Toronto Film Critics Association Award for Best Animated Film

The Toronto Film Critics Association Award for Best Animated Film is one of the annual awards given by the Toronto Film Critics Association.

Winners

2000s

Year	Winner	Director(s)	Ref
2003	Finding Nemo	Andrew Stanton	[1]
2004	The Triplets of Belleville (Les triplettes de Belleville)	Sylvain Chomet	[2]
2005	Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit	Steve Box, Nick Park	[3]
2006	Happy Feet	George Miller	[4]
	Over the Hedge	Tim Johnson, Karey Kirkpatrick
	A Scanner Darkly	Richard Linklater
2007	Ratatouille	Brad Bird	[5]
	Paprika	Satoshi Kon
	The Simpsons Movie	David Silverman
2008	WALL-E	Andrew Stanton	[6]
	Kung Fu Panda	John Stevenson, Mark Osborne
	Persepolis	Marjane Satrapi, Vincent Paronnaud
	Waltz with Bashir	Ari Folman
2009	Fantastic Mr. Fox	Wes Anderson	[7]
	Coraline	Henry Selick
	Up	Pete Docter

2010s

Year	Winner	Director(s)	Ref
2010	How to Train Your Dragon	Chris Sanders, Dean DeBlois	[8]
	Despicable Me	Chris Renaud, Pierre Coffin
	Toy Story 3	Lee Unkrich
2011	The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn	Steven Spielberg	[9]
	Puss in Boots	Chris Miller
	Rango	Gore Verbinski
2012	ParaNorman	Sam Fell, Chris Butler	[10]
	Brave	Mark Andrews, Brenda Chapman
	Frankenweenie	Tim Burton
2013	The Wind Rises	Hayao Miyazaki	[11]
	The Croods	Chris Sanders, Kirk DeMicco
	Frozen	Chris Buck, Jennifer Lee
2014	The Tale of the Princess Kaguya	Isao Takahata	[12]
	Big Hero 6	Don Hall, Chris Williams
	How to Train Your Dragon 2	Dean DeBlois
	The Lego Movie	Phil Lord, Christopher Miller
2015	Shaun the Sheep Movie	Mark Burton, Richard Starzak	[13]
	Anomalisa	Charlie Kaufman, Duke Johnson
	Inside Out	Pete Docter
2016	Zootopia	Byron Howard, Rich Moore	[14]
	Kubo and the Two Strings	Travis Knight
	The Red Turtle	Michael Dudok de Wit
2017	The Breadwinner	Nora Twomey	[15]
	Coco	Lee Unkrich
	Window Horses	Ann Marie Fleming
2018	Isle of Dogs	Wes Anderson	[16]
	Ralph Breaks the Internet	Rich Moore, Phil Johnston
	Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse	Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey, Rodney Rothman
2019	Missing Link	Chris Butler	[17]
	Frozen 2	Chris Buck, Jennifer Lee
	How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World	Dean DeBlois
	Toy Story 4	Josh Cooley

2020s

Year	Winner	Director(s)	Ref
2020	Wolfwalkers	Tomm Moore and Ross Stewart	[18]
	Soul	Pete Docter
	The Willoughbys	Kris Pearn
2021	Flee	Jonas Poher Rasmussen	[19]
	Encanto	Jared Bush, Byron Howard
	The Mitchells vs. the Machines	Mike Rianda
2022	Turning Red	Domee Shi	[20]
	Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio	Guillermo del Toro
	Marcel the Shell with Shoes On	Dean Fleischer Camp
2023	Robot Dreams	Pablo Berger	[21] [22]
	The Boy and the Heron	Hayao Miyazaki
	Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse	Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers
2024	Flow	Gints Zilbalodis	[23]
	Memoir of a Snail	Adam Elliot
	The Wild Robot	Chris Sanders

Multiple wins

• Wes Anderson - 2
• Chris Butler - 2
• Andrew Stanton - 2

References

1. "Coppola's Lost in Translation honoured by Toronto critics". Waterloo Region Record , December 18, 2003.
2. "Sideways named best film of 2004 by Toronto critics". Sault Star , December 17, 2004.
3. "Cronenberg's History of Violence tops T.O. critics' best-of list". Sudbury Star , December 22, 2005.
4. Lee-Anne Goodman, "'The Queen' named best picture by Toronto's film critics". Canadian Press, December 20, 2006.
5. Bruce Kirkland, "Old Men No. 1; Coen Brothers flick tops T.O. film critics' 2007 list". Toronto Sun , December 19, 2007.
6. Chris Knight, "Toronto critics pick Wendy and Lucy". Windsor Star , December 17, 2008.
7. "Basterds, Hunger top Toronto critics' picks". Waterloo Region Record , December 17, 2009.
8. Peter Knegt, "“Social Network” Tops San Francisco and Toronto Film Critics’ Awards". IndieWire , December 14, 2010.
9. Brian D. Johnson, "Toronto critics name 'Tree of Life' Best Picture". Maclean's , December 14, 2011.
10. Cassandra Szklarski, "'The Master' rules with Toronto film critics, named best film, screenplay". Canadian Press, December 18, 2012.
11. "Toronto Film Critics Association awards for 2013". Toronto Star , December 17, 2013.
12. Norman Wilner, "Toronto film critics champion Boyhood". Now , December 16, 2014.
13. Jeremy Kay, "Toronto critics honour 'Carol'". Screen Daily , December 14, 2015.
14. Norman Wilner, "Toronto critics bask in the Moonlight". Now , December 12, 2016.
15. Jim Slotek, "Toronto film critics give best picture thumbs up to The Florida Project". Original Cin, December 10, 2017.
16. Corey Atad, "Toronto Film Critics Association Names ‘Roma’ Best Picture Of 2018". ET Canada , December 10, 2018.
17. Radheyan Simonpillai, "Toronto Film Critics Association names Parasite the year’s best movie". Now , December 9, 2019.
18. Vlessing, Etan (February 7, 2021). "Chloe Zhao's 'Nomadland' Named Best Picture by Toronto Film Critics Association". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved June 26, 2022.
19. Sarah Curran, "Maggie Gyllenhaal’s ‘The Lost Daughter’ Wins Big At Toronto Film Critics Association Awards". ET Canada , January 16, 2022.
20. Pat Mullen, "Toronto Film Critics Name All the Beauty and the Bloodshed Top Doc". Point of View , January 8, 2023.
21. AwardsWatch - Toronto Film Critics Association (TFCA) Awards: ‘The Zone of Interest’ Wins Best Picture, Director
22. 'Zone of Interest' wins Toronto Film Critics Association award for best film of 2023|The Star
23. Nickel Boys Leads 2024 TFCA Awards Winners

External links

• Toronto Film Critics Association - Past Award Winners