2010 Annie Award Nominations

Published by Jeff Leins on: December 1st, 2009

Today the International Animated Film Society announced the nominations for the 2010 Annie Awards ceremony, and stop-motion feature Coraline lead the pack with 10 nominations.  The ceremony is scheduled for February 6, 2010.

The Henry Selick creation will compete for best feature with another stop-motion movie, Wes Anderson’s Fantastic Mr. Fox, along with Pixar’s Up, Disney’s 2D The Princess and the Frog, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, and The Secret of Kells.

I was glad to see Disney’s A Christmas Carol get completely snubbed from the Annies, especially after Robert Zemeckis made a fool of himself by suggesting motion capture get its own Academy Award.

The Annie Award is usually a reliable indicator of which film will win the Oscar for “Best Animated Feature,” matching it seven of the nine years since the Academy category was created.  Though, to be fair, last year Kung Fu Panda upset Wall-E for the top prize and swept many of the other Annies.

These 2010 nominations represent the front-runners for the Oscar, though I wouldn’t be surprised to see Meatballs and Kells substituted for another, like Ponyo.  The possibility of critical favorites like those being dropped for an even better film shows how competitive the category is and what a great year it was for animated film.  (In case you missed it, here’s the list of 20 movies vying for “Best Animated Feature.”)

Here’s the entire list of 2010 Annie Award nominees.