# Annie Award for Best Animated Home Entertainment Production

The Annie Award for Best Animated Home Entertainment Production is awarded annually by ASIFA-Hollywood, a non-profit organization that honors contributions to animation, to the best animated direct-to-video film of the year. It is one of the Annie Awards, which honor contributions to animation, including producers, directors, and voice actors. The Annie Awards were created in 1972 by June Foray to honor individual lifetime contributions to animation.

## History

In 1992, the scope of the awards was expanded to honor animation as a whole; the Annie Award for Best Animated Feature was created as a result of this move, and subsequent awards have been created to recognize different contributions to animation. The Annie Award for Best Animated Home Entertainment Production was created in 1995, and has been awarded yearly since. It was originally known as the Annie Award for Best Animated Video Production; the name of the award was changed in 1997 to the Annie Award for Best Home Video Production, was changed again in 1998 to the Annie Award for Outstanding Achievement in an Animated Home Video Production, and was changed in 2002 to the current name. To be eligible for the award, the film must have been released in the year before the next Annie Awards ceremony, and the developers of the game must send a five-minute sample DVD of the film to a committee appointed by the Board of Directors of ASIFA-Hollywood.
As of 2008, the Annie Award for Best Animated Home Entertainment Production has been awarded to thirteen direct-to-video films. The Gate to the Mind’s Eye, a film in the Mind's Eye series, was the first film to win the award. Macross Plus, an original video animation, was the first film to feature Japanese anime to be nominated for the award; the only other film featuring anime to be nominated is the Wachowskis' The Animatrix, a series of animated videos set in the fictional universe of The Matrix series. The film production company Walt Disney Television Animation has had nine of its films nominated for the award, more than any other company, and DisneyToon Studios, a division of Walt Disney Television Animation, has had eight of its films nominated for the award.

## Winners and nominees
### 1990s

| Year | Film | Studios | Director |
| 1995 (23rd) |
| 1995 (23rd) | The Gate to the Mind’s Eye | Miramar | Michael Boydstun |
| 1995 (23rd) | Macross Plus - Part One | Macross Plus Project, Hero Co. | Shoji Kawamori, Shinichiro Watanabe |
| 1995 (23rd) | Macross Plus - Part Two | Macross Plus Project, Hero Co. | Shoji Kawamori, Shinichiro Watanabe |
| 1995 (23rd) | Opéra Imaginaire | Miramar | José Abel, Hilary Audus |
| 1995 (23rd) | The Land Before Time II: The Great Valley Adventure | Universal Cartoon Studios | Roy Allen Smith |
| 1996 (24th) |
| 1996 (24th) | The Land Before Time III: The Time of the Great Giving | Universal Cartoon Studios | Roy Allen Smith |
| 1997 (25th) | Aladdin and the King of Thieves | Walt Disney Television Animation | Tad Stones |
| 1997 (25th) | The Land Before Time IV: Journey Through the Mists | Universal Cartoon Studios | Roy Allen Smith |
| 1997 (25th) | A Rugrats Vacation | Klasky Csupo, Nickelodeon | Anthony Bell |
| 1997 (25th) | This Land Is Your Land: The Animated Kids' Songs of Woody Guthrie | Artisan Entertainment | Tom Burton |
| 1998 (26th) | Batman & Mr. Freeze: SubZero | Warner Bros. Animation | Boyd Kirkland |
| 1998 (26th) | Belle's Magical World | Walt Disney Television Animation | Cullen Blaine, Daniel de la Vega, Barbara Dourmashkin, Dale Kase, Bob Kline, Burt Medall, Mitch Rochon |
| 1998 (26th) | FernGully 2: The Magical Rescue | Wild Brain | Phil Robinson |
| 1998 (26th) | Pooh's Grand Adventure: The Search for Christopher Robin | Walt Disney Television Animation | Karl Geurs |
| 1998 (26th) | Spunky's Camping Adventure | Global Television Syndication, Christian Broadcasting Network | Jannete Oke |
| 1999 (27th) | The Lion King II: Simba's Pride | Walt Disney Television Animation | Darrell Rooney |
| 1999 (27th) | Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island | Hanna-Barbera, Warner Home Video | Hiroshi Aoyama, Kazumi Fukushima, Jim Stenstrum |
| 1999 (27th) | Pocahontas II: Journey to a New World | Walt Disney Television Animation | Tom Ellery, Bradley Raymond |
| 1999 (27th) | The Land Before Time VI: The Secret of Saurus Rock | Universal Cartoon Studios | Charles Grosvenor |

### 2000s

| Year | Film | Studios | Director |
| 2000 (28th) | An Extremely Goofy Movie | Walt Disney Television Animation | Ian Harrowell, Douglas McCarthy |
| 2000 (28th) | Bartok the Magnificent | Fox Animation Studios | Don Bluth, Gary Goldman |
| 2000 (28th) | Mickey's Once Upon a Christmas | Walt Disney Television Animation | Alex Mann |
| 2000 (28th) | Scooby-Doo! and the Witch's Ghost | Hanna-Barbera, Warner Bros. Animation | Jim Stenstrum |
| 2000 (28th) | Wakko's Wish | Warner Bros. Animation | Liz Holzman, Rusty Mills, Tom Ruegger |
| 2001 (29th) | Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker | Warner Bros. Animation | Curt Geda (fr:Curt Geda) |
| 2001 (29th) | Joseph: King of Dreams | DreamWorks | Rob LaDuca, Robert C. Ramirez |
| 2001 (29th) | Lady and the Tramp II: Scamp's Adventure | Walt Disney Television Animation | Darrell Rooney, Jeannine Roussel |
| 2002 (30th) | Rolie Polie Olie: The Great Defender of Fun | Nelvana, Sparkling | Ron Pitts |
| 2002 (30th) | The Land Before Time IX: Journey to Big Water | Universal Cartoon Studios | Charles Grosvenor |
| 2002 (30th) | The Star of Christmas | Big Idea Productions | Tim Hodge |
| 2003 (31st) | The Animatrix | Silver Pictures, Warner Home Video | Larry Wachowski, Andy Wachowski |
| 2003 (31st) | 101 Dalmatians II: Patch's London Adventure | DisneyToon Studios | Jim Kammerud, Brian Smith |
| 2003 (31st) | Rolie Polie Olie: The Baby Bot Chase | Nelvana, Sparkling | Ron Pitts |
| 2003 (31st) | Stitch! The Movie | Walt Disney Television Animation | Tony Craig |
| 2004 (32nd) | The Lion King 1½ | DisneyToon Studios | Bradley Raymond |
| 2004 (32nd) | Mickey, Donald, Goofy: The Three Musketeers | DisneyToon Studios | Donovan Cook |
| 2004 (32nd) | Scooby-Doo! and the Loch Ness Monster | Warner Bros. Animation | Scott Jeralds |
| 2005 (33rd) | Lilo & Stitch 2: Stitch Has a Glitch | DisneyToon Studios | Michael LaBash, Anthony Leondis |
| 2005 (33rd) | Bionicle 3: Web of Shadows | Creative Capers Entertainment | David Molina, Terry Shakespeare |
| 2005 (33rd) | Kronk's New Groove | DisneyToon Studios | Elliot M. Bour, Saul Andrew Blinkoff |
| 2005 (33rd) | Tarzan II | DisneyToon Studios | Brian Smith |
| 2005 (33rd) | The Batman vs. Dracula | Warner Bros. Animation | Michael Goguen |
| 2006 (34th) | Bambi II | DisneyToon Studios | Brian Pimental |
| 2006 (34th) | The Adventures of Brer Rabbit | Universal Animation Studios | Byron Vaughns |
| 2006 (34th) | Winnie the Pooh: Shapes & Sizes | DisneyToon Studios | Dave Bossert |
| 2007 (35th) | Futurama: Bender's Big Score | The Curiosity Company, 20th Century Fox Television | Dwayne Carey-Hill |
| 2007 (35th) | Doctor Strange: The Sorcerer Supreme | MLG Productions | Frank Paur |
| 2008 (36th) | Futurama: The Beast with a Billion Backs | The Curiosity Company, 20th Century Fox Television | Peter Avanzino |
| 2008 (36th) | Batman: Gotham Knight | Warner Bros. Animation | Toshi Hiruma, Bruce Timm |
| 2008 (36th) | Christmas Is Here Again | Easy To Dream Entertainment, Renegade Animation | Robert Zappia |
| 2008 (36th) | Justice League: The New Frontier | Warner Bros. Animation | Dave Bullock |
| 2008 (36th) | The Little Mermaid: Ariel's Beginning | DisneyToon Studios | Peggy Holmes |
| 2009 (37th) | Futurama: Into the Wild Green Yonder | The Curiosity Company, 20th Century Fox Television | Peter Avanzino |
| 2009 (37th) | Curious George: A Very Monkey Christmas | Imagine Entertainment, WGBH Boston, Universal Animation Studios | Scott Heming, Cathy Malkasian, Jeff McGrath |
| 2009 (37th) | Green Lantern: First Flight | Warner Bros. Animation | Lauren Montgomery |
| 2009 (37th) | Open Season 2 | Sony Pictures Animation | Matthew O'Callaghan, Lauren Wilderman |
| 2009 (37th) | SpongeBob vs. the Big One | United Plankton Pictures, Nickelodeon Animation Studio | Andrew Overtoom |