It’s the awards season time of year, and last night was the 2024 Annie Awards. And one of the big winners at the animation-focused ceremony was Sony’s Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse.
The 2023 sequel took home seven awards, including Best Picture, Best FX, Best Music, and Best Character Design. It, along with fellow nominees Nimona and The Boy & the Heron, are also up for Best Animated Feature at the Academy Awards in March.
Outside of Spider-Verse, Marvel took home an award for Best Character Animation for film Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, video games (Marvel’s Spider-Man 2), and TV (Moon Girl & Devil Dinosaur). Moon Girl also won for Best Voice Acting and Storyboarding in the TV categories.
Another big winner was Blue Eye Samurai: the Netflix series received wins, including Best Writing and Editing with its fifth episode, “The Ronin & the Bride,” Best Character Animation (for episodes 1, 4, and 6), and Best Mature TV for its pilot.
This one isn’t an award, but noless important: Eric Bauza, current voice actor for Bugs Bunny (and who’s voiced plenty of characters in recent years) took to the stage to demand Warner Bros. Discovery release Coyote vs. Acme. “I hate to be political,” he said as Daffy Duck, but “release [it]!” He later said on Twitterthe film’s existence has evolved into “a battle for the integrity of these legacy characters. The Looney Tunes will never reach today’s younger audience if we keep stopping the creative process for tax cuts!!”
#ReleaseCoyoteVsACME pic.twitter.com/mZLJCxuCSR
— Eric Bauza (@bauzilla) February 18, 2024
We’ve posted some of the categories down below, with the winners in bold. The full list of 2024 Annie Award winners can be read here.
Best Feature
Nimona
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
Suzume
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem
The Boy & the Heron
Best Independent Feature
Robot Dreams
The Inventor
White Plastic Sky
Four Souls of Coyote
Ernest & Celestine: A Trip to Gibberitia
Best TV/Media (Mature)
Blue Eye Samurai (Episode: “Hammerscale”)
Scavengers Reign (Episode: “The Signal”)
Big Mouth (Episode: “The International Show”)
Bob’s Burgers (Episode: “Amelia”)
Capsules (Episode: “Tomato Kitchen”)
Best Character Animation (Live-Action)
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
Cocaine Bear
Star Wars: Ahsoka
Transformers: Rise of the Beasts
The Little Mermaid
Best Character Animation (Video Game)
Hogwarts Legacy
Marvel’s Spider-Man 2
Let’s! Revolution!
Atomic Heart
Teslagrad 2
Best Direction (TV)
Kizazi Moto: Generation Fire (Episode: “Moremi”)
My Dad the Bounty Hunter (Episode: “Bizarre Ride”)
Scavengers Reign (Episode: “The Fall”)
Pokemon Concierge (Episode: “What’s On Your Mind, Psyduck?”)
Star Wars: Visions (Episode: “Screecher’s Reach”)
Best Direction (Feature)
Nimona
Robot Dreams
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
The Boy & the Heron
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