Will Up's Annie Award lead to Oscar?

Up won both Best Picture and Director at the Annie Awards on Saturday night. The movie beat out all four of its competitors for Best Animated Feature Oscar: Coraline, Fantastic Mr. Fox, The Princess and the Frog and The Secret of Kells, as well as Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs.

Coraline, which topped the list with 10 nominations, won three Annies: Character Design, Music and Production Design. Princess took three of its eight categories: Animated Effects, Character Animation and Voice Acting. Critics' choice Fantastic Mr. Fox won just one of its three nods, for the script by director Wes Anderson and Noah Baumbach.

Since the academy introduced the Best Animated Feature Award in 2001, winners of the Best Picture Annie and the Oscar have matched up six times.

Source:thestar.com/