Annie Award Nominations

The International Animated Film Society announced today their nominees for the 2009 Annie Awards which will be awarded on February 6th. The Society honor the best in film and television animation every year and it is usually a good predictor of the Animated Feature Film category, although last year it chose Kung Fu Panda as the Best Animated Film of the year, so we'll see this year. Here is the complete list of nominees:

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE FILM
Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs
Coraline
Fantastic Mr. Fox
The Princess and the Frog
The Secret of Kells
Up

BEST ANIMATED EFFECTS
Scott Cegielski - Monsters vs. Aliens
Alexander Feigin - 9
Eric Froemling - Up
Tom Kluyskens - Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs
James Mansfield - The Princess and the Frog

BEST CHARACTER ANIMATION
Andreas Deja - The Princess and the Frog
Eric Goldberg - The Princess and the Frog
Travis Knight - Coraline
Daniel Nguyen - Up
Bruce Smith - The Princess and the Frog

BEST DIRECTING
Wes Anderson - Fantastic Mr. Fox
Pete Docter - Up
Christopher Miller & Phil Lord - Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs
Hayao Miyazaki - Ponyo
Henry Selick - Coraline

BEST MUSIC
Bruno Coulais - Coraline
Michael Giacchino - Up
Joe Hisaishi - Ponyo
John Powell - Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs

BEST STORYBOARDING
Sharon Bridgeman - Astro Boy
Chris Butler - Coraline
Ronnie Del Carmen - Up
Tom Owens - Monsters vs. Aliens
Peter Sohn - Up

BEST VOICE ACTING
Jen Cody - The Princess and the Frog
Dawn French - Coraline
Hugh Laurie - Monsters vs. Aliens
John Leguizamo - Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs
Jennifer Lewis - The Princess and the Frog

BEST WRITING
Wes Anderson & Noah Baumbach - Fantastic Mr. Fox
Pete Docter, Bob Peterson & Tom McCarthy - Up
Timothy Hyde Harris & David Bowers - Astro Boy
Christopher Miller & Phil Lord - Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs

A little disappointing to see Ponyo go unnoticed in the Feature Film category, but that might not be the case come Oscar night. What do you think?