The 47th ceremony of the Annie Awards, honoring excellence in the field of animation for the year of 2019, took place on January 25, 2020, at the University of California, Los Angeles's Royce Hall in Los Angeles, California, in 37 categories.
Productions Categories On December 2, 2019, the nominations were announced. Frozen 2 and Missing Link earned the most number of nominations with 8, followed by Klaus with 7, which won all of the awards for which it was nominated. Best Animated FeatureBest Animated Feature — Independent Klaus — Sergio Pablos Animation Studios How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World — DreamWorks Animation Frozen 2 — Walt Disney Animation Studios Missing Link — Laika Toy Story 4 — Pixar Animation Studios I Lost My Body — Xilam Animation Buñuel in the Labyrinth of the Turtles — Sygnatia, Glow, Submarine Hampa Animation Studio Okko's Inn — Madhouse Promare — TRIGGER, XFLAG Weathering with You — Toho Co., LTD. / STORY Inc. / CoMix Wave FilmsBest Animated Special ProductionBest Animated Short SubjectHow to Train Your Dragon Homecoming — DreamWorks Animation Guava Island Titles and Prologue — Six Point Harness / Amazon Infinity Train The Perennial Child — Cartoon Network Studios SpongeBob SquarePants SpongeBob's Big Birthday Blowout — Nickelodeon and Jonas & Co Zog — Magic Light PicturesUncle Thomas: Accounting for the Days — Ciclope Filmes, National Film Board of Canada, Les Armateurs Acid Rain — Animoon DONT KNOW WHAT — Thomas Renoldner Je sors acheter des cigarettes — Miyu Productions Purpleboy — Bando à Parte, Rainbox Productions, Ambiances... asbl, Luna Blue FilmBest Virtual Reality ProductionBest Animated Television/Broadcast CommercialBonfire — Baobab Studios GLOOMY EYES — ATLAS V Kaiju Confidential — ShadowMachineThe Mystical Journey of Jimmy Page's ‘59 Telecaster — Nexus Studios Dove Self-Esteem Project x Steven Universe: “Social Media” — Cartoon Network / Dove / Chromosphere Fortnite Season 7 Launch Spot — Epic Games / Screen Novelties / iam8bitBest Animated Television/Broadcast Production for Preschool ChildrenBest Animated Television/Broadcast Production for ChildrenAsk the StoryBots — JibJab Bros. Studios for Netflix Elena of Avalor — Disney Television Animation Let's Go Luna! — Brown Bag Films / 9 Story Media Group Norman Picklestripes — Factory Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum — Brown Bag Films / 9 Story Media GroupMickey Mouse — Disney Television Animation / Disney Channel Niko and the Sword of Light — Titmouse, Inc. / Amazon Studios Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles — Nickelodeon Animation Studio 3Below: Tales of Arcadia — DreamWorks Animation The Tom and Jerry Show — Warner Bros. AnimationBest General Audience Animated Television/Broadcast ProductionBest Student FilmBoJack Horseman — Tornante Productions, LLC for Netflix Big Mouth — Netflix Harley Quinn — Warner Bros. Animation Tuca & Bertie — Tornante Productions, LLC for Netflix Undone — Tornante Company and Amazon StudiosThe Fox & The Pigeon — Michelle Chua, Sheridan College Con Fuerza — Andrés Eduardo and Alejandro M. Siegert, Savannah College of Art and Design Gravedad — Matisse Gonzalez and Toufik Abdedaim, Matisse Gonzalez, Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg GmbH Animationsinstitut Un diable dans la poche — Antoine BONNET & Mathilde LOUBES, GOBELINS, l'école de l'image
Individual achievement categories Outstanding Achievement for Animated Effects in an Animated Television/Broadcast ProductionOutstanding Achievement for Animated Effects in an Animated Production Viktor Németh, Szabolcs Illés, Ádám Sipos, Vladimir Zhovna – Love, Death & Robots – Blur Studio / Netflix Studios Manuel Reyes Halaby, Cristiana Covone, Koya Masubuchi, Jean Claude Nouchy, Dustin Henning – How to Train Your Dragon: Homecoming – DreamWorks Animation Stéphane Coëdel, Natan Moura – My Moon – Eusong Lee, Co-produced with Chromosphere Araiza Tokumasu Naoki – Star Wars Galaxy of Adventures – Lucasfilm / Titmouse, Inc Greg Lev, Igor Lodeiro, Chen Ling, Brandon Tyra – 3Below: Tales of Arcadia – DreamWorks AnimationBenjamin Fiske, Alex Moaveni, Jesse Erickson, Dimitre Berberov, Kee Nam Suong – Frozen 2 – Walt Disney Animation Studios Amaury Aubel, James Jackson, Domin Lee, Michael Losure, Alex Timchenko – Abominable – DreamWorks Animation Eric Wachtman, David Horsley, Peter Stuart, Timur Khodzhaev, Joe Strasser – Missing Link – Laika Alexis Angelidis, Amit Ganapati Baadkar, Greg Gladstone, Kylie Wijsmuller, Matthew Kiyoshi Wong – Toy Story 4 – Pixar Animation Studios Hidetsugu Ito, Yuko Nakajima, Jumi Lee, Ryosuke Tsuda – Weathering with You – Toho / CoMix Wave FilmsOutstanding Achievement for Character Animation in an Animated Television / Broadcast ProductionOutstanding Achievement for Character Animation in an Animated Feature Production Aulo Licinio – His Dark Materials – BBC Studios Chris O'Hara – Ask the StoryBots – JibJab Bros. Studios for Netflix Juliane Martin – Rapunzel's Tangled Adventure – Disney Television Animation / Disney Channel Andrew Muir – How to Train Your Dragon Homecoming – DreamWorks Animation Scott DaRos – Robot Chicken – Stoopid Buddy Stoodios Sergio Martins – Klaus — Netflix Andrew Ford – Frozen 2 – Walt Disney Animation Studios Dane Stogner – How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World – DreamWorks Animation Rani Naamani – How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World – DreamWorks Animation Rachelle Lambden – Missing Link – LaikaOutstanding Achievement for Character Animation in a Live Action ProductionOutstanding Achievement for Character Animation in a Video Game Sidney Kombo-Kintombo – Avengers: Endgame – Marvel Studios Michael Cozens – Alita: Battle Angel – 20th Century Fox Jason Snyman, Sheik Ghafoor, Maia Neubig, Michael Siegel, Cheri Fojtik – Game of Thrones - "The Long Night" - Dance of the Dragons – HBO Dale Newton, Waiyin Mendoza, Rochelle Flynn, Leila Gaed, Paul Jones – Pokémon Detective Pikachu — Legendary Pictures / The Pokémon Company Steven Argula – Spider-Man: Far From Home – Marvel Studios Sebastien Parodi, Nicolas Leger – Unruly Heroes — Unity Brian Whitmire – Gears 5 - Cinematic Animation – Unreal Engine 4 Munenori Shinagawa, Kayoko Yajima, Koji Hamada, Koji Inoue – Kingdom Hearts III – Square Enix Tommy Rodricks, Natan Moura, Nelson Boles – Sinclair Snake: Museum Mischief – Chromosphere / WithinOutstanding Achievement for Character Design in an Animated Television / Broadcast ProductionOutstanding Achievement for Character Design in an Animated Feature Production Keiko Murayama – Carmen Sandiego – Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing and WildBrain for Netflix Lauren Faust – DC Super Hero Girls – Warner Bros. Animation John Jagusak – T.O.T.S. – Titmouse, Inc. / Disney Junior Chris Mitchell – The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle – DreamWorks Animation Fabien Mense – Victor and Valentino – Cartoon Network Studios Torsten Schrank – Klaus — Netflix Nico Marlet – Abominable – DreamWorks Animation Bill Schwab – Frozen 2 – Walt Disney Animation Studios José Manuel Fernández Oli – Spies in Disguise — Blue Sky Studios Craig Kellman – The Addams Family – Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures Outstanding Achievement for Directing in an Animated Television / Broadcast ProductionOutstanding Achievement for Directing in an Animated Feature Production Alonso Ramirez Ramos – Mickey Mouse – Disney Television Animation / Disney Channel Jeff Gill – Ask the StoryBots – JibJab Bros. Studios for Netflix Natalie Wetzig – DC Super Hero Girls — Warner Bros. Animation Masahito Kobayashi – Rilakkuma and Kaoru — Dwarf for Netflix Kenji Kamiyama, Shinji Aramaki – Ultraman – Production I.G, SOLA Digital Arts for Netflix Sergio Pablos – Klaus — Netflix Jennifer Lee, Chris Buck – Frozen 2 – Walt Disney Animation Studios Jérémy Clapin – I Lost My Body – Xilam for Netflix Chris Butler – Missing Link – Laika Makoto Shinkai – Weathering with You – Toho / CoMix Wave FilmsOutstanding Achievement for Music in an Animated Television / Broadcast ProductionOutstanding Achievement for Music in an Animated Feature Production Rob Cairns – Love, Death & Robots – Blur Studio / Netflix Studios Jared Lee Gosselin, Steve D'Angelo, Lorenzo Castelli – Carmen Sandiego – Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing and WildBrain for Netflix Carl Thiel – Seis Manos – VIZ Media / Powerhouse Animation Studios Sunna Wehrmeijer – She-Ra and the Princesses of Power – DreamWorks Animation Vivek Maddala – The Tom and Jerry Show – Warner Bros. Animation Dan Levy – I Lost My Body – Xilam for Netflix Gints Zilbalodis – AWAY – Dream Well Studios Christophe Beck, Frode Fjellheim, Kristen Anderson-Lopez, Robert Lopez – Frozen 2 – Walt Disney Animation Studios Mark Ronson, Theodore Shapiro – Spies in Disguise – Blue Sky Studios Randy Newman – Toy Story 4 – Pixar Animation StudiosOutstanding Achievement for Production Design in an Animated Television / Broadcast ProductionOutstanding Achievement for Production Design in an Animated Feature Production Alberto Mielgo – Love, Death & Robots – Blur Studio / Netflix Studios Eastwood Wong, Sylvia Liu, Elaine Lee, Linda Fong, Emily Paik – Carmen Sandiego – Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing and WildBrain for Netflix Alan Bodner, Brian Woods, Steven Nickodemus, Laura Price, Leonard Robledo – Rapunzel's Tangled Adventure – Disney Television Animation / Disney Channel Khang Le, Chris Fisher, Gael Bertrand, Deodato Pangandoyon, Howard Chen – Mao Mao: Heroes of Pure Heart – Cartoon Network Studios / Titmouse, Inc. Chris Mitchell, Chris Turnham, Tor Aunet, DanBob Thompson, Aaron Spurgeon – The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle – DreamWorks Animation Szymon Biernacki, Marcin Jakubowski – Klaus — Netflix Max Boas, Paul Duncan, Christopher Brock, Cecline Da Hyeu Kim, Jane Li – Abominable – DreamWorks Animation Pierre-Olivier Vincent, Kirsten Kawamura, Woonyoung Jung, Iuri Lioi, Philippe Brochu – How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World – DreamWorks Animation Nelson Lowry, Santiago Montiel, Trevor Dalmer – Missing Link – Laika Patricia Atchison, Maisha Moore, Chris Souza, Jack Yu – The Addams Family – Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures Outstanding Achievement for Storyboarding in an Animated Television / Broadcast ProductionOutstanding Achievement for Storyboarding in an Animated Feature Production Kenny Park – Carmen Sandiego – Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing and WildBrain for Netflix Shinichiro Watanabe – Carole & Tuesday – Bones for Netflix Owen Sullivan – Love, Death & Robots – Blur Studio / Netflix Studios Riccardo Durante – Snoopy in Space – Apple Inc. Max Lang – Zog – Magic Light Pictures Sergio Pablos – Klaus — Netflix Julien Bisaro – I Lost My Body – Xilam for Netflix Jérémy Clapin – I Lost My Body – Xilam for Netflix Julián Nariño – Missing Link – Laika Oliver Thomas – Missing Link – LaikaOutstanding Achievement for Voice Acting in an Animated Television / Broadcast ProductionOutstanding Achievement for Voice Acting in an Animated Feature Production H. Jon Benjamin – Bob's Burgers — 20th Century Fox / Bento Box Entertainment Marieve Herington – Big City Greens – Disney Television Animation / Disney Channel Sarah Stiles – Steven Universe – Cartoon Network Studios Debi Derryberry – Tigtone — Titmouse, Inc. / Babyhemyth Productions / Williams Street Ali Wong – Tuca & Bertie – Tornante Productions, LLC for Netflix Josh Gad – Frozen 2 – Walt Disney Animation Studios Tenzing Norgay Trainor – Abominable – DreamWorks Animation Richard Horvitz – Invader Zim: Enter the Florpus – CJ Entertainment and Nickelodeon Animation Studio for Netflix Jenny Slate – The Secret Life of Pets 2 — Illumination Tony Hale – Toy Story 4 – Pixar Animation StudiosOutstanding Achievement for Writing in an Animated Television / Broadcast ProductionOutstanding Achievement for Writing in an Animated Feature Production Shauna McGarry – Tuca & Bertie – Tornante Productions, LLC for Netflix