Apple TV+ film 'Wolfwalkers' earns 10 nominations for the Annie Awards

Wolfwalkers Photo
Wolfwalkers Photo (Image credit: Apple TV+)

What you need to know

  • Wolfwalkers has earned ten nominations for the Annie Awards.
  • The nominations include Best Indie Feature, Best Direction, and Best Music.

Wolfwalkers, the animated film that debuted on Apple TV+ back in 2020, is leading the Annie Awards feature nominations with Disney's Soul with 10 nominations each.

As reported by The Hollywood Reporter, the film is nominated for best independent animated feature.

Wolfwalkers, the Tomm Moore and Ross Stewart-helmed Apple original Irish fantasy produced by Cartoon Saloon and Melusine with domestic theatrical distribution from GKIDS, is nominated for best independent animated feature. Both movies scored nominations for directing, character animation, character design, FX, music, production design, storyboarding and writing. Soul is additionally nominated for editing while Wolfwalkers earned it's tenth nom for voice acting (Eva Whittaker as Mebh).

The full list of nominations for Wolfwalkers is as follows:

  • Best Indie Feature: Cartoon Saloon / Melusine
  • Best FX for Feature: Wolfwalkers, Kim Kelly, Leena Lecklin, Frédéric Plumey, Almu Redondo, Nicole Storck
  • Best Character Animation - Feature: Wolfwalkers, Emmanuel Asquier-Brassart
  • Best Character Design - Feature: Wolfwalkers, Federico Pirovano
  • Best Direction - Feature: Wolfwalkers, Tomm Moore, Ross Stewart
  • Best Music - Feature: Wolfwalkers, Bruno Coulais, Kíla
  • Best Production Design - Feature: Wolfwalkers, María Pareja, Ross Stewart, Tomm Moore
  • Best Storyboarding - Feature: Wolfwalkers, Guillaume Lorin
  • Best Voice Acting - Feature: Wolfwalkers, Eva Whittaker (Mebh Óg MacTíre)
  • Best Writing - Feature: Wolfwalkers, Will Collins

The Annie Awards aren't the only awards that Wolfwalkers has been nominated for. The film had also been nominated along with Ted Lasso for a Golden Globe. Jason Sudeikis, who plays the title character in Ted Lasso, went on to win the award for Best Actor in a Comedy Series.

Joe Wituschek
Contributor

Joe Wituschek is a Contributor at iMore. With over ten years in the technology industry, one of them being at Apple, Joe now covers the company for the website. In addition to covering breaking news, Joe also writes editorials and reviews for a range of products. He fell in love with Apple products when he got an iPod nano for Christmas almost twenty years ago. Despite being considered a "heavy" user, he has always preferred the consumer-focused products like the MacBook Air, iPad mini, and iPhone 13 mini. He will fight to the death to keep a mini iPhone in the lineup. In his free time, Joe enjoys video games, movies, photography, running, and basically everything outdoors.

Latest in Apple TV
A still from Ridley Scott's Napoleon film, with horses charging into battle.
Ridley Scott's Napoleon just got 48 minutes longer for Apple TV Plus subscribers
Apple TV Plus' Ted Lasso
Ted Lasso season 4 might have less Ted, more team when it returns on Apple TV+
Apple TV Plus' Ted Lasso
Ted Lasso Season 4 inches closer with cast negotiations underway
football in a stadium
English Premier League to adopt iPhone offside technology — rage at Apple instead of incompetent referees this season
Slow Horses on AppleTV Plus
Apple gives us a first look at Slow Horses Season 4 with an official trailer for the spy thriller's return
Peanuts on Apple TV Plus
Apple TV Plus has nailed movies for adults — but it's just peanuts for kids (almost literally)
Latest in News
iMore Logo
One more thing… Goodbye from iMore
Jony Ive
Jony Ive’s OpenAI hardware device could be his next world-changing design
NEBULA Cosmos 4K SE with Apple TV
This new 4K projector is tempting me to replace my LG C2 TV, just so I can watch Slow Horses on a 200-inch display
VisionOS 2 app reorganization
visionOS 2 is the first major software update for Apple Vision Pro, and now it's available
macOS Sequoia
macOS Sequoia (version 15) is now available for your Mac with some big upgrades
watchOS 11
watchOS 11 is now rolling out to all Apple Watch users with the Series 6 or newer