 At the 39th Annie Awards , Dani Michaeli , Sean Charmatz , Nate Cash , Luke Brookshier and Paul Tibbitt were nominated for Best Writing in an Animated Television Production for the episode " Patrick 's <unk> " . Moreover , directors Mark Caballero and Seamus Walsh also received a nomination at the 40th Annie Awards for Directing in an Animated Television or other Broadcast Venue Production for the episode " It 's a SpongeBob Christmas ! " . Nominated for the same episode , Dan Driscoll won the Character Animation in an Animated Television or other Broadcast Venue Production category . <unk> Forrest received the same nomination for his work on the episode , but lost . The episode was also nominated at the 2013 Golden Reel Awards for Best Sound Editing - Sound Effects , Foley , Dialogue and ADR Animation in Television . " It 's a SpongeBob Christmas ! " was nominated at the Annecy International Animated Film Festival for Special Award for a TV Series . 
