Celebrating the Art, Craft and Business of Animation https://www.awn.com/ en-US 15 Wed, 17 Dec 2025 16:58:57 -0800 Wed, 17 Dec 2025 16:59:32 -0800 https://www.awn.com/news/rsiff-annecy-festival-partner-boost-saudi-animation-industry Deal calls for Saudi animators to participate in MIFA; annual ‘Best of Annecy’ festival to be held at Culture Square; animated Saudi shorts and features to be showcased at Annecy. L'Wren Alexa https://www.awn.com/news/rsiff-annecy-festival-partner-boost-saudi-animation-industry Wed, 17 Dec 2025 16:58:57 PST Annie Awards https://www.awn.com/news/tickets-now-sale-53rd-annie-awards The annual event that recognizes the animation industry’s most talented artists and projects returns to UCLA’s Royce Hall on Saturday, February 21, 2026. Dan Sarto https://www.awn.com/news/tickets-now-sale-53rd-annie-awards Mon, 17 Nov 2025 11:51:10 PST Annie Awards https://www.awn.com/news/call-entries-53rd-annie-awards Submissions run through November 9; next year’s ceremony is set for February 21, 2026 at UCLA’s Royce Hall. Dan Sarto https://www.awn.com/news/call-entries-53rd-annie-awards Mon, 04 Aug 2025 16:19:56 PDT Annie Awards https://www.awn.com/news/asifa-hollywood-announces-53rd-annie-awards-dates The annual celebration of excellence in animation will take place on February 21, 2026, at UCLA’s Royce Hall; the call for entries deadline is August 4, 2025, with discounts offered on early submissions. L'Wren Alexa https://www.awn.com/news/asifa-hollywood-announces-53rd-annie-awards-dates Wed, 28 May 2025 8:42:47 PDT Annie Awards https://www.awn.com/news/asifa-hollywood-animation-industry-leaders-unite-animaid-art-auction The fire relief fundraising campaign will continue through the coming months with goal to raise $5,000,000 in support for over 60 families; a benefit auction this Spring hosted by Sotheby’s will feature original artwork. L'Wren Alexa https://www.awn.com/news/asifa-hollywood-animation-industry-leaders-unite-animaid-art-auction Fri, 14 Feb 2025 10:19:48 PST Annie Awards https://www.awn.com/news/wild-robot-arcane-dominate-52nd-annual-annie-awards Chris Sanders and DreamWorks’ blockbuster feature led the festivities with wins in 9 categories, while Netflix and Riot Games’ fan-favorite series took home 7, in a fun but emotional ceremony dedicated to victims of January’s tragic fires and highlighted by several tributes to LA’s firefighting finest, a real-time fundraiser, and 2 building-clearing false fire alarms. Dan Sarto https://www.awn.com/news/wild-robot-arcane-dominate-52nd-annual-annie-awards Sun, 09 Feb 2025 0:51:35 PST Annie Awards https://www.awn.com/animationworld/awns-annie-awards-roundup-top-contenders-film-and-tv Dig into the roster of animated feature films, TV shows, and shorts vying for wins in 36 different categories on February 8 at ASIFA-Hollywood’s 52nd annual ceremony recognizing the best in animation from the past year. Victoria Davis https://www.awn.com/animationworld/awns-annie-awards-roundup-top-contenders-film-and-tv Fri, 07 Feb 2025 16:06:56 PST Annie Awards https://www.awn.com/animationworld/how-marvels-what-if-took-multiverse-beyond-live-action Concluding with its most ambitious season, EP Brad Winderbaum’s seminal, Emmy and Annie Award-winning show, the studio’s first ever animated series, never failed to capture the limitless and exciting potential of alternate MCU character realities; now streaming on Disney+. Dan Sarto https://www.awn.com/animationworld/how-marvels-what-if-took-multiverse-beyond-live-action Mon, 03 Feb 2025 11:40:25 PST Annie Awards https://www.awn.com/animationworld/crafting-bittersweet-stop-motion-adam-elliots-memoir-snail The Oscar-winning ‘Harvie Krumpet’ director discusses how he’s failed as a filmmaker if audiences aren’t left emotionally wrecked by his latest film about the difficult lives of once inseparable twins forced to live with different families after their father dies; just nominated for an Oscar and two Annie Awards. Trevor Hogg https://www.awn.com/animationworld/crafting-bittersweet-stop-motion-adam-elliots-memoir-snail Tue, 28 Jan 2025 15:51:59 PST Annie Awards https://www.awn.com/news/normand-roger-eunice-macaulay-receive-winsor-mccay-award The legendary artists at the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) will be honored by ASIFA-Hollywood for their career achievements in animation at the 52nd Annie Awards on February 8. L'Wren Alexa https://www.awn.com/news/normand-roger-eunice-macaulay-receive-winsor-mccay-award Wed, 08 Jan 2025 13:12:51 PST Annie Awards https://www.awn.com/news/52nd-annual-annie-award-nominations-announced Best Animated Feature nominees ‘Inside Out 2,’ ‘Kung Fu Panda 4,’ ‘That Christmas,’ ‘The Wild Robot,’ ‘Ultraman: Rising,’ and ‘Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl’ top the expansive list of category nominations; animation’s biggest awards ceremony is scheduled to return live on Saturday, February 8 at UCLA’s Royce Hall. Dan Sarto https://www.awn.com/news/52nd-annual-annie-award-nominations-announced Fri, 20 Dec 2024 8:31:01 PST Annie Awards https://www.awn.com/news/tickets-52nd-annie-awards-now-sale ASIFA-Hollywood’s annual celebration of excellence in animation is set for February 8, 2025 at UCLA’s Royce Hall; tickets include the pre- and post- receptions and ceremony. L'Wren Alexa https://www.awn.com/news/tickets-52nd-annie-awards-now-sale Wed, 20 Nov 2024 10:49:04 PST Annie Awards https://www.awn.com/news/call-entries-annie-awards-2025 Submissions will be accepted for animated productions that were released in the United States between January 1, 2024, and December 31, 2024; entries now being accepted through October 30, 2024. L'Wren Alexa https://www.awn.com/news/call-entries-annie-awards-2025 Tue, 23 Jul 2024 9:04:47 PDT Annie Awards https://www.awn.com/vfxworld/mike-lasker-breaks-down-breakdown-spider-man-across-spider-verse-vfx The visual effects supervisor on Sony Pictures Animation’s Oscar-nominated, VES and Annie Award-winning animated masterpiece discusses how artistic and technical innovations were pushed to the limit to take audiences into visual storytelling realms they’ve never experienced before. Dan Sarto https://www.awn.com/vfxworld/mike-lasker-breaks-down-breakdown-spider-man-across-spider-verse-vfx Fri, 23 Feb 2024 12:07:57 PST Annie Awards https://www.awn.com/animationworld/elemental-little-film-could When director Peter Sohn and Pixar set out to create a 3DCG world in which a fiery young woman found a way to get together with a fun, ‘go-with-the-flow’ guy, they never dreamed it would take quite some time, slowly but surely, through word of mouth, to successfully find a global audience for their film. Victoria Davis https://www.awn.com/animationworld/elemental-little-film-could Tue, 20 Feb 2024 15:49:25 PST Annie Awards https://www.awn.com/news/spider-man-across-spider-verse-leads-all-winners-51st-annie-awards In what may serve as a prelude to the Oscars, Sony Pictures Animation's hit 'Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse' sequel, directed by Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers, and Justin K. Thompson, took home 7 awards, including best animated feature; Netflix's 'Blue Eye Samurai' took home six, including best TV/Media - Mature, while Pablo Berger's 'Robot Dreams' snagged best indie feature, and Dave Mullins' 'WAR IS OVER! Inspired by the Music of John & Yoko' won for best animated short.  Dan Sarto https://www.awn.com/news/spider-man-across-spider-verse-leads-all-winners-51st-annie-awards Sat, 17 Feb 2024 22:50:18 PST Annie Awards https://www.awn.com/animationworld/makoto-shinkai-talks-suzume-dont-give-living The ‘Your Name’ and ‘Weathering with You’ director wants his new Annie Award-nominated film, about a young woman who finds herself opening a series of doors to disaster that take her on a mysterious journey, to inspire people impacted by tragedy to not give up hope.  Victoria Davis https://www.awn.com/animationworld/makoto-shinkai-talks-suzume-dont-give-living Thu, 15 Feb 2024 12:35:45 PST Annie Awards https://www.awn.com/news/51st-annual-annie-award-nominations-announced Best Animated Feature nominees ‘Nimona,’ ‘Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse,’ ‘Suzume,’ ‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem,’ and ‘The Boy and the Heron’ top the expansive list of category nominations; animation’s biggest awards ceremony is scheduled to return live on Saturday, February 17 at UCLA’s Royce Hall. Debbie Diamond Sarto https://www.awn.com/news/51st-annual-annie-award-nominations-announced Thu, 11 Jan 2024 9:55:38 PST Annie Awards https://www.awn.com/news/call-entries-51st-annie-awards ASIFA-Hollywood’s annual celebration of excellence in animation is set for February 17, 2024 at UCLA’s Royce Hall; the early submission deadline is October 16, with final entries accepted through December 8. Debbie Diamond Sarto https://www.awn.com/news/call-entries-51st-annie-awards Mon, 11 Sep 2023 10:34:34 PDT Annie Awards https://www.awn.com/blog/quick-look-boy-mole-fox-and-horse Charlie Mackesy and Peter Baynton’s Annie Award-winning and Oscar-nominated feel-good short film, about the unlikely friendship between a boy, a mole, a fox, and a horse as they explore the meaning of kindness, courage and compassion, brims with comforting, heartwarming messages of hope. Sharon Katz https://www.awn.com/blog/quick-look-boy-mole-fox-and-horse Fri, 03 Mar 2023 9:16:09 PST Annie Awards https://www.awn.com/news/guillermo-del-toros-pinocchio-boy-mole-fox-and-horse-win-big-50th-annie-awards Netflix’s hit stop-motion tale takes home five awards, while the Apple TV+ and BBC short takes home four; 'Love, Death + Robots’ also snags four awards, while ‘Marcel the Shell with Shoes On’ wins 3 at the 50th annual celebration, held Saturday night at Royce Hall on the UCLA campus. Dan Sarto https://www.awn.com/news/guillermo-del-toros-pinocchio-boy-mole-fox-and-horse-win-big-50th-annie-awards Mon, 27 Feb 2023 7:55:44 PST Annie Awards https://www.awn.com/animationworld/flying-sailor-building-nfbs-legacy-women-animators With Oscar-nominated filmmakers Wendy Tilby and Amanda Forbis’ latest animated short, they add to, and benefit from, the organization’s growing support for filmmaking diversity, while celebrating the role of female pioneers like Evelyn Lambart, who’s being honored posthumously with the Winsor McCay Award at this Saturday’s 50th Annie Awards. Victoria Davis https://www.awn.com/animationworld/flying-sailor-building-nfbs-legacy-women-animators Thu, 23 Feb 2023 13:31:15 PST Annie Awards https://www.awn.com/news/50th-annual-annie-award-nominations-announced Best Animated Feature nominees ‘Turning Red,’ ‘Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio,’ ‘Puss in Boots: The Last Wish,’ ‘The Sea Beast,’ and ‘Wendell & Wild’ top the expansive list of category nominations; animation’s biggest awards ceremony is scheduled to return live on Saturday, February 25 at UCLA’s Royce Hall. Dan Sarto https://www.awn.com/news/50th-annual-annie-award-nominations-announced Tue, 17 Jan 2023 9:45:37 PST Annie Awards https://www.awn.com/news/call-entries-50th-annie-awards ASIFA-Hollywood’s celebration honors excellence in animation and returns in-person to UCLA’s Royce Hall in February 2023; entry deadline is December 13. Debbie Diamond Sarto https://www.awn.com/news/call-entries-50th-annie-awards Mon, 12 Sep 2022 15:24:57 PDT Annie Awards https://www.awn.com/news/asifa-international-announces-new-executive-board New members appointed to 3-year terms, an international community of storied animation professionals, include Deanna Morse (U.S.) as president, Thomas Renoldner (Austria) as Secretary General, Anatasia Dimitra (Hellas) as vice president, Johnchill Lee (China) as vice president, and Stefan Stratil (Austria) as Treasurer. Debbie Diamond Sarto https://www.awn.com/news/asifa-international-announces-new-executive-board Wed, 06 Jul 2022 14:47:22 PDT Annie Awards https://www.awn.com/news/2023-annie-awards-set-february-25 50th Annual ceremony, recognizing the best in the field of animation, returns in-person to UCLA’s Royce Hall; Deadlines, Rules, and Categories to be announced September 12. Dan Sarto https://www.awn.com/news/2023-annie-awards-set-february-25 Wed, 01 Jun 2022 11:21:05 PDT Annie Awards https://www.awn.com/news/mitchells-vs-machines-and-arcane-big-winners-49th-annie-awards Sony Pictures Animation’s feature honored in eight categories, while Riot Games and Netflix’s series takes honors in nine; 'Encanto' nabs three awards, with ‘Flee,’ ‘Namoo,’ and ‘Bestia’ also scoring wins at Saturday night’s virtual ceremony. Dan Sarto https://www.awn.com/news/mitchells-vs-machines-and-arcane-big-winners-49th-annie-awards Sun, 13 Mar 2022 7:37:09 PDT Annie Awards https://www.awn.com/animationworld/vicious-places-and-punished-faces-best-short-subject-annie-award-nominees Five outstanding animated works, widely awarded and loved at festivals worldwide, all worthy of taking the top prize at ASIFA-Hollywood’s 49th annual celebration of the best in animation, coming March 12. Chris Robinson https://www.awn.com/animationworld/vicious-places-and-punished-faces-best-short-subject-annie-award-nominees Fri, 11 Mar 2022 6:17:59 PST Annie Awards https://www.awn.com/news/watch-vivo-and-mitchells-vs-machines-making-videos Sony Pictures Imageworks shares some of their great work on the two Netflix CG animated films; MVM was just nominated for a Best Animated Feature Oscar, and both have garnered multiple Annie Award noms. Dan Sarto https://www.awn.com/news/watch-vivo-and-mitchells-vs-machines-making-videos Fri, 11 Feb 2022 8:18:53 PST Annie Awards https://www.awn.com/animationworld/scaling-visual-heights-trollhunters-rise-titans Visual Effects Supervisor Greg Lev and Additional VFX Supervisor Brandon Tyra talk about the challenges and triumphs of working on the Annie Award-nominated concluding chapter of Guillermo del Toro’s epic ‘Tales of Arcadia’ franchise and reflect on the end of a five-year adventure.  Jon Hofferman https://www.awn.com/animationworld/scaling-visual-heights-trollhunters-rise-titans Wed, 09 Feb 2022 15:01:34 PST Annie Awards