[Diamond Duchess]

Originally Posted by Ccook50

Last night, the Annies were doled out to the best in cartoon making over the past year. With the exception of Robot Chicken, Cartoon Network was pretty much shut out.

Winners:
Animated feature: Ratatouille
Home Entertainment Production: Futurama: Bender's Big Score
Animated Short Subject: Your Friend, The Rat (Pixar)
Animated TV commercial: Power Shares Escape Average
Television Production: Creature Comforts America
Animated TV production for children: El Tigre (Nickelodeon)
Animated Video Game: Ratatouille
Animated Effects: Surf's Up (Deborah Carlson winner)
Animation Production Artist: Surf's Up (John Clark winner)
Character Animation, feature production: Ratatouille (Michal Makarewicz winner)
Character Animation, TV production: Robot Chicken (Eric Towner winner)
Character design, feature production: Ratatouille (Carter Goodrich winner)
Character design, TV production: El Tigre "Fistful Of Collars" (Jorge R. Gutierrez winner)
Direction, feature production: Ratatouille (Brad Bird winner)
Direction, TV production: Robot Chicken Star Wars (Seth Green winner)
Music, feature production: Ratatouille (Michael Giacchino winner)
Music, TV production: The Simpsons, "Yokel Chords" (Alf Clausen, Michael Price winners)
Production Design, feature production: Ratatouille (Harley Jessup winner)
Storyboard, feature production: Ratatouille (Ted Mathot winner)
Storyboard, TV production: Family Guy, "No Chris Left Behind" (Steve Fonti winner)
Voice acting, feature production: Ratatouille (Ian Holm, voice of Skinner, winner)
Voice acting, TV production: The Emperor's New School, "Emperor's New Musical" (Eartha Kitt, voice of Yzma, winner)
Writing, feature production: Ratatouille (Brad Bird winner)
Writing, TV production: The Simpsons, "24 Minutes" (Ian Maxtone-Graham and Billy Kimball winners)

John Canemaker, John Kricfalusi and Jerry Beck all received special Annies for contributions to animation.

Annies were doled out to the best in cartoon making over the past year...and Ratatouille won about 11 awards. Good call, good call.

I can live with the results. Some choices were good, some not so good, but that's the way the medium of animation goes, so that's fine.

Congratulations to El Tigre, Futurama and Creature Comforts for snagging awards this year. Other the rat movie, I believe those were good choices.

However, I'd have liked to see Chowder be nominated. It did come out last year (albeit near the end of it), and I think it's a fabulous, quirky show. Ah, well. Maybe next year.