Annie Award for Best Animated Video Game
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. 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.
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. Among the nominees, seven video games are adaptations of a feature film and three are adaptations of animated television series. Although most nominees have been released for multiple video game consoles, three of the entrants to the 38th Annie Awards and five contenders at the 39th Annie Awards had only been released on one platform at the time.
Winners and nominees
Year | Video game | Developer / Publisher |
2005 | Ultimate Spider-Man | Activision, Treyarch |
2005 | Psychonauts | Double Fine Productions |
2005 | Resident Evil 4 | Capcom |
2005 | ' | THQ |
2005 | ' | THQ |
2006 | Flushed Away | D3 Publisher |
2006 | Monster House | THQ |
2006 | ' | THQ |
2007 | Ratatouille | THQ |
2007 | ' | THQ |
2007 | Bee Movie Game | Activision |
2007 | ' | Blur Studios |
2008 | Kung Fu Panda | Activision |
2008 | Dead Space | Electronic Arts |
2008 | WALL·E | THQ |
2010 | Limbo | Playdead |
2010 | Heavy Rain | Quantic Dream |
2010 | Kirby's Epic Yarn | Good-Feel & HAL Laboratory |
2010 | Shank | Klei Entertainment |
2011 | Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet | Shadow Planet Productions |
2011 | Bumpy Road | Simogo |
2011 | Gears of War 3 | Epic Games |
2011 | Gesundheit! | Revolutionary Concepts |
2011 | ' | Capcom |
2011 | ' | Insomniac Games |
2011 | Rayman Origins | Ubisoft Montpellier |
2011 | ' | Naughty Dog |
2012 | Journey | Thatgamecompany |
2012 | Borderlands 2 | Gearbox Software |
2012 | Skullgirls | Lab Zero Games |
2012 | ' | Heavy Iron Studios |
2013 | The Last of Us | Naughty Dog |
2013 | Diggs Nightcrawler | Moonbot Studios, Exient Entertainment |
2013 | Tiny Thief | 5 ANTS |
2014 | ' | Ubisoft Montpellier |
2014 | Forza Horizon 2 | Microsoft Studios, Turn 10, Playground Games |
2014 | Child of Light | Ubisoft Montreal |