40th Annie Awards explained

Number:	40
Award:	Annie Awards
Award Link:	Annie Awards
Site:	Royce Hall Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Host:	Leonard Maltin, Rob Paulsen, Maurice LaMarche and Seth Green
Organizer:	ASIFA-Hollywood
Best Film:	Wreck-It Ralph
Best Direction:	Rich Moore
Best Direction Film:	Wreck-It Ralph
Most Wins:	Wreck-It Ralph (5)
Most Nominations:	Brave, Rise of the Guardians, and Wreck-It Ralph (10)^[1]
Last:	39th
Next:	41st

The 40th Annual Annie Awards honoring the best in animation of 2012 were held on February 2, 2013 at Royce Hall in Los Angeles, California.^[2]

Production nominees

Nominations announced on December 3, 2012

Best Animated Feature	Best Animated Special Production
Wreck-It Ralph—Walt Disney Animation Studios Brave—Pixar Frankenweenie—Walt Disney Pictures Hotel Transylvania—Sony Pictures Animation ParaNorman—Focus Features Rise of the Guardians—DreamWorks Animation The Pirates! Band of Misfits—Aardman Animations The Rabbi's Cat—GKIDS	Despicable Me Minion Mayhem—Illumination Entertainment Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Part 1—Warner Bros. Animation Beforel Orel: Trust—Starburns Industries, Inc. Disney —Beck’s Beginning—Disney Television Animation Dragons: Gift of the Night Fury—DreamWorks Animation —Warner Bros. Animation
Best Animated Short Subject	Best Animated Television Production For Preschool Children
Paperman—Walt Disney Animation Studios Brad and Gary—Illumination Entertainment Bydlo—National Film Board of Canada Eyes on the Stars—StoryCorps Goodnight Mr. Foot—Sony Pictures Animation Kali the Little Vampire—National Film Board of Canada The Longest Daycare—Gracie Films, 20th Century Fox Television Bill Plympton Couch Gag—Gracie Films, 20th Century Fox Television	Bubble Guppies—"A Tooth on the Looth"—Nickelodeon Animation Studio Chuggington—"Magnetic Wilson"—Ludorum Jake and the Never Land Pirates—"Peter Pan Returns"—Disney Television Animation Doc McStuffins—"The Right Stuff"—Brown Bag Films Justin Time—"Marcello’s Meatballs"—Guru Studio
Best Animated Television Production For Children	Best General Audience Animated Television Production
—"How to Pick Your Dragon"—DreamWorks Animation Adventure Time—"Princess Cookie"—Cartoon Network Studios —Threshold Animation Studios The Penguins of Madagascar—"Action Reaction"—Nickelodeon Animation Studio SpongeBob SquarePants—"It's a SpongeBob Christmas	"—Nickelodeon Animation Studios The Amazing World of Gumball—"The Job"—Cartoon Network Studio Europe The Fairly OddParents—"Farm Pit"—Nickelodeon Animation Studios The Legend of Korra—"Welcome to Republic City"/"A Leaf in the Wind"—Nickelodeon Animation Studios	Robot Chicken DC Comics Special—Stoopid Buddy Studios Archer: Space Race, Part 1—Weissman Markovitz Communications for FX Bob's Burgers: Ear-sy Rider—20th Century Fox TV Motorcity: Blonde Thunder—Disney Television Animation Mad: FrankenWinnie/ParaMorgan—Warner Bros. Animation South Park: Raising the Bar—Central Productions
Best Animated Video Game	Best Student Film
Journey—Sony Computer Entertainment America Borderlands 2—Gearbox Software —Heavy Iron Studios Skullgirls—Lab Zero Games	Head Over Heels—Timothy Reckart Can We Be Happy Now—Tahnee Gehm Defective Detective—Avner Geller & Stevie Lewis I Am Tom Moody—Ainslie Henderson Ladies Knight—Joseph Rothenberg Origin—Jessica Poon The Ballad of Poisonberry Pete—Adam Campbell, Elizabeth McMahill, Uri Lotan Tule Lake—Michelle Ikemoto

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Notes and References

1. News: Tapley. Kristopher. 'Brave,' 'Guardians' and 'Wreck-It Ralph' lead 40th annual Annie Awards nominees. January 31, 2014. Hitfix. December 3, 2012. https://web.archive.org/web/20140201221847/http://www.hitfix.com/in-contention/brave-and-wreck-it-ralph-lead-40th-annual-annie-awards-nominees. February 1, 2014. live.
2. News: Wolfe. Jennifer. Hosts Announced for 40th Annual Annie Awards. January 31, 2014. Animation World Network. January 29, 2013. https://web.archive.org/web/20140202133110/http://www.awn.com/news/hosts-announced-40th-annual-annie-awards. February 2, 2014. live.