Comment on Pixar's 'Inside Out' Seizes Oscar Momentum After Topping Annie Awards

The 43rd Annie Awards Saturday night at UCLA's Royce Hall was a love fest for Pixar's "Inside Out," which grabbed 10 awards, including Best Animated Feature, and is primed for the Oscar. "The Good Dinosaur," which dominated the VES Awards on Tuesday, took the Animated Effects prize for a Pixar sweep. In addition, GKids' "Boy and the World," the first Brazilian Oscar nominee (from director Alê Abreu and Filme de Papel), won the inauguaral indie prize, and Don Hertzfeldt's "World of Tomorrow," the Oscar frontrunner, took Best Animated Short. For live-action, "The Revenant" bear claimed another character animation honor for ILM, and Marvel's "Avengers: Age of Ultron" (Sokovia Destruction) took the Animated Effects award. Both "Boy and the World" and "World of Tomorrow" are brilliant hand-drawn works: "Boy" unfolds like a sumptuous tapestry for a small stick figure of a boy, who experiences an...