Frozen and Monsters U lead Annie Award nominations

Hard to believe it's that time once again, but the nominations for the Annie Awards have been announced. The leaders, to no surprise, are both Disney films and one of them is Pixar.

The nominees are...

Best Animated Feature:

A Letter to Momo
Despicable Me 2
Ernest & Celestine
Frozen
Monsters University
The Croods
The Wind Rises

Best Animated Special Feature:

Chipotle Scarecrow
Listening Is an Act of Love
Room on the Broom
Toy Story of TERROR

Best Animated Short:

Despicable Me 2 - Puppy
Get a Horse!
Gloria Victoria
My Mom is an Airplane
The Numberlys

Best Animated TV/Broadcast Commercial:

Despicable Me 2 - Cinemark
Sound of the Woods
The Polar Bears Movie

Best General Audience TV/Broadcast Production for Preschool:

Bubble Guppies
Disney Sofia the First
Doc McStuffins
Justin Time
Peter Rabbit

Best Animated TV/Broadcast Production for Children:

Adventure Time
Beware the Batman
Disney Gravity Falls
Kung Fu Panda - Legends of Awesomeness
Regular Show
Scaredy Squirrel
Teen Titans Go!
The Legend of Korra

Best General Audience Animated TV/Broadcast Production:

Archer
Bob's Burgers
Disney Tron Uprising
Futurama
Motorcity



Best Animated Video Game:

Diggs Nightcrawler
Tiny Thief
The Last of Us

Best Student Film:

Chicken or the Egg
Kellerkind
Miss Todd
Move Mountain
SEMÕFORO
The Final Straw
Trusts & Estates
Wedding Cake

 Animated Effects in an Animated Production:

Epic - Blue Sky Studios
Dragons: Defenders of Berk - Dreamworks Animation
Monsters University - Pixar Animation Studios
The Croods - Dreamworks Animation
Turbo - Dreamworks Animation

Animated Effects in a Live Action Production:

Man of Steel - Weta Digital
Star Trek Into Darkness - Industrial Light & Magic
Pacific Rim - Industrial Light & Magic

Character Animation in an Animated TV/Broadcast Production:

Friendship All Stars: Wrong Number
Ubermansion
Toy Story of TERROR
Star Wars: The Clone Wars

Character Animation in an Animated Feature Production:

Epic - Blue Sky Studios
Despicable Me 2 - Universal Pictures
The Croods - Dreamworks Animation
Monsters University - Pixar Animation Studios
The Wind Rises - Walt Disney Animation Studios
Frozen - Walt Disney Animation Studios
Ernest & Celestine - GKIDS

Character Animation in a Live Production:

Gollum - The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Goblin King - The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Pacific Rim - Industrial Light & Magic

Character Design in an Animated TV/Broadcast Production:

Disney Wander Over Yonder
Disney Mickey Mouse
The Awesomes
Regular Show
Steven Universe

Character Design in an Animated Feature:

The Croods
Turbo
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2
Monsters University
A Monster in Paris
Despicable Me 2
Frozen

Directing in an Animated TV/Broadcast Production:

Colin Heck - The Legend of Korra
Elaine Bogan - Dragons: Defenders of Berk
Stephan Franck - The Smurfs: The Legend of Smurfy Hollow
John Aoshima - Disney Gravity Falls
Aaron Springer - Disney Mickey Mouse
Angus MacLane - Toy Story of TERROR
Harold Harris - Justin Time

Directing in an Animated Feature:

Chris Sanders & Kirk DeMicco - The Croods
David Soren - Turbo
Chris Wedge - Epic
Benjamin Renner, Vincent Patar, Stephane Aubier - Ernest & Celestine
Chris Buck & Jennifer Lee - Frozen

Music in an Animated TV/Broadcast Production:

Alan Williams - Estefan
Guy Moon - T.U.F.F. Puppy
Peter Luyre, Stuart Kollmorgen, Peter Zizzo - Peter Rabbit
Kevin Kliesch, Craig Gerber, John Kavanaugh - Disney Sofia the First
Christopher Willis - Disney Mickey Mouse
Andy Bean - Disney Wander over Yonder

Music in an Animated Feature:

Alan Silvestri - The Croods
Henry Jackman - Turbo
Mark Mothersbaugh - Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2
Heitor Pereira & Pharrell Williams - Despicable Me 2
Danny Elfman - Epic
Randy Newman - Monsters University
Kristen Anderson-Lopez, Robert Lopez, Christophe Beck - Frozen
Dominic Lewis - Free Bird

Voice Acting in an Animated Feature:

Paul Giamatti - Turbo
Terry Crews - Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2
Kristen Wiig - Despicable Me 2
Steve Carell - Despicable Me 2
Pierre Coffin - Despicable Me 2
Billy Crystal - Monsters University
Josh Gad - Frozen


The full list of nominees can be seen here.