" Bolt," " Kung Fu Panda," " Wall-E," "Waltz with Bashir" and "$9.99" were nominated today by the International Animated Film Society for best animated feature for the 36th annual Annie Awards. The awards honor the year's best animated features, TV productions, commercials, video games and short subjects.

DreamWorks Animation's' "Kung Fu Panda" leads the nominations with 17. In addition to best animated feature, the box office hit earned recognition in character animation, character design, directing, music, production design, storyboarding, voice acting and writing.

Walt Disney Animation Studio's current hit "Bolt" received nine nominations with Pixar Animation Studio's summer blockbuster "Wall-E" earning eight.

On the television front, cable's Nickelodeon leads the pack with 12 nominations, including for two for best animated TV production for children for "The Mighty B!" and "Avatar: The Last Airbender." Rounding out that category are Cartoon Network Studio's "Foster's Home For Imaginary Friends" and "Underfist: Halloween Bash" and Warner Bros. Animation's "A Miser Brothers' Christmas."

Nominees in the best animated TV production are Disney Television Animation's "Phineas and Ferb," Gracie Films/Fox TV's " The Simpsons," 20th Century Fox's "King of the Hill" and ShadowMachine's "Moral Orel" and "Robot Chicken: Star Wars Episode II."

Mike Judge, John Lasseter and Nick Park earned the Winsor McCay special award for career contributions to the art of animation. Bill Turner was named this year's recipient of the June Foray Award for "significant and benevolent or charitable impact on the art and industry of animation" and Amir Avini, Mike Fontanelli, Kathy Turner and Alex Vassilev received the Certificate of Merit Award.

The winners will be announced Jan. 30 at the gala award ceremony at UCLA's Royce Hall.

Other nominations announced today include:

Best animated home entertainment production
" Batman: Gotham Knight"
"Christmas Is Here Again"
"Futurama: The Beast With a Billion Backs"
"Justice League: The New Frontier"
"The Little Mermaid: Ariel's Beginning"

Best animated short subject
"Glago's Guest"
"Hot Dog"
"Presto"
"Sebastian's Voodoo"
"Wallace & Gromit: A Matter of Loaf and Death"

Best animated video game
Dead Space
Kung Fu Panda
Wall-E

Directing in an animated feature production
Sam Fell, Rob Stevenhagen, "The Tale of Despereaux"
Ari Folman, "Waltz with Bashir"
Tatia Rosenthal, "$9.99"
John Stevenson and Mark Osborne, "Kung Fu Panda"
Andrew Stanton, "Wall-E"

Voice acting in an animated feature production
Ben Burtt, voice of Wall-E "Wall-E"
Dustin Hoffman, voice of Shifu, "Kung Fu Panda"
James Hong, voice of Mr. Ping, "Kung Fu Panda"
Ian McShane, voice of Tai Lung, "Kung Fu Panda"
Mark Walton, voice of Rhino, "Bolt"

Voice acting in an animated television production or short form
Ahmed Best, voice of Jar Jar Binks, "Robot Chicken: Star Wars Episode II"
Seth MacFarlane, voice of Peter Griffin, " Family Guy," "I Dream of Jesus"
Dwight Schultz, voice of Mung Daal, Chowder, "Apprentice Games"

For a complete list of nominations go to annnieawards.org.