St. Louis Film Critics Association Award for Best Animated Feature

The St. Louis Film Critics Association Award for Best Animated Feature is an award given by the St. Louis Film Critics Association, honoring the finest achievements in animated filmmaking.

History

Toy Story was the only franchise with multiple wins, winning two times for Toy Story 3 (2010) and Toy Story 4 (2019) until the Spider-Verse and Zootopia franchises won two times for their respective films, with Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018) and Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023), and Zootopia (2016) and Zootopia 2 (2025).

Winners

  indicates the winners.

2000s

Year	Winner	Director
2004
	The Incredibles	Brad Bird
	Shark Tale	Vicky Jenson
	Shrek 2	Andrew Adamson and Kelly Asbury
2005	no award given
2006
	Cars	John Lasseter and Joe Ranft
	Happy Feet	George Miller
	Monster House	Gil Kenan
2007
	Ratatouille	Brad Bird and Jan Pinkava
	Bee Movie	Steve Hickner and Simon J. Smith
	Surf's Up	Ash Brannon and Chris Buck
2008
	WALL-E	Andrew Stanton
	Bolt	Chris Williams and Byron Howard
	Kung Fu Panda	John Wayne Stevenson and Mark Osborne
2009
	Up	Pete Docter
	Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs	Phil Lord and Christopher Miller
	Coraline	Henry Selick
	Fantastic Mr. Fox	Wes Anderson
	The Princess and the Frog	Ron Clements and John Musker

2010s

Year	Winner	Director
2010
	Toy Story 3	Lee Unkrich
	Despicable Me	Pierre Coffin and Chris Renaud
	How To Train Your Dragon	Chris Sanders and Dean DeBlois
	The Illusionist (L'Illusionniste)	Sylvain Chomet
	Tangled	Nathan Greno and Byron Howard
2011
	The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn	Steven Spielberg
	Cars 2	John Lasseter and Brad Lewis
	Kung Fu Panda 2	Jennifer Yuh Nelson
	Puss in Boots	Chris Miller
	Rio	Carlos Saldanha
2012
	Wreck-It Ralph	Rich Moore
	Brave	Mark Andrews and Brenda Chapman
	Frankenweenie	Tim Burton
	Hotel Transylvania	Genndy Tartakovsky
	Rise of the Guardians	Peter Ramsey and William Joyce
2013
	Frozen	Chris Buck and Jennifer Lee
	The Croods	Chris Sanders
	Despicable Me 2	Pierre Coffin and Chris Renaud
	Monsters University	Dan Scanlon
	The Wind Rises	Hayao Miyazaki
2014
	The LEGO Movie	Phil Lord and Christopher Miller
	Big Hero 6	Don Hall and Chris Williams
	The Boxtrolls	Anthony Stacchi and Graham Annable
	How to Train Your Dragon 2	Dean DeBlois
	Rio 2	Carlos Saldanha
2015
	Inside Out	Pete Docter and Ronnie del Carmen
	Anomalisa	Charlie Kaufman and Duke Johnson
	The Good Dinosaur	Peter Sohn
	The Peanuts Movie	Steve Martino
	Shaun the Sheep Movie	Richard Starzak and Mark Burton
2016
	Zootopia [1] [2]	Byron Howard and Rich Moore
	April and the Extraordinary World	Christian Desmares and Franck Ekinci
	Finding Dory	Andrew Stanton
	Kubo and the Two Strings	Travis Knight
	Moana	Ron Clements and John Musker
2017
	Coco [3]	Lee Unkrich
	Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie	David Soren
	Despicable Me 3	Pierre Coffin and Kyle Balda
	The LEGO Batman Movie	Chris McKay
	Loving Vincent	Dorota Kobiela and Hugh Welchman
2018
	Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse	Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey and Rodney Rothman
	Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation	Genndy Tartakovsky
	Incredibles 2	Brad Bird
	Isle of Dogs	Wes Anderson
	Ralph Breaks the Internet	Rich Moore and Phil Johnston
2019
	Toy Story 4	Josh Cooley
	Frozen 2	Chris Buck and Jennifer Lee
	How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World	Dean DeBlois
	Klaus	Sergio Pablos
	Missing Link	Chris Butler

2020s

Year	Winner	Director
2020
	Soul	Pete Docter and Kemp Powers
	Onward	Dan Scanlon
	Over the Moon	Glen Keane
	The Wolf House	Joaquín Cociña and Cristobal León
	Wolfwalkers	Tomm Moore and Ross Stewart
2021
	The Mitchells vs. the Machines	Mike Rianda
	Encanto	Jared Bush and Byron Howard
	Flee	Jonas Poher Rasmussen
	Luca	Enrico Casarosa
	Vivo	Kirk DeMicco
2022
	Marcel the Shell with Shoes On	Dean Fleischer Camp
	Apollo 10 1⁄2: A Space Age Childhood	Richard Linklater
	Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio	Guillermo del Toro
	Turning Red	Domee Shi
	Wendell & Wild	Henry Selick
2023
	Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse [4] [5]	Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers and Justin K. Thompson
	The Boy and the Heron	Hayao Miyazaki
	Elemental	Peter Sohn
	Robot Dreams	Pablo Berger
	Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem	Jeff Rowe
2024
	The Wild Robot [6] [7]	Chris Sanders
	Flow	Gints Zilbalodis
	Inside Out 2	Kelsey Mann
	Memoir of a Snail	Adam Elliot
	Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl	Nick Park and Merlin Crossingham
2025
	Zootopia 2	Jared Bush and Byron Howard
	KPop Demon Hunters	Maggie Kang and Chris Appelhans
	Arco	Ugo Bienvenu
	Elio	Madeline Sharafian, Domee Shi and Adrian Molina
	Ne Zha 2	Jiaozi

References

1. 2016-2017 Awards Season Winners Guide - IndieWire
2. AwardsWatch - St. Louis Film Critics Association Winners: La La Lands Sing Its Way to the Top
3. The 2017 St. Louis Film Critics Association (StLFCA) Winners - Next Best Picture
4. Every Award Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse Has Been Nominated For & Won - Screen Rant
5. The 2023 St. Louis Film Critics Association (StLFCA) Winners - Next Best Picture
6. The 2024 St. Louis Film Critics Association (StLFCA) Winners - Next Best Picture
7. AwardsWatch - 2024 St. Louis Film Critics Association (StLFCA) Winners:‘Dune: Part Two’ is Best Film