Annie Awards Winners: Leads from ‘KPop Demon Hunters’

“KPop Demon Hunters” led with 10 wins at the 53rd Annie Awards, taking home trophies for best feature film, character animation, directing and production design, among others. The awards, considered animation’s highest honor, were presented Saturday at UCLA’s Royce Hall in Los Angeles.

Director Ugo Bienvenu’s “Arco” won best independent feature, while Adult Swim’s “Common Side Effects” and Netflix’s “Love, Death + Robots” led the television categories with four and three wins, respectively. “Common Side Effects” claimed the titles of best editing, best writing, best adult TV/media and best directing, while “Love, Death + Robots” earned wins for best character design, best production design and best storyboarding.

Jury awards were also presented, including the Winsor McCay Award for Michaël Dudok de Wit, Christopher Miller, Phil Lord and Chris Sanders and the June Foray Award for Sandy Rabins. The Ub Iwerks Award for Technical Advances Impacting the Animation Industry was presented to Wacom and the Special Achievement Award was presented to LightBox Expo. ASIFA-Hollywood Merit Award was presented to Jeffrey New and Haley Mirren Douthit

Each year, the Annie Awards celebrate excellence in animation, rewarding individual artists and the animation industry as a whole for their outstanding achievements.

View the full list of winners below.

BEST FEATURE

KPop Demon HuntersSony Pictures animation for Netflix

BEST FEATURE – INDEPENDENT

ArcoRemembers, MountainA France, France 3 Cinema

BEST SPECIAL PRODUCTION

Snoopy Presents: a summer musicalWildBrain Studios in collaboration with Apple

BEST SHORT SUBJECT

Snow bearThe art of Aaron Blaise

BEST SPONSORED

Olipop YetiScreen novelties and passion photos

BEST TV/MEDIA – PRE-SCHOOL

Wow LisaEpisode: Rainy Day, Punk Robot

BEST TV/MEDIA – CHILDREN

The wonderfully strange world of GumballEpisode: The Rewrite, Hanna-Barbera Studios Europe

BEST TV/MEDIA – ADULT

Common side effectsEpisode: Pilot, Green Street Pictures, Bandera Entertainment and Williams Street Productions

BEST TV/MEDIA – LIMITED SERIES

Win or loseEpisode: Home, Pixar Animation Studios

BEST STUDENT FILM

The song of a sparrowTobias Eckerlin, Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg GmbH

BEST FX – TV/MEDIA

Prehistoric planet: ice ageEpisode: The Big Freeze, BBC Studios Natural History Unit, FX: Framestore, Edward Ferrysienanda, Kevin Christensen, Guy Schuleman, Benedikt Roettger, Kevin Tarpinian

BEST FX – FEATURE

KPop Demon HuntersFilippo Macari, Nicola Finizio, Simon Corbaux, Naoki Kato, Daniel La Chapelle, Sony Pictures Animation for Netflix, FX: Sony Pictures Imageworks

BEST CHARACTER ANIMATION – TV/MEDIA

Win or loseAlli Sadegiani, Pixar Animation Studios

BEST CHARACTER ANIMATION – FEATURE

KPop Demon HuntersRyusuke Furuya, Sony Pictures Animation, Netflix

BEST CHARACTER ANIMATION – LIVE ACTION

How to train your dragon, Kayn Garcia, Jean-Denis Haas, Meena Ibrahim, Nathan McConnel, Nick Tripodi, DreamWorks Animation, FX: Framestore

BEST CHARACTER ANIMATION – VIDEOGAME

South of midnightMike Jungbluth, Sebastien Dussault, Vincent Schneider, Remi Edmond, Compulsive Games

BEST CHARACTER DESIGN – TV/MEDIA

Love, death + robotsEpisode: 400 Boys, Robert Valley, Blur Studio for Netflix

BEST CHARACTER DESIGN – FEATURE

KPop Demon HuntersScott Watanabe, Ami Thompson, Sony Pictures Animation for Netflix

BEST DIRECTION – TV/MEDIA

Common side effects, Vincent TsuiEpisode: Cliff’s Edge Productions

BEST DIRECTION – FUNCTION

KPop Demon HuntersMaggie Kang, Chris Appelhans, Sony Pictures Animation for Netflix

BEST MUSIC – TV/MEDIA

Win or loseEpisode: Episode 6, Mixed Signals, Ramin Djawadi, Shane Eli, Johnny Pakfar, Pixar Animation Studios

BEST MUSIC – FEATURE

KPop Demon HuntersKPop Demon Hunters Music Team, Sony Pictures Animation for Netflix

BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN – TV/MEDIA

Love, death + robotsEpisode: How Zeke Got Religion, Gigi Cavenago, Blur Studio for Netflix

BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN – FEATURE

KPop Demon HuntersHelen Chen, Dave Bleich, Wendell Dalit, Scott Watanabe, Celine Kim, Sony Pictures Animation for Netflix

BEST STORYBOARDING – TV/MEDIA

Love, death + robotsEpisode: How Zeke Got Religion, Edgar Martins, Blur Studio for Netflix

BEST STORYBOARDING – FEATURE

The bad guys 2Anthony Holden, Young Ki Yoon, DreamWorks Animation

BEST VOICE ACTING – TV/MEDIA

Dan Mintz (as Tina Belcher)Bob’s Burgers, episode: Don’t Worry Be Hoopy, 20th television animation

BEST VOICE ACTING – FEATURE

Arden Cho (as Rumi)KPop Demon Hunters, Sony Pictures Animation for Netflix

BEST WRITING – TV/MEDIA

Common side effectsJoe Bennett, Steve Hely, episode: Pilot, Green Street Pictures, Bandera Entertainment and Williams Street Productions

BEST WRITING – FEATURE

KPop Demon HuntersDanya Jimenez, Hannah McMechan, Maggie Kang, Chris Appelhans, Sony Pictures Animation for Netflix

BEST EDITORIAL – TV/MEDIA

Common side effectsEpisode: Raid, Tony Christopherson, Joie Lim, Green Street Pictures, Bandera Entertainment and Williams Street Productions

BEST EDITORIAL – FEATURE

KPop Demon HuntersEditorial Team of KPop Demon Hunters, Sony Pictures Animation for Netflix