Annie Award for Best Animated Video Game

The cast and crew of the film Monster House appeared at the 34th Annie Awards both for the film's Best Animated Feature nomination as well as for the video game adaptation's award nomination, the voice actors (pictured) having reprised their roles in the game.[1][2]

The Annie Award for Best Animated Video Game was awarded annually by ASIFA-Hollywood, a non-profit organization that honors contributions to animation, to one animated video game each year from 2005 to 2014. The award is one of the Annie Awards, which are given to 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. 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.[3] The Annie Award for Best Animated Video Game was created in 2005, and has been awarded yearly since except in 2009. To be eligible for the award, the game must have been released in the year before the next Annie Awards ceremony, and the developers of the game must send a five-minute DVD that shows the gameplay and graphics of the game to a committee appointed by the Board of Directors of ASIFA-Hollywood.[4]

The Annie Award for Best Animated Video Game has been awarded to nine video games. The now-defunct video game development company THQ had six of its games nominated for the Annie Award for Best Animated Video Game, and one of them, Ratatouille, won the award.[5] Among the nominees, seven video games are adaptations of a feature film[a] and three are adaptations of animated television series.[b] Although most nominees have been released for multiple video game consoles, three of the entrants to the 38th Annie Awards (held February 5, 2011) and five contenders at the 39th Annie Awards had only been released on one platform at the time.

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  5. ^ "35th Annual Annie Awards - Winners". ASIFA-Hollywood. Archived from the original on 4 December 2008. Retrieved 2008-10-30.
  6. ^ Bozon, Mark (2006-11-07). "Flushed Away Review". IGN. Archived from the original on 2012-01-11. Retrieved 2008-11-30.
  7. ^ Thorsen, Tor (2006-11-06). "THQ cooking up Ratatouille". GameSpot. Retrieved 2008-10-30.
  8. ^ Provo, Frank (2007-11-19). "Bee Movie Game Review". GameSpot. Archived from the original on 2022-06-25. Retrieved 2014-05-07.
  9. ^ Theobald, Phil (2007-06-26). "Transformers: The Game Review". GameSpy. Archived from the original on 20 October 2008. Retrieved 2008-10-30.
  10. ^ Castro, Juan (2005-05-25). "SpongeBob SquarePants: Lights, Camera, Pants!!". IGN. Archived from the original on 2022-02-22. Retrieved 2014-05-07.
  11. ^ DeVries, Jack (2008-01-08). "SpongeBob SquarePants: Creature from the Krusty Krab Review". IGN. Archived from the original on 18 November 2008. Retrieved 2008-10-30.
  12. ^ "The Number One Nickelodeon Video Game in 2006 Returns in THQ's Avatar: The Last Airbender - The Burning Earth". GameSpot. 2007-10-17. Retrieved 2008-10-30.


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