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Soul and Wolfwalkers Take Top Honors at Annie Awards Terry Flores, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail Pixar’s “Soul” continued its awards season dominance on Friday by winning seven Annie Awards, including feature. The jazzy look at the before-life also won for music (Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross and Jon Batiste), writing (Pete Docter. Mike Jones and Kemp Powers), character animation (Michal Makarewicz), FX (Tolga Göktekin, Carl Kaphan, Hiroaki Narita, Enrique Vila and Kylie Wijsmuller), storyboarding (Trevor Jimenez) and editorial (Kevin Nolting, Gregory Amundson, Robert Grahamjones, Amera Rizk). “Wolfwalkers,” from Irish studio Cartoon Saloon and Melusine Prods. for Apple and GKIDS, took home five Annies, including independent feature. Tomm Moore and Ross Stewart picked up the Annie for feature direction and the film also won for character design (Federico Pirovano), production design (Maria Pareja, Stewart and Moore) and voice acting (Eva Whittake ....
Annies Unveil Juried Animation Awards Sony Pictures Animation Career achievement awards will be presented to Bruce Smith, Willie Ito and posthumously to Sue Nichols. The International Animated Film Society, ASIFA-Hollywood, has announced its juried award recipients for the 48th annual Annie Awards, which will be handed out during a virtual presentation on April 16. Winsor McCay Awards for career contributions to animation will be presented to Willie Ito, an animation designer whose career began at Warner Bros., then continued for 20 years at Hanna Barbera and eventually at Disney TV; posthumously to Sue Nichols, whom ASIFA describes as one of few women who had a voice in the development of films such as ....