Annie Awards: Os Nomeados

Foram divulgados os nomeados para os Annie Awards, um dos prémios mais importantes para os filmes de animação.

Melhor Animação

• Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs
• Coraline
• Fantastic Mr. Fox
• The Princess and the Frog
• The Secret of Kells
• Up

Melhor Realização

• Wes Anderson — Fantastic Mr. Fox
• Pete Docter — Up
• Christopher Miller, Phil Lord — Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs
• Hayao Miyazaki — Ponyo
• Henry Selick — Coraline

Melhor Argumento

• Wes Anderson and Noah Baumbach – Fantastic Mr. Fox
• Pete Docter, Bob Peterson, Tom McCarthy – Up
• Timothy Hyde Harris and David Bowers – Astro Boy
• Christopher Miller and Phil Lord – Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs

Efeitos de Animação

• Scott Cegielski — Monsters vs. Aliens
• Alexander Feigin — 9
• Eric Froemling — Up
• Tom Kluyskens — Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs
• James Mansfield — The Princess and the Frog

Personagem Animada

• Andreas Deja — The Princess and the Frog
• Eric Goldberg — The Princess and the Frog
• Travis Knight — Coraline
• Daniel Nguyen — Up
• Bruce Smith — The Princess and the Frog

Design de Personagens

• Daniel Lopez Munoz — Up
• Shane Prigmore — Coraline
• Shannon Tindle — Coraline

Melhor Banda Sonora

• Bruno Coulais — Coraline
• Michael Giacchino –Up
• Joe Hisaishi — Ponyo
• John Powell — Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs

Design de Produção

• Christopher Appelhans — Coraline
• Ian Gooding — The Princess and the Frog
• Tadahiro Uesugi — Coraline
• Christopher Vacher — 9

Storyboarding

• Sharon Bridgeman — Astro Boy
• Chris Butler — Coraline
• Ronnie Del Carmen — Up
• Tom Owens — Monsters vs. Aliens
• Peter Sohn — Up

Voice Acting

• Jen Cody – Voice of Charlotte – The Princess and the Frog
• Dawn French – Voice of Miss Forcible – Coraline
• Hugh Laurie – Voice of Dr. Cockroach Ph.D. – Monsters vs. Aliens
• John Leguizamo – Voice of Sid – Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaur
• Jennifer Lewis – Voice of Mama Odie – The Princess and the Frog

Os principais nomes dos filmes candidatos ao prémio de Melhor Animação poder-se-ão repetir também nos Óscares 2010, exceptuando The Secret of Kells. Coraline e a Porta Secreta é o favorito, com dez nomeações.