Annie Award for Best Animated Video Game


The Annie Award for Best Animated Video Game was awarded annually by ASIFA-Hollywood, a non-profit organization that honors contributions to animation, to one animated video game each year from 2005 to 2014. The award is one of the Annie Awards, which are given to contributions to animation, including producers, directors, and voice actors. The Annie Awards were created in 1972 by June Foray to honor individual lifetime contributions to animation. In 1992, the scope of the awards was expanded to honor animation as a whole; the Annie Award for Best Animated Feature was created as a result of this move, and subsequent awards have been created to recognize different contributions to animation. The Annie Award for Best Animated Video Game was created in 2005, and has been awarded yearly since except in 2009. To be eligible for the award, the game must have been released in the year before the next Annie Awards ceremony, and the developers of the game must send a five-minute DVD that shows the gameplay and graphics of the game to a committee appointed by the Board of Directors of ASIFA-Hollywood.
The Annie Award for Best Animated Video Game has been awarded to nine video games. The now-defunct video game development company THQ had six of its games nominated for the Annie Award for Best Animated Video Game, and one of them, Ratatouille, won the award. Among the nominees, seven video games are adaptations of a feature film and three are adaptations of animated television series. Although most nominees have been released for multiple video game consoles, three of the entrants to the 38th Annie Awards and five contenders at the 39th Annie Awards had only been released on one platform at the time.

Winners and nominees

Year
Video gameDeveloper / Publisher
2005
Ultimate Spider-Man Activision, Treyarch
2005
PsychonautsDouble Fine Productions
2005
Resident Evil 4Capcom
2005
'THQ
2005
'THQ
2006
Flushed Away D3 Publisher
2006
Monster HouseTHQ
2006
'THQ
2007
Ratatouille THQ
2007
'THQ
2007
Bee Movie GameActivision
2007
'Blur Studios
2008
Kung Fu Panda Activision
2008
Dead SpaceElectronic Arts
2008
WALL·ETHQ
2010
Limbo Playdead
2010
Heavy RainQuantic Dream
2010
Kirby's Epic YarnGood-Feel & HAL Laboratory
2010
ShankKlei Entertainment
2011
Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet Shadow Planet Productions
2011
Bumpy RoadSimogo
2011
Gears of War 3Epic Games
2011
Gesundheit!Revolutionary Concepts
2011
'Capcom
2011
'Insomniac Games
2011
Rayman OriginsUbisoft Montpellier
2011
'Naughty Dog
2012
Journey Thatgamecompany
2012
Borderlands 2Gearbox Software
2012
SkullgirlsLab Zero Games
2012
'Heavy Iron Studios
2013
The Last of Us Naughty Dog
2013
Diggs NightcrawlerMoonbot Studios, Exient Entertainment
2013
Tiny Thief5 ANTS
2014
' Ubisoft Montpellier
2014
Forza Horizon 2Microsoft Studios, Turn 10, Playground Games
2014
Child of LightUbisoft Montreal