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Pixar Animation Studios was the big winner at the 43rd Annual Annie Awards, Saturday evening at UCLA’s Royce Hall. Inside Out won Best Animated Feature along with 11 other categories, including Outstanding Music – Michael Giacchino; Outstanding Editing – Kevin Nolting; Outstanding Production Design – Ralph Eggleston; Outstanding Voice Acting – Phyllis Smith as ‘Sadness’; Outstanding Writing – Pete Docter, Meg LeFauve and Josh Cooley; and Best Directing – Pete Docter.

Watch the 2016 Annie Awards here.

This year was the first for the new category Best Animated Feature, Independent with Filme de Papel’s ‘Boy and the World’ taking this top honor.

The Best Animated Special Production was awarded to ‘He Named Me Malala’ (Parkes-MacDonald/Little Door); Best Animated Short Subject ‘World of Tomorrow’ (Don Hertzfeldt); Best Animated TV/Broadcast Commercial ‘Man and Dog’ (Psyop); Best General Audience Animated TV/Broadcast Production for Preschool Children ‘Tumble Leaf’ – Mirror (Amazon Studios and...

The International Animated Film Society, Asifa-Hollywood, has announced the nominations for the 43rd Annual Annie Awards and "Inside Out" and "The Good Dinosaur," both Pixar movies, led the pack! "Inside Out" received fourteen nominations while "The Good Dinosaur" got nine.

My pick of the year for best animated feature is "Inside Out" but I love Charlie Kaufman's "Anomalisa" as well which picked five noms.

We'll find out the winners of the Annie Awards on February 6th!

Here is the full list of nominees in all categories of the 43rd Annie Awards:

Best Animated Feature

Anomalisa

Paramount Pictures

Inside Out

Pixar Animation Studios

Shaun the Sheep The Movie

Aardman Animations

The Good Dinosaur

Pixar Animation Studios

The Peanuts Movie

Blue Sky Studios, Twentieth Century Fox Animation

Best Animated Special Production

Elf: Buddy.s Musical Christmas

Warner Bros. Animation

He Named Me Malala

Parkes-MacDonald / Little Door

I Am A Witness

Moonbot...

"What have you seen?" It's the first question you get asked everywhere in Toronto - from the screening lines to the coffee bars, which I'm now hitting about eight times a day - and with the film festival hitting the halfway point, it's time to check in on the movie buzz. Here's a taste of what I've seen - and what the movie world will be talking about for months to come. Geniuses at WorkEddie Redmayne leaps to the front of the Oscar race with an extraordinary performance as Dr. Stephen Hawking in The Theory of Everything, showing the physicist's charm,...

"What have you seen?" It's the first question you get asked everywhere in Toronto - from the screening lines to the coffee bars, which I'm now hitting about eight times a day - and with the film festival hitting the halfway point, it's time to check in on the movie buzz. Here's a taste of what I've seen - and what the movie world will be talking about for months to come. Geniuses at WorkEddie Redmayne leaps to the front of the Oscar race with an extraordinary performance as Dr. Stephen Hawking in The Theory of Everything, showing the physicist's charm,...

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Directed by CalArts graduate Minyun Lee (responsible for character design on Winnie The Pooh and Wreck-It Ralph), and with the help of other artists who also work at Disney, Dreamworks and Pixar; Adam and Dog is a beautifully animated 2D tale about the dog of Eden and what happened in those first days of Creation that made Man and Dog so inseparable. If there is one film that can beat the ultra popular Paperman, it is this one, especially considering it won the 2012 Annie award for animated short subject. Minkyu Lee published this Oscar nominated short animated film on YouTube a week ago, and it quickly collected over half a million views. For a film that features no dialogue, Adam and Dog speaks volumes.

click here to watch all the nominees ...

Paperman

ShortsHD™ The Short Movie Channel (www.shorts.tv), working with Magnolia Pictures, will release The Oscar® Nominated Short Films 2013 in over 260 theatres across the United States, Canada and Europe on February 1, 2013. This is the 8th year of the Oscar Nominated Short Film Theatrical Release. The announcement comes on the heels of last year’s record-breaking release, which was one of the top 50 grossing independent film releases in North America, earning over $1,700,000 nationwide. Since its debut in 2005, the Oscar® Nominated Short Films theatrical release program has grown 800%.

A key fixture of the awards season, the theatrical release featuring Live Action, Animation and Documentary short films is the only opportunity for audiences around the country to watch the nominated shorts prior to the 85th Academy Awards® ceremony on February 24, 2013.

This year’s release breaks new ground: a past Oscar winner in that category will host each film. Hosting the Live Action...

ShortsHD The Short Movie Channel (Shorts.tv), working with Magnolia Pictures, will release The Oscar Nominated Short Films 2013 in over 260 theaters across the United States, Canada and Europe on February 1, 2013. This is the 8th year of the Oscar Nominated Short Film Theatrical Release. The announcement comes on the heels of last year's record-breaking release, which was one of the top 50 grossing independent film releases in North America, earning over $1,700,000 nationwide. Since its debut in 2005, the Oscar Nominated Short Films theatrical release program has grown 800%.

A key fixture of the awards season, the theatrical release featuring Live Action, Animation and Documentary short films is the only opportunity for audiences around the country to watch the nominated shorts prior to the 85th Annual Academy Awards ceremony on February 24, 2013.

This year's release breaks new ground: a past Oscar winner in that category will host each film. Hosting the Live Action program will be director Luke Matheny,...

Case solved. I have Costello’s Shih Tzu.

The La Brea Tar Pits of Southern California are a long way from St. Louis, Mo. You can imagine my surprise when Bonny arrived on the front porch in a little pet carrier. This girl has seen better times – and on the Red Carpet! The canine star of CBS Films’ Seven Psychopaths attended the film’s Midnight Madness screening at the Toronto International Film Festival in September.

Costello’s “I Need Your Help Please” plea fell on deaf ears once my pups, Dutch and Sally, saw there was a new pooch on the scene and gave Bonny the once-over sniff. I tried telling them she was not a chew toy.

Rest assured Charlie Costello – Bonny will be here. *Cough* Stockholm Syndrome *Cough*. Waiting and resting comfortably. Guess the Man and Dog massages you mentioned over on Twitter for Columbus Day will just have to wait.

When I was young, my mom took our dog, Major, out for a walk in the snow. When she returned to the house, she was carrying Major. He was an English Springer Spaniel, which is a medium sized dog-not easy to carry. She said that he had suddenly stopped walking and that he must’ve injured his paw. She was really worried about him. She put him down in the kitchen and he pranced off as normal as can be. Basically, my dog Major was a huge pussy and his feet got cold in the snow so he pretended like he couldn’t walk to get a free ride from my mom. What a jerk. In a slight twist on this story, this man and dog seem to have a symbiotic relationship wherein it is understood that the dog shall not walk in the snow, but shall instead perch like...