The winners have been announced and, as expected, Frozen had a huge night. This should be the springboard to a guaranteed Oscar for Best Animated Feature. The strange part is that it lost in several key categories where it should have been more dominant.

Award Tallies

(5) Frozen
(3) The Croods
(2) Monsters University
(1) Get a Horse!, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, Pacific Rim, The Wind Rises

The Awards

Best Animated Feature

Frozen (Wesley, Peter, Tripp)

Best Animated Short Subject

Get A Horse! (Wesley, Peter, Tripp)

Best Animated Effects, Animation

Jeff Budsberg, Andre Le Blanc, Louis Flores, Jason Mayer – The Croods (Wesley, Tripp)

Best Animated Effects, Live Action

Michael Balog, Ryan Hopkins, Patrick Conran, Florian Witzel – Pacific Rim (Wesley, Tripp, RU:Peter)

Best Character Animation, Animated Feature

Jakob Jensen – The Croods (RU:Tripp)

Best Character Animation, Live Action Feature

Jeff Capogreco, Jedrzej Wojtowicz, Kevin Estey, Alessandro Bonora, Gino Acevedo – The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey – Gollum (Wesley, Peter)

Best Character Design

Carter Goodrich, Takao Noguchi, Shane Prigmore – The Croods (RU:Peter, RU:Tripp)

Best Directing

Chris Buck, Jennifer Lee – Frozen (Wesley, Peter, Tripp)

Best Music

Kristen Anderson-Lopez, Robert Lopez, Christophe Beck – Frozen (Wesley, Peter, Tripp)

Best Production Design

Michael Giaimo, Lisa Keene, David Womersley – Frozen (Wesley, Peter)

Best Storyboarding

Dean Kelly – Monsters University (Wesley, RU:Tripp)

Best Voice Acting

Josh Gad as the voice of Olaf – Frozen (Peter, Tripp, RU:Wesley)

Best Writing

Miyazaki Hayao – The Wind Rises (Peter, Tripp, RU:Wesley)

Best Editing

Greg Snyder, Gregory Amundson, Steve Bloom – Monsters University

Annie Awards Data

Year Founded: 1972
First Awards: 1992 (22)