"The Wild Robot" was the big winner at the Annie Awards on Saturday evening, winning nine trophies at the annual ceremony that honors the best in animation as chosen by the Los Angeles branch of the International Animated Film Society,

DreamWorks Animation’s heartwarming “The Wild Robot” ran away with the most trophies at the 52nd annual Annie Awards with nine, including best feature. Netflix’s video game adaptation “Arcane” led the TV/Media categories with seven.

The No. 1 movie of 2024, Disney/Pixar’s Inside Out, and Aardman’s stop-motion Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl are next with seven noms apiece. All three are vying in the marquee Best Feature race against DreamWorks Animation’s Kung Fu Panda and Netflix’s That Christmas and Ultraman: Rising.

Flow, which won the Golden Globe for best animated motion picture, and The Wild Robot are both nominated for the Oscar for best animated feature, along with Inside Out 2, Memoir of a Snail and Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl.

“The Wild Robot” ran away with nine wins at the 52nd annual Annie Awards on February 8 at UCLA’s Royce Hall. The DreamWorks robot survival adventure took Best Feature along with nearly ever other category (it was not nominated for Best Writing and Best Storyboarding).

We have an official front-runner for the Animated Feature Oscar. The Wild Robot won eight trophies at the 52nd annual Annie Awards on Saturday night: Best Direction for Chris Sanders — his fifth career Annie — FX,