Annie Awards 2025: ‘The Wild Robot’ Tops List, Inside Out 2 Follows

DreamWorks Animation’s The Wild Robot earned 10 nominations for the 52nd Annie Awards, leading the feature film competition.

The awards celebrate excellence in animation and will take place on February 8, 2025, at UCLA’s Royce Hall.

Other top nominees include Disney/Pixar’s Inside Out 2 and Aardman/Netflix’s Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl, with seven nominations each. Locksmith Animation’s That Christmas followed with six nominations.

Best Animated Feature Nominees

The nominees for Best Animated Feature include:

• The Wild Robot (DreamWorks Animation)
• Inside Out 2 (Disney/Pixar)
• Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl (Aardman/Netflix)
• That Christmas (Locksmith/Netflix)
• Kung Fu Panda 4 (DreamWorks Animation)
• Ultraman: Rising (Netflix)

Independent Feature Highlights

The Best Independent Animated Feature category includes:

• Chicken for Linda! (France)
• Flow (Latvia)
• Kensuke’s Kingdom (UK)
• Look Back (Japan)
• Mars Express (France)
• Memoir of a Snail (Australia)

Notable Snubs

While The Wild Robot leads the pack, it was notably left out of the writing category. Disney’s Moana 2 also missed out on nominations for Best Feature, Writing, and Directing, earning only four nods in total.

Voice Acting Nominations

In the voice acting category, Lupita Nyong’o (The Wild Robot) and Maya Hawke (Inside Out 2) received nominations.

Other nominees include Brian Tyree Henry (Transformers One) and Mélinée Leclerc (Chicken for Linda!).

Special Awards

The Annie Awards will also honour individuals and organizations for contributions to animation:

• Winsor McCay Awards: Aaron Blaise, Eunice Macaulay (posthumous), Normand Roger
• June Foray Award: Women in Animation
• Ub Iwerks Award: Alberto Menache for technical innovation

The full list of nominees includes categories for TV, short films, special productions, and student projects. Fans can look forward to celebrating the best in animation on February 8, 2025.