Academy Award for Best Animated Feature | |
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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 | Shrek (2001) |
Most recent winner | The Boy and the Heron (2023) |
Most awards | Pixar (11) / Pete Docter (3) |
Most nominations | Pixar (18) / Pete Docter and Hayao Miyazaki (4) |
Website | oscars |
The Academy Award for Best Animated Feature is given each year for the best animated 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. [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, otherwise there will only be three films on the shortlist. [4]
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. [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 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] 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. [13] It dropped the rule on April 23, 2019, to make voting for animated films more acceptable. [14] People in the animation industry, as well as 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.[ citation needed ]
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. This feat was repeated the following year by Toy Story 3 .[ citation needed ]
In 2010, 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. This rule was possibly made to prevent nominations of live-action films that rely heavily on motion capture, such as Avatar (2009).[ citation needed ]
In 2022, 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 live-action/stop-motion animated hybrid. 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. [15] [16] Nonetheless, the AMPAS officially deemed the film eligible for consideration in the Animated Feature category and was eventually nominated for said category. [17]
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 ultimately won the inaugural Best Animated Feature award. [1]
The criticism surrounding the Best Animated Feature category 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 to be one of the best films of 2008. [18] [19] [20] [21] This sparked controversy over whether the film was deliberately snubbed of such 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 film nominated for this category can still be nominated for Best Picture. [4] This, as well as more backlash that The Dark Knight was also not another Best Picture nominee meant that next year, the academy expanded the Best Picture category. [22] After the expansion, two animated films— Up (2009) and Toy Story 3 (2010)—were nominated for Best Picture. [23]
From 2010 onward, with the increasing competitiveness of the Animated Feature category, Pixar (a perennial nominee) did not receive nominations for several recent films due to the more mixed critical response and comparatively low box-office receipts, while Pixar's sister studio Disney Animation won their first three awards. [24]
Indicates the winner |
Studio | Wins | Nominations | Films |
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Pixar | 11 | 18 | 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 |
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 | 14 | Shrek , Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron , Shrek 2 , Shark Tale , Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit , [lower-alpha 1] 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 |
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 , [lower-alpha 2] Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse , The Mitchells vs. the Machines , Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse |
Netflix Animation | 4 | Klaus , Over the Moon , The Sea Beast , Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio | |
Aardman | Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit , [lower-alpha 1] The Pirates! Band of Misfits , [lower-alpha 2] Shaun the Sheep Movie , A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon | ||
Nickelodeon | 2 | Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius , Rango | |
Laika | 0 | 6 | Corpse Bride , [lower-alpha 3] Coraline , ParaNorman , The Boxtrolls , Kubo and the Two Strings , Missing Link |
Cartoon Saloon | 4 | The Secret of Kells , [lower-alpha 4] Song of the Sea , The Breadwinner , Wolfwalkers | |
Les Armateurs | 3 | The Triplets of Belleville , The Secret of Kells , [lower-alpha 4] Ernest & Celestine | |
Blue Sky Studios | Ice Age , Ferdinand , Nimona [lower-alpha 5] | ||
Tim Burton Productions | 2 | Corpse Bride , [lower-alpha 3] Frankenweenie | |
American Empirical | Fantastic Mr. Fox , Isle of Dogs |
Franchise | Wins | Nominations | Films |
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Toy Story | 2 | 2 | Toy Story 3 , Toy Story 4 |
Shrek | 1 | 4 | Shrek , Shrek 2 , Puss in Boots , Puss in Boots: The Last Wish |
Wallace and Gromit | 3 | Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit , Shaun the Sheep Movie , A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon | |
The Incredibles | 2 | The Incredibles , Incredibles 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 |
Record | Director | 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 | Andrew Stanton | Finding Nemo | 38 years, 88 days |
Youngest nominee | Benjamin Renner | Ernest & Celestine | 30 years, 63 days |
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