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JERRY BECK (LA)
AMID AMIDI (NY)
Annie Award contest
January 23, 2009 9:54 am


ASIFA-Hollywood will be presenting the 36th Annual Annie Awards on Friday, January 30, 2009, at UCLA’s Royce Hall in Westwood, California. The evening begins with a pre-reception at 6 p.m. and event will be hosted by Tom Kenny (SpongeBob SquarePants).

Cartoon Brew has four sets of tickets (four pairs) which we’d like to share with our readers. These are the $250. VIP tickets and we are giving them away to the winners of our latest trivia contest. At 11am Pacific Time we will post a simple question relating to the Annie Awards in the space below. The first four correct respondents in the Comments section below will win the tickets.

The Contest is Now Closed! We have our winners!

THE QUESTION WAS: WHAT YEAR WAS THE FIRST ANNIE AWARDS CEREMONY? (The answer was 1972).

Entrants must live in the Southern California area (or are willing to transport themselves there by their own means). Please do not enter the contest if you cannot accept the prize.

For info on buying tickets to the event, go to the Annie Awards website.

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eric Stirpe says:
01/23/09  10:57am
 
Todd says:
01/23/09  10:57am
 
Sean Manning says:
01/23/09  10:57am

First ceremony was 1972

 
Dave says:
01/23/09  10:58am
 
William Hoag says:
01/23/09  10:58am
 
Charles K. says:
01/23/09  10:58am
 
Tim Garbutt says:
01/23/09  10:59am
 
Jon says:
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Ian says:
01/23/09  10:59am
 
OtherDan says:
01/23/09  10:59am
 
Nigel W. Tierney says:
01/23/09  10:59am
 
OtherDan says:
01/23/09  11:00am
 
Timothy Garbutt says:
01/23/09  11:00am
 
Cristina Amin says:
01/23/09  11:00am
 
Jon says:
01/23/09  11:00am

oops. that’s 1972.

 
stuart dobbs says:
01/23/09  11:01am
 
nancy Schier says:
01/23/09  11:02am
 
chris says:
01/23/09  11:03am
 
OtherDan says:
01/23/09  11:05am

Hey! I woke up at 9am for nothing?

 
William Hoag says:
01/23/09  11:05am

Dang!… so close. Good job everyone and enjoy the awards!

 
Jody Morgan says:
01/23/09  5:57pm

OK, so the first awards ceremony was held in 1972. This year will be the 36th Annual Annie Awards… Either I’ve lost what math skills I possessed, or there’s something odd here. Did they skip 1973 or something?

 
OtherDan says:
01/23/09  6:32pm

My thoughts exactly Jody.

 
Stephen Worth says:
01/23/09  8:55pm

The Annies skipped a calendar year when the date of the event was shifted from the middle of the year to the beginning to allow for “best of year” awards. The extra six months was picked up by the following calendar year.

Those who didn’t win the VIP tickets can still buy $25 general admission seats at the Annie website. This year’s show is going to be a big one, and this is the first time ASIFA has offered low cost seats to the ceremony.

 
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