The 38th International Animated Film Society’s Annie Awards announced their awards for Best Animated Feature on February 5, 2011. The official press release doesn’t bring up the fact that Disney/Pixar boycotted the awards and refused to participate due to complaints they have about the voting process. Aside from this major issue they also complained about the fact that DreamWorks Animation pays for membership but Disney doesn’t.

How to Train Your Dragon, Day & Night, and the other winners of the 2011 Annie Awards have been announced. The 38th Annual Annie Awards were presented by the Los Angeles, California branch of the International Animated Film Association...Originally designed to celebrate lifetime or career contributions to animation in the fields of producing, directing, animation, design, writing, voice acting, sound and sound effects, etc., in 1992 it began to honour animation as a whole.” The full listing of the winners for the 2011 Annie Awards is below.

The story about Disney and Pixar was that they were questioning the membership criteria for the International Animated Film Society, the one directly involved in granting members who can cast votes for the Annie Awards. Their protest is mainly hinted on how DreamWorks gives every single one of their employees a membership card, which allows a great number of their employees to vote.

Consistently losing out to DreamWorks films a few good years now, Disney and Pixar announced that they would no longer support the International Animated Film Society because of not coming up to an agreement with how the prizes should be awarded.

Although they officially dropped out, the organization made it clear that such doesn't mean that the studios' films wouldn't possibly get recognized. However, the not so good part of it is the fact that there weren't any nominations for their animation workers including the character animators, production designers, story boarders, composers, and other individual achievement categories for Disney and Pixar artists.

This further puts a stir on the sad realization that the companies aren't able to give their employees the opportunity to get recognized and celebrate their own artistic achievements through the Annie Awards. It is quite depressing that the arguments behind the Annie Awards produced its worst victims: the employees of Disney and Pixar. At the very least, the studios' films were still nominated in the top categories; however, the very individuals who made it possible to create the amazing animated works were left out unrecognized.

Here is the full list

PRODUCTION CATEGORIES

Best Animated Feature
How to Train Your Dragon – DreamWorks Animation
Best Animated Short Subject
Day & Night – Pixar
Best Animated Television Commercial
Children’s Medical Center – DUCK Studios
Best Animated Television Production
Kung Fu Panda Holiday – DreamWorks Animation
Best Animated Television Production for Children
SpongeBob SquarePants – Nickelodeon
Best Animated Video Game
Limbo – Playdead

INDIVIDUAL ACHIEVEMENT CATEGORIES

Animated Effects in an Animated Production
Jason Mayer “How To Train Your Dragon” – DreamWorks Animation
Character Animation in a Television Production
David Pate “Kung Fu Panda Holiday” – DreamWorks Animation
Character Animation in a Feature Production
Gabe Hordos “How To Train Your Dragon” – DreamWorks Animation
Character Animation in a Live Action Production
Ryan Page – Alice in Wonderland
Character Design in a Television Production
Ernie Gilbert “T.U.F.F. Puppy” – Nickelodeon
Character Design in a Feature Production
Nico Marlet “How To Train Your Dragon” – DreamWorks Animation
Directing in a Television Production
Tim Johnson “Kung Fu Panda Holiday” – DreamWorks Animation
Directing in a Feature Production
Chris Sanders, Dean DeBlois “How To Train Your Dragon” – DreamWorks Animation
Music in a Television Production
Jeremy Wakefield, Sage Guyton, Nick Carr, Tuck Tucker “SpongeBob SquarePants” – Nickelodeon
Music in a Feature Production
John Powell “How To Train Your Dragon” – DreamWorks Animation
Production Design in a Television Production
Richie Sacilioc “Kung Fu Panda Holiday” – DreamWorks Animation
Production Design in a Feature Production
Pierre Olivier Vincent “How To Train Your Dragon” – DreamWorks Animation
Storyboarding in a Television Production
Fred Gonzales “T.U.F.F. Puppy” – Nickelodeon
Storyboarding in a Feature Production
Tom Owens “How To Train Your Dragon” – DreamWorks Animation
Voice Acting in a Television Production
James Hong as Mr. Ping “Kung Fu Panda Holiday” – DreamWorks Animation
Voice Acting in a Feature Production
Jay Baruchel as Hiccup “How To Train Your Dragon” – DreamWorks Animation
Writing in a Television Production
Geoff Johns, Matthew Beans, Zeb Wells, Hugh Sterbakov, Matthew Senreich, Breckin Meyer, Seth Green, Mike
Writing in a Feature Production
William Davies, Dean DeBlois, Chris Sanders “How to Train Your Dragon” – DreamWorks Animation

JURIED AWARDS

Winsor McCay Award — Brad Bird, Eric Goldberg, Matt Groening
June Foray — Ross Iwamoto
Ub Iwerks Award — Autodesk
Special Achievement — “Waking Sleeping Beauty”

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