Pixar Animation Studio’s Up has won the prestigious award for Best Animated Feature at the 37th Annual Annie Awards held at UCLA’s Royce Hall. According to Slashfilm the Annie for best animated feature has foretold the eventual Oscar winner every year, except twice, since the Academy Awards first created the category in 2002.
The Annie Awards recognize the year’s best animated features, television productions, commercials, short subjects and outstanding individual achievements in the field of animation. Entries submitted for consideration were from productions that originally aired, were exhibited in an animation festival or commercially released between January 1, 2009 and December 31, 2009.
Top studio wins this year included Walt Disney Animated Studios who won 6 Annies overall, including 3 for its feature The Princess and the Frog and DreamWorks Animation who won 5 Annies including Character Animation/TV and Storyboarding/Feature for Monsters vs. Aliens.
The highest honor to go to an individual in the animation industry, the The Winsor McCay award, was given to Tim Burton, Jeffrey Katzenberg and Bruce Timm.
Do you think Up will win the Oscar for Best Animated Feature?