ASIFA-Hollywood is presenting the 52nd Annie Awards in a Saturday night ceremony recognizing the year’s best in the field of animation. It is a busy Saturday night with the Annie Awards, DGA Awards, and PGA Awards taking place on the same night. Unlike the PGA and DGA Awards, the Annie Awards streaming live from UCLA’s Royce Hall on YouTube.

Steve Buscemi starts out the show by honoring the local area fire departments after the recent Los Angeles wildfires.

The hall was evacuated due to a fire alarm going off following the announcement of the Best Editorial – TV/Media winner. Following a brief evacuation, the show is resuming with a new YouTube stream.

The Wild Robot and Arcane swept every Annie Awards category in which they were nominated.

Previously announced awards are being presented throughout the evening:

June Forway Award: Women In Animation (WIA)
Ub Iwerks Award: Alberto Menache
Special Achievement Award: Directing at Disney-The Original Directors of Walt’s Animated Films, the historically important new book by Pete Docter and Don Peri
Winsor McKay Awards: Aaron Blaise, Longtime Disney Supervising Animator/Director; Eunice Macaulay (posthumous), National Film Board of Canada (NFB) writer, director, producer and Academy Award influencer; and Normand Roger, influential NFB composer and sound designer

BEST STUDENT FILM

Adiós
Student Director: José Prats
Student Producer: Bernardo Angeletti
School: National Film and Television School

BEST SHORT SUBJECT

Wander to Wonder
Circe Films, Kaap Holland Film, Les Productions de Milou, Beast Animation, Blink Industries & Pictanovo

BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN – TV/MEDIA

Arcane
Episode: The Dirt Under Your Nails
– A Riot Games and Fortiche Production for Netflix
– Arnaud-Loris Baudry, Julien Georgel, Faustine Dumontier, Charlotte O’Neil

BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN – FEATURE

The Wild Robot
DreamWorks Animation
Raymond Zibach, Ritchie Sacilioc

BEST SPECIAL PRODUCTION

Orion and the Dark
DreamWorks Animation

BEST SPONSORED PRODUCTION

Fuzzy Feelings
Passion Pictures Hungry Man

BEST MUSIC – TV/MEDIA

Arcane
Episode: The Dirt Under Your Nails
A Riot Games and Fortiche Production for Netflix
Ryan Jillian Santiago, Alexander Seaver, Simon Wilcox

BEST MUSIC – FEATURE

The Wild Robot
DreamWorks Animation
Kris Bowers

BEST CHARACTER DESIGN – TV/MEDIA

Marvel’s Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur
Episode: The Molecular Level
Disney Television Animation, Cinema Gypsy Productions
Jose Lopez

BEST CHARACTER DESIGN – FEATURE

The Wild Robot
DreamWorks Animation
Genevieve Tsai

BEST CHARACTER ANIMATION – VIDEO GAME

Neva
Nomada Studio
Nomada Studio Animation Team

BEST CHARACTER ANIMATION – LIVE ACTION

Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes
Production Company: 20th Century Studios
FX Production Company: Wētā FX
Christian Kickenweitz, Aidan Martin, Allison Orr, Radiya Alam, Howard Sly

BEST CHARACTER ANIMATION – TV/MEDIA

Arcane
Episodes: Killing Is A Cycle, Heavy Is the Crown, Finally Got the Name Right, The Message Hidden Within the Pattern, The Dirt Under Your Nails, Pretend Like It’s the First Time, Blisters and Bedrock
A Riot Games and Fortiche Production for Netflix
Tom Gouill

BEST CHARACTER ANIMATION – FEATURE

The Wild Robot
DreamWorks Animation
Fabio Lignini

BEST FX – TV/MEDIA

Arcane
Episode: The Dirt Under Your Nails
Production Company: A Riot Games and Fortiche Production for Netflix
FX Production Company: Fortiche Studio
Guillaume Degroote, Aurélien Ressencourt, Adam Bachiri, Guillaume Zaouche, Jérôme Dupré

BEST FX – FEATURE

The Wild Robot
Production Company: DreamWorks Animation
FX Production Company: DreamWorks Animation
Derek Cheung, Michael Losure, David Chow, Nyoung Kim, Steve Avoujageli

BEST EDITORIAL – TV/MEDIA

Arcane
Episode: Pretend Like It’s the First Time
A Riot Games and Fortiche Production for Netflix
Nazim Meslem, Gilad Carmel, Roberto Fernandez

BEST EDITORIAL – FEATURE

The Wild Robot
DreamWorks Animation
Mary Blee, Collin Erker, Orlando Duenas, Lucie Lyon, Brian Parker

BEST VOICE ACTING – TV/MEDIA

Dream Productions
Episode: Out of Body
Pixar Animation Studios
Paula Pell (Character: Paula)

BEST VOICE ACTING – FEATURE

The Wild Robot
DreamWorks Animation
Lupita Nyong’o (Character: Roz)

BEST WRITING – TV/MEDIA

Orion and the Dark
Special Production
DreamWorks Animation
Charlie Kaufman

BEST WRITING – FEATURE

Flow
Take Five, Sacrebleu Productions, Dream Well Studio
Gints Zilbalodis, Matīss Kaža

BEST TV/MEDIA – PRESCHOOL

The Tiny Chef Show
Episode: Tiny Chef’s Spooky Stump Spectacular
Imagine Entertainment, Tiny Chef Productions and Nickelodeon Productions

BEST TV/MEDIA – CHILDREN

Marvel’s Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur
Episode: The Molecular Level
Flying Bark Productions, Disney Television Animation, Disney Branded Television

BEST TV/MEDIA – MATURE

Bob’s Burgers
Episode: They Slug Horses, Don’t They?
20th Television Animation

BEST TV/MEDIA – LIMITED SERIES

Dream Productions
Episode: A Night to Remember
Pixar Animation Studios

BEST STORYBOARDING – TV/MEDIA

Arcane
Episode: Killing is a Cycle
A Riot Games and Fortiche Production for Netflix
Joséphine Meis

BEST STORYBOARDING – FEATURE

Despicable Me 4
Illumination
Habib Louati

BEST DIRECTION – TV/MEDIA

Arcane
Episode: The Dirt Under Your Nails
A Riot Games and Fortiche Production for Netflix
Arnaud Delord, Pascal Charrue, Bart Maunoury

BEST DIRECTION – FEATURE

The Wild Robot
DreamWorks Animation
Chris Sanders

BEST FEATURE – INDEPENDENT

Flow
Sacrebleu Productions, Take Five, Dream Well Studio

BEST FEATURE

The Wild Robot
DreamWorks Animation

The 52nd Annie Awards were held on February 8, 2025.

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