The Annie Award for Best Animated Video Game is awarded annually by ASIFA-Hollywood, a non-profit organization that honors contributions to animation, to the best animated video game of the year. It is one of the Annie Awards, which are given to the best contributions to animation, including producers, directors, and voice actors. The Annie Awards were created in 1972 by June Foray to honor individual lifetime contributions to animation. In 1992, the scope of the awards was expanded to honor animation as a whole; the Annie Award for Best Animated Feature was created as a result of this move, and subsequent awards have been created to recognize different contributions to animation. The Annie Award for Best Animated Video Game was created in 2005, and has been awarded yearly since. To be eligible for the award, the game must have been released in the year before the next Annie Awards ceremony, and the developers of the game must send a five-minute DVD that shows the gameplay and graphics of the game to a committee appointed by the Board of Directors of ASIFA-Hollywood.
As of 2011, the Annie Award for Best Animated Video Game has been awarded to five video games. The video game development company THQ has had six of its games nominated for the Annie Award for Best Animated Video Game, and one of them, Ratatouille, has won the award. Among the nominees, seven video games, Flushed Away, Monster House, Ratatouille, Bee Movie Game, Transformers: The Game, Kung Fu Panda, and WALL·E, are adaptations of a feature film. Three nominees, SpongeBob SquarePants: Lights, Camera, Pants!, SpongeBob SquarePants: Creature from the Krusty Krab, and Avatar: The Last Airbender - The Burning Earth, are adaptations of animated television series. Although most nominees have been released for multiple video game consoles, Resident Evil 4 had only been released on the Nintendo GameCube at the time of the 33rd Annie Awards (held February 4, 2006), and all 3 entrants to the 38th Annie Awards (held February 5, 2011) had only been released on one platform at the time.
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