‘KPop Demon Hunters’ Leads 2026 Annie Award Winners — Full List

“KPop Demon Hunters,” Netflix’s animated phenomenon, swept the 2026 Annie Awards, winning Best Feature at ASIFA-Hollywood’s annual awards ceremony recognizing the greatest animated achievements of the year. The ceremony was held February 21, at UCLA’s Royce Hall in Los Angeles, California, and honored film, TV, and multimedia works.

In addition to Best Feature, “KPop Demon Hunters” also won eight other awards, including Best FX, Best Character Animation, Best Character Design, Best Direction, Best Music, Best Production Design, Best Editorial, Best Writing, and Best Voice Acting, for Arden Cho’s performance as Rumi.

“Arco,” the French animated feature from debut filmmaker Ugo Bienvenu, won Best Independent Feature. Best Storyboarding went to “The Bad Guys 2.” The award results comfortably position “KPop Demon Hunters” — which has dominated the award season race this year, winning the Golden Globe and Critics Choice Award in addition to several critic group’s prizes — for a presumed win in the Best Animated Feature category at the Oscars next month.

“Snow Bear,” an animated short by Aaron Blaise, won the Best Short Subject category after having missed the final five nominations of the Oscars category. On the TV end, Adult Swim thriller “Common Side Effects” won four awards, including Best TV/Media for Mature Audiences, Best Direction, Best Writing, and Best Editorial.

In addition to the competitive award, several juried prizes were given out during the ceremony. The Winsor McCay Award recognizing lifetime contributions to animation were given to Christopher Miller and Phil Lord, Chris Sanders, and Michaël Dudok de Wit. The June Foray Award for significant impact to the animation community was given to Sandy Rabins, who led the AnimAID relief fund to support those affected by the 2025 LA wildfires. The Ub Iwerks Award for technical achievement was given to Cintiq manufacturer Wacom. The Special Achievement Award was given to LightBox Expo, and The ASIFA-Hollywood Merit Award was given to Jeffrey New and Haley Mirren Douthit.

Read the full list of winners below.

BEST FEATURE
“KPop Demon Hunters”
Sony Pictures Animation for Netflix

BEST FEATURE – INDEPENDENT
“Arco”
Remembers, MountainA France, France 3 Cinéma

BEST SPECIAL PRODUCTION
“Snoopy Presents: A Summer Musical”
WildBrain Studios in association with Apple

BEST SHORT SUBJECT
“Snow Bear”
The Art of Aaron Blaise

BEST SPONSORED
“Olipop Yeti”
Screen Novelties & Passion Pictures

BEST TV/MEDIA – PRESCHOOL
“Wow Lisa”
Episode: Rainy Day
Punkrobot

BEST TV/MEDIA – CHILDREN
“The Wonderfully Weird World of Gumball”
Episode: The Rewrite
Hanna-Barbera Studios Europe

BEST TV/MEDIA – MATURE

“Common Side Effects”
Episode: Pilot
Green Street Pictures, Bandera Entertainment and Williams Street
Productions

BEST TV/MEDIA – LIMITED SERIES
“Win Or Lose”
Episode: Home
Pixar Animation Studios

BEST STUDENT FILM
“A Sparrow’s Song”
Tobias Eckerlin
Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg GmbH

BEST FX – TV/MEDIA
Edward Ferrysienanda, Kevin Christensen, Guy Schuleman, Benedikt
Roettger, Kevin Tarpinian
“Prehistoric Planet: Ice Age”
Episode: The Big Freeze
BBC Studios Natural History Unit
FX: Framestore

BEST FX – FEATURE
Filippo Macari, Nicola Finizio, Simon Corbaux, Naoki Kato, Daniel La
Chapelle
“KPop Demon Hunters”
Sony Pictures Animation for Netflix
FX: Sony Pictures Imageworks

BEST CHARACTER ANIMATION – TV/MEDIA
Alli Sadegiani
“Win Or Lose”
Pixar Animation Studios

BEST CHARACTER ANIMATION – FEATURE
Ryusuke Furuya
“KPop Demon Hunters”
Sony Pictures Animation, Netflix

BEST CHARACTER ANIMATION – LIVE ACTION
Kayn Garcia, Jean-Denis Haas, Meena Ibrahim, Nathan McConnel,
Nick Tripodi
“How To Train Your Dragon”
DreamWorks Animation
FX: Framestore

BEST CHARACTER ANIMATION – VIDEO GAME
Mike Jungbluth, Sebastien Dussault, Vincent Schneider, Remi
Edmond
South of Midnight
Compulsion Games

BEST CHARACTER DESIGN – TV/MEDIA
Robert Valley
“Love, Death + Robots”
Episode: 400 Boys
Blur Studio for Netflix

BEST CHARACTER DESIGN – FEATURE
Scott Watanabe, Ami Thompson
“KPop Demon Hunters”
Sony Pictures Animation for Netflix

BEST DIRECTION – TV/MEDIA
Vincent Tsui
“Common Side Effects”
Episode: Cliff’s Edge
Productions

BEST DIRECTION – FEATURE
Maggie Kang, Chris Appelhans
“KPop Demon Hunters”
Sony Pictures Animation for Netflix

BEST MUSIC – TV/MEDIA
Ramin Djawadi, Shane Eli, Johnny Pakfar
“Win Or Lose”
Episode: Episode 6, Mixed Signals
Pixar Animation Studios

BEST MUSIC – FEATURE
KPop Demon Hunters Music Team
“KPop Demon Hunters”
Sony Pictures Animation for Netflix

BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN – TV/MEDIA
Gigi Cavenago
“Love, Death + Robots”
Episode: How Zeke Got Religion
Blur Studio for Netflix

BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN – FEATURE
Helen Chen, Dave Bleich, Wendell Dalit, Scott Watanabe, Celine Kim
“KPop Demon Hunters”
Sony Pictures Animation for Netflix

BEST STORYBOARDING – TV/MEDIA
Edgar Martins
“Love, Death + Robots”
Episode: How Zeke Got Religion
Blur Studio for Netflix

BEST STORYBOARDING – FEATURE

Anthony Holden, Young Ki Yoon
“The Bad Guys 2”
DreamWorks Animation

BEST VOICE ACTING – TV/MEDIA
Dan Mintz (as Tina Belcher)
“Bob’s Burgers”
Episode: Don’t Worry Be Hoopy
20th Television Animation

BEST VOICE ACTING – FEATURE
Arden Cho (as Rumi)
“KPop Demon Hunters”
Sony Pictures Animation for Netflix

BEST WRITING – TV/MEDIA

Joe Bennett, Steve Hely
“Common Side Effects”
Episode: Pilot
Green Street Pictures, Bandera Entertainment, and Williams Street Productions

BEST WRITING – FEATURE
Danya Jimenez, Hannah McMechan, Maggie Kang, Chris Appelhans
“KPop Demon Hunters”
Sony Pictures Animation for Netflix

BEST EDITORIAL – TV/MEDIA
Tony Christopherson, Joie Lim
“Common Side Effects”
Episode: Raid
Green Street Pictures, Bandera Entertainment, and Williams Street Productions

BEST EDITORIAL – FEATURE
KPop Demon Hunters Editorial Team
“KPop Demon Hunters”
Sony Pictures Animation for Netflix