San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle Award for Best Animated Feature

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San Francisco Film Critics Circle Award for Best Animated Feature
Country United States
Presented by San Francisco Film Critics Circle
First awarded Henry Selick
Coraline (2009)
Currently held by Gints Zilbalodis
Flow (2024)
Website sffcc.org

The San Francisco Film Critics Circle Award for Best Animated Feature is an award given by the San Francisco Film Critics Circle to honor an outstanding animated film.

Contents

Winners and nominees

  indicates the winners.

2000s

YearFilmDirector
2009 [1]
Coraline Henry Selick

2010s

YearFilmDirector
2010 [2]
Toy Story 3 Lee Unkrich
2011 [3]
Rango Gore Verbinski
2012 [4]
ParaNorman Sam Fell and Chris Butler
2013 [5]
Frozen Chris Buck and Jennifer Lee
The Croods Kirk DeMicco and Chris Sanders
Despicable Me 2 Chris Renaud and Pierre Coffin
Monsters University Dan Scanlon
The Wind Rises Hayao Miyazaki
2014 [6]
The Lego Movie Phil Lord and Christopher Miller
Big Hero 6 Don Hall and Chris Williams
The Boxtrolls Graham Annable and Anthony Stacchi
How to Train Your Dragon 2 Dean DeBlois
The Tale of the Princess Kaguya Isao Takahata
2015 [7]
Anomalisa Charlie Kaufman and Duke Johnson
Boy and the World Alê Abreu
Inside Out Pete Docter
The Peanuts Movie Steve Martino
Shaun the Sheep Movie Mark Burton and Richard Starzak
2016 [8]
The Red Turtle Michaël Dudok de Wit
Finding Dory Andrew Stanton
Kubo and the Two Strings Travis Knight
Moana John Musker and Ron Clements
Zootopia Byron Howard and Rich Moore
2017 [9]
Coco Lee Unkrich
The Breadwinner Nora Twomey
The Lego Batman Movie Chris McKay
Loving Vincent Dorota Kobiela and Hugh Welchman
Your Name Makoto Shinkai
2018 [10]
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey and Rodney Rothman
Incredibles 2 Brad Bird
Isle of Dogs Wes Anderson
Mirai Mamoru Hosoda
Ralph Breaks the Internet Rich Moore and Phil Johnston
2019 [11]
I Lost My Body Jérémy Clapin and Marc Du Pontavice
How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World Dean DeBlois
Klaus Sergio Pablos
Missing Link Chris Butler
Toy Story 4 Josh Cooley

2020s

YearFilmDirector
2020 [12]
Soul Pete Docter
Marona's Fantastic Tale Anca Damian
Onward Dan Scanlon
Over the Moon Glen Keane
Wolfwalkers Tomm Moore and Ross Stewart
2021 [13]
Encanto Jared Bush and Byron Howard
Belle Mamoru Hosoda
Flee (Honorable Mention) Jonas Poher Rasmussen
Luca Enrico Casarosa
The Mitchells vs. the Machines Mike Rianda
2022 [14]
Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio Guillermo del Toro
Apollo 10 1⁄2: A Space Age Childhood Richard Linklater
Marcel the Shell with Shoes On Dean Fleischer Camp
Puss in Boots: The Last Wish Joel Crawford
Turning Red Domee Shi
2023 [15]
The Boy and the Heron Hayao Miyazaki
Elemental Peter Sohn
Nimona Nick Bruno and Troy Quane
Robot Dreams Pablo Berger
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse Joaquim Dos Santos & Kemp Powers
2024 [16]
Flow Gints Zilbalodis
Inside Out 2 Kelsey Mann
Memoir of a Snail Adam Elliot
Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl Nick Park & Merlin Crossingham
The Wild Robot Chris Sanders

Multiple wins

Lee Unkrich is the only director to win this award multiple times, for Toy Story 3 and Coco. Lee Unkrich cropped 2009.jpg
Lee Unkrich is the only director to win this award multiple times, for Toy Story 3 and Coco .
2 wins

Multiple nominations

2 nominations

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