The winners for the 20th Annual Annie Awards have been revealed in a live-streamed telecast that suffered lag issues towards the end, but was genuinely more funny than a lot of other awards shows out there. Rango took the prize for Best Animated Feature, which should give it a leg up for the Oscars. It also won three other prizes over Kung Fu Panda 2 and The Adventures of Tintin‘s two awards each. Although Rango took the top prize, Panda‘s Jennifer Yuh Nelson was named Best Director suggesting support for Rango wasn’t nearly across the board…that or animators don’t really like non-animators honing in on their craft (no Gore Verbinski, you’re still a live action director to them).

In addition to the nominees and/or winners listed below, this year, we’re giving you a quick background on each individual precursor including founding year, first awards year and a glimpse at how many predictions the group has gotten right in the last five years. This data can be found below.

Award Tallies

(4) Rango
(2) The Adventures of Tintin / Kung Fu Panda 2

The Awards

Best Animated Feature

Rango

Best Animated Short Subject

Adam and Dog

Best Animated Effects, Animated Feature

The Adventures of Tintin – Kevin Romond

Best Animated Effects, Live Action Feature

Transformers: Dark of the Moon – Florent Andorra

Best Character Animation, Animated Feature

Rio – Jeff Gabor

Best Character Animation, Live Action Feature

Rise of the Planet of the Apes – Eric Reynolds

Best Character Design

Rango – Mark “Crash” McCreery

Best Directing

Jennifer Yuh Nelson – Kung Fu Panda 2

Best Editing

Rango

Best Music

The Adventures of Tintin – John Williams

Best Production Design

Kung Fu Panda 2 – Raymond Zilbach

Best Storyboarding

Winnie the Pooh – Jeremy Spears

Best Voice Acting

Bill Nighy – Arthur Christmas

Best Writing

Rango

Annie Awards Data

Year Founded: 1972
First Awards: 1992 (20)

Precursor Accuracy

KEY:

• Winner won the corresponding Oscar
• Winner was nominated for the corresponding Oscar
• Winner was not nominated for a corresponding Oscar
• Total (2010-2009-2008-2007-2006)

Animated Feature: 2 (0-1-0-1-0) W / 5 (1-1-1-1-1) N / 0 (0-0-0-0-0) I
Animated Short: 0 (0-0-0-0-0) W / 2 (1-0-0-0-1) N / 3 (0-1-1-1-0) I