Annie Award for Best Animated Video Game explained

The Annie Award for Best Animated Video Game was awarded annually by ASIFA-Hollywood, a non-profit organization that honors contributions to animation, to one animated video game each year from 2005 to 2014. The award is one of the Annie Awards, which are given to contributions to animation, including producers, directors, and voice actors. The Annie Awards were created in 1972 by June Foray to honor individual lifetime contributions to animation. In 1992, the scope of the awards was expanded to honor animation as a whole; the Annie Award for Best Animated Feature was created as a result of this move, and subsequent awards have been created to recognize different contributions to animation.[1] The Annie Award for Best Animated Video Game was created in 2005, and has been awarded yearly since except in 2009. To be eligible for the award, the game must have been released in the year before the next Annie Awards ceremony, and the developers of the game must send a five-minute DVD that shows the gameplay and graphics of the game to a committee appointed by the Board of Directors of ASIFA-Hollywood.[2]

The Annie Award for Best Animated Video Game has been awarded to nine video games. The now-defunct video game development company THQ had six of its games nominated for the Annie Award for Best Animated Video Game, and one of them, Ratatouille, won the award.[3] Among the nominees, seven video games are adaptations of a feature film and three are adaptations of animated television series. Although most nominees have been released for multiple video game consoles, three of the entrants to the 38th Annie Awards (held February 5, 2011) and five contenders at the 39th Annie Awards had only been released on one platform at the time.

Winners and nominees

Table key
Indicates the winner
Year
(Ceremony)
Video game Developer(s) / Publisher(s)
2005
(33rd)
Ultimate Spider-Man Activision, Treyarch[4]
PsychonautsDouble Fine Productions
Resident Evil 4Capcom
THQ
THQ
2006
(34th)
Flushed Away D3 Publisher[5]
Monster HouseTHQ
THQ
2007
(35th)
Ratatouille THQ[6]
THQ
Bee Movie GameActivision
Blur Studios
2008
(36th)
Kung Fu Panda Activision[7]
Dead SpaceElectronic Arts
WALL·ETHQ
2010
(38th)
Limbo Playdead[8]
Heavy RainQuantic Dream
Kirby's Epic YarnGood-Feel & HAL Laboratory
ShankKlei Entertainment
2011
(39th)
Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet Shadow Planet Productions (Fuelcell Games/Gagne International)[9]
Bumpy RoadSimogo
Gears of War 3Epic Games
Gesundheit!Revolutionary Concepts
Capcom
Insomniac Games
Rayman OriginsUbisoft Montpellier
Naughty Dog
2012
(40th)
Journey Thatgamecompany[10]
Borderlands 2Gearbox Software
SkullgirlsLab Zero Games
Heavy Iron Studios
2013
(41st)
The Last of Us Naughty Dog[11]
Diggs NightcrawlerMoonbot Studios, Exient Entertainment
Tiny Thief5 ANTS
2014
(42nd)
Ubisoft Montpellier[12]
Forza Horizon 2Microsoft Studios, Turn 10, Playground Games
Child of LightUbisoft Montreal

See also

References

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Annie Awards: Legacy. ASIFA-Hollywood. 2008-10-30. https://web.archive.org/web/20081201083602/http://annieawards.org/legacy.html. 1 December 2008 . live.
  2. Web site: Annie Awards: Rules and Categories. https://web.archive.org/web/20120108085541/http://annieawards.org/rulesandcategories.html#Best%20Animated%20Video%20Game. dead. 2012-01-08. ASIFA-Hollywood. 2008-10-30.
  3. Web site: 35th Annual Annie Awards - Winners . . 2008-10-30 . https://web.archive.org/web/20081204082048/http://annieawards.org/35thwinners.html . 4 December 2008 . dead .
  4. Web site: 2013-10-05 . Annie Awards :: 33rd Annie Awards . 2024-03-01 . https://web.archive.org/web/20131005072938/https://annieawards.org/33rd-annie-awards . 2013-10-05 .
  5. Web site: 2013-01-02 . Annie Awards :: 34th Annie Awards . 2024-03-01 . https://web.archive.org/web/20130102053511/https://annieawards.org/34th-annie-awards . 2013-01-02 .
  6. Web site: 2013-10-05 . Annie Awards :: 35th Annie Awards . 2024-03-01 . https://web.archive.org/web/20131005003727/https://annieawards.org/35th-annie-awards . 2013-10-05 .
  7. Web site: 2013-11-02 . Annie Awards :: 36th Annie Awards . 2024-03-01 . https://web.archive.org/web/20131102195537/https://annieawards.org/36th-annie-awards . 2013-11-02 .
  8. Web site: 2016-07-01 . Annie Awards :: 38th Annie Awards . 2024-03-01 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160701220238/https://annieawards.org/38th-annie-awards . 2016-07-01 .
  9. Web site: 2016-03-07 . Annie Awards :: 39th Annie Awards . 2024-03-01 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160307094335/https://annieawards.org/39th-annie-awards . 2016-03-07 .
  10. Web site: 2016-03-07 . Annie Awards Nominees . 2024-03-01 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160307034805/https://annieawards.org/40thannieawards/ . 2016-03-07 .
  11. Web site: 2016-03-11 . Annie Awards :: 41st Annie Awards . 2024-03-01 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160311101127/https://annieawards.org/41st-annie-awards/ . 2016-03-11 .
  12. Web site: 2016-03-18 . Annie Awards :: 42nd Annie Awards . 2024-03-01 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160318115422/https://annieawards.org/42nd-annie-awards/ . 2016-03-18 .