Academy Award for Best Animated Feature

Film award

Academy Award for Best Animated Feature

Gints Zilbalodis

Matīss Kaža

2025 co-recipients

Awarded for| The best animated film with a running time of more than 40 minutes, a significant number of the major characters animated, and at least 75 percent of the picture's running time including animation.
Country| United States
Presented by| Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS)
First award| Shrek (2001)
Most recent winner| Flow (2024)
Most awards| Pixar (11) / Pete Docter (3)
Most nominations| Pixar (19) / Pete Docter, Hayao Miyazaki, and Chris Sanders (4)
Website| oscars.org

The Academy Award for Best Animated Feature is an Academy Award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) for the best animated feature film. An animated feature is defined by the academy as a film with a running time of more than 40 minutes in which characters' performances are created using a frame-by-frame technique, a significant number of the major characters are animated, and animation figures in no less than 75 percent of the running time.[1] The Academy Award for Best Animated Feature was first awarded in 2002 for films released in 2001.[2][3][4]

For much of the Academy Awards' history, the AMPAS was resistant to the idea of a regular award for animated features, considering there were simply too few produced to justify such consideration.[5] Instead, the Academy occasionally bestowed special Oscars for exceptional productions, usually for Walt Disney Pictures, such as Academy Honorary Award for Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs in 1938,[6] and the Special Achievement Academy Award for the live action/animated hybrid Who Framed Roger Rabbit in 1989[7] and Toy Story in 1996.[8] In fact, prior to the award's creation, only one animated film was nominated for Best Picture: 1991's Beauty and the Beast, also by Disney.[9][10]

By 2001, the rise of sustained competitors to Disney in the feature animated film market, such as DreamWorks Animation (founded by former Disney executive Jeffrey Katzenberg), created an increase of film releases of significant annual number enough for AMPAS to reconsider.[5] The Academy Award for Best Animated Feature was first given out at the 74th Academy Awards,[11] held on March 24, 2002.[12]

## Winners and nominees

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Hayao Miyazaki won in 2002 for Spirited Away and again in 2023 for The Boy and the Heron. Andrew Stanton won in 2003 for Finding Nemo and again in 2008 for WALL-E. Brad Bird won in 2004 for The Incredibles and again in 2007 for Ratatouille. Nick Park won in 2005 for Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit. George Miller won in 2006 for Happy Feet. Pete Docter holds the record for most wins in this category, winning three times for Up in 2009, Inside Out in 2015, and Soul in 2020. Lee Unkrich won in 2010 for Toy Story 3 and again in 2017 for Coco. Gore Verbinski won in 2011 for Rango.

Mark Andrews and Brenda Chapman won in 2012 for Brave.

Chris Buck and Jennifer Lee won in 2013 for Frozen.

Jonas Rivera won in 2016 for Inside Out and again in 2020 for Toy Story 4 as a film producer. Byron Howard won in 2017 for Zootopia and again in 2022 for Encanto.

Film directors Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey, and Rodney Rothman, and producers Phil Lord and Christopher Miller won in 2018 for Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse.

Guillermo del Toro and Mark Gustafson won in 2022 for Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio.

Toshio Suzuki won in 2024 for The Boy and the Heron as a film producer.

When the category was first instated, the nomination went to the person(s) most involved in creating the film. This could be the producer, the director, or both. For the 76th Academy Awards in 2003, only the director(s) of the film received the nomination. For the 86th Academy Awards ten years later, this was amended to include one producer and up to two directors. For the 91st Academy Awards, this was amended once again to include up to four individuals, one of whom must be a director and one of whom must be a producer; an exception to this is that "[i]n the case of a TWO-PERSON TEAM with shared and equal director or producer credit, an additional statuette may be awarded."[13]

The Academy included a rule that stated that the award would not be presented in a year in which fewer than eight eligible films opened in theaters.[14] In regards of the Academy, it allows for all members to make voting for animated films more acceptable.[15]

At the same year, the Academy enacted a new rule regarding the motion capture technique employed in films such as A Christmas Carol (2009) and The Adventures of Tintin (2011), directed by Academy Award for Best Director winners Robert Zemeckis and Steven Spielberg respectively, and how they might not be eligible in this category in the future.[16] The new rule now reads "An animated feature film is defined as a motion picture with a running time of greater than 40 minutes, in which movement and characters’ performances are created using a frame-by-frame technique. Motion capture by itself is not an animation technique. In addition, a significant number of the major characters must be animated, and animation must figure in no less than 75 percent of the picture’s running time."[16] This rule was possibly made to prevent nominations of live-action films that rely heavily on motion capture, such as Avatar (2009).[16]

Only three films (most are live-action/animation hybrid) have been disqualified for not meeting the 75 percent of animation threshold under submission. With exceptions, it was unclear whether Marcel the Shell with Shoes On would be eligible for the award at the 95th Academy Awards due to being a stop-motion animated film with the use of live-action elements. Director Dean Fleischer Camp said that he and A24 had to submit documentation in order to prove the film had enough animation to meet the award's minimum requirements.[17][1] The AMPAS officially deemed the film eligible for consideration in the Animated Feature category and was eventually nominated for said category.[18]

Table key

Indicates the winner

### 2000s

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Year  | Film  | Nominees  | Ref.

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2001
(74th) | Shrek | Aron Warner | [12]
Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius | John A. Davis and Steve Oedekerk
Monsters, Inc. | Pete Docter and John Lasseter
2002
(75th) | Spirited Away | Hayao Miyazaki | [19]
Ice Age | Chris Wedge
Lilo & Stitch | Chris Sanders
Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron | Jeffrey Katzenberg
Treasure Planet | Ron Clements
2003
(76th) | Finding Nemo | Andrew Stanton | [20]
Brother Bear | Aaron Blaise and Robert Walker
The Triplets of Belleville | Sylvain Chomet
2004
(77th) | The Incredibles | Brad Bird | [21]
Shark Tale | Bill Damaschke
Shrek 2 | Andrew Adamson
2005
(78th) | Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit | Nick Park and Steve Box | [22]
Corpse Bride | Tim Burton and Mike Johnson
Howl's Moving Castle | Hayao Miyazaki
2006
(79th) | Happy Feet | George Miller | [23]
Cars | John Lasseter
Monster House | Gil Kenan
2007
(80th) | Ratatouille | Brad Bird | [24]
Persepolis | Vincent Paronnaud and Marjane Satrapi
Surf's Up | Chris Buck and Ash Brannon
2008
(81st) | WALL-E | Andrew Stanton | [25]
Bolt | Byron Howard and Chris Williams
Kung Fu Panda | Mark Osborne and John Stevenson
2009
(82nd) | Up | Pete Docter | [26]
Coraline | Henry Selick
Fantastic Mr. Fox | Wes Anderson
The Princess and the Frog | John Musker and Ron Clements
The Secret of Kells | Tomm Moore

### 2010s

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Year  | Film  | Nominees  | Ref.

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2010
(83rd) | Toy Story 3 | Lee Unkrich | [27]
How to Train Your Dragon | Chris Sanders and Dean DeBlois
The Illusionist | Sylvain Chomet
2011
(84th) | Rango | Gore Verbinski | [28]
A Cat in Paris | Alain Gagnol and Jean-Loup Felicioli
Chico and Rita | Javier Mariscal and Fernando Trueba
Kung Fu Panda 2 | Jennifer Yuh Nelson
Puss in Boots | Chris Miller
2012
(85th) | Brave | Brenda Chapman and Mark Andrews | [29]
Frankenweenie | Tim Burton
ParaNorman | Chris Butler and Sam Fell
The Pirates! Band of Misfits | Peter Lord
Wreck-It Ralph | Rich Moore
2013
(86th) | Frozen | Chris Buck, Jennifer Lee, and Peter Del Vecho | [30]
The Croods | Chris Sanders, Kristine Belson, and Kirk DeMicco
Despicable Me 2 | Chris Renaud, Pierre Coffin, and Chris Meledandri
Ernest & Celestine | Didier Brunner and Benjamin Renner
The Wind Rises | Hayao Miyazaki and Toshio Suzuki
2014
(87th) | Big Hero 6 | Don Hall, Chris Williams, and Roy Conli | [31]
The Boxtrolls | Travis Knight, Graham Annable, and Anthony Stacchi
How to Train Your Dragon 2 | Dean DeBlois and Bonnie Arnold
Song of the Sea | Tomm Moore and Paul Young
The Tale of the Princess Kaguya | Isao Takahata and Yoshiaki Nishimura
2015
(88th) | Inside Out | Pete Docter and Jonas Rivera | [32]
Anomalisa | Duke Johnson, Charlie Kaufman, and Rosa Tran
Boy and the World | Alê Abreu
Shaun the Sheep Movie | Mark Burton and Richard Starzak
When Marnie Was There | Hiromasa Yonebayashi and Yoshiaki Nishimura
2016
(89th) | Zootopia | Byron Howard, Rich Moore, and Clark Spencer | [33]
Kubo and the Two Strings | Travis Knight and Arianne Sutner
Moana | John Musker, Ron Clements, and Osnat Shurer
My Life as a Zucchini | Claude Barras and Max Karli
The Red Turtle | Michaël Dudok de Wit and Toshio Suzuki
2017
(90th) | Coco | Lee Unkrich and Darla K. Anderson | [34]
The Boss Baby | Tom McGrath and Ramsey Naito
The Breadwinner | Nora Twomey and Anthony Leo
Ferdinand | Carlos Saldanha and Lori Forte
Loving Vincent | Dorota Kobiela, Ivan Mactaggart, and Hugh Welchman
2018
(91st) | Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse | Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey, Rodney Rothman, Phil Lord and Christopher Miller | [35]
Incredibles 2 | Brad Bird, John Walker and Nicole Paradis Grindle
Isle of Dogs | Wes Anderson, Jeremy Dawson, Steven Rales, and Scott Rudin
Mirai | Mamoru Hosoda and Yuichiro Saito
Ralph Breaks the Internet | Rich Moore, Phil Johnston, and Clark Spencer
2019
(92nd) | Toy Story 4 | Josh Cooley, Mark Nielsen, and Jonas Rivera | [36]
How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World | Dean DeBlois, Bonnie Arnold, and Brad Lewis
I Lost My Body | Jérémy Clapin and Marc du Pontavice
Klaus | Sergio Pablos, Jinko Gotoh, and Marisa Román
Missing Link | Chris Butler, Travis Knight, and Arianne Sutner

### 2020s

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Year  | Film  | Nominees  | Ref.

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2020
(93rd) | Soul | Pete Docter and Dana Murray | [37]
Onward | Dan Scanlon and Kori Rae
Over the Moon | Glen Keane, Peilin Chou, and Gennie Rim
A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon | Will Becher, Paul Kewley, and Richard Phelan
Wolfwalkers | Tomm Moore, Stéphan Roelants, Ross Stewart, and Paul Young
2021
(94th) | Encanto | Jared Bush, Byron Howard, Yvett Merino, and Clark Spencer | [38]
Flee | Charlotte de la Gournerie, Monica Hellström, Jonas Poher Rasmussen, and Signe Byrge Sørensen
Luca | Enrico Casarosa and Andrea Warren
The Mitchells vs. the Machines | Mike Rianda, Kurt Albrecht, Phil Lord, and Christopher Miller
Raya and the Last Dragon | Peter Del Vecho, Carlos López Estrada, Don Hall, and Osnat Shurer
2022
(95th) | Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio | Guillermo del Toro, Mark Gustafson, Alex Bulkley, and Gary Ungar | [39]
Marcel the Shell with Shoes On | Dean Fleischer Camp, Andrew Goldman, Elisabeth Holm, Caroline Kaplan, and Paul Mezey
Puss in Boots: The Last Wish | Joel Crawford and Mark Swift
The Sea Beast | Chris Williams and Jed Schlanger
Turning Red | Lindsey Collins and Domee Shi
2023
(96th) | The Boy and the Heron | Hayao Miyazaki and Toshio Suzuki | [40]
Elemental | Peter Sohn and Denise Ream
Nimona | Nick Bruno, Troy Quane, Karen Ryan, and Julie Zackary
Robot Dreams | Pablo Berger, Ibon Cormenzana, Ignasi Estapé, and Sandra Tapia Díaz
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse | Kemp Powers, Justin K. Thompson, Phil Lord, Christopher Miller, and Amy Pascal
2024
(97th) | Flow | Gints Zilbalodis, Matīss Kaža, Ron Dyens, and Gregory Zalcman | [41]
Inside Out 2 | Kelsey Mann and Mark Nielsen
Memoir of a Snail | Adam Elliot and Liz Kearney
Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl | Nick Park, Merlin Crossingham, and Richard Beek
The Wild Robot | Chris Sanders and Jeff Hermann

## Multiple wins and nominations

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### Nominees

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Individual  | Wins  | Nominations  | Films

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Pete Docter |

| 4  | Monsters, Inc., Up, Inside Out, Soul
Hayao Miyazaki | 2  | Spirited Away, Howl's Moving Castle, The Wind Rises, The Boy and the Heron
Brad Bird | 3  | The Incredibles, Ratatouille, Incredibles 2
Byron Howard | Bolt, Zootopia, Encanto
Clark Spencer | Zootopia, Ralph Breaks the Internet, Encanto
Jonas Rivera | 2  | Inside Out, Toy Story 4
Andrew Stanton | Finding Nemo, WALL-E
Lee Unkrich | Toy Story 3, Coco
Phil Lord | 1  | 3  | Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, The Mitchells vs. the Machines, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
Christopher Miller
Rich Moore | Wreck-It Ralph, Zootopia, Ralph Breaks the Internet
Toshio Suzuki | The Wind Rises, The Red Turtle, The Boy and the Heron
Chris Williams | Bolt, Big Hero 6, The Sea Beast
Nick Park | 2  | Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl
Chris Buck | Surf's Up, Frozen
Don Hall | Big Hero 6, Raya and the Last Dragon
Peter Del Vecho | Frozen, Raya and the Last Dragon
Mark Nielsen  | Toy Story 4, Inside Out 2
Chris Sanders | 0  |

| Lilo & Stitch, How to Train Your Dragon, The Croods, The Wild Robot
Ron Clements | 3  | Treasure Planet, The Princess and the Frog, Moana
Dean DeBlois | How to Train Your Dragon, How to Train Your Dragon 2, How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World
Travis Knight | The Boxtrolls, Kubo and the Two Strings, Missing Link
Tomm Moore | The Secret of Kells, Song of the Sea, Wolfwalkers
Wes Anderson |

| Fantastic Mr. Fox, Isle of Dogs
Bonnie Arnold | How to Train Your Dragon 2, How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World
Sylvain Chomet | The Triplets of Belleville, The Illusionist
John Lasseter | Monsters, Inc., Cars
John Musker | The Princess and the Frog, Moana
Tim Burton | Corpse Bride, Frankenweenie
Chris Butler | ParaNorman, Missing Link
Yoshiaki Nishimura | The Tale of the Princess Kaguya, When Marnie Was There
Osnat Shurer | Moana, Raya and the Last Dragon
Arianne Sutner | Kubo and the Two Strings, Missing Link
Paul Young | Song of the Sea, Wolfwalkers

### Studios

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Studio  | Wins  | Nominations  | Films

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Pixar | 11  | 19  | Monsters, Inc., Finding Nemo, The Incredibles, Cars, Ratatouille, WALL-E, Up, Toy Story 3, Brave, Inside Out, Coco, Incredibles 2, Toy Story 4, Onward, Soul, Luca, Turning Red, Elemental, Inside Out 2
Walt Disney Animation Studios | 4  | 13  | Lilo & Stitch, Treasure Planet, Brother Bear, Bolt, The Princess and the Frog, Wreck-It Ralph, Frozen, Big Hero 6, Zootopia, Moana, Ralph Breaks the Internet, Raya and the Last Dragon, Encanto
DreamWorks Animation | 2  | 15  | Shrek, Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron, Shrek 2, Shark Tale, Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit,[a] Kung Fu Panda, How to Train Your Dragon, Kung Fu Panda 2, Puss in Boots, The Croods, How to Train Your Dragon 2, The Boss Baby, How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World, Puss in Boots: The Last Wish, The Wild Robot
Studio Ghibli | 7  | Spirited Away, Howl's Moving Castle, The Wind Rises, The Tale of the Princess Kaguya, When Marnie Was There, The Red Turtle, The Boy and the Heron
Sony Pictures Animation | 1  | 5  | Surf's Up, The Pirates! Band of Misfits,[b] Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, The Mitchells vs. the Machines, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
Aardman | Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit,[a] The Pirates! Band of Misfits,[b] Shaun the Sheep Movie,[c] A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon,[c] Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl
Netflix Animation | 4  | Klaus, Over the Moon, The Sea Beast, Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio
Nickelodeon | 2  | Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius, Rango
Laika | 0  | 6  | Corpse Bride,[d] Coraline, ParaNorman, The Boxtrolls, Kubo and the Two Strings, Missing Link
Cartoon Saloon | 4  | The Secret of Kells,[e] Song of the Sea, The Breadwinner, Wolfwalkers
Les Armateurs | 3  | The Triplets of Belleville, The Secret of Kells,[e] Ernest & Celestine
Blue Sky Studios | Ice Age, Ferdinand, Nimona
Tim Burton Productions | 2  | Corpse Bride,[d] Frankenweenie
American Empirical | Fantastic Mr. Fox, Isle of Dogs
StudioCanal | Shaun the Sheep Movie,[c] A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon[c]

Notes

1. ^ a b Co-production between Aardman Animations and DreamWorks Animation
2. ^ a b Co-production between Aardman Animations and Sony Pictures Animation
3. ^ a b c d Co-production between Aardman Animations and StudioCanal
4. ^ a b Co-production between Laika and Tim Burton Productions
5. ^ a b Co-production between Cartoon Saloon and Les Armateurs

### Franchises

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Franchise  | Wins  | Nominations  | Films

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Toy Story | 2  | Toy Story 3, Toy Story 4
Shrek | 1  | 4  | Shrek, Shrek 2, Puss in Boots, Puss in Boots: The Last Wish
Wallace & Gromit | Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, Shaun the Sheep Movie, A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon, Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl
The Incredibles | 2  | The Incredibles, Incredibles 2
Inside Out | Inside Out, Inside Out 2
Spider-Verse | Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
How to Train Your Dragon | 0  | 3  | How to Train Your Dragon, How to Train Your Dragon 2, How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World
Irish Folklore Trilogy | The Secret of Kells, Song of the Sea, Wolfwalkers
Kung Fu Panda | 2  | Kung Fu Panda, Kung Fu Panda 2
Wreck-It Ralph | Wreck-It Ralph, Ralph Breaks the Internet

## Superlatives

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### Age

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Record  | Recipient  | Film  | Age

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Oldest winner  | Hayao Miyazaki | The Boy and the Heron | 83 years, 65 days
Oldest nominee  | 83 years, 18 days
Youngest winner  | Matīss Kaža | Flow | 29 years, 183 days
Youngest nominee  | 29 years, 145 days

### Length

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Record  | Film  | Length

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Longest winner  | Spirited Away | 125 minutes
Longest nominee  | Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse | 140 minutes
Shortest winner  | Flow | 84 minutes
Shortest nominee  | A Cat in Paris | 65 minutes

## International films

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A number of non-English-language or non-dialogue films have been nominated or won. Almost all non-English language films on this list have also been released with English-language dubbing. Winners are highlighted in bold below.

### Japanese nominees

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#### Studio Ghibli

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* Spirited Away
* Howl's Moving Castle
* The Wind Rises
* The Tale of the Princess Kaguya
* When Marnie Was There
* The Boy and the Heron

#### Other films

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* Mirai

### French nominees

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#### Les Armateurs

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* The Triplets of Belleville
* Ernest & Celestine

#### Other films

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* Persepolis
* The Illusionist
* A Cat in Paris
* My Life as a Zucchini
* I Lost My Body

### Other languages

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* Chico and Rita (Spanish)
* Boy and the World (Portuguese)
* Flee (Danish)

### Non-dialogue or fictional languages

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* Shaun the Sheep Movie
* The Red Turtle
* A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon
* Robot Dreams
* Flow

## Milestones and records

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### Films and production companies

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* Pixar holds the most wins for a studio with 11, the most nominations with 19, and the most consecutive wins (4, between 2007 and 2010).
* Pixar, with 11 wins, and Walt Disney Animation Studios, with 4, are both owned by the Walt Disney Company, which has 15 wins for the category in total.
* Laika has the most nominations without a win, with 6 films.
* DreamWorks Animation has the most nominations after last win, with 10 films.
* Toy Story is the only franchise to win this award twice, for its third and fourth films. Additionally, the third and fourth films are so far the only two sequels to win this award.
* Shrek and Wallace & Gromit are the most-nominated franchise, with 4 (and having won once) each. Other franchises with three nominations include How to Train Your Dragon and Cartoon Saloon's "Irish Folklore Trilogy" (consisting of The Secret of Kells, Song of the Sea, and Wolfwalkers); both hold the record as the most-nominated franchises without a win.
* Of the several adult animated films (judging from their MPAA ratings), The Triplets of Belleville was the first PG-13-rated nominee, Anomalisa and Memoir of a Snail[42] are so far the only R-rated animated films to be nominated, and The Boy and the Heron became the first PG-13-rated winner.[43]
* Studio Ghibli (Japan) has the most wins (two) and nominations (seven) for a non-US studio; Spirited Away and The Boy and the Heron are the only non-English language films to win.[44][45][46]
* Flee is the first animated documentary film to be nominated.[47]
* Since 2019, each year has had at least one nominee that was mainly released via streaming, with two winners (denoted in bold): Klaus (Netflix) in 2019; Soul (Disney+) in 2020; Luca (Disney+) and The Mitchells vs. the Machines (Netflix) in 2021; Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio (Netflix), The Sea Beast (Netflix), and Turning Red (Disney+) in 2022; Nimona (Netflix) in 2023; and Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl (Netflix) in 2024.
* 2005 and 2011 are the only years that did not have a Disney or Pixar film nominated in the category.
* Flow is the first independent film to win the award.[48]
* There were only six non-Disney/Pixar films to win the category until 2022. The consecutive wins of Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio, The Boy and the Heron, and Flow between 2022 and 2024 marked the first time that a non-Disney/Pixar film won the award three years in a row.[49]

### People

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* Pete Docter has the most wins of any individual (3), and is tied with Hayao Miyazaki and Chris Sanders for the most nominations (4). Additionally, Miyazaki has the most wins and nominations for a non-US individual.
* Chris Sanders has the most nominations without winning (4).
* Hayao Miyazaki became the oldest winner in 2024 at the age of 83; he previously held the record between 2003 and 2023 (briefly being succeeded by Mark Gustafson for Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio).
* Matīss Kaža became the youngest winner in 2025 at the age of 29, with Gints Zilbalodis also the second youngest winner at the age of 30, beating Andrew Stanton in a 21-year streak between 2004 (at the age of 38) and 2025.
* In diversity, Brenda Chapman was the first woman to win for Brave and Peter Ramsey was the first black director to win for Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse.
* In parallel of Jerome Robbins's Best Director win for West Side Story, Mark Gustafson (in 2023) was the only recipient to have won for his only career film directing credit before his death the following year.

## Legacy

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Gints Zilbalodis's Academy Award statuette (with Best Animated Feature labeled) was put on display at the Latvian National Museum of Art.

The winners of non-Disney/Pixar or Dreamworks Animation films led its significant influence among animation studios for its aesthetics as well as displaying statuettes at museums, solidifying the animation's recognition in mainstream cinema.

* In March 20, 2024, Studio Ghibli displays Hayao Miyazaki's Oscar statuette for a limited time at Ghibli Park's "Ghibli's Grand Warehouse" in the Broadcast Room.[50]
* In 2025, after the success of Flow and its eventual win in the Best Animated Feature category, the statuette, along with the Golden Globe and the European Film Award, was later put on display at the Latvian National Museum of Art for a week.[51]

## Criticisms and controversies

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### Best Picture criticism

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Further information: Academy Award for Best Picture § Animated films in Best Picture category

Some members and fans have criticized the award, saying it is only intended to prevent animated films from having a chance of winning Best Picture. DreamWorks had advertised heavily during the holiday 2001 season for Shrek, but was disappointed when the rumored Best Picture nomination did not materialize.[52] The criticism of Best Animated Feature was particularly prominent at the 81st Academy Awards, in which WALL-E won the award but was not nominated for Best Picture, despite receiving widespread acclaim from critics and audiences alike and being generally considered one of the best films of 2008.[53][54][55][56] This led to controversy over whether the film was deliberately snubbed of the nomination by the Academy. Film critic Peter Travers commented that "If there was ever a time where an animated feature deserved to be nominated for Best Picture, it's WALL-E." However, official Academy Award regulations state that any movie nominated for this category can still be nominated for Best Picture.[57] In 2009, when the nominee slots for Best Picture were doubled to ten, Up was nominated for both Animated Feature and Picture at the 82nd Academy Awards, the first to do so since the inception of the Animated Feature category.[58] This feat was repeated the following year by Toy Story 3.[59]

### Category bias

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#### Favoritism towards mainstream films

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Many pundits are critical of its category for snubbing non-Disney/Pixar animated films in favor of Disney, Dreamworks and Pixar films as a perennial frontrunner of the award season dominance, with animation historian Amid Amidi accusing Academy voters occasionally of ignorance about the animation medium. There have been complaints that the Best Animated Feature award is held in unfairly low regard by Academy members with many members refusing to vote for films they consider mere children's fare beneath them, or letting their own children see the films and go with their opinions instead. The dominance of Disney and Pixar allegedly as a result of this bias is suggested to be injuring the credibility of the award.[60]

Anonymous interviews with a selection of Academy voters in 2014 and 2015 revealed indifference towards the animation category, treating animation as being for children, and ignorance about international titles; although the biggest controversy was the omission of other animated films like The Lego Movie and The Book of Life.[61][62][63]

#### Omissions of Japanese animated films outside of Studio Ghibli

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The category has also been criticized for frequently snubbing critically acclaimed Japanese animated films not from Studio Ghibli, such as Your Name, A Silent Voice, and In This Corner of the World.[64][65][66][67] 2018's Mirai became the first non-Ghibli anime film to receive a nomination in this category.[68]

#### Rule changes

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In 2017, a new rule allowed any Academy voters to vote in the category regardless of background or connection to animation, which led to the nominations of The Boss Baby and Ferdinand, a decision that received significant criticism from critics and audiences alike because of their lack of solid quality to make them worthy of being nominated, especially above snubbed, but better acclaimed films. Besides being viewed as highly ignorant of this category, it was seen as a move from the Academy to put aside small, foreign and/or independent movies in favor of mainstream ones to attract audiences to something they might know and to keep a Hollywood predominance; this allowed any members of the Academy other than the Animation Branch.[69][70][71][72]

Despite these changes, other Disney and Pixar films won again since 2019, these are Toy Story 4, Soul, and Encanto, causing outrage among pundits of the category. With the latter at the 94th Academy Awards in 2022, the Academy's decision for having three actresses (Halle Bailey, Lily James, and Naomi Scott) who played Disney princesses in their live-action remakes to present the category was heavily criticized. While presenting, the three actresses joked about kids singing their favorite songs from their favorite animated feature repeatedly, leaving its ignorance of animation as a medium that can also be for adults as well (as was the case for the documentary Flee being nominated in said category).[73]

Alongside Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio and The Boy and the Heron, the 2024 Latvian film Flow marked the first time that non-Disney films won the category in three consecutive years, breaking Disney and Pixar's winning streak, while also making history as the first time an independent animated feature won the top prize in this category.[74]

## See also

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* List of submissions for the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature
* Lists of animated films
* List of animation awards
* List of animated feature films nominated for Academy Awards
* List of Academy Award–nominated films

## References

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1. ^ a b "Special rules for the Animated Feature Film Award" (PDF). Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Retrieved July 20, 2022.
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## Bibliography

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* Osbourne, Robert (2013). 85 Years of the Oscar. Abberville Press. ISBN 978-0-7892-1142-2.

## External links

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| NBCUniversal|

* DreamWorks Animation
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* Harvey Films
* Illumination
* Universal Animation Studios

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* CBS Eye Animation Productions
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* Radical Axis
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* Rhythm and Hues Studios
* Rooster Teeth
* Ruby-Spears
* Screen Gems
* Skellington Productions
* Soup2Nuts
* Spümcø
* Storyboard, Inc./Hubley Studios
* Sullivan Bluth Studios
* Sunbow Entertainment
* Terrytoons
* Total Television
* United Productions of America
* Van Beuren Studios
* Walter Lantz Productions
* Warner Bros. Cartoons
* Wētā FX
* Wildbrain Entertainment
* Will Vinton Studios
* Zodiac Entertainment

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* ASIFA-Hollywood

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