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. The Academy Award for Best Animated Feature was first awarded in 2002 for films released in 2001.
For much of the Academy Awards' history, AMPAS was resistant to the idea of a regular award for animated features, considering there were simply too few produced to justify such consideration. 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, and the Special Achievement Academy Award for the live action/animated hybrid Who Framed Roger Rabbit in 1989, and Toy Story in 1996. Prior to the award's creation, only one animated film was nominated for Best Picture: 1991's Beauty and the Beast, also by Disney.
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. The Academy Award for Best Animated Feature was first given out at the 74th Academy Awards, held on March 24, 2002.
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. In regards of the Academy, it allows for all members to make voting for animated films more acceptable.
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. 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."
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2000s
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! scope="col" style="width:10%;" | Year
! scope="col" style="width:40%;" | Film
! scope="col" style="width:50%;" | Nominees
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! rowspan="3" scope="row" style="text-align:center" | 2001<br />
| style="background:#FAEB86" | Shrek
| style="background:#FAEB86" | Aron Warner
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| Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius
| John A. Davis and Steve Oedekerk
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| Monsters, Inc.
| Pete Docter and John Lasseter
|-
! rowspan="5" scope="row" style="text-align:center" | 2002<br />
| style="background:#FAEB86" | Spirited Away
| style="background:#FAEB86" | Hayao Miyazaki
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| Ice Age
| Chris Wedge
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| Lilo & Stitch
| Chris Sanders
|-
| Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron
| Jeffrey Katzenberg
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| Treasure Planet
| Ron Clements
|-
! rowspan="3" scope="row" style="text-align:center" | 2003<br />
| style="background:#FAEB86" | Finding Nemo
| style="background:#FAEB86" | Andrew Stanton
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| Brother Bear
| Aaron Blaise and Robert Walker
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| The Triplets of Belleville
| Sylvain Chomet
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! rowspan="3" scope="row" style="text-align:center" | 2004<br />
| style="background:#FAEB86" | The Incredibles
| style="background:#FAEB86" | Brad Bird
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| Shark Tale
| Bill Damaschke
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| Shrek 2
| Andrew Adamson
|-
! rowspan="3" scope="row" style="text-align:center" | 2005<br />
| style="background:#FAEB86" | Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
| style="background:#FAEB86" | Nick Park and Steve Box
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| Corpse Bride
| Tim Burton and Mike Johnson
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| Howl's Moving Castle
| Hayao Miyazaki
|-
! rowspan="3" scope="row" style="text-align:center" | 2006<br />
| style="background:#FAEB86" | Happy Feet
| style="background:#FAEB86" | George Miller
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| Cars
| John Lasseter
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| Monster House
| Gil Kenan
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! rowspan="3" scope="row" style="text-align:center" | 2007<br />
| style="background:#FAEB86" | Ratatouille
| style="background:#FAEB86" | Brad Bird
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| Persepolis
| Vincent Paronnaud and Marjane Satrapi
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| Surf's Up
| Chris Buck and Ash Brannon
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! rowspan="3" scope="row" style="text-align:center" | 2008<br />
| style="background:#FAEB86" | WALL-E
| style="background:#FAEB86" | Andrew Stanton
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| Bolt
| Byron Howard and Chris Williams
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| Kung Fu Panda
| Mark Osborne and John Stevenson
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! rowspan="5" scope="row" style="text-align:center" | 2009<br />
| style="background:#FAEB86" | Up
| style="background:#FAEB86" | Pete Docter
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| Coraline
| Henry Selick
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| Fantastic Mr. Fox
| Wes Anderson
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| The Princess and the Frog
| John Musker and Ron Clements
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| The Secret of Kells
| Tomm Moore
|}
2010s
{| class="wikitable sortable"
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! scope="col" style="width:10%;" | Year
! scope="col" style="width:40%;" | Film
! scope="col" style="width:50%;" | Nominees
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! rowspan="3" scope="row" style="text-align:center" | 2010<br />
| style="background:#FAEB86" | Toy Story 3
| style="background:#FAEB86" | Lee Unkrich
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| How to Train Your Dragon
| Chris Sanders and Dean DeBlois
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| The Illusionist
| Sylvain Chomet
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! rowspan="5" scope="row" style="text-align:center" | 2011<br />
| style="background:#FAEB86" | Rango
| style="background:#FAEB86" | Gore Verbinski
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| A Cat in Paris
| Alain Gagnol and Jean-Loup Felicioli
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| Chico and Rita
| Javier Mariscal and Fernando Trueba
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| Kung Fu Panda 2
| Jennifer Yuh Nelson
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| Puss in Boots
| Chris Miller
|-
! rowspan="5" scope="row" style="text-align:center" | 2012<br />
| style="background:#FAEB86" | Brave
| style="background:#FAEB86" | Brenda Chapman and Mark Andrews
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| Frankenweenie
| Tim Burton
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| ParaNorman
| Chris Butler and Sam Fell
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| The Pirates! Band of Misfits
| Peter Lord
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| Wreck-It Ralph
| Rich Moore
|-
! rowspan="5" scope="row" style="text-align:center" | 2013<br />
| style="background:#FAEB86" | Frozen
| style="background:#FAEB86" | Chris Buck, Jennifer Lee, and Peter Del Vecho
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| 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
|-
! rowspan="5" scope="row" style="text-align:center" | 2014<br />
| style="background:#FAEB86" | Big Hero 6
| style="background:#FAEB86" | Don Hall, Chris Williams, and Roy Conli
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| The Boxtrolls
| Travis Knight, Graham Annable, and Anthony Stacchi
|-
| How to Train Your Dragon 2
| Dean DeBlois and Bonnie Arnold
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| Song of the Sea
| Tomm Moore and Paul Young
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| The Tale of the Princess Kaguya
| Isao Takahata and Yoshiaki Nishimura
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! rowspan="5" scope="row" style="text-align:center" | 2015<br />
| style="background:#FAEB86" | Inside Out
| style="background:#FAEB86" | Pete Docter and Jonas Rivera
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| Anomalisa
| Duke Johnson, Charlie Kaufman, and Rosa Tran
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| Boy and the World
| Alê Abreu
|-
| Shaun the Sheep Movie
| Mark Burton and Richard Starzak
|-
| When Marnie Was There
| Hiromasa Yonebayashi and Yoshiaki Nishimura
|-
! rowspan="5" scope="row" style="text-align:center" | 2016<br />
| style="background:#FAEB86" | Zootopia
| style="background:#FAEB86" | Byron Howard, Rich Moore, and Clark Spencer
|-
| 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
|-
! rowspan="5" scope="row" style="text-align:center" | 2017<br />
| style="background:#FAEB86" | Coco
| style="background:#FAEB86" | Lee Unkrich and Darla K. Anderson
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| 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
|-
! rowspan="5" scope="row" style="text-align:center" | 2018<br />
| style="background:#FAEB86" | Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
| style="background:#FAEB86" | Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey, Rodney Rothman, Phil Lord and Christopher Miller
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| 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
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! rowspan="5" scope="row" style="text-align:center" | 2019<br />
| style="background:#FAEB86" | Toy Story 4
| style="background:#FAEB86" | Josh Cooley, Mark Nielsen, and Jonas Rivera
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| 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
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! scope="col" style="width:10%;" | Year
! scope="col" style="width:40%;" | Film
! scope="col" style="width:50%;" | Nominees
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! rowspan="5" scope="row" style="text-align:center" | 2020<br />
| style="background:#FAEB86" | Soul
| style="background:#FAEB86" | Pete Docter and Dana Murray
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| Onward
| Dan Scanlon and Kori Rae
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| 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
|-
! rowspan="5" scope="row" style="text-align:center" | 2021<br />
| style="background:#FAEB86" | Encanto
| style="background:#FAEB86" | Jared Bush, Byron Howard, Yvett Merino, and Clark Spencer
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| 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
|-
! rowspan="5" scope="row" style="text-align:center" | 2022<br />
| style="background:#FAEB86" | Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio
| style="background:#FAEB86" | Guillermo del Toro, Mark Gustafson, Alex Bulkley, and Gary Ungar
|-
| 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
|-
! rowspan="5" scope="row" style="text-align:center" | 2023<br />
| style="background:#FAEB86" | The Boy and the Heron
| style="background:#FAEB86" | Hayao Miyazaki and Toshio Suzuki
|-
| 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
|-
! rowspan="5" scope="row" style="text-align:center" | 2024<br />
| style="background:#FAEB86" | Flow
| style="background:#FAEB86" | Gints Zilbalodis, Matīss Kaža, Ron Dyens, and Gregory Zalcman
|-
| 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
|-
! rowspan="5" scope="row" style="text-align:center" | 2025<br />
| style="background:#FAEB86" | KPop Demon Hunters
| style="background:#FAEB86" |Maggie Kang, Chris Appelhans and Michelle L.M. Wong
|-
| Arco
| Ugo Bienvenu, Félix de Givry, Sophie Mas and Natalie Portman
|-
| Elio
| Madeline Sharafian, Domee Shi, Adrian Molina and Mary Alice Drumm
|-
| Little Amélie or the Character of Rain
| Maïlys Vallade, Liane-Cho Han, Nidia Santiago and Henri Magalon
|-
| Zootopia 2
| Jared Bush, Byron Howard and Yvett Merino
|}
Multiple wins and nominations
Nominees
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"
! style="width:220px;" | Individual
! style="width:40px;" | Wins
! style="width:10px;" | Nominations
! style="width:1225px;" | Films
|-
| Pete Docter
|
|rowspan="3" style="text-align:center;" | 4
| style="text-align:left;" |Monsters, Inc., Up, Inside Out, Soul
|-
| Hayao Miyazaki
|rowspan="7" style="text-align:center;" | 2
| style="text-align:left;" |Spirited Away, Howl's Moving Castle, The Wind Rises, The Boy and the Heron
|-
| Byron Howard
| style="text-align:left;" |Bolt, Zootopia, Encanto, Zootopia 2
|-
| Brad Bird
|rowspan="2" style="text-align:center;" | 3
| style="text-align:left;" |The Incredibles, Ratatouille, Incredibles 2
|-
| Clark Spencer
| style="text-align:left;" |Zootopia, Ralph Breaks the Internet, Encanto
|-
| Jonas Rivera
|rowspan="3" style="text-align:center;" | 2
| style="text-align:left;" |Inside Out, Toy Story 4
|-
| Andrew Stanton
| style="text-align:left;" |Finding Nemo, WALL-E
|-
| Lee Unkrich
| style="text-align:left;" |Toy Story 3, Coco
|-
| Phil Lord
|rowspan="12" style="text-align:center;" | 1
|rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;" | 3
|rowspan="2" style="text-align:left;" |Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, The Mitchells vs. the Machines, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
|-
| Christopher Miller
|-
| Rich Moore
| style="text-align:left;" |Wreck-It Ralph, Zootopia, Ralph Breaks the Internet
|-
| Toshio Suzuki
| style="text-align:left;" |The Wind Rises, The Red Turtle, The Boy and the Heron
|-
| Chris Williams
| style="text-align:left;" |Bolt, Big Hero 6, The Sea Beast
|-
| Nick Park
|rowspan="7" style="text-align:center;" | 2
| style="text-align:left;" | Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl
|-
| Chris Buck
| style="text-align:left;" | Surf's Up, Frozen
|-
| Jared Bush
| style="text-align:left;" | Encanto, Zootopia 2
|-
| Don Hall
| style="text-align:left;" | Big Hero 6, Raya and the Last Dragon
|-
| Peter Del Vecho
| style="text-align:left;" | Frozen, Raya and the Last Dragon
|-
| Yvett Merino
| style="text-align:left;" |Encanto, Zootopia 2
|-
| Mark Nielsen
| style="text-align:left;" | Toy Story 4, Inside Out 2
|-
| Chris Sanders
|rowspan="17" style="text-align:center;" | 0
|
| style="text-align:left;" |Lilo & Stitch, How to Train Your Dragon, The Croods, The Wild Robot
|-
| Ron Clements
|rowspan="4" style="text-align:center;" | 3
| style="text-align:left;" |Treasure Planet, The Princess and the Frog, Moana
|-
| Dean DeBlois
| style="text-align:left;" |How to Train Your Dragon, How to Train Your Dragon 2, How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World
|-
| Travis Knight
| style="text-align:left;" |The Boxtrolls, Kubo and the Two Strings, Missing Link
|-
| Tomm Moore
| style="text-align:left;" |The Secret of Kells, Song of the Sea, Wolfwalkers
|-
| Wes Anderson
|rowspan="12" style="text-align:center;" |
| style="text-align:left;" |Fantastic Mr. Fox, Isle of Dogs
|-
| Bonnie Arnold
| style="text-align:left;" |How to Train Your Dragon 2, How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World
|-
| Sylvain Chomet
| style="text-align:left;" |The Triplets of Belleville, The Illusionist
|-
| John Lasseter
| style="text-align:left;" |Monsters, Inc., Cars
|-
| John Musker
| style="text-align:left;" | The Princess and the Frog, Moana
|-
| Tim Burton
| style="text-align:left;" | Corpse Bride, Frankenweenie
|-
| Chris Butler
| style="text-align:left;" | ParaNorman, Missing Link
|-
| Yoshiaki Nishimura
| style="text-align:left;" | The Tale of the Princess Kaguya, When Marnie Was There
|-
| Domee Shi
| style="text-align:left;" | Turning Red, Elio
|-
| Osnat Shurer
| style="text-align:left;" | Moana, Raya and the Last Dragon
|-
| Arianne Sutner
| style="text-align:left;" | Kubo and the Two Strings, Missing Link
|-
| Paul Young
| style="text-align:left;" | Song of the Sea, Wolfwalkers
|}
Studios
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! style="width:220px;" | Studio
! style="width:40px;" | Wins
! style="width:10px;" | Nominations
! style="width:1225px;" | Films
|-
| style="text-align:center;" |Pixar
| style="text-align:center;" |11
| style="text-align:center;" |20
| style="text-align:left;" |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, Elio
|-
| style="text-align:center;" |Walt Disney Animation Studios<!--Do not shorten it to Disney-->
| style="text-align:center;" |4
| style="text-align:center;" |14
| style="text-align:left;" |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, Zootopia 2
|-
| style="text-align:center;" |DreamWorks Animation<!--Do not shorten it to DreamWorks-->
| rowspan="3" style="text-align:center;" |2
| style="text-align:center;" |15
| style="text-align:left;" |Shrek, Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron, Shrek 2, Shark Tale, Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, 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
|-
| style="text-align:center;" |Studio Ghibli
| style="text-align:center;" |7
| style="text-align:left;" |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
|-
| style="text-align:center;" |Sony Pictures Animation
| style="text-align:center;" |6
| style="text-align:left;" |Surf's Up, The Pirates! Band of Misfits, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, The Mitchells vs. the Machines, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, KPop Demon Hunters
|-
| style="text-align:center;" |Aardman
| rowspan="3" style="text-align:center;" |1
| style="text-align:center;" |5
| style="text-align:left;" |Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, The Pirates! Band of Misfits, Shaun the Sheep Movie, A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon, Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl
|-
| style="text-align:center;" |Netflix Animation Studios
| style="text-align:center;" | 4
| style="text-align:left;" |Klaus, Over the Moon, The Sea Beast, Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio
|-
| style="text-align:center;" |Nickelodeon
| style="text-align:center;" | 2
| style="text-align:left;" |Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius, Rango
|-
| style="text-align:center;" |Laika
| rowspan="6" style="text-align:center;" |0
| style="text-align:center;" |6
| style="text-align:left;" |Corpse Bride, Coraline, ParaNorman, The Boxtrolls, Kubo and the Two Strings, Missing Link
|-
| style="text-align:center;" |Cartoon Saloon
| style="text-align:center;" |4
| style="text-align:left;" |The Secret of Kells, Song of the Sea, The Breadwinner, Wolfwalkers
|-
| style="text-align:center;" |Les Armateurs
| style="text-align:center;" |3
| style="text-align:left;" |The Triplets of Belleville, The Secret of Kells, Ernest & Celestine
|-
| style="text-align:center;" |Blue Sky Studios
| rowspan="3" style="text-align:center;"|2
| style="text-align:left;" |Ice Age, Ferdinand
|-
| style="text-align:center;" |Tim Burton Productions
| style="text-align:left;" |Corpse Bride, Frankenweenie
|-
| style="text-align:center;" |American Empirical
| style="text-align:left;" |Fantastic Mr. Fox, Isle of Dogs
|}
Notes
Franchises
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! style="width:220px;" | Franchise
! style="width:40px;" | Wins
! style="width:10px;" | Nominations
! style="width:1225px;" | Films
|-
| style="text-align:center;" |Toy Story
| colspan="2" style="text-align:center;" |2
| style="text-align:left;" |Toy Story 3, Toy Story 4
|-
| style="text-align:center;" |Shrek
| rowspan="6" style="text-align:center;" |1
| rowspan="2" style="text-align:center;" |4
| style="text-align:left;" |Shrek, Shrek 2, Puss in Boots, Puss in Boots: The Last Wish
|-
| style="text-align:center;" |Wallace & Gromit
| style="text-align:left;" |Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, Shaun the Sheep Movie, A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon, Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl
|-
| style="text-align:center;" |The Incredibles
| rowspan="4" style="text-align:center;" |2
| style="text-align:left;" |The Incredibles, Incredibles 2
|-
| style="text-align:center;" |Inside Out
| style="text-align:left;" |Inside Out, Inside Out 2
|-
| style="text-align:center;" |Spider-Verse
| style="text-align:left;" |Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
|-
| style="text-align:center;" |Zootopia
| style="text-align:left;" |Zootopia, Zootopia 2
|-
| style="text-align:center;" |How to Train Your Dragon
| rowspan="4" style="text-align:center;" |0
| rowspan="2" style="text-align:center;" |3
| style="text-align:left;" |How to Train Your Dragon, How to Train Your Dragon 2, How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World
|-
| style="text-align:center;" |Irish Folklore Trilogy
| style="text-align:left;" |The Secret of Kells, Song of the Sea, Wolfwalkers
|-
| style="text-align:center;" |Kung Fu Panda
| rowspan="2" style="text-align:center;" |2
| style="text-align:left;" |Kung Fu Panda, Kung Fu Panda 2
|-
| style="text-align:center;" |Wreck-It Ralph
| style="text-align:left;" |Wreck-It Ralph, Ralph Breaks the Internet
|}
Superlatives
Age
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! scope="col" | Record
! scope="col" | Recipient
! scope="col" | Film
! scope="col" | Age
|-
| Oldest winner
| rowspan="2" | Hayao Miyazaki
| rowspan="2" | The Boy and the Heron
| 83 years, 65 days
|-
| Oldest nominee
| 83 years, 18 days
|-
| Youngest winner
| rowspan="2" | Matīss Kaža
| rowspan="2" | Flow
| 29 years, 183 days
|-
| Youngest nominee
| 29 years, 145 days
|}
Length
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! scope="col" | Record
! scope="col" | Film
! scope="col" | Length
|-
| 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
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
Studio Ghibli
- 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
- Mirai
French nominees
Les Armateurs
- The Triplets of Belleville
- Ernest & Celestine
Other films
- Persepolis
- The Illusionist
- A Cat in Paris
- My Life as a Zucchini
- I Lost My Body
- Arco
- Little Amélie or the Character of Rain
Other languages
- Chico and Rita (Spanish)
- Boy and the World (Portuguese)
- Flee (Danish)
Non-dialogue or fictional languages
- Shaun the Sheep Movie
- The Red Turtle
- A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon
- Robot Dreams
- Flow
Milestones and records
Films and production companies
- Pixar holds the most wins for a studio with 11, the most nominations with 20, 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 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.
- 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.
- Flee is the first animated documentary film to be nominated.
- Since 2019, each year has had at least one nominee that was mainly released via streaming, with three 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; Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl (Netflix) in 2024; and KPop Demon Hunters (Netflix) in 2025.
- 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.
- Due to being an independent film with a minimal budget, Flow is the only film with a seven-figure budget to win.
People
- 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, Peter Ramsey was the first black director to win for Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse and Maggie Kang became the first Korean director to win for KPop Demon Hunters.
Legacy
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 animation's recognition in mainstream cinema.
- On March 20, 2024, Studio Ghibli displayed Hayao Miyazaki's Oscar statuette for a limited time at Ghibli Park's "Ghibli's Grand Warehouse" in the Broadcast Room.
- 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.
See also
- List of submissions for the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature
- Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Animated Feature
- Golden Globe Award for Best Animated Feature Film
- Producers Guild of America Award for Best Animated Motion Picture
- BAFTA Award for Best Animated Film
- Lists of animated films
- List of animation awards
- List of animated feature films nominated for Academy Awards
- List of Academy Award–nominated films
References
Bibliography
External links
- Oscars.org (official Academy site)
- The Academy Awards Database (official site)
- Oscar.com (official ceremony promotional site)