Austin Film Critics Association Award for Best Animated Film

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The Austin Film Critics Association Award for Best Animated Film is an annual award given by the Austin Film Critics Association, honoring the best in animated filmmaking.

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Winners

2000s

YearWinnerDirector(s)
2005 Sin City Frank Miller and Robert Rodriguez
2006 Cars John Lasseter
2007 Ratatouille Brad Bird
2008 WALL-E Andrew Stanton
2009 Up Pete Docter

2010s

YearWinnerDirector(s)
2010 Toy Story 3 Lee Unkrich
2011 Rango Gore Verbinski
2012 Wreck-It Ralph Rich Moore
2013 Frozen Chris Buck and Jennifer Lee
2014 The Lego Movie Phil Lord and Christopher Miller
2015 Inside Out Pete Docter
2016 Kubo and the Two Strings Travis Knight
2017 Coco Lee Unkrich
2018 Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey and Rodney Rothman [1]
2019 I Lost My Body Jérémy Clapin [2]

2020s

YearWinnerDirector(s)
2020 Wolfwalkers Tomm Moore and Ross Stewart [3]
2021 The Mitchells vs. the Machines Mike Rianda [4]
2022 Marcel the Shell with Shoes On Dean Fleischer Camp [5]
2023 Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse Kemp Powers
2024 The Wild Robot Chris Sanders

Nominees

2015

2016

2017

2018

2019

2021

2022

2023

2024

Sources: [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12]

Multiple winners

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