The 35th Annual Annie Awards, honoring the best in animation for 2007, was held on February 8, 2008, at UCLA's Royce Hall. This was the first change of venue for the awards in nine years, being held at the Alex Theatre in Glendale, California, since 1998 until last year. Ratatouille was the biggest winner, taking nine awards.
Winners and nominees Nominations announced on December 3, 2007.
Awards Production Winners are listed first, highlighted in boldface, and indicated with a double dagger ().
Ratatouille – Pixar Animation Studios Bee Movie – DreamWorks Animation Persepolis – Sony Pictures Classics Surf's Up – Sony Pictures Animation The Simpsons Movie – 20th Century Fox Futurama: Bender's Big Score – The Curiosity Company in association with 20th Century Fox Television Doctor Strange – MLG Productions |- | valign="top" width="50%"|
Your Friend the Rat – Pixar Animation Studios Everything Will Be OK – Bitter Films How to Hook Up Your Home Theater – Walt Disney Feature Animation "Mascot Prep" (Shorty McShorts' Shorts) – Walt Disney Television Animation The Chestnut Tree – Picnic Pictures | valign="top" width="50%"|
Escape Average for PowerShares – Acme Filmworks CVS Watering Can – Acme Filmworks Homeowners (Esurance) – Wild Brain Idaho Lottery: Twister – Acme Filmworks Alaska (Oregon Lottery) – Laika/house |- | valign="top" width="50%"|
Creature Comforts America – Aardman Animations Jane and the Dragon – Weta Productions Limited and Nelvana Limited Moral Orel – ShadowMachine "Robot Chicken: Star Wars" – ShadowMachine Kim Possible – Walt Disney Television Animation | valign="top" width="50%"|
El Tigre – Nickelodeon Chowder – Cartoon Network Studios Little Einsteins – Disney Channel Peep and the Big Wide World – Discovery Kids The Backyardigans – Nickelodeon |- | valign="top" width="100%" colspan="2"|
Ratatouille'' – THQ, Inc. Avatar: The Last Airbender – The Burning Earth – THQ, Inc. Bee Movie Game – Activision Transformers: The Game'' – Blur Studios
Individual achievement Winners are listed first, highlighted in boldface, and indicated with a double dagger ().
Deborah Carlson – Surf's Up Gary Bruins – Ratatouille Ryan Laney – Spider-Man 3 James Mansfield – How to Hook Up Your Home Theater Jon Reisch – Ratatouille John Clark – Surf's Up Michael Isaak – Bee Movie Hyun-min Lee – The Chestnut Tree Natasha Liberman – "Creepie and the Candy Factory" (Growing Up Creepie) Jim Worthy – "Meet the Spidermonkeys" (My Gym Partner's a Monkey) Eric Towner – Robot Chicken Elizabeth Harvatine – "Nature" (Part 2) (Moral Orel) Monica Kennedy – El Tigre Michal Makarewicz – Ratatouille Dave Hardin – Surf's Up Alan Hawkins – Surf's Up Jorge R. Gutierrez – "Fistful of Collars" (El Tigre) Carter Goodrich – Ratatouille Sylvain Deboissy – Surf's Up Seth Green – "Robot Chicken: Star Wars" David Hartman – "Turtle's Need for Speed" (My Friends Tigger & Pooh) Raymie Muzquiz – "Gumfight at the S'Okay Corral" (Squirrel Boy) Howy Parkins – "The Emperor's New School Musical" (The Emperor's New School) Gary Trousdale – Shrek the Halls Brad Bird – Ratatouille Ash Brannon and Chris Buck – Surf's Up Chris Miller and Raman Hui – Shrek the Third Vincent Paronnaud and Marjane Satrapi – Persepolis David Silverman – The Simpsons Movie Alf Clausen and Michael Price – "Yokel Chords" (The Simpsons) Evan Lurie, Robert Scull and Steven Bernstein – "International Super Spy" (The Backyardigans) Drew Neumann and Gregory Hinde – Billy & Mandy's Big Boogey Adventure Shawn Patterson – "Yellow Pantera" (El Tigre) James L. Venable and Jennifer Kes Remington – "The Bloo Suerdude and the Magic Potato of Power!" (Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends) Michael Giacchino – Ratatouille Olivier Bernet – Persepolis Danny Elfman, Rufus Wainwright and Rob Thomas – Meet the Robinsons Rupert Gregson-Williams – Bee Movie Amy Powers, Russ DeSalvo and Jeff Danna – Disney Princess Enchanted Tales Harley Jessup – Ratatouille Doug Chiang – Beowulf Marcelo Vignali – Surf's Up Steve Fonti – "No Chris Left Behind" (Family Guy) Ben Balistreri – "Torrent of Terror" (Danny Phantom) Aldin Baroza – "London Calling" (The Replacements) Dave Bennett – Tom and Jerry Tales Roy Meurin – "Good Night to Pooh" (My Friends Tigger & Pooh) Ted Mathot – Ratatouille Don Hall – Meet the Robinsons Denise Koyama – Surf's Up Sean Song – TMNT Nassos Vakalis – Bee Movie Eartha Kitt – Yzma – "The Emperor's New School Musical" (The Emperor's New School) Scott Adsit – Clay Puppington – Moral Orel Madison Davenport – Sophianna – Christmas Is Here Again Tom Kenny – SpongeBob SquarePants – "Spy Buddies" (SpongeBob SquarePants) Eddie Murphy – Donkey – Shrek the Halls Ian Holm – Skinner – Ratatouille Janeane Garofalo – Colette Tatou – Ratatouille Julie Kavner – Marge Simpson – The Simpsons Movie Patton Oswalt – Remy – Ratatouille Patrick Warburton – Ken – Bee Movie Ian Maxtone-Graham and Billy Kimball – "24 Minutes" (The Simpsons) C. H. Greenblatt and William Reiss – "Burple Nurples" (Chowder) Gene Grillo – "Cowman and Ratboy" (Back at the Barnyard) Christopher Painter – "I Only Have Eye For You" (Squirrel Boy) Tom Sheppard – "The Butt of the Jake" (My Gym Partner's a Monkey Brad Bird – Ratatouille James L. Brooks, Matt Groening, Al Jean, Ian Maxtone-Graham, George Meyer, David Mirkin, Mike Reiss, Mike Scully, Matt Selman, John Swartzwelder and Jon Vitti – The Simpsons Movie Don Rhymer, Ash Brannon, Chris Buck and Christopher Jenkins – Surf's Up Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud – Persepolis
Juried awards Winsor McCay Award — John Canemaker, Glen Keane and John Kricfalusi June Foray Award — Jerry Beck Ub Iwerks Award — Jonathan Gay, Gary Grossman and Robert Tatsumi – Creators of Adobe Flash. Special Achievement — Edwin R. Leonard – Promoting the use of Linux in animation studios and video game development. Certificate of Merit — Marcus Adams, Joseph Baptista, Steve Gattuso, Jon Reeves, Gemma Ross and Woodbury University
Media with multiple nominations and awards
The following eighteen films and TV series received multiple nominations:
Nominations Medium 13 Ratatouille 10 Surf's Up 5 Bee Movie4 El Tigre Persepolis The Simpsons3 Moral Orel Robot Chicken2 The Backyardigans The Chestnut Tree Chowder The Emperor's New School How to Hook Up Your Home Theater Meet the Robinsons My Friends Tigger & Pooh My Gym Partner's a Monkey Shrek the Halls Squirrel Boy
The following five films and TV series received multiple awards:
Awards Medium 9 Ratatouille2 El Tigre Robot Chicken The Simpsons Surf's Up
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