52nd Annie Awards


The 52nd Annual Annie Awards honoring excellence in the field of animation of 2024 was held on February 8, 2025, at the University of California, Los Angeles's Royce Hall in Los Angeles, California, presenting awards in 32 competitive categories as well as four juried special awards.
Nominees were revealed on December 20, 2024. DreamWorks Animation's The Wild Robot, directed by Chris Sanders and adapted from the novel by Peter Brown, led the nominations with 10, followed by Inside Out 2 and Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl, both with seven apiece. In the television categories, Netflix series Arcane, based on the Riot Games multiplayer video game League of Legends, led with seven nominations, followed by Dream Productions with six and Tales of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles with five.
During the ceremony, two fire alarms were set off forcing everyone to leave the building and the live show was delayed for minutes.

Juried awards

[June Foray Award]

[Annie Awards for [Special Achievement in Animation|The Special Achievement Award]]

  • Presented to "acknowledge unique and outstanding achievement not recognized within the existing award category structure":
  • * The book The Original Directors of Walt's Animated Films by Pete Docter and Don Peri.

Ub Iwerks Award

  • For "technical advancement affecting the animation industry":
  • * Alberto Menache, visual effects, animation and gaming pioneer.

Winsor McCay [Lifetime Achievement Awards">Winsor McCay Award">Winsor McCay [Lifetime Achievement Awards]

Multiple awards and nominations

Films

The following films received multiple nominations:
NominationsFilm
10The Wild Robot
7Inside Out 2
7Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl
6That Christmas
4Moana 2
4Ultraman: Rising
3Chicken for Linda!
3Flow
3Kensuke's Kingdom
3Kung Fu Panda 4
3Orion and the Dark
2Big City Greens the Movie: Spacecation
2Memoir of a Snail
2Spellbound
2Tabby McTat
2Yuck!

The following films received multiple awards:
WinsFilm
9The Wild Robot
2Flow
2Orion and the Dark

Television/Broadcast

The following shows received multiple nominations:
NominationsShow
7Arcane
6Dream Productions
5Tales of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
4Bob's Burgers
3Jurassic World: Chaos Theory
3Marvel's Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur
3Secret Level
3WondLa
2Hazbin Hotel
2Jentry Chau vs. The Underworld
2Jessica's Big Little World

The following shows received multiple awards:
WinsShow
7Arcane
2Dream Productions
2Marvel's Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur