List of submissions for the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature
This is a list of submissions for the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature since it started in 2001 (where DreamWorks Animation's Shrek was the inaugural winner.).[1][2] An animated feature is defined by the academy as a film with a running time of more than 40 minutes in which characters' performances are created using a frame-by-frame technique, a significant number of the major characters are animated, and animation figures in no less than 75 percent of the running time.
The entire AMPAS membership has been eligible to choose the winner since the award's inception. If there are sixteen or more films submitted for the category, the winner is voted from a shortlist of five films, which has happened nine times, otherwise there will only be three films on the shortlist.[3] Additionally, eight eligible animated features must have been theatrically released in Los Angeles County within the calendar year for this category to be activated.
Some submissions to the Best Animated Feature category were live-action/animation hybrids, but only three films were disqualified for not meeting the 75 percent threshold. This happened with Arthur and the Invisibles in 2006,[4] Yogi Bear in 2010,[5] and The Smurfs in 2011.[6] Consequently, the former two disqualifications reduced the shortlist from five films to three films in 2006 and 2010 respectively, while the latter in 2011 did not.
Only one submission was withdrawn from the competition. This happened in 2020 when The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run was withdrawn for failing to complete qualification runs needed to be eligible.[7]
2000s
2001
Film | Director(s) | Studio(s) | Production Country | Result |
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Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within[8] | Hironobu Sakaguchi | Square Pictures | Japan United States | Not nominated |
Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius | John A. Davis | Nickelodeon Movies, O Entertainment, DNA Productions | United States | Nominated |
Marco Polo: Return to Xanadu | Ron Merk | The Tooniversal Company | Australia | Not nominated |
Monsters, Inc. | Pete Docter | Pixar Animation Studios | United States | Nominated |
Osmosis Jones | Tom Sito and Piet Kroon | Warner Bros. Feature Animation | Not nominated | |
The Prince of Light | Yugo Sako | Nippon Ramayana Film Co. | Japan India | Not nominated |
Shrek | Andrew Adamson and Vicky Jenson | DreamWorks Animation | United States | Won Academy Award |
The Trumpet of the Swan | Richard Rich and Terry L. Noss | RichCrest Animation Studios | Not nominated | |
Waking Life | Richard Linklater | Thousand Words | Not nominated |
2002
2003
Film | Director(s) | Studio(s) | Production Country | Result |
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Brother Bear[9] | Aaron Blaise and Robert Walker | Walt Disney Feature Animation | United States | Nominated |
Finding Nemo[9] | Andrew Stanton | Pixar Animation Studios | Won Academy Award | |
Jester Till | Eberhard Junkersdorf | Munich Animation | Germany | Not nominated |
The Jungle Book 2[9] | Steve Trenbirth | Disneytoon Studios | United States | Not nominated |
Looney Tunes: Back in Action | Joe Dante | Warner Bros. Feature Animation | Not nominated | |
Millennium Actress | Satoshi Kon | Madhouse | Japan | Not nominated |
Piglet's Big Movie[9] | Francis Glebas | Disneytoon Studios | United States | Not nominated |
Pokémon Heroes | Kunihiko Yuyama | OLM, Inc. | Japan | Not nominated |
Rugrats Go Wild[9] | Norton Virgien and John Eng | Nickelodeon Movies, Klasky Csupo | United States | Not nominated |
Tokyo Godfathers[9] | Satoshi Kon | Madhouse | Japan | Not nominated |
The Triplets of Belleville[9] | Sylvain Chomet | Les Armateurs | France | Nominated |
2004
2005
Film | Director(s) | Studio(s) | Production Country | Result |
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Chicken Little[11] | Mark Dindal | Walt Disney Feature Animation | United States | Not nominated |
Gulliver's Travel[11] | Anita Udeep | Pentamedia Graphics | India | Not nominated |
Hoodwinked![11] | Cory Edwards, Todd Edwards and Tony Leech | Kanbar Entertainment | United States | Not nominated |
Howl's Moving Castle[11] | Hayao Miyazaki | Studio Ghibli | Japan | Nominated |
Madagascar[11] | Eric Darnell and Tom McGrath | DreamWorks Animation | United States | Not nominated |
Robots[11] | Chris Wedge | Blue Sky Studios | Not nominated | |
Steamboy[11] | Katsuhiro Otomo | Sunrise | Japan | Not nominated |
Tim Burton's Corpse Bride[11] | Mike Johnson and Tim Burton | Tim Burton Productions, Laika | United States | Nominated |
Valiant[11] | Gary Chapman | Vanguard Animation | United Kingdom United States | Not nominated |
Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit[11] | Nick Park and Steve Box | Aardman Animations | Won Academy Award |