2025 winners

Maddie + Triggs (Turnip + Duck)

Best Animated Preschool Series (up to 6 years)

Boy Girl Dog Cat Mouse Cheese (Kavaleer Productions)

Best Animated Kids Series 6+

Boy Girl Dog Cat Mouse Cheese (Kavaleer Productions)

Kid's Choice Award for Best Animated Series 6+ 

Doodle Girl (Studio Meala)

Kid's Choice Award for Best Animated Preschool Series (up to 6 years old)

Retirement Plan (John Kelly)

Best Animated Short Film

A Night At The REst AreA (Saki Muramoto, JApan)

Best International Short Film

Nikhil and Jay: Messiest Mango (Paper Owl Films)

Best Script for an Animated Series

Lu and the bally bunch (Brown bag films)

Best Script for a Feature Film or Special

Star WArs: Visions volume 2 Screecher’s Reach (Cartoon Saloon)

Best Design and Art Direction

Kizazi Moto: Generation Fire (Triggerfish Animation)

Best Direction of an Animated TV Series

THE CUPHEADSHOW! (JULIUS MINGI, DINDO SANTOS, GIAN CARLA ATIENZA)

Best Animation Sequence

Star WArs: Visions Volume 2 Screecher’s Reach (Cartoon Saloon)

Best Original Score

Maddie + Triggs: Pearly Whites (Turnip + Duck)

Best Original Song

The Magic Reindeer Saving Santa’s Sleigh (Moetion Films)

Best Sound Design

The Magic Reindeer Saving santa’s Sleigh (Moetion Films)

Best Feature Film or Special

Maddie + Triggs (Turnip + Duck) 

Best Innovation in Animation

Silly Sundays (Cartoon Saloon) 

Best Storyboarding

ODO (Sixteen South)

Best Editing

Every Other Weekend (James Naughton)

Best Student Film

Maddie + Triggs (Turnip + Duck)

Best New IP

Kizazi Moto Generation Fire (Triggerfish Animation)

Best VFX

Doodle GIrl (Aisling Walsh; Studio Meala)

Best Voice Acting

Industry & Community Outreach Committee (Brown Bag Films)

Sustainability Champion 2025

John Phelan

Outstanding Contribution to the Industry