Annie Award for Best Animated Video Game

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The cast and crew of the film Monster House appeared at the 34th Annie Awards both for the film's Best Animated Feature nomination as well as for the video game adaptation's award nomination, the voice actors (pictured) having reprised their roles in the game. Samlerner spencerlocke mitchelmusso.jpg
The cast and crew of the film Monster House appeared at the 34th Annie Awards both for the film's Best Animated Feature nomination as well as for the video game adaptation's award nomination, the voice actors (pictured) having reprised their roles in the game.

The Annie Award for Best Animated Video Game was awarded annually by ASIFA-Hollywood, a non-profit organization that honors contributions to animation, to one animated video game each year from 2005 to 2014. The award is one of the Annie Awards, which are given to contributions to animation, including producers, directors, and voice actors. The Annie Awards were created in 1972 by June Foray to honor individual lifetime contributions to animation. In 1992, the scope of the awards was expanded to honor animation as a whole; the Annie Award for Best Animated Feature was created as a result of this move, and subsequent awards have been created to recognize different contributions to animation. [3] The Annie Award for Best Animated Video Game was created in 2005, and has been awarded yearly since except in 2009. To be eligible for the award, the game must have been released in the year before the next Annie Awards ceremony, and the developers of the game must send a five-minute DVD that shows the gameplay and graphics of the game to a committee appointed by the Board of Directors of ASIFA-Hollywood. [4]

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The Annie Award for Best Animated Video Game has been awarded to nine video games. The now-defunct video game development company THQ had six of its games nominated for the Annie Award for Best Animated Video Game, and one of them, Ratatouille, won the award. [5] Among the nominees, seven video games are adaptations of a feature film [lower-alpha 1] and three are adaptations of animated television series. [lower-alpha 2] Although most nominees have been released for multiple video game consoles, three of the entrants to the 38th Annie Awards (held February 5, 2011) and five contenders at the 39th Annie Awards had only been released on one platform at the time.

Winners and nominees

Table key
‡Indicates the winner
Year
(Ceremony)		Video gameDeveloper(s) / Publisher(s)Ref(s).
2005
(33rd) 		Ultimate Spider-Man ‡ Activision, Treyarch [13]
Psychonauts Double Fine Productions
Resident Evil 4 Capcom
SpongeBob SquarePants: Lights, Camera, Pants! THQ
Tak: The Great Juju Challenge THQ
2006
(34th) 		Flushed Away ‡ D3 Publisher [14]
Monster House THQ
SpongeBob SquarePants: Creature from the Krusty Krab THQ
2007
(35th) 		Ratatouille ‡THQ [15]
Avatar: The Last Airbender – The Burning Earth THQ
Bee Movie Game Activision
Transformers: The Game Blur Studios
2008
(36th) 		Kung Fu Panda ‡Activision [16]
Dead Space Electronic Arts
WALL·E THQ
2010
(38th) 		Limbo ‡ Playdead [17]
Heavy Rain Quantic Dream
Kirby's Epic Yarn Good-Feel & HAL Laboratory
Shank Klei Entertainment
2011
(39th) 		Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet ‡Shadow Planet Productions (Fuelcell Games/Gagne International) [18]
Bumpy Road Simogo
Gears of War 3 Epic Games
Gesundheit! Revolutionary Concepts
Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective Capcom
Ratchet & Clank: All 4 One Insomniac Games
Rayman Origins Ubisoft Montpellier
Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception Naughty Dog
2012
(40th) 		Journey ‡ Thatgamecompany [19]
Borderlands 2 Gearbox Software
Skullgirls Lab Zero Games
Family Guy: Back to the Multiverse Heavy Iron Studios
2013
(41st) 		The Last of Us ‡ Naughty Dog [20]
Diggs Nightcrawler Moonbot Studios, Exient Entertainment
Tiny Thief 5 ANTS
2014
(42nd) 		Valiant Hearts: The Great War ‡ Ubisoft Montpellier [21]
Forza Horizon 2 Microsoft Studios, Turn 10, Playground Games
Child of Light Ubisoft Montreal


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References

Notes
  1. ↑ The seven nominees that are adaptations of feature films are Flushed Away , [6] Monster House , [1] Ratatouille, [7] Bee Movie Game , [8] Transformers: The Game , [9] Kung Fu Panda , and WALL·E
  2. ↑ The three nominees that are adaptations of animated television series are SpongeBob SquarePants: Lights, Camera, Pants! , [10] SpongeBob SquarePants: Creature from the Krusty Krab , [11] and Avatar: The Last Airbender - The Burning Earth [12]
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  2. ↑ "34th Annual Annie Awards - Winners". ASIFA-Hollywood. Archived from the original on 2012-03-07. Retrieved 2008-10-30.
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