Academy Award for Best Animated Feature

won twice for Spirited Away (2001) and The Boy and the Heron (2023). won twice for Finding Nemo (2003) and WALL-E (2008). won twice for The Incredibles (2004) and Ratatouille (2007). won for Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005). won for Happy Feet (2006). won thrice for Up (2009), Inside Out (2015) and Soul (2020). won twice for Toy Story 3 (2010) and Coco (2017). won in 2011 for Rango. won twice for Inside Out (2015) and Toy Story 4 (2019). won twice for Zootopia (2016) and Encanto (2022). won in 2024 for The Boy and the Heron as a film producer. When the category was first instated, the nomination went to the person(s) most involved in creating the film. This could be the producer, the director, or both. For the 76th Academy Awards in 2003, only the director(s) of the film received the nomination. For the 86th Academy Awards ten years later, this was amended to include one producer and up to two directors. For the 91st Academy Awards, this was amended once again to include up to four individuals, one of whom must be a director and one of whom must be a producer; an exception to this is that "[i]n the case of a TWO-PERSON TEAM with shared and equal director or producer credit, an additional statuette may be awarded." The Academy included a rule that stated that the award would not be presented in a year in which fewer than eight eligible films opened in theaters. In regards of the Academy, it allows for all members to make voting for animated films more acceptable. At the same year, the Academy enacted a new rule regarding the motion capture technique employed in films such as A Christmas Carol (2009) and The Adventures of Tintin (2011), directed by Academy Award for Best Director winners Robert Zemeckis and Steven Spielberg respectively, and how they might not be eligible in this category in the future. The new rule now reads "An animated feature film is defined as a motion picture with a running time of greater than 40 minutes, in which movement and characters’ performances are created using a frame-by-frame technique. Motion capture by itself is not an animation technique. In addition, a significant number of the major characters must be animated, and animation must figure in no less than 75 percent of the picture’s running time." 2000s 2010s 2020s ==Multiple wins and nominations==

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Age Length == International films ==

A number of non-English-language or non-dialogue films have been nominated or won. Almost all non-English language films on this list have also been released with English-language dubbing. Winners are highlighted in bold below. Japanese nominees Studio Ghibli • Spirited Away • ''Howl's Moving Castle'' • The Wind Rises • The Tale of the Princess Kaguya • When Marnie Was There • The Boy and the Heron Other films • Mirai French nominees Les Armateurs • The Triplets of Belleville • Ernest & Celestine Other films • Persepolis • The Illusionist • A Cat in Paris • My Life as a Zucchini • I Lost My Body • Arco • Little Amélie or the Character of Rain Other languages • Chico and Rita (Spanish) • Boy and the World (Portuguese) • Flee (Danish) Non-dialogue or fictional languages • Shaun the Sheep Movie • The Red Turtle • A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon • Robot Dreams • Flow == Milestones and records ==

Films and production companies • Pixar holds the most wins for a studio with 11, the most nominations with 20, and the most consecutive wins (4, between 2007 and 2010). • Pixar, with 11 wins, and Walt Disney Animation Studios, with 4, are both owned by the Walt Disney Company, which has 15 wins for the category in total. • Laika has the most nominations without a win, with 6 films. • DreamWorks Animation has the most nominations after last win, with 10 films. • Toy Story is the only franchise to win this award twice, for its third and fourth films. Additionally, the third and fourth films are so far the only two sequels to win this award. • Shrek and Wallace & Gromit are the most-nominated franchise, with 4 (and having won once) each. Other franchises with three nominations include How to Train Your Dragon and Cartoon Saloon's "Irish Folklore Trilogy" (consisting of The Secret of Kells, Song of the Sea, and Wolfwalkers); both hold the record as the most-nominated franchises without a win. • Of the several adult animated films (judging from their MPAA ratings), The Triplets of Belleville was the first PG-13-rated nominee, Anomalisa and Memoir of a Snail are so far the only R-rated animated films to be nominated, and The Boy and the Heron became the first PG-13-rated winner. • Studio Ghibli (Japan) has the most wins (two) and nominations (seven) for a non-US studio; Spirited Away and The Boy and the Heron are the only non-English language films to win. • Flee is the first animated documentary film to be nominated. • Since 2019, each year has had at least one nominee that was mainly released via streaming, with three winners (denoted in bold): Klaus (Netflix) in 2019; Soul (Disney+) in 2020; Luca (Disney+) and The Mitchells vs. the Machines (Netflix) in 2021; '''''Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio''' (Netflix), The Sea Beast (Netflix), and Turning Red (Disney+) in 2022; Nimona (Netflix) in 2023; Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl (Netflix) in 2024; and KPop Demon Hunters'' (Netflix) in 2025. • 2005 and 2011 are the only years that did not have a Disney or Pixar film nominated in the category. • Flow is the first independent film to win the award. • Due to being an independent film with a minimal budget, Flow is the only film with a seven-figure budget to win. People • Pete Docter has the most wins of any individual (3), and is tied with Hayao Miyazaki and Chris Sanders for the most nominations (4). Additionally, Miyazaki has the most wins and nominations for a non-US individual. • Chris Sanders has the most nominations without winning (4). • Hayao Miyazaki became the oldest winner in 2024 at the age of 83; he previously held the record between 2003 and 2023 (briefly being succeeded by Mark Gustafson for ''Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio''). • Matīss Kaža became the youngest winner in 2025 at the age of 29, with Gints Zilbalodis also the second youngest winner at the age of 30, beating Andrew Stanton in a 21-year streak between 2004 (at the age of 38) and 2025. • In diversity, Brenda Chapman was the first woman to win for Brave, Peter Ramsey was the first black director to win for Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse and Maggie Kang became the first Korean director to win for KPop Demon Hunters. == Legacy ==

The winners of non-Disney/Pixar or Dreamworks Animation films led its significant influence among animation studios for its aesthetics as well as displaying statuettes at museums, solidifying animation's recognition in mainstream cinema. • On March 20, 2024, Studio Ghibli displayed Hayao Miyazaki's Oscar statuette for a limited time at Ghibli Park's "Ghibli's Grand Warehouse" in the Broadcast Room. • In 2025, after the success of Flow and its eventual win in the Best Animated Feature category, the statuette, along with the Golden Globe and the European Film Award, was later put on display at the Latvian National Museum of Art for a week. ==See also==