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*
***$9.99*
***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 Game
**'*Kung Fu Panda* '*
***Dead Space*
***WALL-E*

## Individual Achievement
### Animated Effects
**'Li-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 Production
**'James 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. 
**Guy Moon – Back at the Barnyard “Cowman: The Uddered Avenger” – Nickelodeon/Omation 
**Guy Michelmore – “Growing Up Creepie: Rockabye Freakie” – Taffy Entertainment LLC 

### Production Design in an Animated Feature Production
***Tang Heng “Kung Fu Panda” – DreamWorks Animation** 
**Ralph Eggleston “Wall·E” – Pixar Animation Studios 
**Paul Felix “Bolt” – Walt Disney Animation Studios 
**Evgeni Tomov “The Tale Of Despereaux” – Universal Pictures 
**Raymond Zibach “Kung Fu Panda” – DreamWorks Animation 

### Production Design in an Animated Television Production or Short Form
***Tang Heng “Secrets of the Furious Five” – DreamWorks Animation** 
**Andy Harkness “Glago’s Guest” – Walt Disney Animation Studios 
**Seonna Hong – The Mighty B! “Bee Patients” – Nickelodeon 
**Dan Krall – Chowder “The Heavy Sleeper” – Cartoon Network Studios 
**Raymond Zibach “Secrets of the Furious Five” – DreamWorks Animation 

### Storyboarding in an Animated Feature Production
***Jen Yuh Nelson – “Kung Fu Panda” – DreamWorks Animation** 
**Alessandro Carloni – “Kung Fu Panda” – DreamWorks Animation 
**Ronnie Del Carmen – “Wall·E” – Pixar Animation Studios 
**Joe Mateo “Bolt” – Walt Disney Animation Studios 
**Rob Stevenhagen – “The Tale Of Despereaux” – Universal Pictures 

### Storyboarding in an Animated Television Production or Short Form
***Chris Williams “Glago’s Guest” – Walt Disney Animation Studios** 
**Butch Hartman – Fairly OddParents “Mission: Responsible” – Nickelodeon 
**Andy Kelly – Ni Hao, Kai-Lan “Twirly Whirly Flyers” – Nickelodeon Productions/Nelvana 
**Andy Schuhler – “Secret of the Furious Five” – DreamWorks Animation 
**Eddie Trigueros “The Mighty B! “Name Shame”– Nickelodeon 

### Voice Acting in an Animated Feature Production
***Dustin Hoffman – Voice of Shifu – “Kung Fu Panda” – DreamWorks Animation**
**Ben Burtt – Voice of Wall·E – “Wall·E” – Pixar Animation Studios 
**James Hong – Voice of Mr. Ping – “Kung Fu Panda” – DreamWorks Animation 
**Ian McShane – Voice of Tai Lung – “Kung Fu Panda” – DreamWorks Animation 
**Mark Walton – Voice of Rhino – “Bolt” – Walt Disney Animation Studios

### Voice Acting in an Animated Television Production or Short Form
***Ahmed Best – Voice of Jar Jar Binks – “Robot Chicken: Star Wars Episode II” - ShadowMachine** 
**Seth MacFarlane – Voice of Peter Griffin – Family Guy “I Dream of Jesus” – Fox TV Animation/Fuzzy Door Productions 
**Dwight Schultz – Voice of Mung Daal – Chowder “Apprentice Games” – Cartoon Network Studios

### Writing in an Animated Feature Production
***Jon Aibel & Glenn Berger – “Kung Fu Panda” – DreamWorks Animation** 
**Etan Cohen and Eric Darnell & Tom McGrath – “Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa” – DreamWorks Animation 
**Ari Folman – “Waltz With Bashir” – Sony Pictures Classics, Bridgit Folman, Les Films D'ici, Razor Films 
**Cinco Paul and Ken Daurio – “Dr. Seuss’ Horton Hears A Who” – Blue Sky Studios

### Writing in an Animated Television Production or Short Form
*** Tom Root, Douglas Goldstein, Hugh Davidson, Mike Fasolo, Seth Green, Dan Milano, Matthew Senreich, Kevin Shinick, Zeb Wells, Breckin Meyer – “Robot Chicken: Star Wars Episode II” – ShadowMachine**
**Joel H. Cohen – The Simpsons “The Debarted” – Gracie Films/Fox TV 
**Scott Kreamer – El Tigre: The Adventures of Manny Rivera “Mustache Love” – Nickelodeon 
**Paul McEvoy and Todd Berger – “Secrets of the Furious Five” – DreamWorks Animation 
**Chris Williams – “Glago’s Guest” – Walt Disney Animation Studios

## Other websites
*Official Site of the Annie Awards
*2008 Nominations