Annie Award for Outstanding Achievement for Character Design in a Feature Production
| Annie Award for Character Design in a Feature Production | |
|---|---|
| Awarded for | Excellence in animated films |
| Country | United States |
| Presented by | ASIFA-Hollywood |
| First awarded | 2002 |
| Currently held by | Jesús Alonso Iglesias – Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023) |
| Website | annieawards |
The Annie Award for Character Design in an Animated Feature Production is an Annie Award awarded annually to the best character designer and introduced in 2002. It rewards the design and look of characters for animated feature films.
Winners and nominees
[edit]‡= live-action nominee
2000s
[edit]| Year | Character Designer(s) | Film |
|---|---|---|
| 2002 (30th) [1] | ||
| Carlos Grangel | Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron | |
| Peter De Sève | Ice Age | |
| Chris Sanders | Lilo and Stitch | |
| Ricky Nierva | Monsters, Inc. | |
| Peter De Sève | Treasure Planet | |
| 2003 (31st) [2] | ||
| Ricky Nierva | Finding Nemo | |
| Rune Bennicke | Brother Bear | |
| Carter Goodrich | Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas | |
| 2004 (32nd) [3] | ||
| Tony Fucile | The Incredibles | |
| Joe Moshier | Home on the Range | |
| Teddy Newton | The Incredibles | |
| Carlos Grangel | Shark Tale | |
| 2005 (33rd) [4][5] | ||
| Nick Park | Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit | |
| Joe Moshier | Chicken Little | |
| Carlos Grangel | Corpse Bride | |
| Craig Kellman | Madagascar | |
| William Joyce | Robots | |
| 2006 (34th) [6] | ||
| Nico Marlet | Over the Hedge | |
| Carter Goodrich | Open Season | |
| Peter De Sève | Ice Age: The Meltdown | |
| 2007 (35th) [7] | ||
| Carter Goodrich | Ratatouille | |
| Sylvain Deboissy | Surf's Up | |
| 2008 (36th) [8] | ||
| Nico Marlet | Kung Fu Panda | |
| Valerie Hadida | Igor | |
| Sang Jun Lee | Horton Hears a Who! | |
| 2009 (37th) [9] | ||
| Shane Prigmore | Coraline | |
| Shannon Tindle | Coraline | |
| Daniel Lopez Muñoz | Up |
2010s
[edit]| Year | Character Designer(s) | Film |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 (38th) [10] | ||
| Nico Marlet | How to Train Your Dragon | |
| Carter Goodrich | Despicable Me | |
| Sylvain Chomet | The Illusionist | |
| Timothy Lamb | Megamind | |
| 2011 (39th) [11][12] | ||
| Crash McCreery | Rango | |
| Peter De Sève | Arthur Christmas | |
| Jay Shuster | Cars 2 | |
| Patrick Mate | Puss in Boots | |
| Sergio Pablos | Rio | |
| 2012 (40th) [13] | ||
| Heidi Smith | ParaNorman | |
| Carlos Grangel | Hotel Transylvania | |
| Carter Goodrich | ||
| Yarrow Cheney, Eric Guillon, Colin Stimpson | The Lorax | |
| Craig Kellman | Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted | |
| Bill Schwab, Lorelay Bove, Cory Loftis, Minkyu Lee | Wreck-it Ralph | |
| 2013 (41st) [14] | ||
| Carter Goodrich, Takao Noguchi, Shane Prigmore | The Croods | |
| Craig Kellman | Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2 | |
| Bill Schwab | Frozen | |
| Eric Guillon | Despicable Me 2 | |
| Christophe Lourdelet | A Monster in Paris | |
| Chris Sasaki | Monsters University | |
| Sylvain Deboissy, Shannon Tindle | Turbo | |
| 2014 (42nd) [15] | ||
| Paul Sullivan, Sandra Equihua, Jorge R. Gutiérrez | The Book of Life | |
| Shiyoon Kim, Sang-jin Kim | Big Hero 6 | |
| Mike Smith | The Boxtrolls | |
| Craig Kellman, Joe Moshier, Stevie Lewis, Todd Kurosawa | Penguins of Madagascar | |
| Sang Jun Lee, Jason Sadler, José Manuel Fernández Oli | Rio 2 | |
| Tomm Moore, Marie Thorhauge, Sandra Norup Andersen, Rosa Ballester Cabo | Song of the Sea | |
| 2015 (43rd) [16][17] | ||
| Albert Lozano | Inside Out | |
| Matt Nolte | The Good Dinosaur | |
| Craig Kellman | Hotel Transylvania 2 | |
| Eric Guillon | Minions | |
| 2016 (44th) [18][19] | ||
| Cory Loftis | Zootopia | |
| Shannon Tindle | Kubo and the Two Strings | |
| Bill Schwab, Sang-jin Kim | Moana | |
| Eric Guillon | The Secret Life of Pets | |
| Timothy Lamb, Craig Kellman | Trolls | |
| 2017 (45th) [20][21] | ||
| Daniel Arriaga, Daniela Strijleva, Greg Dykstra, Alonso Martinez, Zaruhi Galstyan | Coco | |
| Joe Moshier | The Boss Baby | |
| Reza Riahi, Louise Bagnall, Alice Dieudonné | The Breadwinner | |
| Eric Guillon | Despicable Me 3 | |
| Patrick Mate | Smurfs: The Lost Village | |
| 2018 (46th) [22][23] | ||
| Shiyoon Kim | Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse | |
| Marceline Gagnon-Tanguay | Next Gen | |
| Matt Nolte | Incredibles 2 | |
| James Woods‡ | Mary Poppins Returns | |
| Ami Thompson | Ralph Breaks the Internet | |
| 2019 (47th) [24][25] | ||
| Torsten Schrank | Klaus | |
| Nico Marlet | Abominable | |
| Craig Kellman | The Addams Family | |
| Bill Schwab | Frozen II | |
| José Manuel Fernández Oli | Spies in Disguise |
2020s
[edit]| Year | Character Designer(s) | Film |
|---|---|---|
| 2020 (48th) [26][27] | ||
| Federico Pirovano | Wolfwalkers | |
| Daniel López Muñoz | Soul | |
| Joe Pitt | The Croods: A New Age | |
| Craig Kellman | The Willoughbys | |
| Timothy Lamb | Trolls World Tour | |
| 2021 (49th) [28][29] | ||
| Lindsey Olivares | The Mitchells vs. the Machines | |
| Deanna Marsigliese | Luca | |
| Ami Thompson | Raya and the Last Dragon | |
| Julien Bizat | Ron's Gone Wrong | |
| Joe Moshier | Vivo | |
| 2022 (50th) [30] | ||
| Taylor Krahenbuhl | The Bad Guys | |
| Massimiliano Narciso | Luck | |
| Jesús Alonso Iglesias | Puss in Boots: The Last Wish | |
| Ida Hem | Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Movie | |
| Pablo Lobato | Wendell & Wild | |
| 2023 (51st) [31][32] | ||
| Jesús Alonso Iglesias | Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse | |
| Maria Yi | Elemental | |
| Nikolas Ilic | Merry Little Batman | |
| Aidan Sugano | Nimona | |
| Daniel Fernandez Casas | Robot Dreams |
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