Guillermo del Toro’s ‘Pinocchio’ Wins Annie Awards Best Feature, Disney Animation Wins No Awards

The “Animation Oscars” Annie Awards were presented recently. The stop-motion animation ‘Pinocchio’ directed by Guillermo del Toro won the Best Feature Award, and the Best Indie Feature was ‘Marcel the Shell with Shoes On‎’.

Disney, which marks its 100th anniversary this year, missed out on all of the Annie Awards for feature films, despite 11 nominations for its animations and seven for Disney and Pixar’s ‘Turning Red’. Only the live-action film ‘Avatar: The Way of Water’ won for special effects.

Here are the winners at the 2023 Annie Awards:

BEST FEATURE
Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio
Netflix Presents A Double Dare You! Film / A Shadowmachine Production in association with The Jim Henson Company

BEST INDIE FEATURE
Marcel the Shell with Shoes On
Marcel the Movie LLC

BEST DIRECTION – FEATURE
Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio
Netflix Presents A Double Dare You! Film / A Shadowmachine Production in association with The Jim Henson Company
Guillermo Del Toro, Mark Gustafson

BEST DIRECTION – TV/MEDIA
The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse Episode: [special production]
NoneMore Productions and Bad Robot Productions
Peter Baynton, Charlie Mackesy

BEST STORYBOARDING – FEATURE
Puss in Boots: The Last Wish
DreamWorks Animation
Anthony Holden

BEST STORYBOARDING – TV/MEDIA
Love Death + Robots
Episode: “The Very Pulse of the Machine”

BEST TV/MEDIA – LIMITED SERIES
Oni: Thunder God’s Tale
Episode: “The Demon Moon Rises”
A Netflix Series / A Tonko House Production

BEST TV/MEDIA – MATURE
Bob’s Burgers
Episode: “Some Like it Bot Part 1: Eighth Grade Runner”
20th Television/Bento Box Entertainment

BEST TV/MEDIA – CHILDREN
Abominable and the Invisible City Episode: “Everest Returns”
DreamWorks Animation

BEST TV/MEDIA – PRESCHOOL
The Tiny Chef Show Episode: “Pancakes”
Tiny Chef Productions LLC / Imagine Entertainment

BEST WRITING – FEATURE
Marcel the Shell with Shoes On
Marcel the Movie LLC
Dean Fleischer Camp, Jenny Slate, Nick Paley, Elisabeth Holm

BEST WRITING – TV/MEDIA
Love Death + Robots Episode: “Bad Traveling”
Blur Studio for Netflix
Andrew Kevin Walker

BEST VOICE ACTING – FEATURE
Marcel the Shell with Shoes On
Marcel the Movie LLC
Jenny Slate (character: Marcel)

BEST VOICE ACTING – TV/MEDIA
Zootopia+
Episode: “The Godfather of the Bride”
Walt Disney Animation Studios
Maurice LaMarche (Character: Mr. Big)

BEST EDITORIAL – FEATURE
James Ryan ACE, Jacquelyn Karambelas, Natalla Cronembold, Joe Butler, Katie Parody
Puss in Boots: The Last Wish
DreamWorks Animation

BEST EDITORIAL – TV/MEDIA
Daniel Budin
The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse
A NoneMore and Bad Robot Production for Apple TV+ and BBC

BEST FX – FEATURE
Johnathan M. Nixon, David Moraton, Nicholas Illingworth, David Caeiro Cebrian, Alex Nowotny
Avatar: The Way of Water
20th Century Studios / Disney Studios
Wētā FX

BEST FX – TV/MEDIA
Love Death + Robots Episode: “Bad Traveling”
Blur Studio for Netflix
FX Production Company: Blur Studio
Kirby Miller, Igor Zanic, Joseph H. Coleman, Steven Dupuy, Josh Schwartz

BEST CHARACTER ANIMATION – FEATURE
Tucker Barrie
Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio
Netflix Presents A Double Dare You! Film / A Shadowmachine Production in association with The Jim Henson Company

BEST CHARACTER ANIMATION – TV/MEDIA
The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse Episode: (special production)
NoneMore Productions and Bad Robot Productions
Tim Watts

BEST CHARACTER ANIMATION – LIVE ACTION
Avatar: The Way of Water
Production Company: 20th Century Studios / Disney Studios
FX Production Company: Wētā FX

BEST CHARACTER ANIMATION – VIDEO GAME
Cuphead – The Delicious Last Course
Studio MDHR
Chad Moldenhauer, Hanna Abi-Hanna

BEST CHARACTER DESIGN – FEATURE
Taylor Krahenbuhl
The Bad Guys
DreamWorks Animation

BEST CHARACTER DESIGN – TV/MEDIA
Alberto Mielgo
Love Death + Robots Episode: “Jibaro”
Blur Studio for Netflix

BEST MUSIC – FEATURE
Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio
Netflix Presents A Double Dare You! Film / A Shadowmachine Production in association with The Jim Henson Company
Alexandre Desplat, Roeban Katz, Guillermo del Toro, Patrick McHale

BEST MUSIC – TV/MEDIA
The Cuphead Show! Episode: “Carn-Evil”
Netflix Animation
Ego Plum

BEST SPONSORED
Save Ralph
Arch Model Studio

BEST SPECIAL PRODUCTION
The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse
A NoneMore and Bad Robot Production for Apple TV+ and BBC

BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN – FEATURE
Curt Enderle, Guy Davis
Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio
Netflix Presents A Double Dare You! Film / A Shadowmachine Production in association with The Jim Henson Company

BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN – TV/MEDIA
Robert Kondo, Rachel Tiep-Daniels, Lia Tin, Yohei Hashizume, Masa Inada
Oni: Thunder God’s Tale
Episode: “The Demon Moon Rises”
A Netflix Series / A Tonko House Production

BEST SHORT SUBJECT
Ice Merchants
COLA Animation production & Wild Stream

BEST STUDENT FILM
The Soloists
Student directors: Mehrnaz Abdollahinia, Feben Elias Woldehawariat, Razahk Issaka, Celeste Jamneck & Yi Liu
School: Gobelins, l’école de l’image