Fans of animation will most likely not be shocked to listen to that three of the 4 most nominated movies for this 12 months’s Annie Awards this 12 months hail from Disney. Raya and the Last Dragon leads all nominees with 10 whole, adopted by Encanto with 9 and Pixar’s Luca with eight. However, proper on the heels of these movies is Netflix’s The Mitchells vs. The Machines with eight nominations, and the streamer additionally acquired nods for a number of of its different common reveals, reminiscent of Arcane, Trollhunters, and Castlevania.

For the massive prize, Best Animated Feature, these 4 high nominees—Raya and the Last Dragon, Encanto, Luca and The Mitchells vs. The Machines—will compete with Illumination’s Sing 2. Television is a bit completely different as a result of it’s damaged into age teams however for normal audiences, the nominees for finest TV present are Arcane, Bob’s Burgers, Love, Death + Robots, Star Wars: Visions, and Tuca & Bertie which, once more, is sort of a Netflix vs. Disney class with Arcane and Love, Death + Robots coming from Netflix, and Bob’s Burgers and Visions coming from Disney/Fox.

You can look at the full slate of nominees at this link—and regardless of the Annie Awards not getting the love of different awards reveals, it’s an extremely stacked and attention-grabbing listing. For instance, there’s a class for Best Character Animation in a Live-Action Movie, which incorporates nominations for some heavy hitters that includes absolutely animated CGI characters: Flora & Ulysses, Shang Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, The Suicide Squad, The Tomorrow War, and Y: The Last Man. Yes, Y the Last Man will get a nomination for ILM’s work on Ampersand the monkey. That’s fairly neat.

And regardless of Disney dominating most of the classes, its different massive mainstream animation mission, What If…? solely acquired one nomination: Best Editorial for the episode “What if Ultron Won?”

The Annies shall be handed out February 26, 2022 in Los Angeles, CA.

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