List of animation awards

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This list of animation awards is an index of articles about notable awards for animation. It excludes animated feature films awards, which are covered by a separate list. It includes a list of Japanese anime awards.

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General

RegionAwardVenue / sponsorNotes
Asia-Pacific Asia Pacific Screen Award for Best Animated Feature Film UNESCO, FIAPF and Brisbane City Council, Australiasince 2007
Europe European Film Award for Best Animated Film European Film Academy since 2009
Spain Goya Award for Best Animated Film Academy of Cinematographic Arts and Sciences of Spain (AACCE)since 1989
United Kingdom BAFTA Award for Best Animated Film British Academy of Film and Television Arts since 2006
India National Film Award for Best Animated Film Directorate of Film Festivals
Australia AACTA Award for Best Short Animation Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Australian short animated film [1]
United KingdomBritish Animation Awards https://www.britishanimationawards.com/ Many categories
United States Academy Award for Best Animated Feature Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Feature length [2] [3] [4]
Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film Oscar [5]
Nigeria Africa Movie Academy Award for Best Animation Africa Movie Academy Awards Best animated films for the year, since 2008 [6]
Brazil Anima Mundi Ancine
Croatia Animafest Zagreb International Animated Film Association Various categories [7]
Philippines Animahenasyon Animation Council of the Philippines Works of veteran and novice Filipino animators [8]
India Ann Awards AnimationXpress.comVarious categories [9]
France Annecy International Animated Film Festival International Animated Film Association
United States Annie Awards
Canada Canadian Screen Award for Best Animated Short Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television
Europe Cartoon d'or Cartoon d'orBest European animated short film
France César Award for Best Animated Short Film Académie des Arts et Techniques du Cinéma since 2011
United StatesCritics' Choice Movie Award for Best Animated Feature Critics Choice Association
Student Illustrator AwardKevin Dang
Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Pre-School Children's Animated Program Academy of Television Arts & Sciences
Detroit Film Critics Society Award for Best Animated Feature Detroit Film Critics Society
Europe Emile Awards European Animation Awards Academy
IndiaFederation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) Best Animated Frames (BAF) Awards Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry Best Animated Film [10]
Flying Elephant Competition Toonz Animation India Various Categories [11]
United States Golden Globe Award for Best Animated Feature Film Hollywood Foreign Press Association
China Golden Rooster Award for Best Animation Golden Rooster Awards since 1981
Germany Hamburg Animation Award Hamburg Chamber of Commerce
Ireland Irish Animation Awards Animation Ireland
United States June Foray Award International Animated Film AssociationSignificant and benevolent or charitable impact on the art and industry of animation
Hungary Kecskemét Animation Film Festival Kecskemét Animation Film FestivalVarious categories
United States Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Animated Film Los Angeles Film Critics Association
SpainPremios QuirinoTenerife Film Commission
United States Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Program Academy of Television Arts & Sciences
Saturn Award for Best Animated Series on Television Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films
Saturn Award for Best Animated Film
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Animation Academy of Television Arts & Sciences
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Short Form Animated Program
Canada Prix Iris for Best Animated Short Film Québec Cinéma
United States Producers Guild of America Award for Best Animated Motion Picture Producers Guild of America
NetherlandsSuzanne Award Blender Foundation Animation using Blender (software)
United States Teen Choice Award for Choice Animated Series Teen Choice Awards
Visual Effects Society Award for Outstanding Visual Effects in an Animated Feature Visual Effects Society
Winsor McCay Award Annie Awards
Writers Guild of America Award for Television: Animation Writers Guild of America
NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Animated Motion Picture NAACP Image Awards
NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Short Form (Animated)
NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Animated Series

Anime awards

CountryAwardVenue / sponsorNotes
United States American Anime Awards New York Comic Con Excellence in the release of anime and manga in North America [12]
Japan Anime Grand Prix Animage Readers' votes decide Anime of the Year, Best Voice Actor, Male and Female characters of the Year and Song of the Year [13]
Germany AnimaniA Awards AnimagiC Anime series and films, manga, video games and Japanese music, Awards by German anime magazine AnimaniA
Japan Animation Kobe City of Kobe Creators and creations
Animax Anison Grand Prix Animax Anime song music competition
Animax Taishō Anime scriptwriting
United States Crunchyroll Anime Awards Crunchyroll Various categories
Japan Japan Academy Film Prize for Animation of the Year Japan Academy Film Prize Animated film
Japan Media Arts Festival Animation awards Agency for Cultural Affairs Animation awards
Mainichi Film Award for Best Animation Film Mainichi Film Awards Best animated feature film
Newtype Anime Awards Newtype Anime, various categories
Ōfuji Noburō Award Mainichi Film AwardsAnimation excellence
Seiyu Awards Tokyo Anime Center Voice acting in anime and other media in Japan
Sugoi Japan Award Yomiuri Shimbun Manga, Anime, Light novel and Entertainment novel
Tokyo Anime Award Tokyo International Anime Fair Anime, various categories

See also

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Anime</span> Japanese animation

Anime is hand-drawn and computer-generated animation originating from Japan. Outside Japan and in English, anime refers specifically to animation produced in Japan. However, in Japan and Japanese, anime describes all animated works, regardless of style or origin. Many works of animation with a similar style to Japanese animation are also produced outside Japan. Video games sometimes also feature themes and art styles that can be considered as anime.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Academy Award for Best Animated Feature</span> Film category of the Oscars

The Academy Award for Best Animated Feature is given each year for the best animated film. An animated feature is defined by the academy as a film with a running time of more than 40 minutes in which characters' performances are created using a frame-by-frame technique, a significant number of the major characters are animated, and animation figures in no less than 75 percent of the running time. The Academy Award for Best Animated Feature was first awarded in 2002 for films released in 2001.

The Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film is an award given by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) as part of the annual Academy Awards, or Oscars, since the 5th Academy Awards, covering the year 1931–32, to the present.

<i>Spirited Away</i> 2001 film by Hayao Miyazaki

Spirited Away is a 2001 Japanese animated fantasy film written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki. Spirited Away tells the story of Chihiro "Sen" Ogino, a ten-year-old girl who, while moving to a new neighborhood, inadvertently enters the world of kami. After her parents are turned into pigs by the witch Yubaba, Chihiro takes a job working in Yubaba's bathhouse to find a way to free herself and her parents and return to the human world. The film was animated by Studio Ghibli for Tokuma Shoten, Nippon Television Network, Dentsu, Buena Vista Home Entertainment, Tohokushinsha Film, and Mitsubishi and distributed by Toho.

The term independent animation refers to animated shorts, web series, and feature films produced outside a major national animation industry.

The history of anime can be traced back to the start of the 20th century, with the earliest verifiable films dating from 1917. Before the advent of film, Japan already had a rich tradition of entertainment with colourful painted figures moving across the projection screen in utsushi-e (写し絵), a particular Japanese type of magic lantern show popular in the 19th century. Possibly inspired by European phantasmagoria shows, utsushi-e showmen used mechanical slides and developed lightweight wooden projectors (furo) that were handheld so that several performers could each control the motions of different projected figures.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Aleksandr Petrov (animator)</span> Russian painter (born 1957)

Aleksandr Konstantinovich Petrov is a Russian animator and animation director.

Studio 4°C Co., Ltd. is a Japanese animation studio founded by Eiko Tanaka and Kōji Morimoto in 1986. The name comes from the temperature at which water is most dense.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Animation studio</span> Company producing animated content

An animation studio is a company producing animated media. The broadest such companies conceive of products to produce, own the physical equipment for production, employ operators for that equipment, and hold a major stake in the sales or rentals of the media produced. They also own rights over merchandising and creative rights for characters created/held by the company, much like authors holding copyrights. In some early cases, they also held patent rights over methods of animation used in certain studios that were used for boosting productivity. Overall, they are business concerns and can function as such in legal terms.

The Golden Globe Award for Best Animated Feature Film is a Golden Globe Award that was awarded for the first time at the 64th Golden Globe Awards in 2007. It was the first time that the Golden Globe Awards had created a separate category for animated films since its establishment. The nominations are announced in January and an awards ceremony is held later in the month. Initially, only three films were nominated for best animated film, in contrast to five nominations for the majority of other awards. The Pixar film Cars was the first recipient of the award.

<i>Madame Tutli-Putli</i> 2007 Canadian film

Madame Tutli-Putli is a 2007 stop motion-animated short film by Montreal filmmakers Chris Lavis and Maciek Szczerbowski, collectively known as Clyde Henry Productions, and produced by the National Film Board of Canada (NFB). It is available on the Cinema16: World Short Films DVD and from the NFB.

The Tokyo Anime Awards started in 2002, but was named in 2005. The first, second and third award ceremonies were simply named 'Competition'. The award ceremonies were held at the Tokyo International Anime Fair (TAF) until 2013. In 2014, after the merger of the Tokyo International Anime Fair with the Anime Contents Expo and the formation of the AnimeJapan convention, the Tokyo Anime Awards was changed into a separate festival called Tokyo Anime Awards Festival (TAAF).

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Japan Academy Film Prize for Animation of the Year</span> Award

The Animation of the Year (アニメーション作品賞) of the Japan Academy Film Prize is one of the annual Awards given by the Japan Academy Film Prize Association.

<i>Swami Ayyappan</i> (2012 film) 2012 Indian film

Swami Ayyappan is a 2012 animated Indian film about the legend of Swami Ayyappan. It is the first animated portrayal of Ayyappan. The 90-minute film, produced through a collaboration of Toonz Animation India and Animagic Motion Pictures Production, was planned to be released in theatres in the Malayalam, Tamil, Kannada and Telugu languages. Mahesh Vettiyar wrote the story, and co-directed the film with Chetan Sharma. P. Jayakumar served as executive producer.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Lists of animated films</span>

These lists of animated feature films compile animated feature films from around the world and are organized alphabetically under the year of release. Theatrical releases as well as made-for-TV (TV) and direct-to-video (V) movies of all types of animation are included. Currently, the lists don't recognize one release form from another.

<i>Gaju Bhai</i> Indian TV series or programme

Gaju Bhai is an Indian flash-animated television series produced by Toonz Animation, which airs on Disney Channel India. The series premiered on 18 April 2016.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Vikash Jaiswal</span> Indian entrepreneur

Vikash Jaiswal is an Indian entrepreneur. He is the founder of Gametion Technologies Pvt. Ltd. and creator of Ludo King, a popular gaming app developed by Gametion for Android and iOS.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">FICCI Frames</span>

FICCI Frames is an international convention of the Indian film industry, formerly chaired by Yash Chopra and co-chaired by Karan Johar. The convention is organised by the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce & Industry (FICCI).

<i>Little Krishna</i> Indian 3D animated series

Little Krishna is an Indian 3D animated epic television series created by Reliance Entertainment in 2009. It was originally aired on Nickelodeon and later aired on Discovery Kids and Sun TV.

Arthouse animation is a combination of art film and animated film.

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