The First Annual Renegade Animation Awards! Animation #17

Tonight, on a very prestigious episode of Renegade Animation, we celebrate everything good and bad about Animation in the past year with the FIRST ANNUAL RENNIES!… Rannies?… R.A.A.’s? — Whatever, it’s the FIRST ANNUAL RENEGADE ANIMATION AWARDS!

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How’s it going my fellow Renegades? THE DIRECTOR is back to officiate our first ever awards show from our website, and who better to ring in the occasion than our very own Captain Kaye and Animation Guru?

That’s right, we’re counting down the absolute BEST of Animation that the medium had to offer in 2020. And while we may be as long as the Oscars, at least we won’t give out NFT’s of Kirby Morrow or anything exploitative like that. No awards show would EVER DO that, right? RIGHT?!

Ahhh I’m stalling. Well, here’s the official winners of the First Annual Renegade Animation Awards (please help us come up with a good name, we’re DYIN’ OVER HERE):

BEST MAINSTREAM FILM

Mike’s & Can’s choice: Wolfwalkers/Soul

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM

Mike’s choice: Ride Your Wave/Marona’s Fantastic Tales

Cam’s choice: Ride Your Wave

BEST 2D ANIMATION

Mike’s & Cam’s choice: Wolfwalkers

BEST CGI ANIMATION

Mike’s choice: Soul/Over the Moon

Cam’s choice: Soul/Runner up: The Willoughbys

MOST UNIQUE ANIMATION

Mike’s choice: The Nose/On Gaku: Our Sound

Cam’s choice: The Willoughbys/The Nose

BIGGEST SURPRISE

Mike’s choice: Marona’s Fantastic Tales/The Nose

Cam’s choice: On Gaku Our Sound

BEST SEQUEL/CONTINUATION

Mike’s choice: A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon/Justice League Dark: Apokolips War

Cam’s choice: The Croods: a New Age

BEST ORIGINAL FILM

Mike’s choice: Wolfwalkers/Over the Moon

Cam’s choice: Wolfwalkers

BEST DC DIRECT-TO-VIDEO FEATURE

Mike’s choice: Justice League Dark: Apokolips War

Cam’s choice: Superman: Man of Tomorrow

BEST MUSIC

Mike’s choice: Soul/Over the Moon

Cam’s choice: Soul/ On Gaku

BEST ACTION SEQUENCES

Mike’s choice: Lupin III: The First/Justice League Dark: Apokolips War

Cam’s choice: Lupin III: The First

BEST DRAMA

Mike’s & Cam’s choice: Soul/Wolfwalkers

BEST COMEDY

Mike’s choice: Old Man: The Movie

Cam’s choice: On Gaku: Our Sound

BEST SLICE OF LIFE

Mike’s & Cam’s Choice: On Gaku: Our Sound

BEST WE FINALLY GOT IT FILM
(aka the best foreign film release past its original release elsewhere, but was now given to us in the USA)

Mike’s Choice: Marona’s Fantastic Tales/Animal Crackers (even though it isn’t a foreign film, we still waited a VERY long time to see the damn thing)

Cam’s Choice: S/HE/Animal Crackers

BEST STREAMING EXCLUSIVE FILM

Mike’s and Cam’s Choice: Soul/Over the Moon

BEST USE OF MULTIPLE STYLES OF ANIMATION

Mike’s Choice: The Nose

Cam’s Choice: The Nose/Over the Moon

BEST MALE LEAD ACTOR

Mike’s choice: Joe Gardner (Soul)

BEST FEMALE LEAD ACTOR

Mike’s & Cam’s choice: Robyn Goodfellowe (Wolfwalkers)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

Mike’s & Cam’s choice: Sean Bean as Bill Goodfellowe (Wolfwalkers)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

Mike’s & Cam’s choice: Eva Whittaker as Mebh Óg MacTíre (Wolfwalkers)

BEST WRITING

Mike’s & Cam’s choice: Soul

BEST CHARACTER DESIGNS

Mike’s & Cam’s choice: Wolfwalkers/Soul

MOST ANTICIPATED MAINSTREAM FILM OF THE REST OF 2021

Mike’s choice: Encanto

Cam’s choice: Luca

MOST ANTICIPATED FOREIGN/INDIE FILM FOR THE REST OF 2021

Mike’s choice: Belle/Inu-Oh

Cam’s choice: Belle/Nikuko of the Fishing Harbor/ Inu oh

MOST ANTICIPATED STREAMING EXCLUSIVES FOR THE REST OF 2021

Mike’s choice: Mitchells vs the Machines

Cam’s choice: Luca

SADDEST FILM DELAY

Mike’s & Cam’s choice: Mitchells vs the Machines (titled Connected at the time)

MOST DISAPPOINTING FILM

Mike’s choice: Scoob!

Cam’s Choice: A Whisker Away

WORST FILM

Mike’s choice: Fe@rl3ss

Cam’s choice: Accidental Luxuriance of the Translucent Watery Rebus

That’ll do it for today! Please give us a follow, share the podcast if you can, and stay tuned for the next episode (it’s going to be a doozy…)