Academy Award for Best Animated Feature

Academy Award for Best Animated Feature
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 awarded	2001 (for Shrek)
Currently held by	Coco (2017)
Website	oscars.org

The Academy Awards are given each year by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS or the Academy) for the best films and achievements of the previous year. The Academy Award for Best Animated Feature is given each year for animated films. 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. The Academy Award for Best Animated Feature was first awarded in 2002 for films made in 2001.^[1][2][3]

The entire AMPAS membership has been eligible to choose the winner since the award's inception. If there are sixteen or more films submitted for the category, the winner is voted from a shortlist of five films, which has happened nine times, otherwise there will only be three films on the shortlist.^[4] Additionally, eight eligible animated features must have been theatrically released in Los Angeles County within the calendar year for this category to be activated.

Animated films can also be nominated for other categories, but have rarely been so; Beauty and the Beast (1991) was the first animated film ever nominated for Best Picture. Up (2009) and Toy Story 3 (2010) also received Best Picture nominations after the Academy expanded the number of nominees from five to ten.

Waltz with Bashir (2008) is the only animated film ever nominated for Best Foreign Language Film (though it did not receive a nomination for Best Animated Feature). The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993) and Kubo and the Two Strings (2016) are the only two animated films to ever be nominated for Best Visual Effects.

Contents

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  1 History
  


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  2 Winners and nominees
  
  
  
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    2.1 2000s
    
  
  
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    2.2 2010s
    
  
  
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    2.3 Wins
    
  
  
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    2.4 Multiple nominations
    
  
  
  
  


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  3 Studios with multiple nominations
  


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  4 Medium breakdown
  
  
  
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    4.1 Computer-animated nominees
    
    
    
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      4.1.1 Pixar
      
    
    
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      4.1.2 Disney
      
    
    
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      4.1.3 DreamWorks Animation
      
    
    
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      4.1.4 Nickelodeon
      
    
    
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      4.1.5 Blue Sky
      
    
    
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      4.1.6 Other films
      
    
    
    
    
  
  
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    4.2 Stop-motion nominees
    
    
    
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      4.2.1 Aardman
      
    
    
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      4.2.2 Laika
      
    
    
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      4.2.3 Tim Burton
      
    
    
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      4.2.4 Other films
      
    
    
    
    
  
  
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    4.3 Traditionally-animated nominees
    
    
    
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      4.3.1 Disney
      
    
    
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      4.3.2 Studio Ghibli
      
    
    
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      4.3.3 Les Armateurs
      
    
    
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      4.3.4 Cartoon Saloon
      
    
    
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      4.3.5 Other films
      
    
    
    
    
  
  
  
  


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  5 Foreign language films
  
  
  
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    5.1 Japanese nominees
    
  
  
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    5.2 French nominees
    
    
    
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      5.2.1 Les Armateurs
      
    
    
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      5.2.2 Other films
      
    
    
    
    
  
  
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    5.3 Other languages
    
  
  
  
  


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  6 See also
  


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  7 References
  


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  8 External links
  

History

For much of the Academy Awards' history, AMPAS was resistant to the idea of a regular Oscar 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 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 creation of the award, only one animated film was nominated for Best Picture: 1991's Beauty and the Beast, also by Walt Disney Pictures.

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.^[9] The Academy Award for Best Animated Feature was first given out at the 74th Academy Awards,^[10] held on March 24, 2002.^[11] 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.^[12]

People in the animation industry and fans expressed hope that the prestige from this award and the resulting boost to the box office would encourage the increased production of animated features. Some members and fans have criticized the award, however, 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, though it was nominated for and ended up winning the inaugural Best Animated Feature award.^[1]

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 and being generally considered one of the best films of 2008.^{[13][14][15][16]} 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.^[4] 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.^[17]

In 2009, when the nominee slots for Best Picture were doubled to ten, Up was nominated for both Best Animated Feature and Best Picture at the 82nd Academy Awards, the first film to do so since the creation of the Animated Feature category. This feat was repeated the following year by Toy Story 3. Since 2010 onward, with the increasing competitiveness of the Animated Feature category, Pixar (a perennial nominee) did not receive nominations for several recent films considering the studio has released films of more mixed critical reaction and box office earnings, while Pixar's sister studio Disney Animation won their first three awards.^[18]

In 2010, the Academy enacted a new rule regarding the motion capture technique employed in films such as Robert Zemeckis' A Christmas Carol and Steven Spielberg's The Adventures of Tintin, and how they might not be eligible in this category in the future. This rule was possibly made to prevent nominations of live-action films that rely heavily on motion capture, such as James Cameron's Avatar.

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.

Winners and nominees

2000s

Year	Film	Nominees
2001 (74th) [11]
	Shrek	Aron Warner
	Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius	John A. Davis & Steve Oedekerk
	Monsters, Inc.	Pete Docter & John Lasseter
2002 (75th) [19]
	Spirited Away	Hayao Miyazaki
	Ice Age	Chris Wedge
	Lilo & Stitch	Chris Sanders
	Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron	Jeffrey Katzenberg
	Treasure Planet	Ron Clements
2003 (76th) [20]
	Finding Nemo	Andrew Stanton
	Brother Bear	Aaron Blaise & Robert Walker
	The Triplets of Belleville	Sylvain Chomet
2004 (77th) [21]
	The Incredibles	Brad Bird
	Shark Tale	Bill Damaschke
	Shrek 2	Andrew Adamson
2005 (78th) [22]
	Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit	Steve Box & Nick Park
	Howl's Moving Castle	Hayao Miyazaki
	Tim Burton's Corpse Bride	Tim Burton & Mike Johnson
2006 (79th) [23]
	Happy Feet	George Miller
	Cars	John Lasseter
	Monster House	Gil Kenan
2007 (80th) [24]
	Ratatouille	Brad Bird
	Persepolis	Vincent Paronnaud & Marjane Satrapi
	Surf's Up	Ash Brannon & Chris Buck
2008 (81st) [25]
	WALL-E	Andrew Stanton
	Bolt	Byron Howard & Chris Williams
	Kung Fu Panda	Mark Osborne & John Stevenson
2009 (82nd) [26]
	Up	Pete Docter
	Coraline	Henry Selick
	Fantastic Mr. Fox	Wes Anderson
	The Princess and the Frog	Ron Clements & John Musker
	The Secret of Kells	Tomm Moore

2010s

Year	Film	Nominees
2010 (83rd) [27]
	Toy Story 3	Lee Unkrich
	How to Train Your Dragon	Dean DeBlois & Chris Sanders
	The Illusionist	Sylvain Chomet
2011 (84th) [28]
	Rango	Gore Verbinski
	A Cat in Paris	Jean-Loup Felicioli & Alain Gagnol
	Chico & Rita	Javier Mariscal & Fernando Trueba
	Kung Fu Panda 2	Jennifer Yuh Nelson
	Puss in Boots	Chris Miller
2012 (85th) [29]
	Brave	Mark Andrews & Brenda Chapman
	Frankenweenie	Tim Burton
	ParaNorman	Chris Butler & Sam Fell
	The Pirates! Band of Misfits	Peter Lord
	Wreck-It Ralph	Rich Moore
2013 (86th) [30]
	Frozen	Chris Buck, Peter Del Vecho & Jennifer Lee
	The Croods	Kristine Belson, Kirk DeMicco & Chris Sanders
	Despicable Me 2	Pierre Coffin, Chris Meledandri & Chris Renaud
	Ernest & Celestine	Didier Brunner & Benjamin Renner
	The Wind Rises	Hayao Miyazaki & Toshio Suzuki
2014 (87th) [31]
	Big Hero 6	Roy Conli, Don Hall & Chris Williams
	The Boxtrolls	Graham Annable, Travis Knight & Anthony Stacchi
	How to Train Your Dragon 2	Bonnie Arnold & Dean DeBlois
	Song of the Sea	Tomm Moore & Paul Young
	The Tale of the Princess Kaguya	Yoshiaki Nishimura & Isao Takahata
2015 (88th) [32]
	Inside Out	Pete Docter & Jonas Rivera
	Anomalisa	Duke Johnson, Charlie Kaufman & Rosa Tran
	Boy and the World	Alê Abreu
	Shaun the Sheep Movie	Mark Burton & Richard Starzak
	When Marnie Was There	Yoshiaki Nishimura & Hiromasa Yonebayashi
2016 (89th) [33]
	Zootopia	Byron Howard, Rich Moore & Clark Spencer
	Kubo and the Two Strings	Travis Knight & Arianne Sutner
	Moana	Ron Clements, John Musker & Osnat Shurer
	My Life as a Zucchini	Claude Barras & Max Karli
	The Red Turtle	Michaël Dudok de Wit & Toshio Suzuki
2017 (90th) [34]
	Coco	Darla K. Anderson & Lee Unkrich
	The Boss Baby	Tom McGrath & Ramsey Ann Naito
	The Breadwinner	Anthony Leo & Nora Twomey
	Ferdinand	Lori Forte & Carlos Saldanha
	Loving Vincent	Dorota Kobiela, Ivan Mactaggart & Hugh Welchman

Wins 2 wins Brad Bird Pete Docter Andrew Stanton Lee Unkrich 1 win Chris Buck Byron Howard Hayao Miyazaki Rich Moore Chris Williams

Multiple nominations 3 nominations Ron Clements Pete Docter Hayao Miyazaki Chris Sanders 2 nominations Brad Bird Chris Buck Tim Burton Sylvain Chomet Dean DeBlois Byron Howard Travis Knight John Lasseter Rich Moore Tomm Moore John Musker Yoshiaki Nishimura Andrew Stanton Toshio Suzuki Lee Unkrich Chris Williams

Studios with multiple nominations

Studio	Wins	Nominations	Films
Pixar	9	11	Monsters, Inc., Finding Nemo, The Incredibles, Cars, Ratatouille, WALL-E, Up, Toy Story 3, Brave, Inside Out, Coco
Disney	3	10	Lilo & Stitch, Treasure Planet, Brother Bear, Bolt, The Princess and the Frog, Wreck-It Ralph, Frozen, Big Hero 6, Zootopia, Moana
DreamWorks Animation	1	11	Shrek, Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron, Shrek 2, Shark Tale, 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
Studio Ghibli		6	Spirited Away, Howl's Moving Castle, The Wind Rises, The Tale of the Princess Kaguya, When Marnie Was There, The Red Turtle (co-production)
Aardman		3	Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, The Pirates! Band of Misfits, Shaun the Sheep Movie
Nickelodeon		2	Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius, Rango
Laika	0	4	Coraline, ParaNorman, The Boxtrolls, Kubo and the Two Strings
Cartoon Saloon		3	The Secret of Kells, Song of the Sea, The Breadwinner
Les Armateurs		2	The Triplets of Belleville, Ernest & Celestine
Blue Sky			Ice Age, Ferdinand
Tim Burton			Corpse Bride, Frankenweenie

Medium breakdown

Computer-animated nominees Pixar Monsters, Inc. Finding Nemo The Incredibles Cars Ratatouille WALL-E Up Toy Story 3 Brave Inside Out Coco Disney Bolt Wreck-It Ralph Frozen Big Hero 6 Zootopia Moana DreamWorks Animation Shrek Shrek 2 Shark Tale 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 Nickelodeon Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius Rango Blue Sky Ice Age Ferdinand Other films Monster House Happy Feet Surf's Up Despicable Me 2

Stop-motion nominees Aardman Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit The Pirates! Band of Misfits Shaun the Sheep Movie Laika Coraline ParaNorman The Boxtrolls Kubo and the Two Strings Tim Burton Corpse Bride Frankenweenie Other films Fantastic Mr. Fox Anomalisa My Life as a Zucchini

Traditionally-animated nominees Disney Lilo & Stitch Treasure Planet Brother Bear The Princess and the Frog Studio Ghibli Spirited Away Howl's Moving Castle The Wind Rises The Tale of the Princess Kaguya When Marnie Was There The Red Turtle (co-production) Les Armateurs The Triplets of Belleville Ernest & Celestine Cartoon Saloon The Secret of Kells Song of the Sea The Breadwinner Other films Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron Persepolis The Illusionist Chico and Rita A Cat in Paris Boy and the World Loving Vincent

Foreign language films

The Academy Awards have also nominated a number of non-English language films.

Japanese nominees

All films produced by Studio Ghibli. All the Japanese films on this list have also been released with English language dubbing.

• Spirited Away


• Howl's Moving Castle


• The Wind Rises


• The Tale of the Princess Kaguya


• When Marnie Was There

French nominees

Les Armateurs

• The Triplets of Belleville


• Ernest & Celestine

Other films

• Persepolis


• The Illusionist


• A Cat in Paris


• My Life as a Zucchini

Other languages

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  Chico and Rita (Spanish)


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  Boy and the World (Portuguese)

See also

• Lists of animated feature films


• BAFTA Award for Best Animated Film


• Annie Award for Best Animated Feature


• Annie Award for Best Animated Feature — Independent


• Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film


• Golden Globe Award for Best Animated Feature Film


• Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Animated Feature


• Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Animated Film


• List of animated feature films nominated for Academy Awards


• Producers Guild of America Award for Best Animated Motion Picture


• Saturn Award for Best Animated Film


• Japan Media Arts Festival


• Animation Kobe


• Tokyo Anime Award

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External links

• Academy Awards Database – AMPAS


• 
  Academy Award WInning Feature Films at BCDB


• Best Animated Picture Submissions for 2011 Oscars

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2000s	Shrek – Aron Warner (2001) Spirited Away – Hayao Miyazaki (2002) Finding Nemo – Andrew Stanton (2003) The Incredibles – Brad Bird (2004) Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit – Nick Park and Steve Box (2005) Happy Feet – George Miller (2006) Ratatouille – Brad Bird (2007) WALL-E – Andrew Stanton (2008) Up – Pete Docter (2009)
2010s	Toy Story 3 – Lee Unkrich (2010) Rango – Gore Verbinski (2011) Brave – Mark Andrews and Brenda Chapman (2012) Frozen – Chris Buck, Jennifer Lee, and Peter Del Vecho (2013) Big Hero 6 – Don Hall, Chris Williams, and Roy Conli (2014) Inside Out – Pete Docter and Jonas Rivera (2015) Zootopia – Byron Howard, Rich Moore, and Clark Spencer (2016) Coco – Lee Unkrich and Darla K. Anderson (2017)

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