On Saturday, February 4th, 2012, Jennifer Yuh Nelson won the Annie Award for Best Director in a Feature Production with Kung Fu Panda 2. The Annie Award is basically the top award for animated films, and it’s not the only honor Nelson has attracted. She has won a previous Annie Award for story boarding for the first Kung Fu Panda film. Aside from being recognized as the top grossing female director ever with Kung Fu Panda 2 bringing in $659,239,572 worldwide and being the first woman to solely direct an animated film backed by a major Hollywood studio, Nelson’s film has also been nominated for an Academy Award in Best Animated Feature Film.
She’s packing so much awesome this year that it would make Barney Stinson cry (not that that’s hard to do). All that there’s left to say is, “You go, girl.”
