The 44th Annual Annie Awards honoring excellence in the field of animation of 2016 took place on February 4, 2017, at the University of California, Los Angeles's Royce Hall in Los Angeles, California, presenting in 36 categories.
Production categories On November 28, 2016, the nominations for Annie Awards were announced. Zootopia earned the most number of nominations with 11, followed by Kubo and the Two Strings with 10.
Best Animated FeatureBest Animated Special Production Zootopia – Walt Disney Animation Studios Finding Dory – Pixar Kubo and the Two Strings – Laika Kung Fu Panda 3 – DreamWorks Animation Moana – Walt Disney Animation Studios Pear Cider and Cigarettes – Massive Swerve Studios and Passion Pictures Animation Audrie & Daisy – A production of AfterImage Public Media in association with Actual Films for Netflix Kung Fu Panda: Secrets of the Scroll – DreamWorks Animation Little Big Awesome – Titmouse, Inc and Amazon Studios Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life – CBS Films/J.P. Entertainment/Participant MediaBest Animated Short SubjectBest Animated TV/Broadcast Commercial Piper – Pixar Blind Vaysha – National Film Board of Canada Deer Flower – Studio ZAZAC Path Title Sequence – Acme Filmworks Pearl – Google Spotlight Stories/Evil Eye Pictures Loteria 'Night Shift' – Passion Pictures Ltd Duelyst – Powerhouse Animation Studios, Inc. Lego Star Wars: The Force Awakens Trailer – Plastic Wax Lily & the Snowman – Hornet The Importance of Paying Attention: Teeth – Bill Plympton StudioBest General Audience Animated TV/Broadcast Production For Preschool ChildrenBest Animated TV/Broadcast Production For Children's Audience Tumble Leaf – Episode: Mighty Mud Movers / Having a Ball – Amazon Studios and Bix Pix Entertainment Ask the StoryBots – Episode: Why Do I Have to Brush My Teeth? – JibJab Bros. Studios for Netflix Peg + Cat – Episode: The Disappearing Art – Problem – The Fred Rogers Company/9ate7 Productions Puffin Rock – The First Snow – Episode: 59 – Cartoon Saloon, Dog Ears, Penguin Random House The Stinky & Dirty Show – Episode: Squeak – Amazon Studios and Brown Bag Films Adventure Time – Episode: Bad Jubies – Bix Pix Entertainment, Cartoon Network, Frederator Studios DreamWorks Voltron: Legendary Defender – Episode: Return of the Gladiator – DreamWorks Animation Elena of Avalor – Episode: A Day to Remember – Disney Television Animation Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles – Episode: Trans-Dimensional Turtles – Nickelodeon Wander Over Yonder – Episode: My Fair Hatey – Disney Television AnimationBest General Audience Animated TV/Broadcast ProductionBest Animated Feature — Independent Bob's Burgers – Episode: Glued, Where's My Bob? – Bento Box Entertainment BoJack Horseman – Episode: Fish Out of Water – Tornante Productions, LLC for Netflix Long Live the Royals – Episode: Punk Show – Cartoon Network Studios The Simpsons – Episode: Barthood – Gracie Films in Association with 20th Century Fox Television The Venture Bros. – Episode: Hostile Makeover – Titmouse, Inc. The Red Turtle – Studio Ghibli, Wild Bunch, Why Not Productions Long Way North – Produced by Sacrebleu Productions, Maybe Movies, Norlum Studios, France 3 Cinéma and 2 Minutes Miss Hokusai – Production I.G My Life as a Zucchini – Rita Productions, Blue Spirit Productions, Gebeka Films, KNM Your Name – CoMix Wave FilmsBest Student Film Citipati – Filmakademie Baden-Wuerttemberg FISHWITCH – Adrienne Dowling The Abyss – Liying Huang The Wrong End of the Stick – Terri Matthews Twiddly Things – Adara Todd
Individual achievement categories Outstanding Achievement, Animated Effects in an Animated ProductionOutstanding Achievement, Animated Effects in a Live Action ProductionMarlon West, Erin V. Ramos, Blair Pierpont, Ian J. Coony and John M. Kosnik – Moana – Walt Disney Animation Studios David Horsley, Eric Wachtman, Timur Khodzhaev, Daniel Leatherdale and Terrance Tomberg – Kubo and the Two Strings – LAIKA Matt Titus, Jeff Budsberg, Carl Hooper, Louis Flores and Jason Mayer – Kung Fu Panda 3 – DreamWorks Animation Mouloud Oussid – The Red Turtle – Studio Ghibli, Wild Bunch and Why Not Productions Thom Wickes, Henrik Fält, Dong Joo Byun, Rattanin Sirinaruemarn and Sam Klock – Zootopia – Walt Disney Animation StudiosGeorg Kaltenbrunner, Michael Marcuzzi, Thomas Bevan, Andrew Graham and Jihyun Yoon – Doctor Strange – Mirror Dimension – Marvel Studios Raul Essig, Mark Chataway, George Kuruvilla and Mihai Cioroba – Deepwater Horizon – The Rig – Lionsgate Terry Bannon, Nicholas Tripodi, Daniel Fotheringham, Matt Weaver and Julien Boudou – Ghostbusters – Iloura Claude Schitter, Benjaman Folkman, Gary Boyle, David Caeiro and Luke Millar – The BFG – Amblin Entertainment and Walt Disney Pictures John Hansen, George Kuruvilla, Alexis Hall, Gordon Chapman and Ben O’Brien – Warcraft – Magic – Legendary/Universal Outstanding Achievement, Character Animation in an Animated Television/Broadcast ProductionOutstanding Achievement, Character Animation in a Feature ProductionMike Chaffe – DreamWorks Trollhunters – Episode: Becoming, Part 1 – DreamWorks Animation Television Barry Kennedy – Atomic Puppet – Mercury Filmworks, Gaumont Animation and Technicolor Rob Thomson – The Snowy Day – Amazon Studios and Karrot Entertainment Dan MacKenzie – Tumble Leaf – Episode: Thinking Outside The Hoop / Fig's Hay- Maze-ing Wander – Amazon Studios and Bix Pix Entertainment Joe Heinen – Tumble Leaf – Episode: Mighty Mud Movers / Having A Ball – Amazon Studios and Bix Pix EntertainmentJan Maas – Kubo and the Two Strings – LAIKA Erick Oh – Finding Dory – Pixar Ludovic Bouancheau – Kung Fu Panda 3 – DreamWorks Animation Dave Hardin – Zootopia – Walt Disney Animation Studios Chad Sellers – Zootopia – Walt Disney Animation Studios Outstanding Achievement, Character Animation in a Live Action ProductionOutstanding Achievement, Character Animation in a Video GameAndrew R. Jones, Peta Bayley, Gabriele Zucchelli and Benjamin Jones – The Jungle Book – Walt Disney Pictures Steve Rawlins, Ebrahim Jahromi, Cedric Lo, Stephen King and Yair Gutierrez – Captain America: Civil War – Spider-Man – Marvel Studios Nicholas Tripodi, Dean Elliott, James Hollingworth and Matt Weaver – Game of Thrones – Battle of the Bastards – Series 6 Episode 9 – HBO Andrew R. Jones, Paul Story, Dennis Yoo, Eteuati Tema and Andrei Coval – The Jungle Book – Walt Disney Pictures Hal Hickel, Jee Young Park, Kai-Hua Lan, Cedric Lo and KimHuat Ooi – Warcraft – Orcs – Legendary/UniversalJeremy Yates, Almudena Soria, Eric Baldwin, Paul Davies, Tom Bland – Uncharted 4: A Thief's End – Naughty Dog Lucio Mennillo, Martine Quesnel, Alexandre Cheff, Laura Gorrie and Guillaume Charrin – Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Legends – Ludia Inc. Ranon Sarono, Shawn Wilson, Mark Grigsby, Paul Messerly and Moy Parra – Titanfall 2 – Respawn Entertainment Sebastian Kalemba – The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – Expansion Packs – CD Projekt Red Outstanding Achievement, Character Design in an Animated TV/Broadcast ProductionOutstanding Achievement, Character Design in an Animated Feature ProductionVictor Maldonado, Alfredo Torres and Jules Rigolle – DreamWorks Trollhunters – Episode: Win, Lose or Draal – DreamWorks Animation Television Raphaël Chabassol – Counterfeit Cat – Episode: 28 Seconds Later – Tricon Kids & Family and Wildseed Kids Jennifer Wood – Pig Goat Banana Cricket – Episode: It's Time to Slumber Party – Nickelodeon Robin Davey – Rain or Shine – Google Spotlight Stories/Nexus Studios Benjamin Balistreri – Wander Over Yonder – Episode: The Night Out – Disney Television AnimationCory Loftis – Zootopia – Walt Disney Animation Studios Shannon Tindle – Kubo and the Two Strings – LAIKA Bill Schwab and Jin Kim – Moana – Walt Disney Animation Studios Eric Guillon – The Secret Life of Pets – Illumination Entertainment Tim Lamb and Craig Kellman – Trolls – DreamWorks Animation Outstanding Achievement, Directing in an Animated TV/Broadcast ProductionOutstanding Achievement, Directing in an Animated Feature ProductionPatrick Osborne – Pearl – Google Spotlight Stories/Evil Eye Pictures Saschka Unseld – A Love Story – Passion Pictures Kirsten Lepore – Adventure Time – Episode: Bad Jubies – Cartoon Network Studios David Feiss – Open Season: Scared Silly – Episode: Open Season: Scared Silly – Sony Pictures Animation Dave Thomas, Eddie Trigueros and Justin Nichols – Wander Over Yonder – Episode: My Fair Hatey – Disney Television AnimationByron Howard and Rich Moore – Zootopia – Walt Disney Animation Studios Travis Knight – Kubo and the Two Strings – LAIKA Claude Barras – My Life as a Zucchini – Rita Productions, Blue Spirit Productions, Gebeka Films and KNM Michael Dudok de Wit – The Red Turtle – Studio Ghibli, Wild Bunch and Why Not Productions Makoto Shinkai – Your Name – CoMix Wave FilmsOutstanding Achievement, Music in an Animated TV/Broadcast ProductionOutstanding Achievement, Music in an Animated Feature ProductionScot Stafford, Alexis Harte and JJ Wiesler – Pearl – Google Spotlight Stories/Evil Eye Pictures Loren Bouchard and John Dylan Keith – Bob's Burgers – Episode: Glued, Where's My Bob? – Bento Box Entertainment Christopher Willis – Mickey Mouse – Episode: Dancevidaniya – Disney Television Animation Alexandre Desplat and Tim Davies – DreamWorks Trollhunters – Episode: Becoming, Part 1 – DreamWorks Animation Television Kevin Kiner – Star Wars Rebels – Episode: #2–24: Twilight of the Apprentice – Lucasfilm Ltd. / Disney XDHans Zimmer, Richard Harvey and Camille – The Little Prince – Netflix and On Animation Studios Kristopher Carter, Lolita Ritmanis and Michael McCuistion – Batman: Return of the Caped Crusaders – Warner Bros. Animation Joby Talbot – Sing – Illumination Entertainment Laurent Perez del Mar – The Red Turtle – Studio Ghibli, Wild Bunch and Why Not Productions Alexandre Desplat – The Secret Life of Pets – Illumination EntertainmentOutstanding Achievement, Production Design in an Animated TV/Broadcast ProductionOutstanding Achievement, Production Design in an Animated Feature ProductionTuna Bora – Pearl – Google Spotlight Stories/Evil Eye Pictures Jason Kolowski – Adventure Time – Episode: Bad Jubies – Bix Pix Entertainment, Cartoon Network and Frederator Studios Lily Bernard – Puffin Rock – Episode: The First Snow – Cartoon Saloon, Dog Ears and Penguin – Netflix Robin Davey – Rain or Shine – Google Spotlight Stories/Nexus Studios Kevin Dart, Sylvia Liu, Chris Turnham and Eastwood Wong – The Mr. Peabody & Sherman Show – Episode: The Wrath of Hughes – DreamWorks Animation TelevisionNelson Lowry, Trevor Dalmer, August Hall and Ean McNamara – Kubo and the Two Strings – LAIKA Raymond Zibach and Max Boas – Kung Fu Panda 3 – DreamWorks Animation Lou Romano, Alexander Juhasz and Celine Desrumaux – The Little Prince – Netflix and On Animation Studio Kendal Cronkhite and Tim Lamb – Trolls – DreamWorks Animation David Goetz and Matthias Lechner – Zootopia – Walt Disney Animation Studios Outstanding Achievement, Storyboarding in an Animated TV/Broadcast ProductionOutstanding Achievement, Storyboarding in an Animated Feature ProductionHyunjoo Song – DreamWorks Trollhunters – Episode: Win, Lose or Draal – DreamWorks Animation Television Kyle Marshall – Atomic Puppet – Episode: Sick Day – Mercury Filmworks, Gaumont Animation and Technicolor Heiko Von Drengenberg – Mickey Mouse – Episode: Road Hogs – Disney Television Animation Dan Povenmire and Kyle Menke – Milo Murphy's Law – Episode: Going the Extra Milo – Disney Television Animation Ben Juwono – The Adventures of Puss in Boots – Episode: Prey Time – DreamWorks Animation TelevisionDean Wellins – Zootopia – Walt Disney Animation Studios Trevor Jimenez – Finding Dory – Pixar Mark Garcia – Kubo and the Two Strings – LAIKA Normand Lemay – Moana – Walt Disney Animation Studios