Annie Awards Nominations Announced!

The Annie Awards Nominations have been announced. For the first time the top award, the Best Animated Feature award, has been split into two categories: 'Best Animated Feature’ and ‘Best Animated Feature - Independent’.

Best Animated Feature
“Finding Dory”, Pixar Animation Studios
“Kubo and the Two Strings”, Laika
"Kung Fu Panda 3”, DreamWorks Animation
“Moana”, Walt Disney Animation
“Zootopia”, Walt Disney Animation

Best Animated Feature - Independent
“Long Way North”, Sacrebleu Productions
“Miss Hokusai”, GKids
“My Life as a Zucchini”, GKids
“The Red Turtle”, Studio Ghibli, Wild Bunch, Why Not Productions
“Your Name.”, CoMix Wave Films

‘Zootopia' leads with 11 nominations while 'Kubo and the Two Strings' received 10.

Moana received the third most nominations with 6 while The Red Turtle received 5.

Kung Fu Panda 3 and Trolls both received 4. Finding Dory received 3. The Secret Life of Pets and The Little Prince each received 2 nominations

Miss Hokusai, Sausage Party, Sing, and Storks received 1 nomination.

For the full list of nominations: http://variety.com/2016/film/news/annie-awards-nominations-2017-zootopia-kubo-and-the-two-strings-1201927492/