature

Wreck-It Ralph - Walt Disney Animation Studios

• Brave – Pixar Animation Studios
• Frankenweenie – Walt Disney Pictures
• Hotel Transylvania – Sony Pictures Animation
• ParaNorman – Focus Features
• Rise of the Guardians – DreamWorks Animation
• The Pirates! Band of Misfits - Aardman Animations
• The Rabbi's Cat - GKIDS

Best Animated Special Production

Despicable Me: Minion Mayhem - Illumination Entertainment

• Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Part 1 - Warner Bros. Animation
• Beforel Orel: Trust - Starburns Industries, Inc.
• Disney Tron: Uprising – Beck’s Beginning - Disney Television Animation
• Dragons: Gift of the Night Fury - DreamWorks Animation
• Justice League: Doom - Warner Bros. Animation

Best Animated Short Subject

Paperman – Walt Disney Animation Studios

• Brad and Gary – Illumination Entertainment
• Bydlo – National Film Board of Canada
• Eyes on the Stars – StoryCorps
• Goodnight Mr. Foot – Sony Pictures Animation
• Kali the Little Vampire – National Film Board of Canada
• The Longest Daycare – Gracie Films,20th Century Fox Television
• Bill Plympton Couch Gag – Gracie Films, 20th Century Fox Television

Best Animated Television Commercial

No nominations

Best Animated Television Production For Preschool Children

Bubble Guppies — "A Tooth on the Looth" — Nickelodeon Animation Studio

• Chuggington — "Magnetic Wilson" — Ludorum
• Jake and the Never Land Pirates — "Peter Pan Returns" — Disney Television Animation
• Doc McStuffins — "The Right Stuff" — Brown Bag Films
• Justin Time — "Marcello’s Meatballs" — Guru Studio

Best Animated Television Production For Children

Dragons: Riders of Berk — "How to Pick Your Dragon" — DreamWorks Animation

• Adventure Time — "Princess Cookie" — Cartoon Network Studios
• Lego Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Out — Threshold Animation Studios
• The Penguins of Madagascar — "Action Reaction" — Nickelodeon Animation Studio
• SpongeBob SquarePants — "It's a SpongeBob Christmas!" — Nickelodeon Animation Studios
• The Amazing World of Gumball — "The Job" — Cartoon Network Studio Europe
• The Fairly OddParents — "Farm Pit" — Nickelodeon Animation Studios
• The Legend of Korra — "Welcome to Republic City"/"A Leaf in the Wind" — Nickelodeon Animation Studios

Best General Audience Animated Television Production

Robot Chicken DC Comics Special - Stoopid Buddy Studios

• Archer: Space Race, Part 1 - Weissman Markovitz Communications for FX
• Bob's Burgers: Ear-sy Rider - 20th Century Fox TV
• Motorcity: Blonde Thunder - Disney Television Animation
• Mad: FrankenWinnie/ParaMorgan - Warner Bros. Animation
• South Park: Raising the Bar - Central Productions

Best Animated Video Game

Journey — Sony Computer Entertainment America

• Borderlands 2 — Gearbox Software
• Family Guy: Back to the Multiverse – Heavy Iron Studios
• Skullgirls — Lab Zero Games

Best Student Film

Head Over Heels — Timothy Reckart

• Can We Be Happy Now — Tahnee Gehm
• Defective Detective — Avner Geller & Stevie Lewis
• I Am Tom Moody — Ainslie Henderson
• Ladies Knight — Joseph Rothenberg
• Origin — Jessica Poon
• The Ballad of Poisonberry Pete — Adam Campbell, Elizabeth McMahill, Uri Lotan
• Tule Lake — Michelle Ikemoto

References

External links

• Complete list of 40th Annual Annie Awards nominees and winners