Visual Effects Society Award for Outstanding Visual Effects in an Animated Feature

The Visual Effects Society Award for Outstanding Visual Effects in an Animated Feature is one of the annual awards given by the Visual Effects Society starting from 2008.

Winners and nominees

2000s

Year	Film	Nominee(s)
2008 [1]	WALL-E	Andrew Stanton, Jim Morris, Lindsey Collins, Nigel Hardwidge
	Bolt	Chris Williams, Byron Howard, John Murrah, Doug Bennett
	Kung Fu Panda	Markus Manninen, Dan Wagner, Alex Parkinson, Raymond Zibach
	Roadside Romeo	Pankaj Khandpur, Sherry Bharda, Shrirang Sathayem Suhael Merchant
	Waltz With Bashir	Yoni Goodman, Yael Nahlieli
2009 [2]	Up	Pete Docter, Jonas Rivera, Steve May, Gary Bruins
	9	Ken Duncan, Jinko Gotoh, Daryl Graham, Joe Ksander
	Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs	Pete Nash, Chris Juen, Alan Hawkins, Mike Ford
	Coraline	Henry Selick, Claire Jennings
	Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs	Melvin Tan, Galen Chu, Jeff Gabor, Anthony Nisi

2010s

Year	Film	Nominee(s)
2010 [3]	How to Train Your Dragon	Simon Otto, Craig Ring, Bonnie Arnold
	Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole	Zareh Naibandian, Simon Whiteley, Eric Leighton, Alex Weight
	Shrek Forever After	Jason Reisig, Doug Cooper, Gina Shay, Teresa Cheng
	Tangled	Clay Kaytis, John Kahrs, Glen Keane, Roy Conli
	Toy Story 3	Lee Unkrich, Darla K. Anderson, Guido Quaroni, Michael Fong
2011 [4]	Rango	Tim Alexander, Hal Hickel, Jacqui Lopez, Katie Lynch
	The Adventures of Tintin	Jamie Beard, Joe Letteri, Meredith Meyer-Nichols, Eileen Moran
	Arthur Christmas	Doug Ikeler, Chris Juen, Alan Short, Mandy Tankenson
	Kung Fu Panda 2	Melissa Cobb, Alex Parkinson, Jennifer Yuh Nelson, Raymond Zibach
	Puss in Boots	Joe M. Aguilar, Guillaume Aretos, Ken Bielenberg, Chris Miller
2012 [5] [6]	Brave	Mark Andrews, Steve May, Katherine Sarafian, Bill Wise
	Hotel Transylvania	Lydia Bottegoni, James Crossley, Mike Ford, Daniel Kramer
	ParaNorman	Chris Butler, Sam Fell, Travis Knight, Brad Schiff
	Rise of the Guardians	Nancy Bernstein, David Prescott, Peter Ramsey, Christina Steinberg
	Wreck-It Ralph	Sean Jenkins, Scott Kersavage, Rich Moore, Clark Spencer
2013 [7]	Frozen	Chris Buck, Jennifer Lee, Peter Del Vecho, Lino Di Salvo
	Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2	Peter Nash, Michael Ford, Chris Juen, Mandy Tankenson
	The Croods	Jane Hartwell, Chris Sanders, Kirk DeMicco, Markus Manninen
	Despicable Me 2	Chris Meledandri, Janet Healy, Chris Renaud, Pierre Coffin
	Monsters University	Kori Rae, Sanjay Bakshi, Jon Reisch, Scott Clark
2014 [8]	Big Hero 6	Don Hall, Chris Williams, Roy Conli, Zach Parrish
	The Boxtrolls	Travis Knight, Anthony Stacchi, Graham Annable, Brad Schiff
	How to Train Your Dragon 2	Bonnie Arnold, Dean DeBlois, Dave Walvoord, Simon Otto
	The Lego Movie	Chris McKay, Amber Naismith, Jim Dodd, David Williams
	Rio 2	Carlos Saldanha, Bruce Anderson, John C. Donkin, Kirk Garfield
2015 [9]	The Good Dinosaur	Sanjay Bakshi, Denise Ream, Michael Venturini, Jon Reisch
	Anomalisa	Derek Smith, Rosa Tran, Joe Passarelli, John Joyce
	Hotel Transylvania 2	Karl Herbst, Skye Lyons, Alan Hawkins, Genndy Tartakovsky
	Inside Out	Michael Fong, Jonas Rivera, Victor Navone, Paul Mendoza
	The Peanuts Movie	Steve Martino, Michael J. Travers, Nick Bruno, Scott Carroll
2016 [10]	Kubo and the Two Strings	Travis Knight, Arianne Sutner, Steve Emerson, Brad Schiff
	Finding Dory	Angus MacLane, Lindsey Collins, John Halstead, Chris J. Chapman
	Moana	Kyle Odermatt, Nicole P. Hearon, Hank Driskill, Ian Gooding
	The Little Prince	Mark Osborne, Jinko Gotoh, Pascal Bertrand, Jamie Caliri
	Zootopia	Scott Kersavage, Bradford S. Simonsen, David Goetz, Ernest J. Petti
2017 [11]	Coco	Lee Unkrich, Darla K. Anderson, David Ryu, Michael K. O'Brien
	Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie	David Soren, Mark Swift, Mireille Soria, David Dulac
	Cars 3	Brian Fee, Kevin Reher, Michael Fong, Jon Reisch
	Despicable Me 3	Pierre Coffin, Chris Meledandri, Kyle Balda, Eric Guillon
	The Lego Batman Movie	Rob Coleman, Amber Naismith, Grant Freckelton, Damien Gray
	The Lego Ninjago Movie	Gregory Jowle, Fiona Childton, Miles Green, Kim Taylor
2018 [12]	Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse	Joshua Beveridge, Christian Hejnal, Danny Dimian, Bret St. Clair
	Dr. Seuss' The Grinch	Pierre Leduc, Janet Healy, Bruno Chauffard, Milo Riccarand
	Incredibles 2	Brad Bird, John Walker, Rick Sayre, Bill Watral
	Isle of Dogs	Mark Waring, Jeremy Dawson, Tim Ledbury, Lev Kolobov
	Ralph Breaks the Internet	Scott Kersavage, Bradford Simonsen, Ernest J. Petti, Cory Loftis
2019 [13]	Missing Link	Brad Schiff, Travis Knight, Steve Emerson, Benoit Dubuc
	Frozen 2	Steve Goldberg, Peter Del Vecho, Mark Hammel, Michael Giaimo
	Klaus	Sergio Pablos, Matthew Teevan, Marcin Jakubowski, Szymon Biernacki
	The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part	David Burgess, Tim Smith, Mark Theriault. John Rix
	Toy Story 4	Josh Cooley, Mark Nielsen, Bob Moyer, Gary Bruins

2020s

Year	Film	Nominee(s)
2020 [14] [15]	Soul	Pete Docter, Dana Murray, Michael Fong, Bill Watral
	Onward	Dan Scanlon, Kori Rae, Sanjay Bakshi, Vincent Serritella
	Over the Moon	Glen Keane, Gennie Rim, Céline Desrumaux, David Alexander Smith
	The Croods: A New Age	Joel Crawford, Mark Swift, Betsyf Nofsinger, Jakob Hjort Jensen
	Trolls World Tour	Walt Dohrn, Gina Shay, Kendal Cronkhite-Shaindlin, Matt Baer
2021 [16]	Encanto	Scott Kersavage, Bradford Simonsen, Thaddeus P. Miller, Ian Gooding
	Luca	Enrico Casarosa, Andrea Warren, David Ryu, Jon Reisch
	The Mitchells vs. the Machines	Alan Hawkins, Carey A. Smith, Mike Lasker, Nicola Lavender
	Raya and the Last Dragon	Kyle Odermatt, Osnat Shurer, Kelsey Hurley, Paul Felix
	Sing 2	Patrick Delage, Nathalie Vancauwenberghe, Christophe Lourdelet, Boris Jacq
2022 [17]	Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio	Aaron Weintraub, Jeffrey Schaper, Cameron Carson, Emma Gorbey
	The Bad Guys	Pierre Perifel, Damon Ross, Matt Baer, JP Sans
	Mad God	Chris Morley, Phil Tippett, Ken Rogerson, Tom Gibbons
	The Sea Beast	Joshua Beveridge, Christian Hejnal, Stirling Duguid, Spencer Lueders
	Strange World	Steve Goldberg, Laurie Au, Mark Hammel, Mehrdad Isvandi
	Turning Red	Domee Shi, Lindsey Collins, Danielle Feinberg, Dave Hale
2023 [18]	Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse	Alan Hawkins, Christian Hejnal, Michael Lasker, Matt Hausman
	Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget	Jon Biggins, Jim Lewis, Charles Copping, Matthew Perry
	Elemental	Peter Sohn, Denise Ream, Sanjay Bakshi, Stephen Marshall
	Nimona	Archie Donato, Yancy Lindquist, Theodore Ty, Anthony Kemp
	Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem	Matthieu Rouxel, Marie Balland, Jacques Daigle, Vincent Leroy
2024 [19]	The Wild Robot	Chris Sanders, Jeff Hermann, Jeff Budsberg, Jacob Hjort Jensen
	Inside Out 2	Kelsey Mann, Mark Nielsen, Sudeep Rangaswamy, Bill Watral
	Moana 2	Carlos Cabral, Tucker Gilmore, Ian Gooding, Gabriela Hernandez
	Transformers One	Frazer Churchill, Fiona Chilton, Josh Cooley, Stephen King
	Ultraman: Rising	Hayden Jones, Sean M. Murphy, Shannon Tindle, Mathieu Vig

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