The 51st Annie Awards are being handed out tonight at UCLA’s Royce Hall, and Deadline is updating the winners list as they are announced.
See the titles and people honored by ASIFA-Hollywood below, where you can also watch the livestream of the ceremony.
Netflix’s Nimona comes into the ceremony with a leading nine nominations, ahead of Gkids’ Hayao Miyazaki hit The Boy and the Heron and Sony’s global smash Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, which have seven noms apiece.
All three are up for the marquee Best Feature award tonight along with Toho’s anime Suzume, which also landed seven Annie noms, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem from Paramount and Nickelodeon Film, which got six. It marks the first time in 32 years that no Disney or Pixar film is up for the Annies’ top prize.
Since the Academy Awards’ Best Animated Feature category was launched in 2002, 14 of the 21 winners of the Annies’ top feature prize – and seven of the past 11 – went on to claim Oscar gold. Last year followed suit, as Netflix’s Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio triumphed at both trophy shows.
This year Best Animated Feature Oscar race is among Nimona, The Boy and the Heron, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, Elemental and Robot Dreams. The winners will be revealed March 10 at the Dolby Theater in Hollywood.
Here are the winners at the 2024 Annie Awards so far, including the pre-announced Juried Awards:
BEST SHORT SUBJECT
War Is Over! Inspired by the Music of John & YokoElectroLeague
BEST STUDENT FILM
The Little PoetStudent director: Justine KingSchool: California Institute of the Arts
PREVIOUSLY ANNOUNCED
The Winsor McCay Award for Lifetime or Career Contributions
Charlotte “Lotte” Reiniger (posthumous)Joe HisaishiMarcy Page
The June Foray Award (Significant and benevolent or charitable impact)
BRIC Foundation (Alison Mann and Nicole Hendrix, co-founders)
The Ub Lwerks Award (Technical advancement affecting the animation industry)
John Oxberry (posthumous)
The Special Achievement Award (Unique and outstanding achievement not recognized within the existing award category structure)
The Artists of Walt Disney Animation
