Best Animated Feature

• Kung Fu Panda
  Kung Fu Panda
  Kung Fu Panda is a 2008 American computer-animated action comedy film produced by DreamWorks Animation and distributed by Paramount Pictures...
  
  
  • Bolt
  • $9.99
    $9.99
    $9.99 is a 2008 Australian/Israeli stop motion film written and directed by Tatia Rosenthal, with the screenplay by Etgar Keret. This film marks the third collaboration between Rosenthal and Keret...
    
    
  • WALL-E
    WALL-E
    WALL-E, promoted with an interpunct as WALL•E, is a 2008 American computer-animated science fiction film produced by Pixar Animation Studios and directed by Andrew Stanton. The story follows a robot named WALL-E, who is designed to clean up a waste-covered Earth far in the future...
    
    
  • Waltz with Bashir
    Waltz with Bashir
    Waltz with Bashir is a 2008 Israeli animated documentary film written and directed by Ari Folman. It depicts Folman in search of his lost memories from the 1982 Lebanon War....
    
    

Annie Award for Best Home Entertainment Production

• Futurama: The Beast with a Billion Backs
  Futurama: The Beast with a Billion Backs
  Futurama: The Beast with a Billion Backs is an animated science-fiction comedy film, the second of the four Futurama straight-to-DVD films. The film was released in the United States and Canada on June 24, 2008, followed by a UK release on June 30, 2008 and an Australian release on August 6, 2008....
  
  
  • Batman: Gotham Knight
    Batman: Gotham Knight
    is a 2008 direct-to-DVD animated superhero anthology film of six animated short films set in-between Batman Begins and The Dark Knight. It depicts Batman battling against the mob of Gotham City, as well as other villains...
    
    
  • Christmas Is Here Again
    Christmas Is Here Again
    Christmas Is Here Again is a 2007 animated Christmas film released on DVD by Screen Media Films. The first feature production from the Renegade Animation studio, it was co-written, co-produced and directed by Robert Zappia...
    
    
  • Justice League: The New Frontier
  • The Little Mermaid: Ariel's Beginning
    The Little Mermaid: Ariel's Beginning
    The Little Mermaid: Ariel's Beginning is a 2008 Disney animated feature film, and the direct-to-video prequel to the 1989 film The Little Mermaid...
    
    

Annie Award for Best Animated Short Subject

• Wallace & Gromit: A Matter of Loaf and Death
  • Glago's Guest
    Glago's Guest
    Glago's Guest is a 2008 Walt Disney Animation Studios computer animated short film directed by Chris Williams. The film premiered at the Annecy International Animated Film Festival in June 2008.....
    
    
  • Hot Dog
    Hot dog
    A hot dog is a sausage served in a sliced bun. It is very often garnished with mustard, ketchup, onions, mayonnaise, relish and/or sauerkraut.-History:...
    
    
  • Presto
    Presto (film)
    Presto is a 2008 American Pixar computer-animated short film shown in theaters before their feature length film WALL-E. The short is about a magician trying to perform a show with his uncooperative rabbit and is a gag-filled homage to classic cartoons such as Tom and Jerry and Looney Tunes...
    
    
  • Sebastian’s Voodoo

• Robot Chicken: Star Wars Episode II
  • King of the Hill
    King of the Hill
    King of the Hill is an American animated dramedy series created by Mike Judge and Greg Daniels, that ran from January 12, 1997, to May 6, 2010, on Fox network. It centers on the Hills, a working-class Methodist family in the fictional small town of Arlen, Texas...
    
    
  • Moral Orel
    Moral Orel
    Moral Orel is an American stop-motion animated television show, which originally aired on Adult Swim from December 13, 2005 to December 18, 2008...
    
    
  • Phineas and Ferb
    Phineas and Ferb
    Phineas and Ferb is an American animated television comedy series. Originally broadcast as a preview on August 17, 2007, on Disney Channel, the series follows Phineas Flynn and his English stepbrother Ferb Fletcher on summer vacation. Every day the boys embark on some grand new project, which...
    
    
  • The Simpsons
    The Simpsons
    The Simpsons is an American animated sitcom created by Matt Groening for the Fox Broadcasting Company. The series is a satirical parody of a middle class American lifestyle epitomized by its family of the same name, which consists of Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa and Maggie...
    
    

• Avatar: The Last Airbender
  Avatar: The Last Airbender
  Avatar: The Last Airbender is an American animated television series that aired for three seasons on Nickelodeon from 2005 to 2008. The series was created and produced by Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko, who served as executive producers along with Aaron Ehasz...
  
  – Nickelodeon
  Nickelodeon (TV channel)
  Nickelodeon, often simply called Nick and originally named Pinwheel, is an American children's channel owned by MTV Networks, a subsidiary of Viacom International. The channel is primarily aimed at children ages 7–17, with the exception of their weekday morning program block aimed at preschoolers...
  
  
  • A Miser Brothers' Christmas
    A Miser Brothers' Christmas
    A Miser Brothers' Christmas is a stop motion spin-off special based on the characters from 1974 Rankin-Bass special The Year Without a Santa Claus. Produced by Warner Bros...
    
    – Warner Bros.
    Warner Bros.
    Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc., also known as Warner Bros. Pictures or simply Warner Bros. , is an American producer of film and television entertainment.One of the major film studios, it is a subsidiary of Time Warner, with its headquarters in Burbank,...
    
    
  • Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends
    Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends
    Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends is an American animated television series created and produced at Cartoon Network Studios by animator Craig McCracken, creator of The Powerpuff Girls. It first premiered on Cartoon Network on August 13, 2004, as a 90-minute television movie, which led to a series...
    
    – Cartoon Network
    Cartoon Network
    Cartoon Network is a name of television channels worldwide created by Turner Broadcasting which used to primarily show animated programming. The channel began broadcasting on October 1, 1992 in the United States....
    
    
  • Underfist: Halloween Bash
    Underfist: Halloween Bash
    Underfist is a spin-off special of The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy. It aired on October 12, 2008. It tied as the number 1 program for the week among all broadcast and basic cable networks with boys 6-11, and earned between 19% and 76% growth across all kid demos...
    
    – Cartoon Network
    Cartoon Network
    Cartoon Network is a name of television channels worldwide created by Turner Broadcasting which used to primarily show animated programming. The channel began broadcasting on October 1, 1992 in the United States....
    
    
  • The Mighty B!
    The Mighty B!
    The Mighty B! is an American animated television series co-created by Amy Poehler, Cynthia True and Erik Wiese for Nickelodeon. The series centers on Bessie Higgenbottom, an ambitious Honeybee girlscout that believes she will become a superhero called the Mighty B if she collects every Honeybee badge...
    
    – Nickelodeon
    Nickelodeon (TV channel)
    Nickelodeon, often simply called Nick and originally named Pinwheel, is an American children's channel owned by MTV Networks, a subsidiary of Viacom International. The channel is primarily aimed at children ages 7–17, with the exception of their weekday morning program block aimed at preschoolers...
    
    

Annie Award for Best Animated Video Game

• Kung Fu Panda
  Kung Fu Panda (video game)
  Kung Fu Panda is a video game loosely based on the film of the same name. The game was released across various platforms in June, 2008.-Plot:The game revolves around the 24 year-old Po, a giant panda, who dreams of becoming a great Kung Fu fighter...
  
  
  • Dead Space
    Dead Space (video game)
    Dead Space is a survival horror third-person shooter video game, developed by EA Redwood Shores for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. The game was made available on Steam on October 20, 2008...
    
    
  • WALL-E
    WALL-E (video game)
    WALL-E is the video game adaptation of the movie of the same name. The game was developed and published by THQ for multiple platforms. The game was released in North America on June 24, 2008, to Europe on July 4, 2008 and Australia on September 4, 2008...
    
    

Animated Effects

• Li-Ming Lawrence Lee - Kung Fu Panda
  Kung Fu Panda
  Kung Fu Panda is a 2008 American computer-animated action comedy film produced by DreamWorks Animation and distributed by Paramount Pictures...
  
  
  • Alen Lai - Dr. Seuss’ Horton Hears A Who
    Horton Hears a Who! (film)
    Horton Hears a Who!, also known as Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who!, is a 2008 American CGI-animated comedy feature film based on the Dr. Seuss book of the same name. It is the fourth feature film from Blue Sky Studios, and the third feature film based on a Dr. Seuss book, following How the Grinch...
    
    
  • Fangwei Lee - Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa
  • Kevin Lee - Bolt
  • Enrique Vila - Wall-E
    WALL-E
    WALL-E, promoted with an interpunct as WALL•E, is a 2008 American computer-animated science fiction film produced by Pixar Animation Studios and directed by Andrew Stanton. The story follows a robot named WALL-E, who is designed to clean up a waste-covered Earth far in the future...
    
    

• James Baxter – Kung Fu Panda
  Kung Fu Panda
  Kung Fu Panda is a 2008 American computer-animated action comedy film produced by DreamWorks Animation and distributed by Paramount Pictures...
  
  
  • Jeff Gabor – Dr. Seuss’ Horton Hears A Who
    Horton Hears a Who! (film)
    Horton Hears a Who!, also known as Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who!, is a 2008 American CGI-animated comedy feature film based on the Dr. Seuss book of the same name. It is the fourth feature film from Blue Sky Studios, and the third feature film based on a Dr. Seuss book, following How the Grinch...
    
    
  • Philippe Le Brun – Kung Fu Panda
  • Victor Navone – Wall-E
    WALL-E
    WALL-E, promoted with an interpunct as WALL•E, is a 2008 American computer-animated science fiction film produced by Pixar Animation Studios and directed by Andrew Stanton. The story follows a robot named WALL-E, who is designed to clean up a waste-covered Earth far in the future...
    
    
  • Dan Wagner – Kung Fu Panda

Character Animation in a Television Production

• Pierre Perifel - Secrets of the Furious Five
  Secrets of the Furious Five
  Kung Fu Panda: Secrets of the Furious Five is an Annie Award-winning animated short produced by DreamWorks Animation which serves as a semi-sequel to the animated feature film Kung Fu Panda and appears on a companion disc of the original film's deluxe DVD release...
  
  
  • Sandro Cleuzo - Secrets of the Furious Five
    Secrets of the Furious Five
    Kung Fu Panda: Secrets of the Furious Five is an Annie Award-winning animated short produced by DreamWorks Animation which serves as a semi-sequel to the animated feature film Kung Fu Panda and appears on a companion disc of the original film's deluxe DVD release...
    
    
  • Joshua A. Jennings - Robot Chicken: Star Wars Episode II

• Nico Marlet - Kung Fu Panda
  Kung Fu Panda
  Kung Fu Panda is a 2008 American computer-animated action comedy film produced by DreamWorks Animation and distributed by Paramount Pictures...
  
  
  • Valerie Hadida - Igor (film)
    Igor (film)
    Igor is a 2008 computer animated family comedy film about the stock character Igor. The plot revolves around the grotesque title figure Igor and his dreams of winning first place at the Evil Science Fair. The movie was released on September 19, 2008...
    
    
  • Sang Jun Lee - Dr. Seuss’ Horton Hears A Who
    Horton Hears a Who! (film)
    Horton Hears a Who!, also known as Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who!, is a 2008 American CGI-animated comedy feature film based on the Dr. Seuss book of the same name. It is the fourth feature film from Blue Sky Studios, and the third feature film based on a Dr. Seuss book, following How the Grinch...
    
    

Character Design in an Animated Television Production

• Nico Marlet - Secrets of the Furious Five
  Secrets of the Furious Five
  Kung Fu Panda: Secrets of the Furious Five is an Annie Award-winning animated short produced by DreamWorks Animation which serves as a semi-sequel to the animated feature film Kung Fu Panda and appears on a companion disc of the original film's deluxe DVD release...
  
  
  • Bryan Arnett – Mighty B! - “Bat Mitzah Crashers”
  • Ben Balistreri - Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends
    Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends
    Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends is an American animated television series created and produced at Cartoon Network Studios by animator Craig McCracken, creator of The Powerpuff Girls. It first premiered on Cartoon Network on August 13, 2004, as a 90-minute television movie, which led to a series...
    
    - “Mondo Coco”
  • Sean Galloway - The Spectacular Spider-Man
    The Spectacular Spider-Man
    The Spectacular Spider-Man is the name of several comic books and one magazine series starring Marvel Comics' Spider-Man.The character's main series, The Amazing Spider-Man, was extremely successful, and Marvel felt the character could support more than one title. This led the company in 1968 to...
    
    
  • Jorge Gutierrez
    Jorge Gutiérrez
    Jorge Gutiérrez Espinosa is a former boxer from Cuba. He won the Middleweight Gold medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics.Gutiérrez's Olympic results were:*Defeated Somchai Chimlum 20-11...
    
     – El Tigre: The Adventures of Manny Rivera
    El Tigre: The Adventures of Manny Rivera
    El Tigre: The Adventures of Manny Rivera is Nickelodeon's first ever flash animation series produced for Nickelodeon and Nicktoons Network. The first screening of the show was on January 19, 2007 in the first ever Nickelodeon Creative Summit held in San Juan, Puerto Rico as a special treat for the...
    
    - “The Good, The Bad, The Tigre”

• John Stevenson
  John Stevenson
  -Military:*John Dunlap Stevenson, Union Civil War general*John D. Stevenson *John H. Stevenson , member of the American Navy during the American Civil War and the Spanish-American War-Politicians:...
  
   and Mark Osborne
  Mark Osborne (filmmaker)
  Mark Randolph Osborne is an American film director, writer, producer, animator and Guggenheim Fellow .-Biography:He got his start by studying Foundation Art at Pratt Institute in New York before receiving his Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree in Experimental Animation from the California Institute of...
  
   - Kung Fu Panda
  Kung Fu Panda
  Kung Fu Panda is a 2008 American computer-animated action comedy film produced by DreamWorks Animation and distributed by Paramount Pictures...
  
  
  • Sam Fell
    Sam Fell
    Sam Fell is a British film director, screenwriter, voice actor and animator.Sam started his career as director on the short film The Big Cheese for 3 Peach Animation...
    
     and Rob Stevenhagen The Tale Of Despereaux
    The Tale of Despereaux (film)
    The Tale of Despereaux is a 2008 computer-animated film directed by Sam Fell and Robert Stevenhagen. Loosely based on the 2003 fantasy book of the same name by Kate DiCamillo, the movie is narrated by Sigourney Weaver and stars Matthew Broderick and Emma Watson...
    
    
  • Ari Folman
    Ari Folman
    Ari Folman is an Israeli film director, screenwriter and film score composer.-Biography:Ari Folman was born in Haifa to Holocaust survivors. His wife is also a film director...
    
     - Waltz with Bashir
    Waltz with Bashir
    Waltz with Bashir is a 2008 Israeli animated documentary film written and directed by Ari Folman. It depicts Folman in search of his lost memories from the 1982 Lebanon War....
    
    
  • Tatia Rosenthal
    Tatia Rosenthal
    Tatia Rosenthal is an animator and film director born in Tel Aviv, Israel.She served two years in the Israeli Defense Force, tried her hand at medical school and studied photography in Paris, before moving to New York City to attend the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University.She...
    
     - $9.99
    $9.99
    $9.99 is a 2008 Australian/Israeli stop motion film written and directed by Tatia Rosenthal, with the screenplay by Etgar Keret. This film marks the third collaboration between Rosenthal and Keret...
    
    
  • Andrew Stanton
    Andrew Stanton
    Andrew Stanton is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, and occasional voice actor based at Pixar Animation Studios. His film work includes writing and directing Finding Nemo and WALL-E; both films earned him the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature.-Life and career:Stanton was...
    
     - WALL-E
    WALL-E
    WALL-E, promoted with an interpunct as WALL•E, is a 2008 American computer-animated science fiction film produced by Pixar Animation Studios and directed by Andrew Stanton. The story follows a robot named WALL-E, who is designed to clean up a waste-covered Earth far in the future...
    
    

Directing in an Animated Television Production

• Joaquim Dos Santos
  Joaquim Dos Santos
  Joaquim Dos Santos is an American television director of animated cartoons, best known for his directing work on Justice League Unlimited and Avatar: The Last Airbender. He was a storyboard artist for Justice League before being promoted in the show's renamed third season...
  
   – Avatar: The Last Airbender
  Avatar: The Last Airbender
  Avatar: The Last Airbender is an American animated television series that aired for three seasons on Nickelodeon from 2005 to 2008. The series was created and produced by Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko, who served as executive producers along with Aaron Ehasz...
  
  - “Sozin’s Comet: Into the Inferno”
  • Bob Anderson
    Bob Anderson (director)
    Bob Anderson is an animation director on The Simpsons. He also contributed additional sequence direction on The Simpsons Movie....
    
     - The Simpsons
    The Simpsons
    The Simpsons is an American animated sitcom created by Matt Groening for the Fox Broadcasting Company. The series is a satirical parody of a middle class American lifestyle epitomized by its family of the same name, which consists of Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa and Maggie...
    
    - “Treehouse of Horror XIX
    Treehouse of Horror XIX
    "Treehouse of Horror XIX" is the fourth episode of the twentieth season of The Simpsons. It first aired on the Fox network in the United States on November 2, 2008...
    
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  • Craig McCracken
    Craig McCracken
    Craig McCracken is an American animator and creator of The Powerpuff Girls and Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends.-Biography:...
    
     and Rob Renzetti
    Rob Renzetti
    Robert "Rob" Renzetti is an American animator and director who created the animated television series My Life as a Teenage Robot and is currently story editor on the animated television series My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic.-Background:...
    
     - Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends
    Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends
    Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends is an American animated television series created and produced at Cartoon Network Studios by animator Craig McCracken, creator of The Powerpuff Girls. It first premiered on Cartoon Network on August 13, 2004, as a 90-minute television movie, which led to a series...
    
    - “Destination Imagination”
  • Chris McKay – Moral Orel
    Moral Orel
    Moral Orel is an American stop-motion animated television show, which originally aired on Adult Swim from December 13, 2005 to December 18, 2008...
    
    - “Passing”
  • Alan Smart
    Alan Smart
    Alan Smart is an animator and an animation director best known for his work for SpongeBob SquarePants and as a director, assistant director and layout artist with The Simpsons .He also did animation for the Nickelodeon cartoons CatDog, Hey Arnold!, Rocko's Modern Life and...
    
     - SpongeBob SquarePants
    SpongeBob SquarePants
    SpongeBob SquarePants is an American animated television series, created by marine biologist and animator Stephen Hillenburg. Much of the series centers on the exploits and adventures of the title character and his various friends in the underwater city of "Bikini Bottom"...
    
    - “Penny Foolish”

Music in an Animated Feature Production

• Hans Zimmer
  Hans Zimmer
  Hans Florian Zimmer is a German film composer and music producer. He has composed music for over 100 films, including critically acclaimed film scores for The Lion King , Crimson Tide , The Thin Red Line , Gladiator , The Dark Knight and Inception .Zimmer spent the early part of his career in the...
  
   & John Powell
  John Powell
  John Powell is a British composer, best known for his scores to motion pictures. He has been based in the United States since 1997 and has composed the scores to over fifty feature films. He rose to fame in the late 1990s and 2000s, scoring numerous animated films, and collaborating with...
  
   – Kung Fu Panda
  Kung Fu Panda
  Kung Fu Panda is a 2008 American computer-animated action comedy film produced by DreamWorks Animation and distributed by Paramount Pictures...
  
  – DreamWorks Animation
  DreamWorks Animation
  DreamWorks Animation SKG, Inc. is an American animation studio based in Glendale, California that creates animated feature films, television program and online virtual worlds...
  
  
  • Kevin Manthei
    Kevin Manthei
    Kevin Manthei is a composer for film, television, and video games.-Biography:Manthei grew up in Minnesota. He played the piano in his youth and played the trumpet in high school. He graduated from the University of Minnesota with a Bachelor of Music degree in Theory and Composition. He also studied...
    
     - Batman: Gotham Knight
    Batman: Gotham Knight
    is a 2008 direct-to-DVD animated superhero anthology film of six animated short films set in-between Batman Begins and The Dark Knight. It depicts Batman battling against the mob of Gotham City, as well as other villains...
    
    - Warner Bros. Animation
    Warner Bros. Animation
    Warner Bros. Animation is the animation division of Warner Bros., a subsidiary of Time Warner. The studio is closely associated with the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies characters, among others. The studio is the successor to Warner Bros...
    
    
  • John Powell
    John Powell
    John Powell is a British composer, best known for his scores to motion pictures. He has been based in the United States since 1997 and has composed the scores to over fifty feature films. He rose to fame in the late 1990s and 2000s, scoring numerous animated films, and collaborating with...
    
     - Dr. Seuss’ Horton Hears A Who
    Horton Hears a Who! (film)
    Horton Hears a Who!, also known as Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who!, is a 2008 American CGI-animated comedy feature film based on the Dr. Seuss book of the same name. It is the fourth feature film from Blue Sky Studios, and the third feature film based on a Dr. Seuss book, following How the Grinch...
    
    - Blue Sky Studios
    Blue Sky Studios
    Blue Sky Studios is an American CGI-animation studio which specializes in high-resolution, computer-generated character animation and rendering. It is owned by 20th Century Fox and located in Greenwich, Connecticut...
    
    
  • Max Richter
    Max Richter
    Max Richter is a German-born British composer.-Biography:Richter studied composition and piano at University of Edinburgh, the Royal Academy of Music and with Luciano Berio in Florence. After finishing his studies, Richter co-founded the contemporary classical ensemble Piano Circus...
    
     – Waltz With Bashir
    Waltz with Bashir
    Waltz with Bashir is a 2008 Israeli animated documentary film written and directed by Ari Folman. It depicts Folman in search of his lost memories from the 1982 Lebanon War....
    
    – Sony Pictures Classics
    Sony Pictures Classics
    Sony Pictures Classics is an art-house film division of Sony Pictures Entertainment founded in December 1991 that distributes, produces and acquires specialty films from the United States and around the world. Its co-presidents are Michael Barker and Tom Bernard...
    
    , Bridgit Folman, Les Films D'ici, Razor Films
  • William Ross
    William Ross
    -Politicians:*William Ross, Baron Ross of Marnock , Secretary of State for Scotland in the 1960s*William Ross , merchant, ship builder and politician in Nova Scotia, Canada...
    
     – The Tale of Despereaux (film)
    The Tale of Despereaux (film)
    The Tale of Despereaux is a 2008 computer-animated film directed by Sam Fell and Robert Stevenhagen. Loosely based on the 2003 fantasy book of the same name by Kate DiCamillo, the movie is narrated by Sigourney Weaver and stars Matthew Broderick and Emma Watson...
    
    – Universal Pictures
    Universal Pictures
    -1920:* White Youth* The Flaming Disc* Am I Dreaming?* The Dragon's Net* The Adorable Savage* Putting It Over* The Line Runners-1921:* The Fire Eater* A Battle of Wits* Dream Girl* The Millionaire...
    
    

Music in an Animated Television Production or Short Form

• Henry Jackman, Hans Zimmer
  Hans Zimmer
  Hans Florian Zimmer is a German film composer and music producer. He has composed music for over 100 films, including critically acclaimed film scores for The Lion King , Crimson Tide , The Thin Red Line , Gladiator , The Dark Knight and Inception .Zimmer spent the early part of his career in the...
  
   & John Powell
  John Powell
  John Powell is a British composer, best known for his scores to motion pictures. He has been based in the United States since 1997 and has composed the scores to over fifty feature films. He rose to fame in the late 1990s and 2000s, scoring numerous animated films, and collaborating with...
  
   – “Secrets of the Furious Five” – DreamWorks Animation
  • Carl Finch
    Carl Finch
    Carl Finch is a guitarist, keyboardist, accordionist, vocalist, songwriter, and record producer who co-founded the Grammy-winning polka/dance band Brave Combo in 1979 in Denton, Texas.-Career highlights:...
    
     & Brave Combo
    Brave Combo
    Brave Combo is a polka/rock band based in Denton, Texas. Founded in 1979 by guitarist/keyboardist/accordionist Carl Finch, they have been a prominent fixture in the Texas music scene for more than twenty-five years...
    
     - Click and Clack’s “As the Wrench Turns” – CTTV Productions
  • Kevin Kiner – “Star Wars The Clone Wars: Rising Malevolence” – Lucasfilm Animation Ltd.
  • Guy Moon
    Guy Moon
    Guy Moon is an American composer. He has written music for film and animated television series, such as Johnny Bravo, Cow and Chicken, The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy , The Fairly OddParents ,, Danny Phantom, and more recently, Tak and the Power of Juju , Big Time Rush, T.U.F.F...
    
     – Back at the Barnyard “Cowman: The Uddered Avenger” – Nickelodeon/Omation
  • Guy Michelmore
    Guy Michelmore
    -Education:Michelmore was educated at the independent St John's School in Leatherhead, Surrey.-News presenter:Michelmore began reporting on Anglia TV's About Anglia before joining the BBC programme Newsroom South East in 1993. Guy left the programme to be replaced by Tim Ewart from ITN. His mother...
    
     – “Growing Up Creepie: Rockabye Freakie” – Taffy Entertainment LLC

Production Design in an Animated Feature Production

• Tang Heng “Kung Fu Panda” – DreamWorks Animation
  • Ralph Eggleston
    Ralph Eggleston
    Ralph Eggleston is an American animator, art director, storyboard artist and production designer at Pixar Animation Studios....
    
     “Wall·E” – Pixar Animation Studios
  • Paul Felix “Bolt” – Walt Disney Animation Studios
  • Evgeni Tomov “The Tale Of Despereaux” – Universal Pictures
  • Raymond Zibach “Kung Fu Panda” – DreamWorks Animation

Production Design in an Animated Television Production or Short Form

• Tang Heng “Secrets of the Furious Five” – DreamWorks Animation
  • Andy Harkness “Glago’s Guest” – Walt Disney Animation Studios
  • Seonna Hong – The Mighty B! “Bee Patients” – Nickelodeon
  • Dan Krall – Chowder “The Heavy Sleeper” – Cartoon Network Studios
  • Raymond Zibach “Secrets of the Furious Five” – DreamWorks Animation

Storyboarding in an Animated Feature Production

• Jen Yuh Nelson – “Kung Fu Panda” – DreamWorks Animation
  • Alessandro Carloni – “Kung Fu Panda” – DreamWorks Animation
  • Ronnie Del Carmen
    Ronnie del Carmen
    Ronnie del Carmen is an animation storyboard, story artist and designer. He was recently Story Supervisor on Pixar's tenth full-length computer-animated film titled Up and director of its accompanying short film on DVD, Dug's Special Mission.-Filmography:*The Untitled Pixar Movie That Takes You...
    
     – “Wall·E” – Pixar Animation Studios
  • Joe Mateo “Bolt” – Walt Disney Animation Studios
  • Rob Stevenhagen – “The Tale Of Despereaux” – Universal Pictures

Storyboarding in an Animated Television Production or Short Form

• Chris Williams “Glago’s Guest” – Walt Disney Animation Studios
  • Butch Hartman
    Butch Hartman
    Elmer Earl "Butch" Hartman IV is an American animator, executive producer, animation director, storyboard artist, voice actor, occasional singer, producer, and creator of the animated series The Fairly OddParents, Danny Phantom and T.U.F.F. Puppy.-Childhood:Hartman was born in Highland Park,...
    
     – Fairly OddParents “Mission: Responsible” – Nickelodeon
  • Andy Kelly
    Andy Kelly
    Andy Kelly is a former American football quarterback in the Arena Football League. He played in the AFL for fifteen seasons. He also played for two seasons for the Rhein Fire of the former World League of American Football....
    
     – Ni Hao, Kai-Lan “Twirly Whirly Flyers” – Nickelodeon Productions/Nelvana
  • Andy Schuhler – “Secret of the Furious Five” – DreamWorks Animation
  • Eddie Trigueros “The Mighty B! “Name Shame”– Nickelodeon

Voice Acting in an Animated Feature Production

• Dustin Hoffman
  Dustin Hoffman
  Dustin Lee Hoffman is an American actor with a career in film, television, and theatre since 1960. He has been known for his versatile portrayals of antiheroes and vulnerable characters....
  
   – Voice of Shifu – “Kung Fu Panda” – DreamWorks Animation
  • Ben Burtt
    Ben Burtt
    Benjamin "Ben" Burtt, Jr. is an American sound designer who has worked on various films including: the Star Wars and Indiana Jones film series, Invasion of the Body Snatchers , E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial , and WALL-E...
    
     – Voice of Wall·E – “Wall·E” – Pixar Animation Studios
  • James Hong
    James Hong
    James Hong is an American actor and former president of the Association of Asian/Pacific American Artists . A prolific acting veteran, Hong's career spans over 50 years and includes more than 350 roles in film, television, and video games.-Early life:Hong was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota. His...
    
     – Voice of Mr. Ping – “Kung Fu Panda” – DreamWorks Animation
  • Ian McShane
    Ian McShane
    Ian David McShane is an English actor, director, producer, voice artist, and comedian.Despite appearing in numerous films, McShane is best known for his television roles, particularly the BBC's Lovejoy and HBO's Western drama Deadwood...
    
     – Voice of Tai Lung – “Kung Fu Panda” – DreamWorks Animation
  • Mark Walton
    Mark Walton
    Mark Walton is a New Zealand born clarinettist, saxophonist, composer, arranger, and musical educator.After leaving New Zealand to study clarinet in New York and London and has been resident in Sydney, Australia, from 1985 onwards...
    
     – Voice of Rhino – “Bolt” – Walt Disney Animation Studios

Voice Acting in an Animated Television Production or Short Form

• Ahmed Best
  Ahmed Best
  Ahmed Best is an American voice actor and musician. He has won the Annie Award for Best Voice Acting in an Animated Television Production. He rose to prominence in the 2000s for providing the voice of Jar Jar Binks in the Star Wars franchise. He later turned to television, where he played Jar Jar...
  
   – Voice of Jar Jar Binks – “Robot Chicken: Star Wars Episode II” - ShadowMachine
  • Seth MacFarlane
    Seth MacFarlane
    Seth Woodbury MacFarlane is an American animator, writer, comedian, producer, actor, singer, voice actor, and director best known for creating the animated sitcoms Family Guy, American Dad! and The Cleveland Show, for which he also voices many of the shows' various characters.A native of Kent,...
    
     – Voice of Peter Griffin – Family Guy “I Dream of Jesus” – Fox TV Animation/Fuzzy Door Productions
  • Dwight Schultz
    Dwight Schultz
    William Dwight Schultz is an American stage, television, film actor, and voice artist. He is best known for his roles as Captain "Howling Mad" Murdock on the 1980s action show The A-Team, and as Reginald Barclay in Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Voyager, and the film Star Trek: First...
    
     – Voice of Mung Daal – Chowder “Apprentice Games” – Cartoon Network Studios

Writing in an Animated Feature Production

• Jon Aibel & Glenn Berger – “Kung Fu Panda” – DreamWorks Animation
  • Etan Cohen and Eric Darnell
    Eric Darnell
    Eric Darnell is an American director, writer, voice actor, songwriter and animator. He is best known for co-directing Antz with Tim Johnson, as well as co-directing Madagascar and Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa with Tom McGrath....
    
     & Tom McGrath
    Tom McGrath (animator)
    Thomas "Tom" McGrath is an American voice actor and animator who co-directed the 2005 feature Madagascar and its sequel, Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa in 2008. He has also worked as a voice actor on other DreamWorks animated features like Flushed Away in 2006 and Shrek the Third in 2007...
    
     – “Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa” – DreamWorks Animation
  • Ari Folman
    Ari Folman
    Ari Folman is an Israeli film director, screenwriter and film score composer.-Biography:Ari Folman was born in Haifa to Holocaust survivors. His wife is also a film director...
    
     – “Waltz With Bashir” – Sony Pictures Classics, Bridgit Folman, Les Films D'ici, Razor Films
  • Cinco Paul and Ken Daurio – “Dr. Seuss’ Horton Hears A Who” – Blue Sky Studios

Writing in an Animated Television Production or Short Form

• Tom Root
  Tom Root
  Tom Root is a writer, producer, director and voice actor for Robot Chicken. He has been co-nominated for an Emmy Award for Robot Chicken. He was also the editor for prolific low-budget horror filmmaker and Bollywood character actor Stegath James Dorr during their employment with the newspaper CM...
  
  , Douglas Goldstein, Hugh Davidson, Mike Fasolo
  Mike Fasolo
  Mike Fasolo is an American writer.- Early life:Mike Fasolo was born and raised in the small town of Tuxedo, New York. He graduated from the comparatively small Tuxedo High School and went on to attend Ramapo College of New Jersey where he earned his BA in Literature...
  
  , Seth Green
  Seth Green
  Seth Benjamin Green is an American actor, comedian, voice actor, and television producer. He is well known for his role as Daniel "Oz" Osbourne in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, as Dr. Evil's son Scott in the Austin Powers series of comedy films, Mitch Miller in That '70s Show, and the voice of Chris...
  
  , Dan Milano
  Dan Milano
  Dan Milano is an American voice actor, puppeteer, writer, and director. He was one of the creators of the Fox sitcom Greg the Bunny and performed the title character Greg as well as Warren the Ape...
  
  , Matthew Senreich
  Matthew Senreich
  Matthew Ian "Matt" Senreich is an American screenwriter, television producer and director, best known for his work with animated television series Robot Chicken, which he co-created with business partner Seth Green. Senreich and Green together run the production company Stoopid Monkey...
  
  , Kevin Shinick
  Kevin Shinick
  Kevin Thomas Shinick is an American actor, producer, director and voice artist, as well as an Emmy and Annie award winning writer who occasionally writes comic books...
  
  , Zeb Wells
  Zeb Wells
  Zeb Wells is an American comic book writer known for his work at Marvel Comics, as well as his work on Robot Chicken.-Career:Wells is an Emmy and Annie Award winning writer and actor for the TV show Robot Chicken, including the Emmy-nominated Robot Chicken: Star Wars Episode II.Wells has written...
  
  , Breckin Meyer
  Breckin Meyer
  -Early life:Meyer was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, the son of Dorothy Ann , a travel agent and former microbiologist, and Christopher William Meyer, a management consultant. As a child of divorced parents, he lived in California, Texas, West Virginia and New Jersey. He has an older brother,...
  
   – “Robot Chicken: Star Wars Episode II” – ShadowMachine
  • Joel H. Cohen
    Joel H. Cohen
    For the film director, see Joel Coen.Joel H. Cohen is a writer for Saturday Night Live, Suddenly Susan and The Simpsons...
    
     – The Simpsons “The Debarted” – Gracie Films/Fox TV
  • Scott Kreamer – El Tigre: The Adventures of Manny Rivera “Mustache Love” – Nickelodeon
  • Paul McEvoy and Todd Berger – “Secrets of the Furious Five” – DreamWorks Animation
  • Chris Williams – “Glago’s Guest” – Walt Disney Animation Studios

External links

• Official Site of the Annie Awards
• 2008 Nominations