For the first time, Pixar has two movies competing against itself with Inside Out and The Good Dinosaur, both of which are up against The Peanuts Movie, Shaun the Sheep Movie and the Charlie Kaufman film Anomalisa. They added a new category this year for Independent Animated Feature, and curiously, Anomalisa missed out on a writing nod of all things.
201 ANNIE AWARD NOMINATIONS:
BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
- Anomalisa
- Inside Out
- The Good Dinosaur
- Shaun the Sheep Movie
- The Peanuts Movie
BEST INDEPENDENT ANIMATED FEATURE
- Boy and the World
- The Prophet
- The Boy and the Beast
- When Marnie Was There
VOICE ACTING IN AN ANIMATED FEATURE
- Jennifer Jason Leigh, Anomalisa
- Amy Poehler, Inside Out
- Phyllis Smith, Inside Out
- Pierre Coffin, Minions
- Jon Hamm, Minions
- Alex Garfin, The Peanuts Movie
- Hadley Belle Miller, The Peanuts Movie
- Tom Kenny, The SpongeBob Movie- Sponge Out of Water
WRITING IN AN ANIMATED FEATURE
- Inside Out
- Shaun the Sheep Movie
- When Marnie Was There
DIRECTING IN AN ANIMATED FEATURE
- Charlie Kaufman and Duke Johnsons, Anomalisa
- Raul Garcia, Extraordinary Tales
- Pete Docter, Inside Out
- Roger Allers, The Prophet
- Mark Burton and Richard Starzak, Shaun the Sheep Movie
- Steve Martino, The Peanuts Movie
- Hiromasa Yonebayashi, When Marnie Was There
