Below are the nominations for the Annie Awards, an industry group of professional animators and artists working on animated features. They have categories for television and home entertainment; however, since we’re only concerned with the film-based awards, here they are. Now, take these with a grain of salt. There was a dust-up between the organization and Disney over nominating procedures and Disney pulled its support of the group, although Disney artists are still members and are permitted to nominate and vote, there is no guarantee that they will vote in their previous numbers, making this a heavily DreamWorks-focused group, not that it hadn’t been in the past, but it may be even more so now, especially considering that Dreamworks (just in the list below), managed 33 nominations while Disney and Pixar received only 6.

Nomination Tallies

(15) How to Train Your Dragon
(7) Despicable Me
(6) Megamind
(5) The Illusionist, Shrek Forever After

The Nominations

Best Animated Feature

Despicable Me
How to Train Your Dragon
Tangled
The Illusionist
Toy Story 3

Best Animated Short Subject

Coyote Falls
Day & Night
Enrique Wrecks the World
The Cow Who Wanted to Be a Hamburger
The Renter

Best Animated Effects

Andrew Young Kim – Shrek Forever After
Jason Mayer – How To Train Your Dragon
Brett Miller – How To Train Your Dragon
Sebastian Quessy – Legend Of The Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole
Kryzstof Rost – Megamind

Best Character Animation, Animated Feature

Mark Donald – Megamind
Anthony Hodgson – Megamind
Gabe Hordos – How To Train Your Dragon
Jakob Hjort Jensen – How To Train Your Dragon
David Torres – How To Train Your Dragon

Best Character Animation, Live Action Feature

Quentin Miles – Clash of the Titans
Ryan Page – Alice in Wonderland

Best Character Design

Sylvain Chomet – The Illusionist
Carter Goodrich – Despicable Me
Timothy Lamb – Megamind
Nico Marlet – How To Train Your Dragon

Best Directing

Sylvain Chomet – The Illusionist
Pierre Coffin – Despicable Me
Mamoru Hosoda – Summer Wars
Chris Sanders, Dean DeBlois – How To Train Your Dragon
Lee Unkrich – Toy Story 3

Best Music

Sylvain Chomet – The Illusionist
David Hirschfelder – Legend Of The Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole
John Powell – How To Train Your Dragon
Harry Gregson Williams – Shrek Forever After
Pharrell Williams, Heitor Pereira – Despicable Me

Best Production Design

Yarrow Cheney – Despicable Me
Eric Guillon – Despicable Me
Dan Hee Ryu – Legend Of The Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole
Pierre Olivier Vincent – How To Train Your Dragon
Peter Zaslav – Shrek Forever After

Best Storyboarding

Alessandro Carloni – How To Train Your Dragon
Paul Fisher – Shrek Forever After
Tom Owens – How To Train Your Dragon
Catherine Yuh Rader – Megamind

Best Voice Acting

Jay Baruchel as Hiccup – How To Train Your Dragon
Gerard Butler as Stoick – How To Train Your Dragon
Steve Carrell as Gru – Despicable Me
Cameron Diaz as Fiona – Shrek Forever After
Geoffrey Rush as Ezylryb – Legend Of The Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole

Best Writing

Michael Arndt – Toy Story 3
Sylvain Chomet – The Illusionist
William Davies, Dean DeBlois, Chris Sanders – How to Train Your Dragon
Dan Fogelman – Tangled
Alan J. Schoolcraft, Brent Simons – Megamind