Annie Award for Character Design in a Feature Production

The Annie Award for Character Design in an Animated Feature Production is an Annie Award awarded annually to the best character designer and introduced in 2002. It rewards the design and look of characters for animated feature films.

Annie Award for Character Design in a Feature Production
Awarded for	Excellence in film animation
Country	United States
Presented by	ASIFA-Hollywood
First awarded	2002
Website	http://annieawards.org

Winners and nominees

‡= live-action nominee

2000s

Year (edition)	Character Designer	Film
2002 (30th)[1]	Carlos Grangel	Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron
	Peter De Sève	Ice Age
	Chris Sanders	Lilo and Stitch
	Ricky Nierva	Monsters, Inc.
	Peter De Sève	Treasure Planet
2003 (31st)	Ricky Nierva	Finding Nemo
	Rune Bennicke	Brother Bear
	Carter Goodrich	Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas
2004 (32nd)	Tony Fucile	The Incredibles
	Joe Moshier	Home on the Range
	Teddy Newton	The Incredibles
	Carlos Grangel	Shark Tale
2005 (33rd)[1]	Nick Park	Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
	Joe Moshier	Chicken Little
	Carlos Grangel	Corpse Bride
	Craig Kellman	Madagascar
	William Joyce	Robots
2006 (34th)	Nico Marlet	Over the Hedge
	Peter De Sève	Ice Age: The Meltdown
	Carter Goodrich	Open Season
2007 (35th)	Carter Goodrich	Ratatouille
	Sylvain Deboissy	Surf's Up
2008 (36th)	Nico Marlet	Kung Fu Panda
	Valerie Hadida	Igor
	Sang Jun Lee	Horton Hears a Who!
2009 (37th)[2]	Shane Prigmore	Coraline
	Shannon Tindle	Coraline
	Daniel Lopez Muñoz	Up

2010s

Year (edition)	Character Designer	Film
2010 (38th)	Nico Marlet	How to Train Your Dragon
	Carter Goodrich	Despicable Me
	Sylvain Chomet	The Illusionist
	Timothy Lamb	Megamind
2011 (39th)	Crash McCreery	Rango
	Peter De Sève	Arthur Christmas
	Jay Shuster	Cars 2
	Patrick Mate	Puss in Boots
	Sergio Pablos	Rio
2012 (40th)	Heidi Smith	Paranorman
	Carlos Grangel	Hotel Transylvania
	Carter Goodrich
	Yarrow Cheney, Eric Guillon, Colin Stimpson	The Lorax
	Craig Kellman	Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted
	Bill Schwab, Lorelay Bove, Cory Loftis, Minkyu Lee	Wreck-it Ralph
2013 (41st)[3]	Carter Goodrich, Takao Noguchi, Shane Prigmore	The Croods
	Craig Kellman	Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2
	Bill Schwab	Frozen
	Eric Guillon	Despicable Me 2
	Christophe Lourdelet	A Monster in Paris
	Chris Sasaki	Monsters University
	Sylvain Deboissy, Shannon Tindle	Turbo
2014 (42nd)	Paul Sullivan, Sandra Equihua, Jorge R. Gutiérrez	The Book of Life
	Shiyoon Kim, Sang-jin Kim	Big Hero 6
	Mike Smith	The Boxtrolls
	Craig Kellman, Joe Moshier, Stevie Lewis, Todd Kurosawa	Penguins of Madagascar
	Sang Jun Lee, Jason Sadler, José Manuel Fernández Oli	Rio 2
	Tomm Moore, Marie Thorhauge, Sandra Norup Andersen, Rosa Ballester Cabo	Song of the Sea
2015 (43rd)	Albert Lozano	Inside Out
	Matt Nolte	The Good Dinosaur
	Craig Kellman	Hotel Transylvania 2
	Eric Guillon	Minions
2016 (44th)	Cory Loftis	Zootopia
	Shannon Tindle	Kubo and the Two Strings
	Bill Schwab, Sang-jin Kim	Moana
	Eric Guillon	The Secret Life of Pets
	Timothy Lamb, Craig Kellman	Trolls
2017 (45th)	Daniel Arriaga, Daniela Strijleva, Greg Dykstra, Alonso Martinez, Zaruhi Galstyan	Coco
	Joe Moshier	The Boss Baby
	Reza Riahi, Louise Bagnall, Alice Dieudonné	The Breadwinner
	Eric Guillon	Despicable Me 3
	Patrick Mate	Smurfs: The Lost Village
2018 (46th)[4][5]	Shiyoon Kim	Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
	Marceline Gagnon-Tanguay	Next Gen
	Matt Nolte	Incredibles 2
	James Woods‡	Mary Poppins Returns
	Ami Thompson	Ralph Breaks the Internet
2019 (47th)	Torsten Schrank	Klaus
	Nico Marlet	Abominable
	Craig Kellman	The Addams Family
	Bill Schwab	Frozen II
	José Manuel Fernández Oli	Spies in Disguise

References

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4. Flores, Terry (2018-12-03). "'Incredibles 2,' 'Ralph Breaks the Internet' Top Annie Awards Nominations". Variety. Archived from the original on 2018-12-18. Retrieved 2018-12-21.
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