Annie Award for Writing in a Feature Production

Annie Award
Awarded for	Excellence in film animation
Country	United States
Presented by	ASIFA-Hollywood
First awarded	1996
Last awarded	2014
Official website	http://annieawards.org

The Annie Award for Writing in a Feature Production (or Annie Award for Writing in an Animated Feature Production) is an Annie Award awarded annually, except in 1997, to the best animated feature film and introduced in 1996. It reward screenwriting for animated feature films.

Awards for Best Writing were awarded in 1994 and 1995, but were also rewarding animated series. The award was formerly called Best Individual Achievement: Writing in 1996,^[1] and Outstanding Individual Achievement for Writing in an Animated Feature Production from 1998 to 2002,^[2] and Outstanding Directing in an Animated Feature Production in 2003, 2004 and 2010.

Winners and nominees

1990s

Year	Recipient	Motion Picture
1996	Andrew Stanton, Joss Whedon, Joel Cohen and Alec Sokolow	Toy Story
1998	Rita Hsiao, Chris Sanders, Philip LaZebnik, Raymond Singer and Eugenia Bostwick-Singer	Mulan
	Karl Geurs and Carter Crocker	Pooh's Grand Adventure: The Search for Christopher Robin
	Flip Kobler, Cindy Marcus, Bill Motz and Bob Roth	Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas
	Eric Tuchman, Susan Gauthier, Bruce Graham, Bob Tzudiker and Noni White	Anastasia
	Richard Tulloch	FernGully 2: The Magical Rescue
1999	Brad Bird and Tim McCanlies	The Iron Giant
	Todd Alcott, Chris Weitz and Paul Weitz	Antz
	John Lasseter, Andrew Stanton, Joe Ranft, Donald McEnery and Bob Shaw	A Bug's Life
	Tab Murphy, Bob Tzudiker and Noni White	Tarzan
	Trey Parker, Matt Stone and Pam Brady	South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut

2000s

Year	Recipient	Motion Picture
2000	John Lasseter, Pete Docter, Ash Brannon, Andrew Stanton, Rita Hsiao, Doug Chamberlin and Chris Webb	Toy Story 2
	Karey Kirkpatrick	Chicken Run
	M. Night Shyamalan and Greg Brooker	Stuart Little
2001	Ted Elliott, Terry Rossio, Joe Stillman and Roger S. H. Schulman	Shrek
	Mark Dindal and Chris Williams	The Emperor's New Groove
	Paul Dini, Glen Murakami and Bruce Timm	Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker
	Marc Hyman	Osmosis Jones
2002	Hayao Miyazaki	Spirited Away
	Michael Berg, Michael J. Wilson and Peter Ackerman	Ice Age
	Dean DeBlois and Chris Sanders	Lilo & Stitch
	Andrew Stanton and Daniel Gerson	Monsters, Inc.
2003	Andrew Stanton, Bob Peterson and David Reynolds	Finding Nemo
	Sylvain Chomet	The Triplets of Belleville
	Jim Kammerud and Brian Smith	101 Dalmatians II: Patch's London Adventure
	Satoshi Kon and Sadayuki Murai	Millennium Actress
	Tab Murphy, Lorne Cameron, David Hoselton, Steve Bencich and Ron J. Friedman	Brother Bear
2004	Brad Bird	The Incredibles
	Andrew Adamson, Joe Stillman, J. David Stem and David N. Weiss	Shrek 2
	Michael J. Wilson and Rob Letterman	Shark Tale
2005	Steve Box, Nick Park and Mark Burton	Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
	Anthony Leondis, Michael LaBash and Tom Rogers	Kronk's New Groove
	Hayao Miyazaki	Howl's Moving Castle
2006	Dick Clement, Ian La Frenais, Christopher Lloyd, Joe Keenan and William Davies	Flushed Away
	Rick Burns	Brother Bear
	Dan Fogelman	Cars
	Dan Harmon, Rob Schrab and Pamela Pettler	Monster House
	George Miller, John Collee, Judy Morris and Warren Coleman	Happy Feet
2007	Brad Bird	Ratatouille
	James L. Brooks, Matt Groening, Al Jean, Ian Maxtone-Graham, George Meyer, David Mirkin, Mike Reiss, Mike Scully, Matt Selman, John Swartzwelder and Jon Vitti	The Simpsons Movie
	Don Rhymer, Ash Brannon, Chris Buck and Chris Jenkins	Surf's Up
	Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud	Persepolis
2008	Jonathan Aibel and Glenn Berger	Kung Fu Panda
	Etan Cohen, Eric Darnell and Tom McGrath	Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa
	Ari Folman	Waltz with Bashir
	Cinco Paul and Ken Daurio	Horton Hears a Who!
2009	Wes Anderson and Noah Baumbach	Fantastic Mr. Fox
	Pete Docter, Bob Peterson and Thomas McCarthy	Up
	Timothy Harris and David Bowers	Astro Boy
	Christopher Miller and Phil Lord	Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs

2010s

Year	Recipient	Motion Picture
2010	Chris Sanders, Will Davies and Dean DeBlois	How to Train Your Dragon
	Michael Arndt	Toy Story 3
	Sylvain Chomet	The Illusionist
	Dan Fogelman	Tangled
	Alan J. Schoolcraft and Brent Simons	Megamind
2011	James Ward Byrkit, John Logan and Gore Verbinski	Rango
	Peter Baynham and Sarah Smith	Arthur Christmas
	Mark Burton, Rob Sprackling, Kevin Cecil, Andy Riley, John R. Smith, Kathy Greenberg, Emily Cook, Kelly Asbury and Steve Hamilton Shaw	Gnomeo & Juliet
	Steven Moffat, Joe Cornish and Edgar Wright	The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn
	Jeremy Spears, Don Hall, Clio Chiang, Don Dougherty, Kendelle Hoyer, Brian Kesinger, Stephen J. Anderson and Nicole Mitchell	Winnie the Pooh
2012	Phil Johnston and Jennifer Lee	Wreck-It Ralph
	Mark Andrews, Steve Purcell, Brenda Chapman and Irene Mecchi	Brave
	John August	Frankenweenie
	Hayao Miyazaki, Keiko Niwa and Karey Kirkpatrick	From Up on Poppy Hill
	Chris Butler	ParaNorman
	Gideon Defoe	The Pirates! Band of Misfits
2013	Hayao Miyazaki	The Wind Rises
	Daniel Pennac	Ernest & Celestine
	Dan Gerson, Robert L. Baird and Dan Scanlon	Monsters University
	Jennifer Lee	Frozen
2014	Phil Lord and Christopher Miller	The LEGO Movie
	Robert L. Baird, Dan Gerson and Jordan Roberts	Big Hero 6
	Dean DeBlois	How to Train Your Dragon 2
	Will Collins	Song of the Sea
	Irena Brignull and Adam Pava	The Boxtrolls
2015	Pete Docter, Meg LeFauve and Josh Cooley	Inside Out
	Mark Burton and Richard Starzak	Shaun the Sheep Movie
	Keiko Niwa, Masashi Ando and Hiromasa Yonebayashi	When Marnie Was There

References

1. "Annie Awards 1996". The Internet Movie Database. Retrieved 2011-03-06.
2. "Annie Awards 1998". The Internet Movie Database. Retrieved 2011-03-07.