Annie Award for Best Animated Video Game

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.^[3] 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.^[4]

The cast and crew of the film Monster House appeared at the 34th Annie Awards both for the film's Best Animated Feature nomination as well as for the video game adaptation's award nomination, the voice actors (pictured) having reprised their roles in the game.^[1][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.^[5] Among the nominees, seven video games are adaptations of a feature film^{[lower-alpha 1]} and three are adaptations of animated television series.^{[lower-alpha 2]} 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)	Ref(s).
2005 (33rd)	Ultimate Spider-Man ‡	Activision, Treyarch	[13]
	Psychonauts	Double Fine Productions
	Resident Evil 4	Capcom
	SpongeBob SquarePants: Lights, Camera, Pants!	THQ
	Tak: The Great Juju Challenge	THQ
2006 (34th)	Flushed Away ‡	D3 Publisher	[14]
	Monster House	THQ
	SpongeBob SquarePants: Creature from the Krusty Krab	THQ
2007 (35th)	Ratatouille ‡	THQ	[15]
	Avatar: The Last Airbender – The Burning Earth	THQ
	Bee Movie Game	Activision
	Transformers: The Game	Blur Studios
2008 (36th)	Kung Fu Panda ‡	Activision	[16]
	Dead Space	Electronic Arts
	WALL·E	THQ
2010 (38th)	Limbo ‡	Playdead	[17]
	Heavy Rain	Quantic Dream
	Kirby's Epic Yarn	Good-Feel & HAL Laboratory
	Shank	Klei Entertainment
2011 (39th)	Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet ‡	Shadow Planet Productions (Fuelcell Games/Gagne International)	[18]
	Bumpy Road	Simogo
	Gears of War 3	Epic Games
	Gesundheit!	Revolutionary Concepts
	Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective	Capcom
	Ratchet & Clank: All 4 One	Insomniac Games
	Rayman Origins	Ubisoft Montpellier
	Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception	Naughty Dog
2012 (40th)	Journey ‡	Thatgamecompany	[19]
	Borderlands 2	Gearbox Software
	Skullgirls	Lab Zero Games
	Family Guy: Back to the Multiverse	Heavy Iron Studios
2013 (41st)	The Last of Us ‡	Naughty Dog	[20]
	Diggs Nightcrawler	Moonbot Studios, Exient Entertainment
	Tiny Thief	5 ANTS
2014 (42nd)	Valiant Hearts: The Great War ‡	Ubisoft Montpellier	[21]
	Forza Horizon 2	Microsoft Studios, Turn 10, Playground Games
	Child of Light	Ubisoft Montreal

See also

• British Academy Games Award for Best Game

• Video games portal

References

Notes

1. The seven nominees that are adaptations of feature films are Flushed Away,^[6] Monster House,^[1] Ratatouille,^[7] Bee Movie Game,^[8] Transformers: The Game,^[9] Kung Fu Panda, and WALL·E
2. The three nominees that are adaptations of animated television series are SpongeBob SquarePants: Lights, Camera, Pants!,^[10] SpongeBob SquarePants: Creature from the Krusty Krab,^[11] and Avatar: The Last Airbender - The Burning Earth^[12]

General

• "33rd Annual Annie Awards - Winners". ASIFA-Hollywood. Archived from the original on 2014-02-14. Retrieved 2016-10-19.
• "34th Annual Annie Awards - Winners". ASIFA-Hollywood. Archived from the original on 2016-03-22. Retrieved 2016-10-19.
• "35th Annual Annie Awards - Winners". ASIFA-Hollywood. Archived from the original on 4 December 2008. Retrieved 2016-10-19.
• "36th Annual Annie Awards - Winners". ASIFA-Hollywood. Archived from the original on 2012-02-14. Retrieved 2016-10-19.
• "38th Annual Annie Awards - Winners". ASIFA-Hollywood. Archived from the original on 2014-02-14. Retrieved 2016-10-19.
• "39th Annual Annie Nominations & Winners!". ASIFA-Hollywood. Archived from the original on 2012-12-31. Retrieved 2016-10-19.
• "40th Annual Annie Awards Winners". ASIFA-Hollywood. Archived from the original on 2014-02-18. Retrieved 2013-12-10.
• "41st Annual Annie Awards Winners". ASIFA-Hollywood. Archived from the original on 2016-03-11. Retrieved 2016-10-19.
• "42ND Annual Annie Award Nominees & Winners!". ASIFA-Hollywood. Archived from the original on 2016-12-11. Retrieved 2016-10-19.

Specific

1. VanOrd, Kevin (2006-08-07). "Monster House Review". GameSpy. Archived from the original on 2016-03-03. Retrieved 2008-10-30.
2. "34th Annual Annie Awards - Winners". ASIFA-Hollywood. Archived from the original on 2012-03-07. Retrieved 2008-10-30.
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5. "35th Annual Annie Awards - Winners". ASIFA-Hollywood. Archived from the original on 4 December 2008. Retrieved 2008-10-30.
6. Bozon, Mark (2006-11-07). "Flushed Away Review". IGN. Archived from the original on 2012-01-11. Retrieved 2008-11-30.
7. Thorsen, Tor (2006-11-06). "THQ cooking up Ratatouille". GameSpot. Retrieved 2008-10-30.
8. Provo, Frank (2007-11-19). "Bee Movie Game Review". GameSpot. Archived from the original on 2022-06-25. Retrieved 2014-05-07.
9. Theobald, Phil (2007-06-26). "Transformers: The Game Review". GameSpy. Archived from the original on 20 October 2008. Retrieved 2008-10-30.
10. Castro, Juan (2005-05-25). "SpongeBob SquarePants: Lights, Camera, Pants!!". IGN. Archived from the original on 2022-02-22. Retrieved 2014-05-07.
11. DeVries, Jack (2008-01-08). "SpongeBob SquarePants: Creature from the Krusty Krab Review". IGN. Archived from the original on 18 November 2008. Retrieved 2008-10-30.
12. "The Number One Nickelodeon Video Game in 2006 Returns in THQ's Avatar: The Last Airbender - The Burning Earth". GameSpot. 2007-10-17. Retrieved 2008-10-30.
13. "Annie Awards :: 33rd Annie Awards". 2013-10-05. Archived from the original on 2013-10-05. Retrieved 2024-03-01.
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15. "Annie Awards :: 35th Annie Awards". 2013-10-05. Archived from the original on 2013-10-05. Retrieved 2024-03-01.
16. "Annie Awards :: 36th Annie Awards". 2013-11-02. Archived from the original on 2013-11-02. Retrieved 2024-03-01.
17. "Annie Awards :: 38th Annie Awards". 2016-07-01. Archived from the original on 2016-07-01. Retrieved 2024-03-01.
18. "Annie Awards :: 39th Annie Awards". 2016-03-07. Archived from the original on 2016-03-07. Retrieved 2024-03-01.
19. "Annie Awards Nominees". 2016-03-07. Archived from the original on 2016-03-07. Retrieved 2024-03-01.
20. "Annie Awards :: 41st Annie Awards". 2016-03-11. Archived from the original on 2016-03-11. Retrieved 2024-03-01.
21. "Annie Awards :: 42nd Annie Awards". 2016-03-18. Archived from the original on 2016-03-18. Retrieved 2024-03-01.

External links

• Official website of the Annie Awards Archived 2015-07-12 at the Wayback Machine