Sony Pictures Animation

Sony Pictures Animation is an American animated film production and distribution company owned by Sony Pictures, founded in May 9, 2002. It works closely with Sony Pictures Imageworks, which handles digital production. All theatrical releases are distributed worldwide by Columbia Pictures, and direct-to-video releases are distributed by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment.
They are well known for their franchises Open Season, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, The Smurfs and Hotel Transylvania, and the Oscar nominated 2007 film Surf's Up.
==Filmography==
===Feature films and Direct-to-Video films===
====Released films====
# 	Title 	Release date
1 	Open Season 	September 29, 2006
2 	Surf's Up 	June 8, 2007
3 	Open Season 2 	September 24, 2008
4 	Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 	September 18, 2009
5 	Open Season 3 	October 21, 2010
6 	The Smurfs 	July 29, 2011
7 	Arthur Christmas 	November 23, 2011
8 	The Pirates! Band of Misfits 	April 27, 2012
9 	Hotel Transylvania 	September 28, 2012
10	The Smurfs 2 	July 31, 2013
11	Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 	September 27, 2013
12	Hotel Transylvania 2 	September 25, 2015
13	Goosebumps 	October 16, 2015
14	Open Season: Scared Silly 	November 1, 2015
15	Surf's Up 2: WaveMania 	January 17, 2017
16	Smurfs: The Lost Village 	April 7, 2017
17	The Emoji Movie 	July 28, 2017
18	The Star 	November 17, 2017
19	Peter Rabbit 	February 9, 2018
20	Hotel Transylvania 3: A Monster Vacation	July 13, 2018
21	Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween 	October 12, 2018
22	Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse 	December 14, 2018
23	The Angry Birds Movie 2 	August 14, 2019
24	The Mitchells vs. the Machinese 	April 30, 2021
25	Wish Dragon 	June 11, 2021
26	Vivo 	August 6, 2021
27	Hotel Transylvania: Transformania 	January 14, 2022
28	Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse 	June 2, 2023
====Upcoming films====
# 	Title 	Release date
29	The Angry Birds Movie 3 	2025
30	K-Pop: Demon Hunters 	2025
31	Goat 	2026
32	Fixed 	TBA
33	Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse	TBA
34	Black Knight 	TBA
35	The Hanazuki Movie 	2025
36	Trulli Tales: The Movie 	June 17, 2027
37	Little Witch Academia: The Movie 	TBA
====Films in development====
Title
Bubble
Spider-Woman
Tao
Tut
Untitled Ghostbusters animated film
Untitled Matt Braly film
==Related productions==
* Eight Crazy Nights (2002) (produced by Happy Madison Productions)
* Monster House (2006) (produced by ImageMovers and Amblin Entertainment)
* Planet 51 (2009) (produced by Ilion Animation Studios and HandMade Films International and distributed by TriStar Pictures)
* The Adventures of Tintin (2011) (produced by Nickelodeon Movies, Amblin Entertainment, WingNut Films and The Kennedy/Marshall Company and distributed by Paramount Pictures)
* The Angry Birds Movie (2016) (produced by Rovio Animation)
* Sausage Party (2016) (produced by Annapurna Pictures and Point Grey Pictures)
* Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway (2021) (produced by Animal Logic, MRC, 2.0 Entertainment and Olive Bridge Entertainment)
* The Garfield Movie (2024) (produced by Alcon Entertainment, Prime Focus, One Cool Group Limited and Wayfarer Studios)
* Paddington in Peru (2024) (distributed by StudioCanal)
* Animal Friends (2025) (produced by Legendary Entertainment, Maximum Effort and Prime Focus)
===Short films===
# 	Title 	Release date
1 	The ChubbChubbs! 	July 3, 2002
2 	Early Bloomer 	May 9, 2003
3 	Boog and Elliot's Midnight Bun Run 	January 30, 2007
4 	The ChubbChubbs Save Xmas 	August 8, 2007
5 	The Smurfs: A Christmas Carol 	December 2, 2011
6 	So You Want to Be a Pirate! 	August 28, 2012
7 	Goodnight Mr. Foot 	October 26, 2012
8 	The Smurfs: The Legend of Smurfy Hollow	September 10, 2013
9 	Super Manny 	October 2, 2013
10	Earl Scouts 	October 11, 2013
11	Steve's First Bath 	January 28, 2014
12	Attack of the 50-Foot Gummi Bear 	January 28, 2014
13	Puppy 	July 28, 2017
14	Flopsy Turvy 	March 30, 2018
15	Caught in a Ham 	March 19, 2019
16	Hair Love 	August 14, 2019
17	Live Stream 	November 12, 2019
===Television series===
#	Title 	Premiere date 	End date	Network
1	Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs: The Series	February 20, 2017	present 	Cartoon Network
2	Hotel Transylvania: The Television Series 	June 25, 2017 	present 	Disney Channel
3	Ghostbusters: Ecto Force 	February 19, 2022	present 	Nickelodeon
4	The Emoji Movie: The Series 	June 31, 2022 	present 	Netflix
5	Connected: The Series 	January 11, 2023 	present 	Universal Kids
==Accolades==
===Academy Awards===
Year	Film 	Category 	Winner/Nominee(s) 	Result
2002	The ChubbChubbs! 	Best Animated Short Film	Eric Armstrong 	Winner
2007	Surf's Up 	Best Animated Feature 	Ash Brannon and Chris Buck	Nominated
2012	The Pirates! Band of Misfits	Best Animated Feature 	Peter Lord 	Nominated
===Golden Globes===
Year	Film 	Category 	Winner/Nominee(s)	Result
2009	Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs	Best Animated Feature Film	 	Nominated
2011	Arthur Christmas 	Best Animated Feature Film	 	Nominated
2012	Hotel Transylvania 	Best Animated Feature Film	 	Nominated
===Critics' Choice Awards===
Year	Film 	Category 	Winner/Nominee(s)	Result
2009	Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs	Best Animated Feature	 	Nominated
2011	Arthur Christmas 	Best Animated Feature	 	Nominated
===Kids' Choice Awards===
Year	Film 	Category 	Winner/Nominee(s)	Result
2007	Open Season 	Kids' Choice Award for Favorite Voice from an Animated Movie	Ashton Kutcher 	Nominated
2012	The Smurfs 	Kids' Choice Award for Favorite Movie 	 	Nominated
2012	The Smurfs 	Kids' Choice Award for Favorite Voice from an Animated Movie	Katy Perry 	Won
2013	Hotel Transylvania 	Kids' Choice Award for Favorite Voice from an Animated Movie	Adam Sandler 	Won
2014	The Smurfs 2 	Kids' Choice Award for Favorite Movie 	 	Nominated
2014	The Smurfs 2 	Kids' Choice Award for Favorite Voice from an Animated Movie	Katy Perry 	Nominated
2014	Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2	Kids' Choice Award for Favorite Animated Movie 	 	Nominated
2016	Hotel Transylvania 2 	Kids' Choice Award for Favorite Animated Movie 	 	Won
2016	Hotel Transylvania 2 	Kids' Choice Award for Favorite Voice from an Animated Movie	Selena Gomez 	Nominated
==Variants==
*Surf's Up (2007) - The logo fades into a scene with snowflakes.
*Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (2009) - The logo is black background.
*Hotel Transylvania (2012) and Hotel Transylvania 2 (2015): After the logo, it's surrounded by mist.
*Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation (2018): The Sony Pictures Animation logo fades out to white, and the blue letters "Celebrating 22 Years (2006-2018)" fades in white. This variant is expected to appear on Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween and Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse as well.
*Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween (2018): R.L. Stine (James Corden) sits onto the "A" in Animation.
*Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018): After the Columbia Pictures logo, it abruptly cuts in from black. Gene (from The Emoji Movie) is waving a sparkler and says "Sony Pictures Animation", then an Internet Troll (from The Emoji Movie) comes down and says, "YEAH! SONY PICTURES ANIMATION!", Firework fountains light up, which scares Gene. The water sprinklers go off, which douse the fountains, and Gene walks up to an Internet Troll, hugging him and giving him the sparkler. The New Sony Pictures Animation logo then glows to white and dims to the new black letters "Celebrating 22 Years (2006-2018)" fades in white, which continues into the extended Studio 8 logo.
*Mario: You Like Retards (2020): the logo onto a mario sit on A the Animation
*Frosty the Snowman (2020): Frosty the Snowman onto the "A" the "Animation".
*The Emoji Holiday (2018) and The Tommy & Ruth Movie (2020): After the logo, the white background turns into snowy weather, The New Sony Pictures Animation logo freezes and dissolves into snow in only this christmas.
*Gene Breaks the Internet: The Emoji Movie 2 (2019): The logo onto Gene sits on "A" the "Animation".
*Mario: Be A Spaghetti (2020): The logo onto the "O" with Spaghetti
*Tiny Tim (2020): With After the logo was surrounded by mist in only this christmas.
*Thomas & Friends: The lsland of Halloween Engine (2020): Pumpkin onto the "I" the "Sony".
*Pikmin (2020) - The logo, seems already finished, is getting carried by blue, purple and winged Pikmin.
==Gallery==
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==See also==
*Sony Cartoon Studios, a fanon hand-drawn division of SPA.
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