The New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Animated Film (Feature) is an award given by the New York Film Critics Circle, honoring the finest achievements in animated filmmaking.
| Year | Winner | Director(s) |
|---|---|---|
| 1999 | South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut | Trey Parker |
| Year | Winner | Director(s) |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | Chicken Run | Peter Lord and Nick Park |
| 2001 | Waking Life | Richard Linklater |
| 2002 | Spirited Away | Hayao Miyazaki |
| 2003 | The Triplets of Belleville | Sylvain Chomet |
| 2004 | The Incredibles | Brad Bird |
| 2005 | Howl's Moving Castle | Hayao Miyazaki |
| 2006 | Happy Feet | George Miller |
| 2007 | Persepolis | Vincent Paronnaud and Marjane Satrapi |
| 2008 | WALL-E | Andrew Stanton |
| 2009 | Fantastic Mr. Fox | Wes Anderson |
| Year | Winner | Director(s) |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | The Illusionist | Sylvain Chomet |
| 2011 | No award given out this year | |
| 2012 | Frankenweenie | Tim Burton |
| 2013 | The Wind Rises | Hayao Miyazaki |
| 2014 | The Lego Movie | Phil Lord and Christopher Miller |
| 2015 | Inside Out | Pete Docter and Ronnie del Carmen |
| 2016 | Zootopia | Byron Howard and Rich Moore |
| 2017 | Coco | Lee Unkrich and Adrian Molina [1] |
| 2018 | Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse | Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey and Rodney Rothman [2] |
| 2019 | I Lost My Body | Jérémy Clapin [3] |
| Year | Winner | Director(s) |
|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Wolfwalkers | Tomm Moore and Ross Stewart [4] |
| 2021 | The Mitchells vs. the Machines | Mike Rianda [5] |
| 2022 | Marcel the Shell with Shoes On | Dean Fleischer-Camp [6] |
| 2023 | The Boy and the Heron [7] | Hayao Miyazaki |
| 2024 | Flow [8] | Gints Zilbalodis |
| 2025 | KPop Demon Hunters | Chris Appelhans and Maggie Kang [9] |