The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) presents the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature every year in honor of the best animated feature film of that year.
According to the Academy, an animated feature is any movie that lasts longer than 40 minutes and features frame-by-frame character performances, a large number of animated characters, and animation that takes up at least 75% of the film's duration. In 2002, the Academy Awards for Best Animated Feature were first given to 2001 films.
Best Animated Feature Film Oscar Winners
The following animated feature films have won Oscars over the years:
| Year | Award | Film | Recipient(s) |
| 1938 | Special Award | Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs | Walt Disney |
| 1988 | Special Achievement Award | Who Framed Roger Rabbit | Richard Williams |
| 1995 | Special Achievement Award | Toy Story | John Lasseter |
| 2001 | Animated Feature Film | Shrek | Aron Warner |
| 2002 | Animated Feature Film | Spirited Away | Hayao Miyazaki |
| 2003 | Animated Feature Film | Finding Nemo | Andrew Stanton |
| 2004 | Animated Feature Film | The Incredibles | Brad Bird |
| 2005 | Animated Feature Film | Wallace & Gromit in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit | Nick Park, Steve Box |
| 2006 | Animated Feature Film | Happy Feet | George Miller |
| 2007 | Animated Feature Film | Ratatouille | Brad Bird |
| 2008 | Animated Feature Film | WALL-E | Andrew Stanton |
| 2009 | Animated Feature Film | Up | Pete Docter |
| 2010 | Animated Feature Film | Toy Story 3 | Lee Unkrich |
| 2011 | Animated Feature Film | Rango | Gore Verbinski |
| 2012 | Animated Feature Film | Brave | Mark Andrews, Brenda Chapman |
| 2013 | Animated Feature Film | Frozen | Chris Buck, Jennifer Lee, Peter Del Vecho |
| 2014 | Animated Feature Film | Big Hero 6 | Don Hall, Chris Williams, Roy Conli |
| 2015 | Animated Feature Film | Inside Out | Pete Docter, Jonas Rivera |
| 2016 | Animated Feature Film | Zootopia | Byron Howard, Rich Moore, Clark Spencer |
| 2017 | Animated Feature Film | Coco | Lee Unkrich, Darla K. Anderson |
| 2018 | Animated Feature Film | Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse | Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey, Rodney Rothman, Phil Lord, Christopher Miller |
| 2019 | Animated Feature Film | Toy Story 4 | Josh Cooley, Mark Nielsen, Jonas Rivera |
| 2020 | Animated Feature Film | Soul | Pete Docter, Dana Murray |
| 2021 | Animated Feature Film | Encanto | Jared Bush, Byron Howard, Yvett Merino, Clark Spencer |
| 2022 | Animated Feature Film | Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio | Guillermo del Toro, Mark Gustafson, Gary Ungar, Alex Bulkley |
| 2023 | Animated Feature Film | The Boy and the Heron | Hayao Miyazaki, Toshio Suzuki |
| 2024 | Animated Feature Film | Flow | Gints Zilbalodis, Matīss Kaža |
Also Read: Best Documentary Feature Film Award winners
FAQs about Oscars
The Boy and the Heron has won the Best Animated Feature film in 2023.
Since the award's debut, the winner has been chosen by the full AMPAS membership. The winner is chosen from a shortlist of five films if there are sixteen or more submissions for the category.
Shrek was the first film to win the Best Animated feature film at the Oscars.
A. Flow has won the Best Animated Feature film in 2024.
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