36th Annie Awards

The 36th Annual Annie Awards, honoring the best in animation for 2008, were held on 30 January 2009 at Royce Hall in Los Angeles, California. Below is a list of announced nominees. Kung Fu Panda received the most awards with 11, winning nearly all of its nominations.
Production nominees
Best Animated Feature
Kung Fu Panda
Bolt
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WALL-E
Waltz with Bashir
Annie Award for Best Home Entertainment Production
Futurama: The Beast with a Billion Backs
Batman: Gotham Knight
Christmas Is Here Again
Justice League: The New Frontier
The Little Mermaid: Ariel's Beginning
Annie Award for Best Animated Short Subject
Wallace & Gromit: A Matter of Loaf and Death
Glago's Guest
Hot Dog
Presto
Sebastian's Voodoo
Annie Award for Best Animated Television Commercial
United Airlines "Heart"
Giant Monster
Long Legs Mr. Hyde
Rotofugi: The Collectors
Sarah
Annie Award for Best Animated Television Production
Robot Chicken: Star Wars Episode II
King of the Hill
Moral Orel
Phineas and Ferb
The Simpsons
Best Animated Television Production for Children
Avatar: The Last Airbender - Nickelodeon
A Miser Brothers' Christmas - Warner Bros.
Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends - Cartoon Network
Underfist: Halloween Bash - Cartoon Network
The Mighty B! - Nickelodeon
Annie Award for Best Animated Video GameKung Fu Panda Dead Space
WALL-E
Individual Achievement
Animated EffectsLi-Ming Lawrence Lee - Kung Fu Panda Alen Lai - Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears A Who
Fangwei Lee - Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa
Kevin Lee - Bolt
Enrique Vila - Wall-E
Character Animation in a Feature ProductionJames Baxter - Kung Fu Panda
Jeff Gabor - Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears A Who
Philippe Le Brun - Kung Fu Panda
Victor Navone - Wall-E
Dan Wagner - Kung Fu Panda
Character Animation in a Television Production
Pierre Perifel - Secrets of the Furious Five
Sandro Cleuzo - Secrets of the Furious Five
Joshua A. Jennings - Robot Chicken: Star Wars Episode II
Character Design in an Animated Feature Production
Nico Marlet - Kung Fu Panda
Valerie Hadida - Igor (film)
Sang Jun Lee - Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears A Who
Character Design in an Animated Television Production
Nico Marlet - Secrets of the Furious Five
Bryan Arnett - Mighty B! - "Bat Mitzah Crashers"
Ben Balistreri - Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends - "Mondo Coco"
Sean Galloway - The Spectacular Spider-Man
Jorge Gutierrez - El Tigre: The Adventures of Manny Rivera - "The Good, The Bad, The Tigre"
Directing in an Animated Feature Production
John Stevenson and Mark Osborne - Kung Fu Panda
Sam Fell and Rob Stevenhagen The Tale Of Despereaux
Ari Folman - Waltz with Bashir
Tatia Rosenthal - $9.99
Andrew Stanton - WALL-E
Directing in an Animated Television Production
Joaquim Dos Santos - Avatar: The Last Airbender - "Sozin's Comet: Into the Inferno"
Bob Anderson - The Simpsons - "Treehouse of Horror XIX"
Craig McCracken and Rob Renzetti - Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends - "Destination Imagination"
Chris McKay - Moral Orel - "Passing"
Alan Smart - SpongeBob SquarePants - "Penny Foolish"
Music in an Animated Feature Production
Hans Zimmer & John Powell - Kung Fu Panda - DreamWorks Animation
Kevin Manthei - Batman: Gotham Knight - Warner Bros. Animation
John Powell - Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears A Who - Blue Sky Studios
Max Richter - Waltz With Bashir - Sony Pictures Classics, Bridgit Folman, Les Films D'ici, Razor Films
William Ross - The Tale of Despereaux (film) - Universal Pictures
Music in an Animated Television Production or Short Form
Henry Jackman, Hans Zimmer & John Powell - "Secrets of the Furious Five" - DreamWorks Animation
Carl Finch & Brave Combo - Click and Clack's "As the Wrench Turns" - CTTV Productions
Kevin Kiner - "Star Wars The Clone Wars: Rising Malevolence" - Lucasfilm Animation Ltd.