Annie Award winners: Dragon dominates

How to Train Your Dragon owned the Annies, winning all ten of the feature animation categories. Who could've seen that coming, right? (wink, wink)

It's a pity that the Dreamworks-dominated voting body of the International Animation Film Society-Hollywood wasn't thoughtful enough to spread the love around to some other talent who really deserved it more than How to Train Your Dragon in some categories, but the expectation that this would happen does soften the hurt. Plus, a sweep for this delightful fable is by far less outrageous than the Kung-Fu Panda sweep two years ago. Consider this one last "hooray!" for the film before it loses the Oscar. And it is nice to see John Powell win at least something this season for his wonderful score.

Best Animated Feature: How to Train Your Dragon
Best Directing in a Feature Production: Chris Sanders and Dean DeBlois, How to Train Your Dragon
Best Writing in a Feature Production: William Davies, Dean DeBlois and Chris Sanders, How to Train Your Dragon
Best Animated Short: Day and Night

The rest after the cut.

Best Animated Effects in an Animated Production: Brett Miller, How to Train Your Dragon
Best Character Animation in a Feature Production: Gabe Hordos, How to Train Your Dragon
Best Character Animation in a Live Action Production: Ryan Page, Alice in Wonderland
Best Character Design in a Feature Production: Nico Marlet, How to Train Your Dragon
Best Music in a Feature Production: John Powell, How to Train Your Dragon
Best Production Design in a Feature Production: Pierre Olivier Vincent, How to Train Your Dragon
Best Storyboarding in a Feature Production: Tom Owens, How to Train Your Dragon
Best Voice Acting in a Feature Production: Jay Baruchel, How to Train Your Dragon