2024 Annie Awards

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse led the field winning Best Feature and six other categories when the 2024 Annie Awards were presented on February 17.

The Annie Awards™ honoring excellence in the field of animation were created in 1972 by voice actress June Foray.

BEST FEATURE

  • Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, Sony Pictures Animation

BEST FEATURE-INDEPENDENT

  • Robot Dreams, Arcadia Motion Pictures

BEST SPECIAL PRODUCTION

  • Snoopy Presents: One-of-a-Kind Marcie, WildBrain Studios in association with Apple

BEST SHORT SUBJECT

  • WAR IS OVER! Inspired by the Music of John & Yoko, ElectroLeague

BEST SPONSORED

  • Video Games by Tenacious D, Pinreel Inc.

BEST TV/MEDIA – PRESCHOOL

  • Ghee Happy, Episode: Navagraha, Ghee Happy Studio

BEST TV/MEDIA – CHILDREN

  • Hilda, Episode: Chapter 8: The Fairy Isle, Hilda Productions Limited, a Silvergate Media Company, Netflix Inc. and Mercury Filmworks

BEST TV/MEDIA – MATURE

  • Blue Eye Samurai, Episode: Pilot: Hammerscale, A Netflix Series/3 Arts Entertainment and Blue Spirit Productions

BEST TV/MEDIA – LIMITED SERIES

  • Kizazi Moto: Generation Fire, Episode: Enkai, Triggerfish Animation Studio & Blinkink

BEST STUDENT FILM

  • The Little Poet; Student Director: Justine King, Student Producer: Justine King, School: California Institute of the Arts

BEST FX – TV/MEDIA

  • Blue Eye Samurai, Episode: All Evil Dreams and Angry Words; Production Company: A Netflix Series / 3 Arts Entertainment and Blue Spirit Productions; FX Production Company: Blue Spirit; Thomas Decaens, Karl Burtin, Laurent Bretonniere

BEST FX – FEATURE

  • Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse; Production Company: Sony Pictures Animation; FX Production Company: Sony Pictures Imageworks; Pav Grochola, Filippo Maccari, Naoki Kato, Nicola Finizio, Edmond Boulet-Gilly

BEST CHARACTER ANIMATION – TV/MEDIA

  • Blue Eye Samurai, Episode: Episodes 101, 104 and 106; A Netflix Series/3 Arts Entertainment and Blue Spirit Productions; Alex Bard

BEST CHARACTER ANIMATION – FEATURE

  • The Boy and the Heron, Studio Ghibli/Distributed by GKIDS, Takeshi Honda

BEST CHARACTER ANIMATION – LIVE ACTION

  • Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3; Production Company: Marvel Studios; FX Production Company: Framestore; Fernando Herrera, Chris Hurtt, Nathan McConnel, Daniel Cabral, Chris McGaw

BEST CHARACTER ANIMATION – VIDEO GAME

  • Marvel’s Spider-Man 2; Insomniac Games; Insomniac Games Animation Team

BEST CHARACTER DESIGN – TV/MEDIA

  • Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur, Episode: 515M-106 (The Beyonder); Disney Television Animation/Cinema Gypsy Productions; Jose Lopez

BEST CHARACTER DESIGN – FEATURE

  • Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse; Sony Pictures Animation; Jesús Alonso Iglesias

BEST DIRECTION – TV/MEDIA

  • Star Wars: Visions, Episode: Screecher’s Reach; Lucasfilm Ltd.; Paul Young

BEST DIRECTION – FEATURE

  • Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse; Sony Pictures Animation; Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers, Justin K. Thompson

BEST MUSIC – TV/MEDIA

  • Star Wars: Visions, Episode: Aau’s Song; Lucasfilm Ltd.; Markus Wormstorm, Nadia Darries, Dineo du Toit

BEST MUSIC – FEATURE

  • Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse; Sony Pictures Animation; Daniel Pemberton, Metro Boomin

BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN – TV/MEDIA

  • Blue Eye Samurai, Episode: The Great Fire of 1657; A Netflix Series/3 Arts Entertainment and Blue Spirit Productions; Toby Wilson, James Wilson, Emil Mitev

BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN – FEATURE

  • Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse; Sony Pictures Animation; Patrick O’Keefe, Dean Gordon

BEST STORYBOARDING – TV/MEDIA

  • Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur, Episode: 515M-107 “Run the Rink”; Disney Television Animation/Cinema Gypsy Productions; Ben Juwono

BEST STORYBOARDING – FEATURE

  • The Boy and the Heron; Studio Ghibli/Distributed by GKIDS; Hayao Miyazaki

BEST VOICE ACTING – TV/MEDIA

  • Marvel’s Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur, Episode: Moon Girl Landing; Flying Bark Productions/Disney Television Animation; Diamond White (Character: Lunella Lafayette/Moon Girl)

BEST VOICE ACTING – FEATURE

  • Nimona; Annapurna Animation for Netflix; Chloë Grace Moretz (Character: Nimona)

BEST WRITING – TV/MEDIA

  • Blue Eye Samurai, Episode: Episode 105: The Tale of the Ronin and the Bride; A Netflix Series/3 Arts Entertainment and Blue Spirit Productions; Amber Noizumi

BEST WRITING – FEATURE

  • Nimona; Annapurna Animation for Netflix; Robert L. Baird, Lloyd Taylor

BEST EDITORIAL – TV/MEDIA

  • Blue Eye Samurai, Episode: Episode 105: The Tale of the Ronin and the Bride; A Netflix Series/3 Arts Entertainment and Blue Spirit Productions; Yuka Shirasuna

BEST EDITORIAL – FEATURE

  • Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse; Sony Pictures Animation; Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse Editorial Team

The winners of the following special awards were also been announced.

WINSOR MCCAY AWARDS for career contributions to animation

  • Animator and director Charlotte “Lotte” Reiniger
  • Studio Ghibli composer Joe Hisaishi
  • National Film Board animator and producer Marcy Page

JUNE FORAY AWARD for charitable impact

  • The BRIC Foundation for its work to boost representation across the entertainment, gaming, media and tech industries

UB IWERKS AWARD for technical achievement

  • John Oxberry  

SPECIAL ACHIEVEMENT AWARD for unique and outstanding work

  • The artists of Walt Disney Animation

2024 Annie Awards Nominees

ASIFA-Hollywood has announced the nominations for its 2024 Annie Awards for animation. Nimona, about a disgraced knight and a shape-shifting teenager, leads the features category with nine. Blue Eye Samurai is the leader in the TV/media categories, with seven.

It was followed closely by Disney TV Animation’s “Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur” and Lucasfilm’s “Star Wars: Visions” with six each, “Kizazi Moto: Generation Fire” (Triggerfish Animation for Disney+) with five, and Disney+ series “What If…” and Max’s “Scavengers Reign” with four each.

The Annie Awards will be presented on February 17.

The winners of the following special awards have also been announced.

WINSOR MCCAY AWARDS for career contributions to animation

  • Animator and director Charlotte “Lotte” Reiniger
  • Studio Ghibli composer Joe Hisaishi
  • National Film Board animator and producer Marcy Page

JUNE FORAY AWARD for charitable impact

  • The BRIC Foundation for its work to boost representation across the entertainment, gaming, media and tech industries

UB IWERKS AWARD for technical achievement

  • John Oxberry  

SPECIAL ACHIEVEMENT AWARD for unique and outstanding work

  • The artists of Walt Disney Animation

The Annie Awards™ were created in 1972 by voice actress June Foray.

The full list of nominations follows the jump.

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2023 Annie Awards

Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio won five categories at the 50th anniversary Annie Awards on February 26 including Best Feature and Direction.

BEST FEATURE 

  • Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio – Netflix Presents A Double Dare You! Film / A Shadowmachine Production in association with The Jim Henson Company

BEST INDIE FEATURE 

  • Marcel the Shell with Shoes On – Marcel the Movie LLC 

BEST SPECIAL PRODUCTION

  • The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse – NoneMore Productions and Bad Robot Productions

BEST SHORT SUBJECT 

  • Ice Merchants – COLA Animation production & Wild Stream

BEST SPONSORED

  • Save Ralph – Arch Model Studio

BEST TV/MEDIA – PRESCHOOL

  • The Tiny Chef Show “Pancakes” – Tiny Chef Productions LLC / Imagine Entertainment 

BEST TV/MEDIA – CHILDREN

  • Abominable and the Invisible City “Everest Returns” – DreamWorks Animation

BEST TV/MEDIA – MATURE 

  • Bob’s Burgers “Some Like it Bot Part 1: Eighth Grade Runner” – 20th Television/Bento Box Entertainment

BEST TV/MEDIA – LIMITED SERIES

  • Oni: Thunder God’s Tale “The Demon Moon Rises” – A Netflix Series / A Tonko House Production

BEST STUDENT FILM 

The Soloists

Student director: Mehrnaz Abdollahinia, Feben Elias Woldehawariat, Razahk
Issaka, Celeste Jamneck & Yi Liu
School: Gobelins, l’école de l’image 

BEST FX – TV/MEDIA

  • Love Death + Robots “Bad Traveling” – Blur Studio for Netflix

BEST FX – FEATURE 

  • Avatar: The Way of Water – 20th Century Studios / Disney Studios, Wētā FX

BEST CHARACTER ANIMATION – TV/MEDIA

  • The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse Episode: [special production] – NoneMore Productions and Bad Robot Productions 

BEST CHARACTER ANIMATION – FEATURE 

  • Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio – Netflix Presents A Double Dare You! Film / A Shadowmachine Production in association with The Jim Henson Company: Tucker Barrie 

BEST CHARACTER ANIMATION – LIVE ACTION 

  • Avatar: The Way of Water – 20th Century Studios / Disney Studios, Wētā FX: Daniel Barrett, Stuart Adcock, Todd Labonte, Douglas McHale, Stephen Cullingford 

BEST CHARACTER ANIMATION – VIDEO GAME

  • Cuphead – The Delicious Last Course – Studio MDHR: Chad Moldenhauer, Hanna Abi-Hanna 

BEST CHARACTER DESIGN – TV/MEDIA 

  • Love Death + Robots “Jibaro” – Blur Studio for Netflix: Alberto Mielgo 

BEST CHARACTER DESIGN – FEATURE 

  • The Bad Guys – DreamWorks Animation: Taylor Krahenbuhl 

BEST DIRECTION – TV/MEDIA 

  • The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse Episode: [special production] – NoneMore Productions and Bad Robot Productions: Peter Baynton, Charlie Mackesy

BEST DIRECTION – FEATURE 

  • Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio – Netflix Presents A Double Dare You! Film / A Shadowmachine Production in association with The Jim Henson Company: Guillermo Del Toro, Mark Gustafson

BEST MUSIC – TV/MEDIA 

  • The Cuphead Show! “Carn-Evil” – Netflix Animation: Ego Plum

BEST MUSIC – FEATURE 

  • Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio – Netflix Presents A Double Dare You! Film / A Shadowmachine Production in association with The Jim Henson Company: Alexandre Desplat, Roeban Katz, Guillermo del Toro, Patrick McHale

BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN – TV/MEDIA 

  • Oni: Thunder God’s Tale “The Demon Moon Rises” – A Netflix Series / A Tonko House Production: Robert Kondo, Rachel Tiep-Daniels, Lia Tin, Yohei Hashizume, Masa Inada

BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN – FEATURE 

  • Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio – Netflix Presents A Double Dare You! Film / A Shadowmachine Production in association with The Jim Henson Company: Curt Enderle, Guy Davis 

BEST STORYBOARDING – TV/MEDIA 

  • Love Death + Robots Episode: [The Very Pulse of the Machine] – Blur Studio for Netflix: Emily Dean 

BEST STORYBOARDING – FEATURE 

  • Puss in Boots: The Last Wish – DreamWorks Animation: Anthony Holden 

BEST VOICE ACTING – TV/MEDIA 

  • Zootopia+ Episode: [The Godfather of the Bride] – Walt Disney Animation Studios: Maurice LaMarche (Character: Mr.Big) 

BEST VOICE ACTING – FEATURE 

  • Marcel the Shell with Shoes On – Marcel the Movie LLC: Jenny Slate (character: Marcel) 

BEST WRITING – TV/MEDIA 

  • Love Death + Robots Episode: [Bad Traveling] – Blur Studio for Netflix: Andrew Kevin Walker 

BEST WRITING – FEATURE 

  • Marcel the Shell with Shoes On – Marcel the Movie LLC: Dean Fleischer Camp, Jenny Slate, Nick Paley, Elisabeth Holm 

BEST EDITORIAL – TV/MEDIA 

  • The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse Episode: [special production] – NoneMore Productions and Bad Robot Productions: Daniel Budin 

BEST EDITORIAL – FEATURE 

  • Puss in Boots: The Last Wish – Dreamworks Animation: James Ryan, ACE, Jacquelyn Karambelas, Natalla Cronembold, Joe Butler, Katie Parody 

Also presented:

WINSOR MCCAY AWARDS for career contributions to animation

  • Pixar CCO Pete Docter
  • TV series creator Craig McCracken
  • Evelyn Lambart (posthumously) from the National Film Board of Canada

JUNE FORAY AWARD for charitable impact

  • Historian and educator Mindy Johnson

UB IWERKS AWARD for technical achievement

  • Visual Effects Reference Platform, initially developed by Nick Cannon and Francois Chardavoine to eliminate incompatibilities between digital content creation software. 

CERTIFICATE OF MERIT AWARD for service to the industry

  • John Omohundro

The Annie Awards™ were created in 1972 by voice actress June Foray.

2023 Annie Awards Nominees

ASIFA-Hollywood has announced the nominations for its 50th Annie Awards for animation. Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio leads all features with nine nominations.

The Annie Awards will be presented on February 25. The winners of the following special awards have already been announced.

WINSOR MCCAY AWARDS for career contributions to animation

  • Pixar CCO Pete Docter
  • TV series creator Craig McCracken
  • Evelyn Lambart (posthumously) from the National Film Board of Canada

JUNE FORAY AWARD for charitable impact

  • Historian and educator Mindy Johnson

UB IWERKS AWARD for technical achievement

  • Visual Effects Reference Platform, initially developed by Nick Cannon and Francois Chardavoine to eliminate incompatibilities between digital content creation software. 

CERTIFICATE OF MERIT AWARD for service to the industry

  • John Omohundro

The Annie Awards™ were created in 1972 by voice actress June Foray.

The full list of nominations follows the jump.

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2022 Annie Awards Nominees

ASIFA-Hollywood has announced the nominations for its 49th Annie Awards. The Walt Disney Animation Studios’ Raya and the Last Dragon leads the feature competition with 10 nominations. The studio’s Encanto earned 9 nominations. Pixar’s Luca and Sony Pictures Animation/Netflix’s The Mitchells vs. The Machines received 8 apiece. All four movies, along with Illumination’s Sing 2 are finalists for best animated feature.

The Annie Awards will be presented on February 26. The winners of the following special awards have already been announced.

The Winsor McCay Award for career contributions to the art of animation will go to —

  • Disney animator Ruben Aquino
  • Computer animation pioneer Lillian Schwartz
  • Studio Ghibli producer Toshio Suzuki

The June Foray Award for significant and benevolent or charitable impact on the art and industry of animation will be presented to —

  • Renzo and Sayoko Kinoshita, founders of the Hiroshima International Animation Festival

The Ub Iwerks Award for technical advancement that has made a significant impact on the art and industry of animation will be presented to —

  • Python Foundation

The Special Achievement Award recognizing the unique and significant impact on the art and industry of animation will go to the makers of —

  • Glen Vilppu, an artist and author known for teaching and training animation professionals

The Certificate of Merit for service to the industry —

  • Evan Vernon.

The Annie Awards™ were created in 1972 by voice actress June Foray.

The full list of nominations follows the jump.

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2021 Annie Awards

The International Animated Film Society, ASIFA-Hollywood, today announced the winners of its 48th Annual Annie Awards™ recognizing the year’s best in the field of animation.

Two different toon features came into the virtual ceremony tied with 10 nominations apiece, Disney/Pixar’s Soul and Apple Original Films/Gkids’ Wolfwalkers.  Soul went home with 7 wins, and Wolfwalkers with 5.

The Annie Awards™ cover 31 categories. These juried Awards were also be presented during the ceremony, “honoring unparalleled achievement and exceptional contributions to animation” —

The Winsor McCay Award for career contributions to the art of animation

  • Willie Ito
  • Sue Nichols (posthumous)
  • Bruce Smith

The June Foray Award for significant and benevolent or charitable impact on the art and industry of animation

  • Animator and art director, Daisuke “Dice” Tsutsumi

The Ub Iwerks Award for technical advancement that has made a significant impact on the art and industry of animation

  • Epic Games for its Unreal Engine

The Special Achievement Award recognizing the unique and significant impact on the art and industry of animation

  • Howard, the documentary about lyricist and storyteller, the late Howard Ashman

The Annie Awards™ were created in 1972 by veteran voice talent June Foray.

The full list of winners follows.

Best Feature

  • Soul

Best Indie Feature

  • Wolfwalkers

Best Special Production

  • The Snail and the Whale

Best Short Subject

  • Souvenir Souvenir

Best Sponsored

  • There’s a Monster in My Kitchen

Best TV/Media – Preschool

  • The Adventures of Paddington, Episode: Paddington Digs a Tunnel to Peru

Best TV/Media – Children

  • Hilda, Episode: Chapter 9: The Deerfox

Best TV/Media – General Audience

  • Genndy Tartakovsky’s Primal, Episode: Coven Of The Damned

Best Student Film

  • La Bestia

Best FX for TV/Media

  • Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous, Episode: Welcome to Jurassic World

Best FX for Feature

  • Soul

Best Character Animation – TV/Media

  • Hilda

Best Character Animation – Feature

  • Soul

Best Character Animation – Live Action

  • The Mandalorian

Best Character Animation – Video Game

  • Marvels Spider-Man Miles Morales

Best Character Design – TV/Media

  • Amphibia, Episode: The Shut-In!

Best Character Design – Feature

  • Wolfwalkers

Best Direction – TV/Media

  • Genndy Tartakovsky’s Primal, Episode: Plague Of Madness

Best Direction – Feature

  • Wolfwalkers

Best Music – TV/Media

  • Star Wars: The Clone Wars, Episode: Victory and Death

Best Music – Feature

  • Soul

Best Production Design – TV/Media

  • Shoom’s Odyssey

Best Production Design – Feature

  • Wolfwalkers

Best Storyboarding – TV/Media

  • Looney Tunes Cartoons

Best Storyboarding – Feature

  • Soul

Best Voice Acting – TV/Media

  • Tales of Arcadia: Wizards, David Bradley (Merlin)

Best Voice Acting – Feature

  • Wolfwalkers, Eva Whittaker (Mebh Óg MacTíre)

Best Writing – TV/Media

  • Big Mouth, Episode: The New Me

Best Writing – Feature

  • Soul

Best Editorial – TV/Media

  • Hilda: Chapter 9: The Deerfox

Best Editorial – Feature

  • Soul

2021 Annie Awards Nominees

Wolfwalkers

The International Animated Film Society, ASIFA-Hollywood, announced nominations today for its 48th Annual Annie Awards™ recognizing the year’s best in the field of animation.

This year’s Best Animated Feature nominations include: Onward (Pixar Animation Studios), Soul (Pixar Animation Studios), The Croods: A New Age (DreamWorks Animation), The Willoughbys (Netflix Presents A BRON Animation Production in association with Creative Wealth Media) and Trolls World Tour (DreamWorks Animation).

Best Animated Feature-Independent, spotlighting features with a much smaller distribution footprint than major studio releases, include: A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon (Studiocanal and Aardman present in association with Anton Capital Entertainment An Aardman Production for Netflix), Calamity Jane (Maybe Movies), On-Gaku: Our Sound (Rock’n Roll Mountain, Tip Top), Ride Your Wave (Science SARU) and Wolfwalkers (Apple/GKIDS).

This year’s awards ceremony will be streamed live on Friday, April 16 at 7 p.m. Pacific.

The Annie Awards™ cover 31 categories. These juried Awards will also be presented during the ceremony, honoring unparalleled achievement and exceptional contributions to animation:

The Winsor McCay Award for career contributions to the art of animation will go to —

  • Willie Ito
  • Sue Nichols (posthumous)
  • Bruce Smith

The June Foray Award for significant and benevolent or charitable impact on the art and industry of animation will be presented to —

  • Animator and art director, Daisuke “Dice” Tsutsumi

The Ub Iwerks Award for technical advancement that has made a significant impact on the art and industry of animation will be presented to —

  • Epic Games for its Unreal Engine

The Special Achievement Award recognizing the unique and significant impact on the art and industry of animation will go to the makers of —

  • Howard, the documentary about lyricist and storyteller, the late Howard Ashman

The Annie Awards™ were created in 1972 by veteran voice talent June Foray.

The full list of nominations follows the jump.

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2020 Annie Awards Nominees

The International Animated Film Society, ASIFA-Hollywood, announced nominations for its 47th Annual Annie Awards™ recognizing the year’s best in the field of animation.

There are 32 categories spanning features, TV/shortform media and VR. This year saw a 20 percent increase in submissions with over 1,900 worldwide entries.        

At the awards ceremony on January 25, the following juried awards will also be presented:

Winsor McCay Award  for their exemplary industry careers will go to —

  • Satoshi Kon (posthumously), Japanese film director, animator, screenwriter and manga artist;
  • Henry Selick, stop motion director, producer and writer who is best known for directing the stop-motion animation films The Nightmare Before Christmas, James and the Giant Peach, and Coraline; and
  • Ron Clements & John Musker, animators, animation directors, screenwriters and producers of one of the Walt Disney Animation Studio’s leading director teams.

The June Foray Award will be presented to —

  • Jeanette Bonds, writer, independent animator, and co-founder and director of GLAS Animation; and

The Ub Iwerks Award will be presented to —

  • Jim Blinn, computer scientist who first became widely known for his work as a computer graphics expert at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), particularly his work on the pre-encounter animations for the Voyager project.

The full list of nominees follows the jump.

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2019 Annie Awards

The 46th Annie Awards were presented on February 2 by The International Animated Film Society, ASIFA-Hollywood.

The following special awards were also announced:

  • Winsor McCay Awards for lifetime achievement: Ralph Eggleston, Frank Braxton (posthumously) and Andrea Romano.
  • The June Foray Award: Adam Burke (posthumously).
  • The Ub Iwerks Award: Accepted by Ton Roosendaal for Blender open source animation software.
  • Certificate of Merit: to ASIFA volunteer Jason Jones. 

There are 32 awards categories – the list of winners follows the jump.

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2019 Annie Awards Nominees

The finalists for the 46th Annie Awards have been announced by The International Animated Film Society, ASIFA-Hollywood.

At the awards ceremony to be held February 2 at UCLA’s Royce Hall, the following special awards also will be presented:

  • Winsor McCay Awards for lifetime achievement will go to Ralph Eggleston, Frank Braxton (posthumously) and Andrea Romano.
  • The June Foray Award will be presented to Adam Burke (posthumously).
  • The Ub Iwerks Award will be accepted by Ton Roosendaal for Blender open source animation software.
  • A Certificate of Merit will be presented to ASIFA volunteer Jason Jones. 

There are 32 awards categories – the list of finalists follows the jump.

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