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The nominees for the 35th Annie Awards have been revealed. Winners will be announced on Friday, February 8, 2008 at UCLA’s Royce Hall, in Los Angeles, CA.

Pixar Animation Studios’ Ratatouille leads this year with 13 nominations including Best Animated Feature as well as individual nominations for directing, writing, character animation, animated effects (two nominations), production design, storyboarding, character design, character animation, music and voice acting (three nominations).

Sony Pictures Animation’s Surf’s Up follows with 10 feature nominations for feature, animated effects, animation production artists, character animation (two nominations), character design, and directing.

Rounding out the Best Animated Feature category are DreamWorks Animation’s Bee Movie, Sony Pictures Classics’ Persepolis, and Twentieth Century Fox’s The Simpsons Movie.

For television, Nickelodeon’s El Tigre leads the pack with four nominations for Best Animated Television Production for Children, and individual nominations for character animation, character design, and music.

The Best Animated Television Production nominees this year are Creative Comforts America from Aardman Animations, Jane and the Dragon from Weta Productions Limited & Nelvana Limited, Kim Possible from Walt Disney Television Animation, as well as Moral Orel and Robot Chicken Star Wars from ShadowMachine.