June Foray Award

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The June Foray Award is a juried award given to individuals in recognition of a significant and benevolent or charitable impact on the art and industry of animation. The award is given by the International Animated Film Association, ASIFA-Hollywood at the annual Annie Awards since 1995. It is named after the voice actress June Foray.

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Award recipients

CeremonyYearRecipient
24th 1995 June Foray
25th 1996Bill Littlejohn, [1] Fini Littlejohn
26th 1997Phyllis Craig
27th 1998Antran Manoogian
28th 1999Dave Master
29th 2001 Linda Simensky
30th 2002 Leonard Maltin
31st 2003Girard R. Miller
32nd 2004 Martha Sigall
33rd 2005Bill Moritz
34th 2006Mark Kausler
35th 2007 Stephen Worth
36th 2008 Jerry Beck
37th 2009Bill Turner
38th 2010 Tom Sito
39th 2011Ross Iwamoto
40th 2012Art Leonardi
41st 2013Howard Green
42nd 2014 Alice Davis [2]
43rd 2015Charles Solomon
44th 2016 Don Hahn
45th 2017Bill & Sue Kroyer [3]
46th 2018Didier Ghez [4]
47th 2019Adam Burke
48th 2020 Daisuke Tsutsumi [5]
49th 2021Renzo and Sayoko Kinoshita
50th 2022Mindy Johnson [6] [7]

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