Chris Sanders’ “ The Wild Robot ” from Dreamworks Animation leads the feature competition of the 52nd Annie Awards for animation with 10 nominations, followed by Disney/Pixar’s “ Inside Out 2 ” and Aardman and Netflix’s “Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl,” with seven apiece; and Locksmith Animation and Netflix’s “That Christmas,” with six noms.

The great Charlie Kaufman wrote a kids movie! This new animated Netflix original owes such a debt to Pixar films like Toy Story and Inside Out, but it carves out its own personality too.

Echo Wu, creator of coming-of-age story set in Texas that borrows from Chinese folk tales, says it is ‘close to my own childhood experience’.