The Annie Award for Best Animated Home Entertainment Production is awarded annually by ASIFA-Hollywood, a non-profit organization that honors contributions to animation, to the best animated direct-to-video film of the year. It is one of the Annie Awards, which honor contributions to animation, including producers, directors, and voice actors. The Annie Awards were created in 1972 by June Foray to honor individual lifetime contributions to animation.
History In 1992, the scope of the awards was expanded to honor animation as a whole; the Annie Award for Best Animated Feature was created as a result of this move, and subsequent awards have been created to recognize different contributions to animation. The Annie Award for Best Animated Home Entertainment Production was created in 1995, and has been awarded yearly since. It was originally known as the Annie Award for Best Animated Video Production; the name of the award was changed in 1997 to the Annie Award for Best Home Video Production, was changed again in 1998 to the Annie Award for Outstanding Achievement in an Animated Home Video Production, and was changed in 2002 to the current name. To be eligible for the award, the film must have been released in the year before the next Annie Awards ceremony, and the developers of the game must send a five-minute sample DVD of the film to a committee appointed by the Board of Directors of ASIFA-Hollywood.
As of 2008, the Annie Award for Best Animated Home Entertainment Production has been awarded to thirteen direct-to-video films. The Gate to the Mind’s Eye, a film in the Mind's Eye series, was the first film to win the award. Macross Plus, an original video animation, was the first film to feature Japanese anime to be nominated for the award; the only other film featuring anime to be nominated is the Wachowskis' The Animatrix, a series of animated videos set in the fictional universe of The Matrix series. The film production company Walt Disney Television Animation has had nine of its films nominated for the award, more than any other company, and DisneyToon Studios, a division of Walt Disney Television Animation, has had eight of its films nominated for the award.
Winners and nominees 1990s Year Film Studios Director 1995 (23rd) The Gate to the Mind’s Eye Miramar Macross Plus - Part OneMacross Plus Project, Hero Co., Shinichiro Watanabe Macross Plus - Part Two Opéra Imaginaire Miramar , Hilary Audus The Land Before Time II: The Great Valley Adventure Universal Cartoon Studios 1996 (24th) The Land Before Time III: The Time of the Great Giving Universal Cartoon Studios 1997 (25th) Aladdin and the King of Thieves Walt Disney Television Animation The Land Before Time IV: Journey Through the Mists Universal Cartoon Studios A Rugrats Vacation Klasky Csupo, Nickelodeon This Land Is Your Land: The Animated Kids' Songs of Woody Guthrie Artisan Entertainment 1998 (26th) Batman & Mr. Freeze: SubZero Warner Bros. Animation Belle's Magical World Walt Disney Television Animation , Daniel de la Vega, Barbara Dourmashkin, Dale Kase, Bob Kline, Burt Medall, Mitch Rochon FernGully 2: The Magical Rescue Wild Brain Pooh's Grand Adventure: The Search for Christopher Robin Walt Disney Television Animation Spunky's Camping Adventure Global Television Syndication, Christian Broadcasting Network 1999 (27th) The Lion King II: Simba's Pride Walt Disney Television Animation Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island Hanna-Barbera, Warner Home Video , Kazumi Fukushima, Jim Stenstrum Pocahontas II: Journey to a New World Walt Disney Television Animation , Bradley Raymond The Land Before Time VI: The Secret of Saurus Rock Universal Cartoon Studios
2000s Year Film Studios Director 2000 (28th) An Extremely Goofy Movie Walt Disney Television Animation , Douglas McCarthy Bartok the Magnificent Fox Animation Studios , Gary Goldman Mickey's Once Upon a Christmas Walt Disney Television Animation Scooby-Doo! and the Witch's Ghost Hanna-Barbera, Warner Bros. Animation Wakko's Wish Warner Bros. Animation , Rusty Mills, Tom Ruegger 2001 (29th) Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker Warner Bros. Animation (:fr:Curt Geda) Joseph: King of Dreams DreamWorks , Robert C. Ramirez Lady and the Tramp II: Scamp's Adventure Walt Disney Television Animation , Jeannine Roussel 2002 (30th) Rolie Polie Olie: The Great Defender of Fun Nelvana, Sparkling The Land Before Time IX: Journey to Big Water Universal Cartoon Studios The Star of Christmas Big Idea Productions 2003 (31st) The Animatrix Silver Pictures, Warner Home Video , Andy Wachowski 101 Dalmatians II: Patch's London Adventure DisneyToon Studios , Brian Smith Rolie Polie Olie: The Baby Bot Chase Nelvana, Sparkling Stitch! The Movie Walt Disney Television Animation 2004 (32nd) The Lion King 1½ DisneyToon Studios Mickey, Donald, Goofy: The Three Musketeers DisneyToon Studios Scooby-Doo! and the Loch Ness Monster Warner Bros. Animation 2005 (33rd) Lilo & Stitch 2: Stitch Has a Glitch DisneyToon Studios , Anthony Leondis Bionicle 3: Web of Shadows Creative Capers Entertainment , Terry Shakespeare Kronk's New Groove DisneyToon Studios , Saul Andrew Blinkoff Tarzan II DisneyToon Studios The Batman vs. Dracula Warner Bros. Animation 2006 (34th) Bambi II DisneyToon Studios The Adventures of Brer Rabbit Universal Animation Studios Winnie the Pooh: Shapes & Sizes DisneyToon Studios 2007 (35th) Futurama: Bender's Big Score The Curiosity Company, 20th Century Fox Television Doctor Strange: The Sorcerer Supreme MLG Productions 2008 (36th) Futurama: The Beast with a Billion Backs The Curiosity Company, 20th Century Fox Television Batman: Gotham Knight Warner Bros. Animation , Christmas Is Here Again Easy To Dream Entertainment, Renegade Animation Justice League: The New Frontier Warner Bros. Animation The Little Mermaid: Ariel's Beginning DisneyToon Studios 2009 (37th) Futurama: Into the Wild Green Yonder The Curiosity Company, 20th Century Fox Television Curious George: A Very Monkey Christmas Imagine Entertainment, WGBH Boston, Universal Animation StudiosScott Heming, Cathy Malkasian, Jeff McGrathGreen Lantern: First Flight Warner Bros. Animation Lauren MontgomeryOpen Season 2 Sony Pictures Animation Matthew O'Callaghan, Lauren WildermanSpongeBob vs. the Big One United Plankton Pictures, Nickelodeon Animation Studio Andrew Overtoom
References
External links Official website of the Annie Awards