Annie Award winners!

The 39th annual Annie Awards were held last night and Rango did extremely well picking up a lot of the big awards.  History was also made as Jennifer Yuh Nelson won for Best Director for a feature film for Kung Fu Panda 2, the first female to do so in this category.  Congratulations!  Rise of the Planet of the Apes and Transformers: Dark of the Moon won in the live-action categories too.  Read on below for the rest of the winners in the feature film categories.

Best Animated Feature
Rango

Best Animated Special Production
Kung Fu Panda - Secrets of the Masters

Best Animated Short Subject
Adam and Dog - Minkyu Lee

Animated Effects in an Animated Production
The Adventures of Tintin - Kevin Romond

Animated Effects in a Live-Action Production
Transformers: Dark of the Moon - Florent Andorra

Character Animation in a Feature Production
Rio - Jeff Gabor

Character Animation in a Live-Action Production
Rise of the Planet of the Apes - Eric Reynolds

Character Design in a Feature Production
Rango - Mark "Crash" McCreery

Directing in a Feature Production
Kung Fu Panda 2 - Jennifer Yuh Nelson

Music in a Feature Production
The Adventures of Tintin - John Williams

Production Design in a Feature Production
Kung Fu Panda 2 - Raymond Zilbach

Storyboarding in a Feature Production
Winnie the Pooh - Jeremy Spears

Voice Acting in a Feature Production
Arthur Christmas - Bill Nighy as Grandsanta

Writing in a Feature Production
Rango - John Logan, Gore Verbinski and James Byrkit

Editing in a Feature Production
Rango - Craig Wood, A.C.E.

Juried Awards

Windsor McCay Award - Walt Peregoy, Borge Ring, Ronald Searle

June Foray - Art Leonardi

Special Achievement - Depth Analysis