Awards
The 4th Annual Children's & Family Emmy (2025)
Outstanding Voice Directing for an Animated Series (Nominated)
Outstanding Show Open (Nominated)
The 31st annual Critics Choice Awards
BEST ANIMATED SERIES (Nominated)
2025 65th ACC TOKYO CREATIVITY AWARDS
Design Category, ACC Silver Award (Won)
VFX - JAPAN Award 2024
Animated Film Category Award of Excellence (Won)
2023 Annecy International Animation Film Festival
Official Screening
Polygon Pictures
The Animation Magazine’s Hall of Fame Awards (Shuzo John Shiota)
The 25th Japan Media Arts Festival (2022) : Special Acheivement Award (Won) (Shuzo John Shiota)
WIRED Audi INNOVATION Award 2016 (Won) (Shuzo John Shiota)
FileMaker Excellence Award 2014 : Development of the Year (Won)
Deloitte Technology Fast 500 Asia Pacific 2010 (Won)
Annecy International Animation Film Festival 2023
Films de Télévision en Compétition (TV Films in Competition) (Nominated)
50th Annie Awards(2023)
Best Music - TV/Media (Nominated)
Best Storyboarding - TV/Media (Won)
2023 BFE Cut Above Award
Best Edited Series: Animation (Won)
Winning Editors
Love, Death & Robots Volume 3
Kirk Baxter, ACE, Julian Clarke, Dave Conte, Matt Mariska, Jim May, Alberto Mielgo, Stephen Mulholland BFE, ISE, Tyler Nelson, Sabrina Pitre, CCE, Todd Raleigh and Hiroaki Sasa (Polygon Pictures)
The 1st Ever Children’s and Family Emmy Awards (2022)
OUTSTANDING DIRECTING FOR A PRESCHOOL ANIMATED PROGRAM (Won)
OUTSTANDING EDITING FOR A PRESCHOOL ANIMATED PROGRAM (Nominated)
2022 Kidscreen Awards
Creative Talent: Best Design (Won)
The 49th Annie Awards (2022)
Best TV/Media - Preschool (Nominated)
The 48th Daytime Emmy Awards(2021)
Outstanding Preschool Children’s Animated Series (Nominated)
Outstanding Writing Team for a Preschool Animated Program (Nominated)
Outstanding Directing Team for a Preschool Animated Program (Nominated)
Outstanding Editing for a Preschool Animated Program (Won)
The 81st George Foster Peabody Awards (2021)
Children's & Youth (Won)
The 48th Annie Awards (2021)
Best TV/Media - Preschool (Nominated)
The 48th Annie Awards (2021)
Best FX for TV/Media (Nominated)
VFX - JAPAN Award 2021
TV CG animation programs Category Award of Excellence (Won)
VFX - JAPAN Award 2021
Animated Film Category Award of Excellence (Won)
32nd Tokyo International Film Festival - Special Entry
2019 Annecy International Animation Film Festival
Official Screening
23rd Fantasia International Film Festival
Animation Category, Satoshi Kon Award for Excellence in Animation (Won)
SciFi Film Festival 2019 - Special Screening
Bucheon International Animation Festival - Feature Film Category - Competition Entry
Sitges Film Festival - Animated Feature Film Category - Competition Entry
The 72nd Primetime Emmy Awards (2020)
Outstanding Children's Program (Nominated)
The 45th Saturn Awards (2019)
Best Animated Series on Television (Won)
The 71st Primetime Emmy Awards (2019)
Outstanding Children's Program (Nominated)
VFX - JAPAN Award 2019
Animated Film Category Award of Excellence (Won)
31st Tokyo International Film Festival
Closing Screening
The 45th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards (2018)
Outstanding Children’s Animated Series (Nominated)
Outstanding Sound Mixing – Animation (Nominated)
The 45th The Annie Awards (2017)
Best Animated Television/Broadcast Production For Children (Nominated)
VFX - JAPAN Award 2018
TV CG animation programs Category Award of Excellence (Won)
The 44th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards (2017)
Outstanding Children’s Animated Program (Won)
Outstanding Casting for an Animated Series or Special (Nominated)
Outstanding Writing in an Animated Program (Nominated)
Outstanding Sound Mixing – Animation (Won)
Outstanding Sound Editing – Animation (Won)
VFX - JAPAN Award 2018
Animated Film Category top Awards of Excellence (Won)
21st Japan Media Arts Festival
Animation Category, Jury Selection
2017 Annecy International Animated Film Festival
Special Screening
The 4th International Emmy Kids Awards(2016)
The Animation category (Won)
The 8th DEG Japan Awards Blu-Ray Prize(2016)
The Juror's Special Award (Won)
The 20th Asian Television Awards(2015)
Bset 2D Animated Programme (Won)
The 17th WorldMediaFestival
The 2015 intermedia-globe GRAND AWARD/Category Animation (Won)
The 2015 intermedia-globe Gold/Animation (Won)
The Chicago International Film (2015)
Animated Series Gold Plaque (Won)
The 20th Annual International Family Film Festival(2015)
BEST ANIMATION-FOREIGN (Finalist)
The 43th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards (2016)
Outstanding Special Class Animated Program (Nominated)
Featured at the 28th Tokyo International Film Festival
Number 1 in opening day rankings at Pia Cinemas!
VFX - JAPAN Award 2016
Animated Film Category Award of Excellence (Won)
Tokyo Anime Award Festival (TAAF) 2015
Television Category(Nominated)
The 7th Blu-ray Prize DEG Japan Award (2015)
Highest Image Quality Award, Animation Category (Won)
VFX-JAPAN Awards 2015
Outstanding Performance Award, Television Program Category (Won)
SIGGRAPH ASIA 2014: Computer Animation Festival
Electronic Theater Screening
The 41th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards (2014)
Outstanding Special Class Animated Program
(Nominated)
Outstanding Achievement in Sound Mixing - Animation (Nominated)
Outstanding Achievement in Sound Editing - Animation (Nominated)
Outstanding Individual Achievement in Animation:
Christopher Voy, Color (Won)
The 41th Annie Awards (2014)
Outstanding Achievement, Editorial in an Animated TV/Broadcast Production (Nominated)
Outstanding Achievement, Character Animation in an Animated Television/Broadcast Production (Nominated)
The 40th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards (2013)
Outstanding Special Class Animated Program (Won)
Outstanding Performer in an Animated Program:
David Tennant as Huyang (Won)
Jim Cummings as Hondo Onaka (Nominated)
Sam Witwer as Darth Maul (Nominated)
Outstanding Directing in an Animated Program (Nominated)
Outstanding Achievement in Music Direction and Composition (Nominated)
Outstanding Achievement in Sound Mixing - Animation (Nominated)
The 40th Annie Awards (2013)
Animated Effects in an Animated Production (Joel Aron) (Nominated)
Character Animation in an Animated Television/Broadcast Production (Keith Kellogg, “Revenge”) (Nominated)
Voice Acting in an Animated Television/Broadcast Production (Sam Witwer as Darth Maul, “Revenge”) (Nominated)
Editorial in an Animated Television Production (Jason Tucker, “Revival”) (Nominated)
The 41th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards (2014)
Outstanding Special Class Animated Program (Nominated)
Outstanding Individual Achievement in Animation:
Jose Lopez, Character Design (Won)
Yasuhiro Motoda, Character Animator (Won)
Program: Transformers Prime Beast Hunters, HUB Network
The 41th Annie Awards (2014)
Outstanding Achievement, Production Design in an Animated TV/Broadcast Production (Nominated)
The 40th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards (2013)
Outstanding Individual Achievement in Animation:
Jason Park, Background Designer, “Orion Pax -- Part 3” (Won)
Arato Kato, Character Animator, “Hard Knocks” (Won)
Kirk Van Wormer, Storyboard Artist, “Nemesis Prime” (Won)
The 39th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards (2013)
Outstanding Special Class Animated Program (Won)
Outstanding Individual Achievement in Animation - Christophe Vacher (Won)
Outstanding Directing in an Animated Program (Nominated)
Outstanding Achievement in Sound Editing - Animation (Nominated)
Outstanding Achievement in Sound Mixing - Animation (Nominated)
The 38th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards (2011)
Outstanding Individual Achievement in Animation: Vince Toyama (Won)
Outstanding Individual Achievement in Animation: Christophe Vacher (Won)
Outstanding Performer in an Animated Program: Peter Cullen as Optimus Prime (Nominated)
Outstanding Directing in an Animated Program (Nominated)
Outstanding Achievement in Music Direction and Composition (Nominated)
The 41th Annie Awards (2014)
Best General Audience Animated TV/Broadcast Production (Nominated)
The 40th Annie Awards (2013)
Character Design in an Animated Television/Broadcast Production (Robert Valley, “The Renegade, Part I”) (Won)
Production Design in an Animated Television/Broadcast Production (Alberto Mielgo, “The Stranger”) (Won)
Best Animated Special Production (“Beck’s Beginning”) (Nominated)
Storyboarding in an Animated Television/Broadcast Production (Robert Valley, Calvin Lee, “The Reward”) (Nominated)
14th International Animation Festival Hiroshima: Special Prize
36th Hong Kong International Film Festival: Firebird Award, Short Film Competition
15th Japan Media Arts Festival: Excellence Award, Animation Division
54th Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film: Honorary Mention
35th CINANIMA International Animated Film Festival: Special Jury Prize, Prize RTP2: Onda Curta
15th Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival: NFB Best Canadian Film or Video Award
53rd International Festival of Documentary and Short Film of Bilbao: Silver Mikeldi for Animation
14th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival Animated Dreams: Jury’s Special Mentioning II
18th International Film Festival Etiuda & Anima: The Great (Under)estimated, awarded by the Director of the Festival Bogusław Zmudziński
32nd Annual Genie Awards: Best Animated Short(Nominated)
Accepted for competition at 7 other international film festivals, and presented by special invitation at 22 more around the world.
15th Japan Media Arts Festival: Jury Selection Work
Ottawa International Animation Festival: Competition
Selection, Short Promotional Animation
60th Melbourne International Film Festival: Animation Shorts (Official Selection)
Sapporo Short Fest 2011: Japan Off Theater, Animation Program
Se-ma-for Film Festival : Competition Selection, International Competition for Best Stop Motion Animation
Cine Eco 2011: Competition Seleciton, Children's Pictures
15th Seoul International Cartoon & Animation Festival: Special Program Selection
21st International Animated Film Festival Les Nuits Magiques: High School Student Prize
SIGGRAPH 2010: Electronic Theater Screening
SIGGRAPH ASIA 2010: Animation Theater Screening
2009 Japan Media Arts Festival: Jury Recommended Work
2010 Japan Academy Prizes: Animation Film of the Year
Motion Picture and Television Engineering Society of Japan, Inc.: 2009 Visual Technology Award
10th Nippon Connection Japanese Film Festival: Nippon Cinema Award
14th Seoul International Cartoon & Animation Festival (SICAF 2010): Feature Films Competition Special Jury Prize
FANTASIA FILM FESTIVAL 2010: Jury's Special Mention
2010 Digital Content Grand Prix: DCAJ Chairman Prize
Expotoons International Animation Festival 2010: Jury's 1st Mention
2008 Venice Film Festival: The Future Film Festival Digital Award
2008 Sitges International Film Festival: Best Original Soundtrack Jose Luis Guarner Critic Award
Best Motion Picture award from the Carnet Jove Jury
2008 Mainichi Film Awards: Animation Film Award
Ottawa 2008 International Animation Festival: Promotional Animation Category
SPACE SHOWER Music Video Awards 08: Best Video of the Year, Best Your Choice1, Best Group Video
Disney My Friends Tigger & Pooh
The 35th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards (2007)
Outstanding Special Class Animated Program (Nominated)
Outstanding Directing in an Animated Program (Nominated)
Outstanding Achievement in Main Title Design (Nominated)
SIGGRAPH ASIA 2007: Screening
2007 Japan Media Arts Festival: Jury Recommended Work
SIGGRAPH 2007: Animation Theater Screening
2007 Japan Media Arts Festival: Jury Recommended Works
SIGGRAPH 2005: Animation Theater Screening
ORF Prix Ars Electronica 05: Screening
Anima Mundi 2005: Screening
Winning Eleven Tactics
ORF Prix Ars Electronica 2004: Computer Animation Honorary Mention
Polygon Family 2
SIGGRAPH 2002: Electronic Theater Screening
The New York Festivals: Finalist Certificate
US International Film and Video Festival: Gold Camera Award
The 29th Annie Awards (2001)
Best Animated Short Subject (Nominated)
SIGGRAPH 00: Electronic Theater Screening
Anima Mundi 2000: Best Computer Animation
VEAF: 3D Computer Animation Short 2nd Place
POLE NETWORK
SIGGRAPH 98: SigKIDS Theater Screening
Aerobot
SIGGRAPH 98: Animation Theater Screening
SIGGRAPH 98: Animation Theater Screening
Hiroshima Int'l Animation Festival: Honorary Mention Aerobot(1998)
SIGGRAPH 98: Animation Theater Screening
Hiroshima International Animation Festival: Honorary Mention
Prix Pixel-INA(France): Honorary Mention
ORF Prix Ars Electronica 99: Computer Animation Honorary Mention
36th ACC CM Festival(Japan): Excellent TV-CM Award
Virtual Circus MRC Opening Imagery
Multimedia Grand Prix 95: Public Work Award
35th ACC CM Festival(Japan): Grand Prix TV Spot CM Award
IBA 96(USA): Best TV-CM Award, Under-20-Second Category
Bonito Soup Stock Mitsukan TVCM
34th ACC CM Festival(Japan): Excellent TV-CM Award
Michael the Dinosaur
AVA 93(Japan): Special Mention, CG Category
SFX for NHK Hi-Vision Drama Seishun Botan Doro
AVA 93(Japan): Grand Prix, Hi-Vision Category
NCGA 91(USA): 2nd place, Short CG
AVA 91(Japan): Special Award, CG Category
SIGGRAPH 92: Electronic Theater Screening
NCGA 91(USA): Special Award, Short CG
AVA 90(Japan): Special Award, CG Category
PIXEL INA Prize(France): 2nd place, 3-D Category
SIGGRAPH 90: Film and Video Theater Screening
Dancing Sony TVCM
TDC 90(Japan): Gold Prize
Clio Awards(USA): Technique Finalist
SIGGRAPH 90: Film and Video Theater Screening
SIGGRAPH 89: Computer Graphics Theater Screening