35th Annie Awards

The 35th Annual Annie Awards, honoring the best in animation for 2007, will be held on February 8, 2008 at UCLA's Royce Hall. This will be the first change of venue for the awards in nine years, being held at the Alex Theatre in Glendale, California since 1998 until last year.

Upcoming schedule

• December 3, 2007: Nominations announced
• January 15, 2008: Balloting begins
• February 1, 2008: Deadline to cast ballots
• February 8, 2008: Awards ceremony

Nominees

Animated Feature Production

• Best Animated Effects:
  • How to Hook Up Your Home Theater
  • Ratatouille
  • Ratatouille
  • Spider-Man 3
  • Surf's Up

• Best Animated Feature:
  • Bee Movie
  • Persepolis
  • Ratatouille
  • The Simpsons Movie
  • Surf's Up

• Best Character Animation:
  • Ratatouille
  • Surf's Up
  • Surf's Up

• Best Character Design:
  • Ratatouille
  • Surf's Up

• Best Directing:
  • Vincent Paronnaud and Marjane Satrapi - Persepolis
  • Brad Bird - Ratatouille
  • Chris Miller and Raman Hui - Shrek the Third
  • David Silverman - The Simpsons Movie
  • Ash Brannon and Chris Buck - Surf's Up

• Best Music:
  • Bee Movie - Rupert Gregson-Williams
  • Disney Princess Enchanted Tales: Follow Your Dreams - Jeff Danna, Russ DeSalvo and Amy Powers
  • Meet the Robinsons - Danny Elfman, Rob Thomas and Rufus Wainwright
  • Persepolis - Olivier Bernet
  • Ratatouille - Michael Giacchino

• Best Production Design:
  • Beowulf - Doug Chiang
  • Ratatouille - Harley Jessup
  • Surf's Up - Marcelo Vignali

• Best Storyboarding:
  • Bee Movie
  • Meet the Robinsons
  • Ratatouille
  • Surf's Up
  • TMNT

• Best Voice Acting:
  • Bee Movie - Patrick Warburton
  • Ratatouille - Janeane Garofalo
  • Ratatouille - Ian Holm
  • Ratatouille - Patton Oswalt
  • The Simpsons Movie - Julie Kavner

• Best Writing:
  • Persepolis - Vincent Paronnaud and Marjane Satrapi
  • Ratatouille - Brad Bird
  • The Simpsons Movie - James L. Brooks; Matt Groening; Al Jean; Ian Maxtone-Graham; George Meyer; David Mirkin; Mike Reiss; Mike Scully; Matt Selman; John Swartzwelder; Jon Vitti
  • Surf's Up - Don Rhymer; Ash Brannon; Chris Buck; Christopher Jenkins

Award breakdown

Animated Feature Production

• 4 The Simpsons Movie

External links

• Official Site of the Annie Awards