List of accolades received by Up

Up awards and nominations
	Pete Docter (right) won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature while Jonas Rivera (left) was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture.
Award
Awards and nominations
Award	Wins
Totals
Wins	43
Nominations	70
	Note ^ Certain award groups do not simply award one winner. They recognize several different recipients, have runners-up, and have third place. Since this is a specific recognition and is different from losing an award, runner-up mentions are considered wins in this award tally. For simplification and to avoid errors, each award in this list has been presumed to have had a prior nomination. ;

Up is a 2009 American animated film directed by Pete Docter, who wrote the script with Bob Peterson. It stars the voices of Ed Asner, Christopher Plummer, Jordan Nagai, and Peterson. The film centers on elderly widower Carl Fredricksen (Asner) and Wilderness Explorer Russell (Nagai), who go on a journey to South America in order to fulfill a promise that Carl made to his late wife Ellie. Along the way, they meet a talking dog named Dug (Peterson), and encounter a giant bird named Kevin, who is being hunted by the explorer Charles Muntz (Plummer).^[1]^[2]

Up debuted at the 62nd Cannes Film Festival on May 13, 2009,^[3] and was released in theaters in the United States on May 29.^[4] It earned $735 million worldwide,^[5] making it the sixth highest-grossing film of 2009.^[6] On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, Up holds an approval rating of 98% based on 297 reviews.^[7]

Up garnered various awards and nominations, most of them in the Best Animated Picture and Best Music categories, the latter composed by Michael Giacchino. Up was nominated for five Academy Awards at the 2010 ceremony, winning two: Best Animated Feature and Best Original Score. It was the second fully-animated film to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture; the first being Beauty and the Beast (1991).^[8] Up became the third consecutive Pixar film to win the Academy Award for Animated Feature, after Ratatouille (2007) and WALL-E (2008).^[9] The film also won the Golden Globe for Best Animated Feature Film and Best Original Score at the 67th Golden Globe Awards. Up received nine nominations for the Annie Awards in eight categories, winning Best Animated Feature and Best Directing in a Feature Production. It also was selected as the Summer Movie Comedy at the 2009 Teen Choice Awards, and received three Grammy Award nominations at 52nd Grammy Awards, winning two. Rivera received the Producer of the Year Award at the Producers Guild of America Awards, while Docter, Peterson and Giacchino were honored with British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) awards for their work on the film.

^ Taylor, Drew (June 19, 2013). "From Best To Worst: Ranking The Pixar Movies". IndieWire. Archived from the original on November 8, 2021. Retrieved November 8, 2021.
^ Dargis, Manohla (May 28, 2009). "The House That Soared". The New York Times. Archived from the original on November 8, 2021. Retrieved November 8, 2021.
^ Graham, Mark (April 23, 2009). "2009 Cannes Film Festival Lineup Is Heavy on Auteurs". Vulture. Archived from the original on September 24, 2021. Retrieved November 8, 2021.
^ Hayes, Dade; Fritz, Ben (April 8, 2008). "Disney unveils animation slate". Variety. Archived from the original on December 25, 2015. Retrieved November 8, 2021.
^ "Up (2009)". Box Office Mojo. IMDb. Retrieved February 19, 2021.
^ "Top 2009 Movies at the Worldwide Box Office". The Numbers. Archived from the original on September 21, 2021. Retrieved November 8, 2021.
^ "Up (2009)". Rotten Tomatoes. Fandango Media. Retrieved October 5, 2021.
^ Hazlett, Courtney (February 2, 2010). "Things looking 'Up' for best picture race". MSNBC. NBC Universal. Archived from the original on August 10, 2011. Retrieved August 10, 2010.
^ "Hurt Locker triumphs at Oscars". CBC News. Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. March 8, 2010. Archived from the original on September 24, 2020. Retrieved August 10, 2010.

[1] Certain award groups do not simply award one winner. They recognize several different recipients, have runners-up, and have third place. Since this is a specific recognition and is different from losing an award, runner-up mentions are considered wins in this award tally. For simplification and to avoid errors, each award in this list has been presumed to have had a prior nomination.

[2] Taylor, Drew (June 19, 2013). "From Best To Worst: Ranking The Pixar Movies". IndieWire. Archived from the original on November 8, 2021. Retrieved November 8, 2021.

[3] Dargis, Manohla (May 28, 2009). "The House That Soared". The New York Times. Archived from the original on November 8, 2021. Retrieved November 8, 2021.

[4] Graham, Mark (April 23, 2009). "2009 Cannes Film Festival Lineup Is Heavy on Auteurs". Vulture. Archived from the original on September 24, 2021. Retrieved November 8, 2021.

[5] Hayes, Dade; Fritz, Ben (April 8, 2008). "Disney unveils animation slate". Variety. Archived from the original on December 25, 2015. Retrieved November 8, 2021.

[6] "Up (2009)". Box Office Mojo. IMDb. Retrieved February 19, 2021.

[7] "Top 2009 Movies at the Worldwide Box Office". The Numbers. Archived from the original on September 21, 2021. Retrieved November 8, 2021.

[8] "Up (2009)". Rotten Tomatoes. Fandango Media. Retrieved October 5, 2021.

[9] Hazlett, Courtney (February 2, 2010). "Things looking 'Up' for best picture race". MSNBC. NBC Universal. Archived from the original on August 10, 2011. Retrieved August 10, 2010.

[10] "Hurt Locker triumphs at Oscars". CBC News. Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. March 8, 2010. Archived from the original on September 24, 2020. Retrieved August 10, 2010.

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