The 25th Annie Awards ceremony took place on Sunday, November 16, 1997, at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium in Pasadena, California. The ceremony started at 2:00 p.m. with a champagne reception, guests had ample time to meet and greet on the patio outside the theater. The show itself, hosted by voice actor Gary Owens, was a well-produced two hours of Owens' witty remarks and character voices, nominee footage, acceptance speeches, and introductions by presenters such as Bill Kroyer, Nick Bosustow, June Foray and Jerry Beck.[1]
Production categories
Winners are listed first, highlighted in boldface, and indicated with a double dagger (‡).
Space Jam – Uli Meyer Features (animation); Character Builders (animation); Charles Gammage Animation (animation); Rees/Leiva Productions (animation); Spaff Animation (animation); Stardust Pictures (animation); Warner Bros.; Courtside Seats Productions; Northern Lights Entertainment
Woody Guthrie and Frank Fuchs – This Land Is Your Land: The Animated Kids' Songs of Woody Guthrie
Best Technical Achievement
Space Jam – Uli Meyer Features (animation); Character Builders (animation); Charles Gammage Animation (animation); Rees/Leiva Productions (animation); Spaff Animation (animation); Stardust Pictures (animation)‡
Charles Visser – Animaniacs for the episode "Noel"
John Rice – King of the Hill for the episode "Keeping Up with Our Jones"
Robert Gannaway and Tony Craig – The Lion King's Timon & Pumbaa for the episodes "Beethoven's Whiff", "Bumble in the Jungle" and "Mind Over Matterhorn"
^"The 25th Annual Annie Awards". Animation World Magazine, Issue 2.9. December 1997. Archived from the original on February 2, 2016. Retrieved February 8, 2015.
