2016 Daytime Emmy Award winners in animation

Last updated on December 10th, 2021

This weekend saw this year’s Daytime Emmy Awards take place. The Creative Arts Emmys were awarded on Friday, and the remainder of the Emmys were given on Sunday. For unfortunate reasons, this year’s ceremonies weren’t televised or streamed online, supposedly out of cost-related reasons. In this day and age, there shouldn’t be an excuse to not at least stream it. It also seems very odd that the very medium the Daytime Emmys are awarding won’t televise it on any of its (dozens if not hundreds) of TV channels.

Here’s a look at the animation related winners. A full list of winners is available here.

Outstanding Pre-School Children’s Animated Program
“Tumble Leaf,” Amazon

Outstanding Children’s Animated Program
“Niko and the Sword of Light,” Amazon

OUTSTANDING PERFORMER IN AN ANIMATED PROGRAM
JEFF BENNETT, as Mayor Luskey
“Transformers Rescue Bots,” Discovery Family

OUTSTANDING CASTING FOR AN ANIMATED SERIES OR SPECIAL
Ania O’Hare
“The Adventures of Puss in Boots,” Netflix

OUTSTANDING INDIVIDUAL ACHIEVEMENT IN ANIMATION
WINNERS

“Dinotrux,” Netflix
Character Designer
Chad Weatherford

“Peter Rabbit,” Nickelodeon
Storyboard Artist
Benjamin Sanders

“The Mind of a Chef,” PBS
Production Designer
Mike Houston

“Tumble Leaf,” Amazon
Supervising Animator
Michael Granberry

OUTSTANDING WRITING IN A PRESCHOOL ANIMATED PROGRAM
“Peg+Cat,” PBS

OUTSTANDING WRITING IN AN ANIMATED PROGRAM
“All Hail King Julien,” Netflix

OUTSTANDING SOUND MIXING – ANIMATION
“Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles,” Nickelodeon

OUTSTANDING SOUND EDITING – ANIMATION
“Dragons: Race to the Edge,” Netflix

OUTSTANDING MUSIC DIRECTION AND COMPOSITION
“Peg+Cat,” PBS

OUTSTANDING ORIGINAL SONG
“True Bromance”
“All Hail King Julien,” Netflix

Netflix seems to be a huge winner here. Obviously, Netflix and DreamWorks have benefited greatly from their deal with each other. PBS as usual also earns an award, this time for “Peg + Cat.” On the live-action side, “Sesame Street” makes its final Daytime Emmys appearance under PBS’ name, as any future awards will be under new home HBO.