Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards And Annie Awards Nominations Announced
By Chris Evangelista/Dec. 5, 2017 7:30 am EST
Every year, the wonderful world of film becomes tantamount to a team sport as critic orgs and more pick and choose winners for the best of the year. As always, it’s important to remember that award winning is subjective – just because a film you may cherish is overlooked come awards season, it doesn’t mean the film is a dud. You’re allowed to herald whatever movie you may see fit, folks. Instead, award season is an excuse to celebrate a specific group of films. The important thing is to have fun. In other words, don’t take this stuff too seriously.
PICTURE: “Call Me by Your Name”
Runner-up: “The Florida Project”
DIRECTOR: Guillermo del Toro, “The Shape of Water” and Luca Guadagnino, “Call Me by Your Name” (tie)
ACTOR: Timothée Chalamet, “Call Me by Your Name”
Runner-up: James Franco, “The Disaster Artist”
ACTRESS: Sally Hawkins, “The Shape Of Water”
Runner-up: Frances McDormand, “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri”
SUPPORTING ACTOR: Willem Dafoe, “The Florida Project”
Runner-up: Sam Rockwell, “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri”
SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Laurie Metcalf, “Lady Bird”
Runner-up: Mary J. Blige, “Mudbound”
SCREENPLAY: Jordan Peele, “Get Out”
Runner-up: Martin McDonagh, “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri”
ANIMATION: “The Breadwinner”
Runner-up: “Coco”
FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM: “BPM” (Beats Per Minute) and “Loveless” (tie)
DOCUMENTARY / NON-FICTION FILM: “Faces Places”
Runner-up: “Jane”
NEW GENERATION: Greta Gerwig
FILM EDITING: Lee Smith, “Dunkirk”
Runner-up: Tatiana S. Riegel, “I, Tonya”
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Dan Laustsen, “The Shape of Water”
Runner-up: Roger Deakins, “Blade Runner 2049”
PRODUCTION DESIGN: Dennis Gassner, “Blade Runner 2049”
Runner-up: Paul D. Austerberry, “The Shape of Water”
MUSIC/SCORE: Jonny Greenwood, “Phantom Thread”
Runner-up: Alexandre Desplat, “The Shape of Water”
DOUGLAS E. EDWARDS INDEPENDENT/EXPERIMENTAL FILM/VIDEO: “Purge This Land” from director Lee Anne Schmitt
CAREER ACHIEVEMENT: Max von Sydow
Annie Award Nominees
Best Animated Feature
“Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie”
DreamWorks Animation
“Cars 3?
Pixar Animation Studios
“Coco”
“Despicable Me 3?
Illumination
“The Boss Baby”
Best Animated Feature-Independent
“In This Corner of the World”
Taro Maki, GENCO, Inc. and Masao Maruyama, MAPPA Co., Ltd
“Loving Vincent”
BreakThru Films, Production Company Trademark Films, Co-Production Company
“Napping Princess”
Nippon TV
Folivari/Panique!/Studiocanal
“The Breadwinner”
Cartoon Saloon/Aircraft Pictures/Melusine Productions
Best Animated Special Production
Imaginary Friend Society “Feeling Sad”
Hornet
“Olaf’s Frozen Adventure”
Walt Disney Animation Studios
“Pig: The Dam Keeper Poems”
Tonko House, Inc.
“Revolting Rhymes”
Magic Light Pictures
“Tangled Before Ever After”
Walt Disney Television Animation
Best Animated Short Subject
“Dear Basketball”
Glen Keane Productions, Kobe Studios, Believe Entertainment Group
“Hedgehog’s Home”
National Film Board of Canada, Bonobostudio
“Negative Space”
IKKI Films/Manuel Cam Studio
“Scavengers”
Titmouse, Inc./Adult Swim
“Son of Jaguar”
Google Spotlight Stories, Reel FX
Best Animated Television/Broadcast Commercial
“Biscotti. Una storia buona”
“June”
Broad Reach Pictures/Chromosphere/Lyft
“League of Legends ‘Legends Never Die’”
Passion Animation Studios
“Please the Cheese”
Psyop
“Sainsbury’s ‘The Greatest Gift’”
Best Animated Television/Broadcast Production For Preschool Children
“Mickey and the Roadster Racers” / Episode: Goofy Gas!
“Octonauts” / Episode: Operation Deep Freeze
Vampire Squid Productions Limited, a Silvergate Media company, in association with Brown Bag Films
“Peg + Cat, The Mariachi Problem” / Episode: 220B, The Mariachi Problem
The Fred Rogers Company/100 Chickens Productions
“The Stinky & Dirty Show” / Episode: HaHaHigher / The Waiting Game
“Through the Woods” / Episode: A Snowy Morning
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, The Fred Rogers Company, PIP Animation Services
Best Animated Television/Broadcast Production For Children
“Buddy Thunderstruck” / Episode: To Protect and Swerve / Robo Truck of the Future
Stoopid Buddy and American Greetings for Netflix
“Lost in Oz” / Episode: The Pearl of Pingaree
“Niko and the Sword of Light” / Episode: From the Cliffs of Catastrophe to the Pools of Destiny
“Tangled: The Series” / Episode: Queen for a Day
“We Bare Bears” / Episode: Panda’s Art
Cartoon Network Animation Studios
Best General Audience Animated Television/Broadcast Production
“Big Mouth” / Episode: Am I Gay?
Netflix
“BoJack Horseman” / Episode: Stupid Piece of Sh*t
Tornante Productions, LLC for Netflix
“Rick and Morty” / Episode: 303 -“Pickle Rick”
Williams Street Productions
“Robot Chicken” / Episode: Freshly Baked: The Robot Chicken Santa Claus Pot Cookie Freakout Special: Special Edition
Stoopid Buddy Stoodios
“Samurai Jack” / Episode: XCIII
Adult Swim
Best Student Film
“Cradle”
Devon Manney
“Elsewhere”
Junyi Xiao
“Good Night, Everybuds!”
Director: Benedikt Hummel, Sound Design & Mix: Lena Beck, Music: Andreas Pfeiffer, Producer: Stefan Michel
“Once a hero”
Xia Li
“Poles Apart”
Director: Paloma Baeza; Producer: Ser En Low, All Student Crew
Animated Effects in an Animated Production
“Avatar Flight of Passage”
VFX Supervisor: Thrain Shadbolt Sr.; Richard Baneham; Compositing Supervisor: Sam Cole; CG Supervisor: Pavani Rao Boddapati; Daniele Tosti
“Cars 3”
Development & Effects Artist: Amit Baadkar; Effects Lead: Greg Gladstone; Stephen Marshall; Tim Speltz; Effects Supervisor: Jon Reisch
Effects Artist: Shaun Galinak; Jason Johnston; Carl Kaphan; Effects Lead: Dave Hale; Keith Daniel Klohn
“Despicable Me 3”
Computer Graphics Supervisor: Bruno Chauffard; Frank Baradat; Lighting & Compositing Supervisor: Nicolas Brack; Effects Supervisor: Milo Riccarand
Head of Effects: Christopher Hendryx; Effects Animator: Dan Lund; Mike Navarro; Hiroaki Narita; Steven Chitwood
Character Animation in an Animated Television / Broadcast Production
“DreamWorks Trolls Holiday”
Character Animator: Kevan Shorey (Character: All Characters)
Lead Animator: Ben Willis (Character: All Characters)
Character Animator: Onur Yeldan (Character: All Characters)
“Trollhunters” / Episode: 205 – “Homecoming”
Character Animator: Bruno Chiou; Yi-Fan Cho (Character: Blinky, Dictatious, Aaarrrgghh!!); Lead Animator: Kevin Jong; Chun-Jung Chu (Character: Blinky, Dictatious, Aaarrrgghh!!)
“Tumble Leaf” / Episode: Rutabagels / Okra-Ball
Character Animator: Michael Granberry (Character: Maple, Fig, Stick and Okra); Joe Heinen (Character: Fig, Gourd, Coco, Maple, Pine, Zucchini, Okra, Grubs, Chicks and Beetle Bus); Rachel Larsen (Character: Coco, Pine, Maple, Fig, Stick and Okra); Hilary Lile (Character: Maple, Fig and Okra); Dan MacKenzie (Character: Pine, Fig, Gourd, Rutabaga, Beetles, Coco, Okra and Maple)
Character Animation in an Animated Feature Production
Animator: John Chun Chiu Lee (Character: All characters)
Animator: Allison Rutland (Character: All characters)
Animator: Marco Nguyen (Character: all characters in scene); Directing Animator: Benjamin Renner (Character: all characters in scene); Supervising Animator: Patrick Imbert (Character: all characters in scene)
Animation Supervisor: Bryce McGovern (Character: various)
Animation Supervisor: Rani Naamani (Character: various)
Character Animation in a Live Action Production
“Game of Thrones” / S7 Ep.6 Beyond The Wall
Animation Supervisor: Paul Story; Animation Lead: Todd Labonte; Creatures Lead: Matthew Muntean; Senior Modeller: Cajun Hylton; Texture Artist: Georgy Arevshatov
“Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2”
Animation Supervisor: Arslan Elver; Lead Animator: Liam Russell; Alvise Avati; Alessandro Cuicci
“Kong: Skull Island”
Animation Supervisor: Jance Rubinchik; Animation Lead: Adrian Millington; Animator: Alberto Martinez Arce; Kyle Winkelman
“Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets”
Senior Facial Modeller: Andrei Coval; Animation Supervisor: Paul Story; Eric Reynolds; Shader TD: Olivier Lesaint; Shader TD: Artur Vill
“War for the Planet of the Apes”
Animation Supervisor: Daniel Barrett; Sidney Kombo Kintombo; Emile Ghorayeb; Lead Motion Editor: Luisma Lavin Peredo; Lead Facial Modeller: Alessandro Bonora
Character Animation in a Video Game
“Cuphead”
Lead Animator: Hanna Abi-Hanna (Characters: The Devil, Grim Matchstick, Beppi The Clown, Werner Werman)
Lead Animator: Tina Nawrocki (Characters: Baroness Von Bon Bon, Hopus Pocus, Pirouletta, Giant, Tipsy Troupe, Lobster, Porkrind, Dragonfly, The Devil – DEATH)
“Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice”
Character Animator: Chris Goodall; Jitaik Lim; Kirill Spiridonov (Character: Senua)
“Horizon Zero Dawn”
Lead Animator: Richard Oud (Character: All mechanical creatures); Kevin Quaid (Character: All humanoids); Character Animator: Niek Neervens; Jonathan Colin (Character: All humanoids); Character Animator: Peer Lemmers (Character: All mechanical creatures)
“Uncharted: The Lost Legacy”
Lead Animator: Almundena Soria; Keith Paciello; Paul Augustus Davies (Character: All Characters);
Character Design in an Animated Television / Broadcast Production
“Buddy Thunderstruck” / Episode: Buddy Double / Beaver Dam Fast Pizza
Character Designer: Ryan Wiesbrock; Becky van Cleve; Rob Ronning; Nikki Rice Malki; Felicia Bleu Rose (Character: Buddy Thunderstruck, Darnell, Moneybags, Big Tex, Jacko + all other characters)
“Danger & Eggs” / Episode: Tube of Pain / Broccoli
Character Design: Mike Owens (Character: Phillip)
“Samurai Jack” / Episode: XCVI
Character Design: Craig Kellman (Character: Various)
“Tangled: The Series” / Episode: Tangled Before Ever After
Co-Executive Producer: Shane Prigmore (Character: Rapunzel, Eugene, Maximus, Cassandra); Character Designer: Bobby Pontillas (Character: King Frederick, Queen Arianna, Landy Caine, Fidella); Character Designer: Taylor Krahenbuhl (Character: Pub Thugs); Character Designer: Mayumi Nose (Character: Pascal)
“Trollhunters” / Episode: Ep 201 – “Escape from the Darklands”
Character Designer: Jules Rigolle; Alfredo Torres (Character: Goblins, Dictatious, Enrique, Gum Gums, Gunmar, Queen Usurna, Nyarlagroth); Lead Texture Artist: Linda Chen (Character: Goblins, Dictatious, Enrique, Gum Gums, Gunmar, Queen Usurna, Nyarlagroth); Art Director: Rustam Hasanov (Character: Gunmar, Goblins and Gumm Gumms); Color Key Artist: Alfonso Blaas (Character: Enrique, Goblins, Queen Usurna, Nyarlagroth, Gumm Gumms)
Character Design in an Animated Feature Production
Character Art Director: Daniel Arriaga (Character: All characters); Additional Character Art Direction: Daniela Strijleva (Character: All characters); Character Design/Sculptor: Greg Dykstra (Character: All characters); Character Modeller: Alonso Martinez (Character: All characters); Character Designer: Zaruhi Galstyan (Character: All characters)
Character Designer: Eric Guillon (Character: All, Balthazar Bratt, Dru, Gru, Minions, Valerie Da Vinci, Gru’s Mom, Vincenzo, Freedonians)
“Smurfs: The Lost Village”
Character Designer: Patrick Mate (Character: Multiple Characters)
Character Designer: Joe Moshier (Character: Various)
Character Design: Reza Riahi (Character: Story World Characters/Rough Design); Character Design: Louise Bagnall (Character: Story World Characters/Clean Character Design); Concept Artist/Character Texture Artist: Alice Dieudonné (Character: Story World Characters/Texture Design)
Directing in an Animated Television / Broadcast Production
“Disney Mickey Mouse” / Episode: The Scariest Story Ever: A Mickey Mouse Halloween Spooktacular!
Director: Dave Wasson; Director: Eddie Trigueros; Director: Alonso Ramirez-Ramos
“Dragons: Race to the Edge” / Episode: Sandbusted
Director: T.J. Sullivan
Director: Tom Caulfield; Director: Stephen Sandoval
“The Simpsons – Treehouse of Horror XXVIII”
Director: Timothy Bailey
“Trollhunters” / Episode: Ep 211 – “Unbecoming”
Director: Andrew Schmidt
Directing in an Animated Feature Production
Director: Lee Unkrich Pixar; Co-Director: Adrian Molina
Co-Director: Benjamin Renner; Co-Director: Patrick Imbert
Director: Tom McGrath
Director: Nora Twomey
“The LEGO Batman Movie”
Director: Chris McKay
Music in an Animated Television / Broadcast Production
Composer: Christopher Willis
“Home Adventures With Tip & Oh” / Episode: Ep 030A – “Chercophonie”
Composer: Alex Geringas
“Lego Star Wars: The Freemaker Adventures / Episode: Trouble on Tibalt
Composer: Michael Kramer
“The Powerpuff Girls” / Episode: Home, Sweet Homesick
Composer: Mike Reagan, Lyricist: Bob Boyle
“Tumble Leaf” / Episode: The Nature Of Friendship / The Ship Shop
Composer/Lyricist: Lisbeth Scott
Music in an Animated Feature Production
Composer: Theodor Shapiro
Composer: Michael Giacchino; Composer/Lyricist: Kristin Anderson-Lopez; Composer/Lyricist: Robert Lopez; Composer: Germaine Franco; Lyricist: Adrian Molina
Composer: Clint Mansell
Composer/Lyricist: Elyssa Samsel; Kate Anderson; Composer: Christophe Beck
Composer: Mychael Danna; Jeff Danna
Production Design in an Animated Television / Broadcast Production
“Big Hero 6 The Series” / Episode: Baymax Returns
Production Design: Ben Plouffe; Mark Taihei; Chris Whittier; Sylvia Filcak; Amy Chen
Production Design: Jenny Gase-Baker; Justin Martin
Production Design: Jasmin Lai; Théo Guignard; Arthur Chaumay; Tiffany Ford; Sylvia Liu
Production Design: Scott Wills
“The Loud House” / Episode: “Tricked!”
Production Design: Amanda Rynda; Larry Murphy; Edgar Duncan; Hallie Wilson; Jared Morgan
Production Design in an Animated Feature Production
Production Design: Harley Jessup; Danielle Feinberg; Bryn Imagire; Nathaniel McLaughlin; Ernesto Nemesio; Tom Cardone; Arden Chan
“Ferdinand”
Production Design: Andrew Hickson; Mike Lee; Jason Sadler
“LEAP!”
Production Design: Florent Masurel; Pierre-Antoine Moelo; Julien Meillard; Jean-Jacques Cournoyer
“Mary and The Witch’s Flower”
Production Design: Tomotaka Kubo; Tomoya Imai; Satoko Nakamura
Production Design: Ciaran Duffy; Julien Regnard; Daby Zainab Faidhi
Storyboarding in an Animated Television / Broadcast Production
“Disney Mickey Mouse” / Episode: Bee Inspired
Storyboard Artist: Eddie Trigueros
“Home for the Holidays” / Episode: Ep 900 – “Tip and Oh: Home for the Holidays”
Storyboard Artist: Ben Bury
“Niko and the Sword of Light” / Episode: From the Phantom Woods to the Mountains of Misery
Storyboard Artist: Kim Arndt; Alexandria Kwan
“Trollhunters” / Episode: 205 – “Hero with a Thousand Faces”
Storyboard Artist: David Woo
“Trollhunters” / Episode: 213 – “In the Hall of the Gumm-Gumm King”
Storyboard Artist: Hyunjoo Song
Storyboarding in an Animated Feature Production
Storyboard Artist: Dean Kelly
Storyboard Artist: Madeline Sharafian
Storyboard Artist: Glenn Harmon
Storyboard Artist: Julien Regnard
“The Star”
Storyboard Artist: Louie del Carmen
Voice Acting in an Animated Television / Broadcast Production
“BoJack Horseman” / Episode: Time’s Arrow
Wendie Malick as Beatrice Horseman
“Bunsen Is a Beast”
Jeremy Rowley as Bunsen
Chris Diamantopoulos as Mickey Mouse
“SpongeBob SquarePants”
Tom Kenny as SpongeBob SquarePants
“The Amazing World of Gumball” / Episode: The Grades
Nicolas Cantu as Gumball
Voice Acting in an Animated Feature Production
Nick Kroll as Professor Poopypants
Anthony Gonzalez as Miguel
“The Breadwinner "
Saara Chaudry as Parvana
Laara Sadiq as Fattema
Zach Galifianakis as JokerWriting in an Animated Television / Broadcast Production
“Archer” / Episode: Archer Dreamland: Jane Doe
Writer: Adam Reed
“Disney Mickey Mouse” / Episode: Locked in Love
Writer: Darrick Bachman
“Milo Murphy’s Law” / Episode: The Island of the Lost Dakotas
Writer: Joshua Pruett
“Rick and Morty” / Episode: 307 – “The Ricklantis Mixup”
Writer: Ryan Ridley; Dan Guterman
“Trollhunters” / Episode: 201 – “Escape from the Darklands”
Writer: AC Bradley; Kevin Hageman; Dan Hageman; Aaron Waltke; Chad Quandt
Writing in an Animated Feature Production
Writer: Adrian Molina; Matthew Aldrich
Writer: Dorota Kobiela; Hugh Welchman; Jacek Dehnel
Writer: Riko Sakaguchi; Hiromasa Yonebayashi; David Freedman; Lynda Freedman
Writer: Anita Doron
Editorial in an Animated Television / Broadcast Production
“Bob’s Burgers” / Episode: Bob, Actually
Mark Seymour; Chuck Smith; Eric Davidson
Jose Martinez
“Dinotrux” / Episode: Ep 053 – “Superchargers”
William Rinaldi; Justin Baker
“Pickle and Peanut” / Episode: Bear-I-cade
John Royer
“Samurai Jack” / Episode: XCIII, XCIV, XCIX
Paul Douglas
Editorial in an Animated Feature Production
Steve Bloom; Lee Unkrich; Greg Snyder; Tim Fox
Harry Hitner; Tim Nordquist
Darragh Byrne
David Burrows; Matt Villa; John Venzon
Pamela Ziegenhagen
