Academy Award for Best Animated Feature

Academy Award for Best Animated Feature
Awarded forThe best animated film with a running time of more than 40 minutes, a significant number of the major characters animated, and at least 75 percent of the picture's running time including animation.
CountryUnited States
Presented byAcademy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS)
First awardShrek (2001)
Most recent winnerFlow (2024)
Most awardsPixar (11) / Pete Docter (3)
Most nominationsPixar (19) / Pete Docter, Hayao Miyazaki, and Chris Sanders (4)
Websiteoscars.org

The Academy Award for Best Animated Feature is an Academy Award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) for the best animated feature film. 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.[1] The Academy Award for Best Animated Feature was first awarded in 2002 for films released in 2001.[2][3][4]

For much of the Academy Awards' history, the AMPAS was resistant to the idea of a regular award for animated features, considering there were simply too few produced to justify such consideration.[5] Instead, the Academy occasionally bestowed special Oscars for exceptional productions, usually for Walt Disney Pictures, such as Academy Honorary Award for Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs in 1938,[6] and the Special Achievement Academy Award for the live action/animated hybrid Who Framed Roger Rabbit in 1989[7] and Toy Story in 1996.[8] In fact, prior to the award's creation, only one animated film was nominated for Best Picture: 1991's Beauty and the Beast, also by Disney.[9][10]

By 2001, the rise of sustained competitors to Disney in the feature animated film market, such as DreamWorks Animation (founded by former Disney executive Jeffrey Katzenberg), created an increase of film releases of significant annual number enough for AMPAS to reconsider.[5] The Academy Award for Best Animated Feature was first given out at the 74th Academy Awards,[11] held on March 24, 2002.[12]

  1. ^ "Special rules for the Animated Feature Film Award" (PDF). Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Retrieved July 20, 2022.
  2. ^ "15 Amazing Animated Movies That Were Snubbed By The Oscars". Screen Rant. February 7, 2017. Archived from the original on April 4, 2017. Retrieved April 4, 2017.
  3. ^ "'Shrek' wins for animated feature". USA Today. Associated Press. March 25, 2002. Archived from the original on December 3, 2008. Retrieved March 29, 2012.
  4. ^ "100 Greatest Movies, TV Shows, and More". Entertainment Weekly. December 4, 2009. Archived from the original on January 25, 2022. Retrieved March 28, 2022.
  5. ^ a b Osbourne 2013, p. 357
  6. ^ Osbourne 2013, p. 58
  7. ^ Osbourne 2013, p. 298
  8. ^ Osbourne 2013, p. 327
  9. ^ "25th Anniversary of Beauty and the Beast in 70mm". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Archived from the original on January 14, 2020. Retrieved January 14, 2020.
  10. ^ "The Silence of the Lambs Wins Best Picture: 1992 Oscars". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. November 24, 2010. Archived from the original on February 6, 2024. Retrieved February 12, 2024.
  11. ^ "History of the Academy Awards". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Archived from the original on July 6, 2010. Retrieved August 23, 2011.
  12. ^ Cite error: The named reference Oscars74 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

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