Annie Award for Directing in a Feature Production

Annie Award
41st Annie Awards
Awarded for	Excellence in film animation
Country	United States
Presented by	ASIFA-Hollywood
First awarded	1996
Official website	annieawards.org

The Annie Award for Directing in a Feature Production (or Annie Award for Directing in an Animated Feature Production) is an Annie Award, awarded annually to the best animated feature film and introduced in 1996. It reward directing for animated feature films. The recipients are directors as well as co-directors.

The award was formerly called Best Individual Achievement: Directing in 1996,^[1] Best Individual Achievement: Directing in a Feature Production in 1997,^[2] and Outstanding Individual Achievement for Directing in an Animated Feature Production from 1998 to 2001.^[3]

The award has matched up with the Annie Award for Best Animated Feature every year except for 1997, 2006 and 2011. It has been awarded 15 times. John Lasseter and Lee Unkrich have won it twice, and Brad Bird hold a record of three wins.

Winners and nominees

1990s

Year	Recipient	Motion Picture
1996	John Lasseter	Toy Story
1997	Ron Clements and John Musker	Hercules
	Mark Dindal	Cats Don't Dance
	Bruce W. Smith and Tony Cervone	Space Jam
1998	Tony Bancroft and Barry Cook	Mulan
	Don Bluth and Gary Goldman	Anastasia
	Karl Geurs	Pooh's Grand Adventure: The Search for Christopher Robin
	Andy Knight	Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas
1999	Brad Bird	The Iron Giant
	Chris Buck and Kevin Lima	Tarzan
	Brenda Chapman, Steve Hickner and Simon Wells	The Prince of Egypt
	Eric Darnell and Tim Johnson	Antz
	John Lasseter and Andrew Stanton	A Bug's Life

2000s

Year	Recipient	Motion Picture
2000	John Lasseter, Ash Brannon and Lee Unkrich	Toy Story 2
	Jun Falkenstein	The Tigger Movie
	Hayao Miyazaki	Princess Mononoke
	Eric Leighton and Ralph Zondag	Dinosaur
	Peter Lord and Nick Park	Chicken Run
2001	Andrew Adamson and Vicky Jenson	Shrek
	Mark Dindal	The Emperor's New Groove
	Curt Geda	Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker
	Darrell Rooney and Jeannine Roussel	Lady and the Tramp II: Scamp's Adventure
2002	Hayao Miyazaki	Spirited Away
	Ron Clements and John Musker	Treasure Planet
	Pete Docter, Lee Unkrich and David Silverman	Monsters, Inc.
	Chris Sanders and Dean DeBlois	Lilo & Stitch
	Chris Wedge and Carlos Saldanha	Ice Age
2003	Andrew Stanton and Lee Unkrich	Finding Nemo
	Sylvain Chomet	The Triplets of Belleville
	Eric Goldberg	Looney Tunes: Back in Action
	Satoshi Kon	Millennium Actress
2004	Brad Bird	The Incredibles
	Andrew Adamson, Kelly Asbury and Conrad Vernon	Shrek 2
	Will Finn and John Sanford	Home on the Range
	Stephen Hillenburg	The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie
	Mamoru Oshii	Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence
2005	Nick Park and Steve Box	Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
	Mike Johnson and Tim Burton	Corpse Bride
	Hayao Miyazaki	Howl's Moving Castle
2006	Tim Johnson and Karey Kirkpatrick	Over the Hedge
	David Bowers and Sam Fell	Flushed Away
	Gil Kenan	Monster House
	John Lasseter	Cars
	Carlos Saldanha	Ice Age: The Meltdown
2007	Brad Bird	Ratatouille
	Ash Brannon and Chris Buck	Surf's Up
	Chris Miller and Raman Hui	Shrek the Third
	Vincent Paronnaud and Marjane Satrapi	Persepolis
	David Silverman	The Simpsons Movie
2008	Mark Osborne and John Wayne Stevenson	Kung Fu Panda
	Ari Folman	Waltz with Bashir
	Tatia Rosenthal	$9.99
	Andrew Stanton	WALL-E
	Rob Stevenhagen and Sam Fell	The Tale of Despereaux
2009	Pete Docter	Up
	Wes Anderson	Fantastic Mr. Fox
	Christopher Miller and Phil Lord	Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
	Hayao Miyazaki	Ponyo
	Henry Selick	Coraline

2010s

Year	Recipient	Motion Picture
2010	Dean DeBlois and Chris Sanders	How to Train Your Dragon
	Sylvain Chomet	The Illusionist
	Mamoru Hosoda	Summer Wars
	Chris Renaud and Pierre Coffin	Despicable Me
	Lee Unkrich	Toy Story 3
2011	Jennifer Yuh Nelson	Kung Fu Panda 2
	Kelly Asbury	Gnomeo & Juliet
	Stephen J. Anderson and Don Hall	Winnie the Pooh
	Chris Miller	Puss in Boots
	Carlos Saldanha	Rio
	Gore Verbinski	Rango
2012	Rich Moore	Wreck-It Ralph
	Genndy Tartakovsky	Hotel Transylvania
	Joann Sfar and Antoine Delesvaux	The Rabbi’s Cat
	Sam Fell and Chris Butler	ParaNorman
	Rémi Bezançon and Jean-Christophe Lie	Zarafa
2013	Chris Buck and Jennifer Lee	Frozen
	Kirk De Micco and Chris Sanders	The Croods
	David Soren	Turbo
	Chris Wedge	Epic
	Stéphane Aubier, Vincent Patar, and Benjamin Renner	Ernest & Celestine
2014	Dean DeBlois	How to Train Your Dragon 2
	Don Hall & Chris Williams	Big Hero 6
	Bill Plympton	Cheatin'
	Tomm Moore	Song of the Sea
	Jorge R. Gutierrez	The Book of Life
	Anthony Stacchi & Graham Annable	The Boxtrolls
	Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, Directors; Chris McKay, Co-Director	The LEGO Movie
	Isao Takahata	The Tale of the Princess Kaguya
2015	Pete Docter	Inside Out
	Charlie Kaufman and Duke Johnson	Anomalisa
	Raul Garcia	Extroardinary Tales
	Roger Allers	The Prophet
	Mark Burton and Richard Starzak	Shaun the Sheep Movie
	Steve Martino	The Peanuts Movie
	Hiromasa Yonebayashi	When Marnie Was There

References

1. "Annie Awards 1996". The Internet Movie Database. Retrieved 2011-03-06.
2. "Annie Awards 1997". The Internet Movie Database. Retrieved 2011-03-06.
3. "Annie Awards 1998". The Internet Movie Database. Retrieved 2011-03-06.