The world of animation bowed before Coco tonight at the 45th annual Annie Awards from UCLA’s Royce Hall. The Day of the Dead-themed Disney/Pixar toon pummeled the competition, going 11-for-13 in its nominated categories including Best Animated Feature. If it wasn’t clear who the Oscar front-runner was yes, it is now.

Pixar

How will tonight’s awards, presented by ASIFA-Hollywood, factor into a certain trophy show happening in early March? Well, since the Academy Awards’ Best Animated Feature category was launched in 2002, 11 of the 16 winners of the Annies’ top feature prize – and four of the past six — went on to claim Oscar gold. That includes last year’s big winner Zootopia, which took Best Animated Feature along with writing and directing nods en route to Oscar glory.

The top category was split three years ago with the addition of the Best Independent Animated feature category. This year’s champ was Cartoon Saloon’s The Breadwinner, the tale of a young girl growing up in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan. It came in with 10 nominations but went home with only the one.

Adult Swim

On the TV side, the top prize went to Rick and Morty, which recently set ratings records for Adult Swim. The series from Dan Harmon and Justin Roiland, which follows a sociopathic genius scientist who drags his inherently timid grandson on insanely dangerous adventures across the universe, also won for TV writing.

Adult Swim also picked up three other Annies for Samurai Jack, and Walt Disney Television Animation’s Disney Mickey Mouse picked up a pair.

Tonight’s ceremony was dedicated to longtime voice actor and Annie Awards co-founder June Foray, who died in July at 99. Probably is best known as the voice of Rocky the Flying Squirrel from The Bullwinkle Show and Granny from the Sylvester and Tweety cartoons, she was an avid supporter of animation and tirelessly lobbied to have animated films recognized by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. A documentary about her life, The One and Only June Foray, was produced in 2013.

The ASIFA-Hollywood Certificate of Merit went to David Nimitz, who helped care for Foray in the last years of her life.

This year’s Winson McCay Awards went to James Baxter, SpongeBob SquarePants creator Stephen Hillenburg and Wendy Tilby & Amanda Forbis. The Ub Iwerks Award for technical advancement went to TVPaint, and a Special Achievement Award went to Studio MDHR Entertainment for its hand-drawn video game Cuphead, which uses 1930s techniques. It also won an Annie for Outstanding Achievement, Character Animation in a Video Game.

The June Foray Award for charitable impact was presented by animation historian Didier Ghez.

The Annie Awards honor overall excellence as well as individual achievement in a total of 36 categories including Best Animated Feature, Best Animated Special Production, Commercials, Short Subjects and Outstanding Individual Achievements. Here is the complete list of winners at the 2018 Annie Awards:

Best Animated Feature

COCO

Pixar Animation Studios

Outstanding Achievement, Directing – Animated Feature Production

COCO

Pixar Animation Studios

Lee Unkrich, Adrian Molina

Outstanding Achievement, Directing – TV/Broadcast Production

DISNEY MICKEY MOUSE

Episode: The Scariest Story Ever: A Mickey Mouse Halloween Spooktacular!

Walt Disney Television Animation

Dave Wasson, Eddie Trigueros, Alonso Ramirez-Ramo

Best Animated Feature-Independent

THE BREADWINNER

Cartoon Saloon / Aircraft Pictures / Melusine Productions

Best General Audience Animated Television/Broadcast Production\

RICK AND MORTY

Episode: 303 – “Pickle Rick”

Williams Street Productions

Best Animated Television/Broadcast Production for Children

WE BARE BEARS

Episode: Panda’s Art

Cartoon Network Animation Studios

Best Animated Television/Broadcast Production for Preschool Children

OCTONAUTS

Episode: Operation Deep Freeze

Vampire Squid Productions Limited, a Silvergate Media company, in association with Brown Bag Films

Outstanding Achievement, Writing – Feature Production

COCO

Pixar Animation Studios

Adrian Molina, Matthew Aldrich

Outstanding Achievement, Writing – TV/Broadcast Production

RICK AND MORTY

Episode: 307 – “The Ricklantis Mixup”

Williams Street Productions

Ryan Ridley, Dan Guterman

Outstanding Achievement, Voice Acting – TV/Broadcast Production

SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS

Nickelodeon

Tom Kenny as SpongeBob SquarePants

Best Animated Television/Broadcast Commercial

JUNE

Broad Reach Pictures/Chromosphere/Lyft

Best Animated Special Production

REVOLTING RHYMES

Magic Light Pictures

Outstanding Achievement, Production Design – Feature Production

COCO

Pixar Animation Studio

Harley Jessup, Danielle Feinberg, Bryn Imagire, Nathaniel McLaughlin, Ernesto Nemesio

Outstanding Achievement, Production Design – TV/Broadcast Production

SAMURAI JACK

Episode: XCIII

Adult Swim

Scott Wills

Outstanding Achievement, Character Animation – Feature Production

COCO

Pixar Animation Studios

John Chun Chiu Lee

Outstanding Achievement, Character Animation – TV/Broadcast Production

TROLLHUNTERS

Episode: 205 – “Homecoming”

DreamWorks Animation Television

Bruno Chiou, Yi-Fan Cho, Kevin Jong , Chun-Jung Chu

Outstanding Achievement, Character Animation – Live Action Production

WAR FOR THE PLANET OF THE APES

Chernin Entertainment, TSG Entertainment, River Road Entertainment, 20th Century Fox

Daniel Barrett, Sidney Kombo-Kintombo, Emile Ghorayeb, Luisma Lavin Peredo, Alessandro Bonora

Outstanding Achievement, Character Animation – Video Game

CUPHEAD

StudioMDHR

Hanna Abi-Hanna

Outstanding Achievement, Character Design – Feature Production

COCO

Pixar Animation Studios

Daniel Arriaga, Daniela Strijleva, Greg Dykstra, Alonso Martinez, Zaruhi Galstyan

Outstanding Achievement, Character Design – TV/Broadcast Production

SAMURAI JACK

Episode: XCVI

Adult Swim

Craig Kellman

Outstanding Achievement, Music – Feature Production

COCO

Pixar Animation Studios

Michael Giacchino, Kristin Anderson-Lopez, Robert Lopez, Germaine Franco, Adrian Molina

Outstanding Achievement, Music – TV/Broadcast Production

DISNEY MICKEY MOUSE

Episode: The Scariest Story Ever: A Mickey Mouse Halloween Spooktacular!

Walt Disney Television Animation

Christopher Willis

Outstanding Achievement, Animated Effects – Feature Production

COCO

Pixar Animation Studios

Shaun Galinak, Dave Hale, Jason Johnston, Carl Kaphan, Keith Daniel Klohn

Outstanding Achievement, Animated Effects – Live Action

WAR FOR THE PLANET OF THE APES

Chernin Entertainment, TSG Entertainment, River Road Entertainment, 20th Century Fox

Daniel Barrett, Sidney Kombo-Kintombo, Emile Ghorayeb, Luisma Lavin Peredo, Alessandro Bonora

Best Animated Short Subject

DEAR BASKETBALL

Glen Keane Productions, Kobe Studios, Believe Entertainment Group

Best Student Film

POLES APART

Paloma Baeza

Outstanding Achievement, Editing – Feature Production

COCO

Pixar Animation Studios

Outstanding Achievement, Editing – TV/Broadcast Production

SAMURAI JACK

Episode: XCIII, XCIV, XCIX

Adult Swim

Paul Douglas

Outstanding Achievement, Storyboarding – Feature/Broadcast Production

COCO

Pixar Animation Studios

Dean Kelly