2011 ANNIE AWARD NOMINATIONS PRODUCTION CATEGORIES #1 - Best Animated Feature A Cat in Paris – Folimage Arrugas (Wrinkles) - Perro Verde Films, S.L. Arthur Christmas – Sony Pictures Animation, Aardman Animations Cars 2 – Pixar Animation Studios Chico & Rita – Chico & Rita Distribution Limited Kung Fu Panda 2 – DreamWorks Animation Puss In Boots – DreamWorks Animation Rango – Paramount Pictures and Nickelodeon Movies present A Blind Wink/GK Films Production Rio – Blue Sky Studios Tintin – Amblin Entertainment, Wingnut Films and Kennedy/Marshall #2 - Annie Award for Best Animated Special Production Adventure Time: Thank You – Cartoon Network Studios Batman: Year One – Warner Bros. Animation Ice Age: A Mammoth Christmas – Blue Sky Studios Kung Fu Panda – Secrets of the Masters – DreamWorks Animation Prey 2 –Blur Studio Star Tours – Industrial Light & Magic # 3 - Best Animated Short Subject Adam and Dog – Lodge Films I Tawt I Taw A Puddy Tat – Warner Bros. Animation La Luna – Pixar Animation Studios Notes on Biology Paths of Hate – Platige Image Sunday – National Film Board of Canada The Ballad of Nessie –Walt Disney Animation Studios The Girl and the Fox – Base14 Wild Life – National Film Board of Canada and Studio GDS # 4 - Best Animated Television Commercial Audi “Hummingbird” - The Mill Geico “Foghorn” - Renegade Animation McDonald’s “Apple Tree” Duck Studios/Kompost McDonald’s “Suzi Van Zoom” Duck Studios/Kompost Norton “Stuff”- Psyop O2 “Niggles & Narks”- The Mill Statoil “Good Night” - Studio AKA “The Pirate” - Meindbender Twinings “Sea” - Psyop #5 - Best General Audience Animated TV Production Archer – FX Productions Green Lantern: The Animated Series – Warner Bros. Animation Hoops & YoYo Ruin Christmas - Hallmark MAD – Warner Bros. Animation Mary Shelley’s Frankenhole Season 2 – Starburns Industries, Inc. Prep & Landing: Naughty vs. Nice – Walt Disney Animation Studios Star Wars: The Clone Wars – Lucasfilm Animation, Ltd. The Simpsons – Gracie Films #6 - Best Animated Television Production - Preschool Chuggington – Ludorum Pictures Disney Jake and the Never Land Pirates – Disney Television Animation Disney Mickey Mouse Clubhouse – Disney Television Animation The WotWots Season 2 – Pukeko Pictures #6A – Best Animated Television Production – Children Fanboy and Chum Chum – Nickelodeon and Frederator Kung Fu Panda – DreamWorks Animation Penguins of Madagascar – DreamWorks Animation The Amazing World of Gumball – Cartoon Network in Association with Dandelion Studios, Boulder Media & Studio Soi #7 - Best Animated Video Game Bumpy Road – Simogo Catherine – Atlus Gears of War 3 – Epic Games Gesundheit – Konami Digital Entertainment Ghost Trick: “Phantom Detective” – Capcom Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet – Shadow Planet Productions, Gagne/Fuelcell Ratchet and Clark: All 4 One – Insomniac Rayman Origins – Ubisoft Montpellier Unchartered 3: Drake’s Deception – Naughty Dog INDIVIDUAL ACHIEVEMENT CATEGORIES #8 - Animated Effects in an Animated Production Can Yuksel “Puss In Boots” DreamWorks Animation Chase Cooper “Rango” Industrial Light & Magic Dan Lund “Winnie The Pooh” Walt Disney Animation Studios Dave Tidgewell “Kung Fu Panda 2” DreamWorks Animation Eric Froemling “Cars 2” Pixar Animation Studios Jason Mayer “Kung Fu Panda 2” DreamWorks Animation Joel Aron “Star Wars: The Clone Wars” Lucasfilm Animation, Ltd. Jon Reisch “Cars 2” Pixar Animation Studios Kevin Romond “Tintin” Amblin Entertainment, Wingnut Films and Kennedy/Marshall Willi Geiger “Rango” Industrial Light & Magic #9 – Animated Effects in a Live Action Production Branko Grujcic “Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides” Industrial Light & Magic Florent Andarra “Transformers: Dark of the Moon” Industrial Light & Magic Gary Wu “Cowboys & Aliens” Industrial Light & Magic Lee Uren “Cowboys & Aliens” Industrial Light & Magic #10 - Character Animation in a Television Production Chad Sellers “Prep & Landing: Naughty vs. Nice” Walt Disney Animation Studios Michael Franceschi “Kung Fu Panda” Nickelodeon Rebecca Wilson Bresee “Prep & Landing: Naughty vs. Nice” Walt Disney Animation Studios Sihanouk Mariona “Mary Shelley’s Frankenhole Season 2” Starburns Industries, Inc. Tony Smeed “Prep & Landing: Naughty vs. Nice” Walt Disney Animation Studios #11 - Character Animation in a Feature Production Andreas Deja “Winnie The Pooh” Walt Disney Animation Studios Dan Wagner “Kung Fu Panda 2” DreamWorks Animation Jeff Gabor “Rio” Blue Sky Studios Mark Henn “Winnie The Pooh” Walt Disney Animation Studios Olivier Staphylas “Puss In Boots” DreamWorks Animation Patrik Puhala “Rio” Blue Sky Studios Pierre Perifel “Kung Fu Panda 2” DreamWorks Animation #12 - Character Animation in a Live Action Production Andy Arnett “HOP” Rhythm & Hues, Illumination Entertainment David Lowry “Paul” Double Negative Visual Effects for Universal Productions/Relativity Media/Working Title Films/Big Talk Productions Eric Reynolds “Rise of the Planet of the Apes” 20th Century Fox Mike Hull “Paul” Double Negative Visual Effects for Universal Productions/Relativity Media/Working Title Films/Big Talk Productions #13 - Character Design in a Television Production Bill Schwab “Prep & Landing” Walt Disney Animation Studios Carl Raggio “Disney Kick Buttowski” Disney Television Animation Chad Hurd “Archer” FX Productions Chris Battle “Dan Vs.” Starz Film Roman Eric Robles “Fanboy and Chum Chum” Nickelodeon & Frederator Gordon Hammond “TUFF Puppy” Nickelodeon Mike Dougherty “TUFF Puppy” Nickelodeon Robert Ryan Cory “Secret Mountain Fort Awesome” Cartoon Network Studios #14 - Character Design in a Feature Production Jay Shuster “Cars 2” Pixar Animation Studios Mark “Crash” McCreery “Rango” Paramount Pictures and Nickelodeon Movies present A Blind Wink/GK Films Productions Patrick Mate “Puss In Boots” DreamWorks Animation Peter de Seve “Arthur Christmas” Sony Pictures Animation, Aardman Animations Sergio Pablos “Rio” Blue Sky Studios #15 - Directing in a Television Production Brian Sheesley “Dan Vs.” Starz Film Roman Chris Savino & Clay Morrow “ Disney Kick Buttowski” Disney Television Animation Dan Riba “Ben 10 Ultimate Alien” Cartoon Network Studios Duke Johnson “Community” 23 D Films, Inc. Gabe Swarr “Kung Fu Panda” Nickelodeon Ken Bruce “TUFF Puppy” Nickelodeon Kevin Deters & Stevie Wermers-Skelton “Prep & Landing: Naughty vs. Nice” Walt Disney Animation Studios Matthew Nastuk “The Simpsons” Gracie Films Mic Graves & Ben Bocquelet “The Amazing World of Gumball” Cartoon Network Europe in association with Dandelion Studios, Boulder Media & Studio Soi Peter Hausner “Ninjago: Masters of Spinjitzu” Wil Film Steve Loter, Christo Stamboliev, Shaun Cashman, David Knott “Penguins of Madagascar” Nickelodeon and Technicolor Tony Craig “Hoops & YoYo Ruin Christmas” Hallmark #16 - Directing in a Feature Production Carlos Saldahna “Rio” Blue Sky Studios Chris Miller “Puss In Boots” DreamWorks Animation Don Hall & Stephen Anderson “Winnie The Pooh” Walt Disney Animation Studios Gore Verbinski “Rango” Paramount Pictures and Nickelodeon Movies present a Blind Wink/GK Films Productions Jennifer Yuh Nelson “Kung Fu Panda 2” DreamWorks Animation Kelly Asbury “Gnomeo & Juliet” Touchstone Pictures #17 - Music in a Television Production Adam Berry, Bob Schooley, Mark McCorkle “Penguins of Madagascar” Nickelodeon and Technicolor Ben Locket “The Amazing World of Gumball” Cartoon Network Europe in association with Dandelion Studios, Boulder Media & Studio Soi Frederik Wiedmann “Green Lantern The Animated Series” Warner Bros. Animation Grace Potter, Michael Giacchino “Prep & Landing: Naughty vs. Nice” Walt Disney Animation Studios Joel McNeely, Brendan Milburn and Valerie Vigoda “Pixie Hollow Games” DisneyToon Studios Kevin Kliesch “Thundercats” Kliesch Music Inc. Shawn Patterson, Zeb Wells “Robot Chicken” ShadowMachine and Stoopid Monkey in association with Adult Swim #18 - Music in a Feature Production Henry Jackman “Puss In Boots” DreamWorks Animation John Williams “Tintin” Amblin Entertainment, Wingnut Films and Kennedy/Marshall Mikael Mutti, Siedah Garrett, Carlinhos Brown, Sergio Mendes, John Powell, “Rio” Blue Sky Studios Zooey Deschannel, Kristen Anderson-Lopez, Henry Jackman, Robert Lopez “Winnie The Pooh” Walt Disney Animation Studios #19 - Production Design in a Television Production Mark Bodner, Chris Tsirgiotis, Sue Mondt and Daniel Elson “Secret Mountain Fort Awesome” Cartoon Network Studios Peter Martin “Hoops & YoYo Ruin Christmas” Hallmark #20 - Production Design in a Feature Production Harley Jessup “Cars 2” Pixar Animation Studios Paul Felix “Winnie The Pooh” Walt Disney Animation Studios Raymond Zilbach “Kung Fu Panda 2” DreamWorks Animation Tom Cardone, Kyle MacNaughton & Peter Chan “Rio” Blue Sky Studios #21 - Storyboarding in a Television Production Barry W. Johnson “Prep & Landing: Naughty vs. Nice” Walt Disney Animation Studios Benton Connor “Regular Show” Cartoon Network Studios Brian Kesinger “Prep & Landing: Naughty vs. Nice” Walt Disney Animation Studios Dave Thomas “TUFF Puppy” Nickelodeon Fred Gonzalez “TUFF Puppy” Nickelodeon Joe Mateo “Prep & Landing: Naughty vs. Nice” Walt Disney Animation Studios Justin Nichols “Fanboy & Chum Chum” Nickelodeon & Frederator Katie Rice “Fanboy & Chum Chum” Nickelodeon & Frederator Rebecca Sugar “Adventure Time” Cartoon Network Studios #22 - Storyboarding in a Feature Production Bob Logan “Puss In Boots” DreamWorks Animation David Gosman “Rango” Paramount Pictures & Nickelodeon Movies present A Blind Wink/GK Films Production Gary Graham “Kung Fu Panda 2” DreamWorks Animation