Disney/Pixar's Ratatouille cleaned up at this year's Annie awards, taking 10 statues including the coveted Best Animated Feature award.
This means the Brad Bird movie has a better-than-average chance of taking home the Oscar for Best Animated Feature Film on February 14th. The Annies have successfully predicted the Oscar winner for five out of the six years that the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has run the Best Animated Feature Film category. The only aberration was last year: The Annies honoured Disney/Pixar's Cars, while AMPAS picked Warner Bros' Happy Feet.
Ian Holm (Skinner) even won the Best Voice Acting honours over his Ratatouille castmates Patton Oswalt (Rémy) and Janeane Garofalo (Colette).
The big surprise was that the associated animated short, Your Friend the Rat, even beat Disney's return to animated shorts with the Goofy vehicle How to Hook Up Your Home Theater.
Surf's Up Takes Animated Effects, Animation Production Artist
The only flick that prevented Ratatouille from making a clean sweep of every category it was nominated for was the Sony Pictures Animation film Surf's Up. It captured two Annies, including Animated Effects for Deborah Carlson, and Animated Production Artist for John Clark.
Here is the list of the Animated Feature Film categories and nominees, with the winners highlighted:
Best Animated Feature
- Winner: Ratatouille - Pixar Animation Studios
- Bee Movie - DreamWorks Animation
- Persepolis - Sony Pictures Classics
- Surf's Up - Sony Pictures Animation
- The Simpsons Movie - Twentieth Century Fox
Best Animated Short Subject
- Winner: Your Friend the Rat - Pixar Animation Studios
- Everything Will Be OK - Bitter Films
- How to Hook Up Your Home Theater - Walt Disney Feature Animation
- Shorty McShorts' Shorts "Mascot Prep" - Walt Disney Television Animation
- The Chestnut Tree - Picnic Pictures
Best Animated Video Game
- Winner: Ratatouille - THQ, Inc.
- Avatar: The Last Airbender "The Burning Earth" - THQ, Inc.
- Bee Movie Game - Activision
- Transformers: The Game - Blur Studios
Animated Effects
- Winner: Deborah Carlson - Surf's Up - Sony Pictures Animation
- Gary Bruins - Ratatouille - Pixar Animation Studios
- Ryan Laney - Spider-Man 3 - Sony Pictures Imageworks
- James Mansfield - How to Hook Up Your Home Theater - Walt Disney Feature Animation
- Jon Reisch - Ratatouille - Pixar Animation Studios
Animation Production Artist
- Winner: John Clark - Surf's Up - Sony Pictures Animation
- Michael Isaak - Bee Movie - DreamWorks Animation
- Hyun-Min Lee - The Chestnut Tree - Picnic Pictures
- Natasha Liberman - Growing Up Creepie "Creepie & The Candy Factory" - Taffy Entertainment LLC, Telegrael Teoranta, Discovery Communications Inc., SunWoo Entertainment, Peach Blossom Media
- Jim Worthy - My Gym Partner's A Monkey "Meet the Spidermonkeys" - Cartoon Network Studios
Character Animation in a Feature Production
- Winner: Michal Makarewicz - Ratatouille - Pixar Animation Studios
- Dave Hardin - Surf's Up - Sony Pictures Animation
- Alan Hawkins - Surf's Up - Sony Pictures Animation
Character Design in an Animated Feature Production
- Winner: Carter Goodrich - Ratatouille - Pixar Animation Studios
- Sylvain Deboissy - Surf's Up - Sony Pictures Animation
Directing in an Animated Feature Production
- Winner: Brad Bird Ratatouille - Pixar Animation Studios
- Ash Brannon & Chris Buck Surf's Up - Sony Pictures Animation
- Chris Miller & Raman Hui - Shrek The Third - DreamWorks Animation
- Vincent Paronnaud & Marjane Satrapi - Persepolis - Sony Pictures Classics
- David Silverman - The Simpsons Movie - Twentieth Century Fox
Music in an Animated Feature Production
- Winner: Michael Giacchino - Ratatouille - Pixar Animation Studios
- Olivier Bernet - Persepolis - Sony Pictures Classics
- Danny Elfman, Rufus Wainwright & Rob Thomas - Meet The Robinsons - Walt Disney Feature Animation
- Rupert Gregson-Williams - Bee Movie - DreamWorks Animation
- Amy Powers, Russ DeSalvo & Jeff Danna - Disney Princess Enchanted Tales - DisneyToon Studios/Walt Disney Video/Disney Enterprises, Inc.
Production Design in an Animated Feature Production
- Winner: Harley Jessup - Ratatouille - Pixar Animation Studios
- Doug Chiang - Beowulf - Paramount Pictures
- Marcelo Vignali - Surf's Up - Sony Pictures Animation
Storyboarding in an Animated Feature Production
- Winner: Ted Mathot - Ratatouille - Pixar Animation Studios
- Don Hall - Meet The Robinsons - Walt Disney Feature Animation
- Denise Koyama - Surf's Up - Sony Pictures Animation
- Sean Song - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - IMAGI Animation Studios
- Nassos Vakalis - Bee Movie - DreamWorks Animation
Voice Acting in an Animated Feature Production
- Winner: Ian Holm - Voice of Skinner - Ratatouille - Pixar Animation Studios
- Janeane Garofalo - Voice of Collette - Ratatouille - Pixar Animation Studios
- Julie Kavner - Voice of Marge Simpson - The Simpsons Movie - Twentieth Century Fox
- Patton Oswalt - Voice of Remy - Ratatouille - Pixar Animation Studios
- Patrick Warburton - Voice of Ken - Bee Movie - DreamWorks Animation
Writing in an Animated Feature Production
- Winner: Brad Bird - Ratatouille - Pixar Animation Studios
- James L. Brooks, Matt Groening, Al Jean, Ian Maxtone-Graham, George Meyer, David, Mirkin, Mike Reiss, Mike Scully, Matt Selman, John Swartzwelder & Jon Vitti - The Simpsons Movie - Twentieth Century Fox
- Don Rhymer and Ash Brannon & Chris Buck & Christopher Jenkins - Surf's Up - Sony Pictures Animation
- Marjane Satrapi & Vincent Paronnaud - Persepolis - Sony Pictures Classics
Dominic von Riedemann - Dominic is the Animated Film Feature Writer, and winner of 11 Suite 101 Editors' Choice Awards.
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