37th Annie Awards

The 37th Annual Annie Awards, honoring the best in animation for 2009, were held on February 6, 2010 at Royce Hall in Los Angeles, California.^[2][3][4]

Production category nominees

Best Animated Feature

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• Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
• Coraline
• Fantastic Mr. Fox
• The Princess and the Frog
• The Secret of Kells

Best Home Entertainment Production

• Curious George: A Very Monkey Christmas
• Futurama: Into the Wild Green Yonder
• Green Lantern: First Flight
• Open Season 2
• SpongeBob vs. The Big One

Best Animated Short Subject

• Robot Chicken: Star Wars 2.5 - shadowMachine
• Pups of Liberty - Picnic Pictures
• Santa, The Fascist Years - Plymptoons
• The Rooster, The Crocodile and The Night Sky - Barley Films
• The Story of Walls - Badmash Animation Studios

Individual achievement category nominees

Animated Effects

• The Princess and the Frog - James Mansfield
• Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs - Tom Kluyskens
• Monsters vs. Aliens - Scott Cegielski
• 9 – Alexander Feigin
• Up - Eric Froemling

Character Design in a Feature Production

• Coraline – Shane Prigmore
• Coraline – Shannon Tindle
• Up – Daniel Lopez Munoz

Character Design in a Television Production

• Bill Schwab - Prep & Landing
• Benjamin Balistreri - Foster Home for Imaginary Friends
• Bryan Arnett - The Mighty B
• Craig Kellman - Merry Madagascar

Directing in a Television Production

• Pam Cooke, Jansen Yee – American Dad: Brains, Brains & Automobiles
• Rob Fendler – Popzilla
• John Infantino, J. G. Quintel – The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack: Candy Casanova
• Bret Haaland – The Penguins of Madagascar – Launchtime
• Jennifer Oxley – The Wonder Pets: Help The Monster

Directing in a Feature Production

• Pete Docter – Up
• Phil Lord and Chris Miller – Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
• Henry Selick – Coraline
• Wes Anderson – Fantastic Mr. Fox
• Hayao Miyazaki – Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea (Gake no ue no Ponyo)

Music in a Feature Production

• Coraline – Bruno Coulais
• Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea (Gake no ue no Ponyo) – Joe Hisaishi
• Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs – John Powell
• Up – Michael Giacchino

Production Design in a Feature Production

• Coraline – Tadahiro Uesugi
• 9 – Christophe Vacher
• Coraline – Chris Appelhans
• The Princess and the Frog – Ian Gooding

Voice Acting in a Television Production

• Merry Madagascar - Danny Jacobs
• Chowder: The Dinner Theater - Nicky Jones
• SpongeBob SquarePants: Truth or Square - Tom Kenny
• Chowder: The Party Cruse - Dwight Schultz
• Merry Madagascar - Willow Smith

Writing in a Feature Production

• Fantastic Mr. Fox – Wes Anderson and Noah Baumbach
• Astro Boy – David Bowers and Timothy Harris
• Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs – Phil Lord and Chris Miller
• Up – Pete Docter, Thomas McCarthy and Bob Peterson

Juried award winners

• Special Achievement: Martin Meunier and Brian McLean
• Winsor McCay Award: Tim Burton, Bruce Timm, Jeffrey Katzenberg
• Ub Iwerks Award: William Reeves
• June Foray Award: Tom Sito
• Certificate of Merit: Myles Mikulic, Danny Young, and Michael Woodside

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