Academy Award for Best Animated Feature
Academy Award for Best Animated Feature | |
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Description | the 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. |
Country | United States |
Presented by | Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences |
First awarded | 2001 |
Currently held by | Frozen (2013) |
Website | oscars.org |
The Academy Awards are given each year by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) for the best films and achievements of the previous year. The Academy Award for Best Animated Feature is given each year for animated films. 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 Academy Award for Best Animated Feature was first given for films made in 2001.
Academy Award nominations and winners are chosen by the members of the AMPAS. If there are 16 or more films submitted for the category, the winner is voted from a shortlist of five films, which has happened four times, otherwise there will only be three films on the shortlist.[1] Additionally, eight eligible animated features must have been theatrically released in Los Angeles County within the calendar year for this category to be activated. Animated films can be nominated for other categories but have rarely been so: Beauty and the Beast (1991) was the first animated film ever to be nominated for Best Picture. Up (2009) and Toy Story 3 (2010) also received Best Picture nominations after the Academy expanded the number of nominees. Waltz with Bashir (2008) is the only animated picture ever nominated for Best Foreign Language Film (though it failed to earn a nomination in the Best Animated Feature category). The category has been dominated by Pixar which has produced nine films which have been nominated and seven winners; the only two films they have produced since the category's inception to not be nominated in the category are Cars 2 and Monsters University.
People in the animation industry and fans expressed hope that the prestige from this award and the resulting boost to the box office would encourage the increased production of animated features. Some members and fans have criticized the award, however, saying it is only intended to prevent animated films from having a chance of winning Best Picture. This criticism was particularly prominent at the 81st Academy Awards, in which WALL-E won the award but was not nominated for Best Picture, despite receiving overwhelmingly positive reviews from critics and moviegoers and being generally considered one of the best films of 2008.[2][3][4][5] This led to controversy over whether the film was deliberately snubbed of the nomination by the Academy. Film critic Peter Travers commented that "If there was ever a time where an animated feature deserved to be nominated for Best Picture, it's WALL-E". However, official Academy Award regulations state that any movie nominated for this category can still be nominated for Best Picture.[1] In 2009 when the nominee slots for Best Picture were doubled to 10, Up was nominated for both Best Animated Feature and Best Picture at the 82nd Academy Awards, the first film to do so since the creation of the Animated Feature category. This feat was repeated the following year by Toy Story 3.
History
At the 68th Academy Awards, Robin Williams presented the Academy Special Achievement Award for the Best Animated Feature film, which happened to be Toy Story, in 1996, and called it "for the development and inspired application of techniques that have made possible the first feature-length computer-animated film".
The Academy Award for Best Animated Feature was first given out at the 74th Academy Awards,[6] held on March 24, 2002.[7]
In 2010 the Academy enacted a new rule regarding the performance capture technique employed in films such as Disney's A Christmas Carol from Robert Zemeckis and The Adventures of Tintin from Steven Spielberg, and how they might not be eligible in this category in the future. This rule was possibly made to prevent nominations of live-action films that rely heavily on motion capture, such as James Cameron's Avatar.
When the category was first instated, the nomination went to the person most involved in creating the winning film. This could be the producer, the director, or both. For the 76th Academy Awards in 2004, the director(s) of the film received the nomination. For the 86th Academy Awards in 2014, however, this was amended to include one producer along with up to two directors.
Winners and nominations
2000s
Year | Winner | Nominees | Ref |
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2001 | Shrek – Aron Warner |
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2002 | Spirited Away – Hayao Miyazaki |
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2003 | Finding Nemo – Andrew Stanton |
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2004 | The Incredibles – Brad Bird |
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2005 | Howl's Moving Castle – Hayao Miyazaki |
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2006 | Happy Feet – George Miller |
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2007 | Ratatouille – Brad Bird |
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2008 | WALL-E – Andrew Stanton |
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2009 | Up – Pete Docter |
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2010s
Year | Winner | Nominees | Ref |
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2010 | Toy Story 3 – Lee Unkrich |
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2011 | Rango – Gore Verbinski |
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2012 | Brave – Mark Andrews and Brenda Chapman |
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2013 | The Wind Rises – Hayao Miyazaki and Toshio Suzuki |
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Multiple wins and nominations
Wins | Nominations | Name |
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2 | 2 | Andrew Stanton |
2 | Brad Bird | |
1 | 3 | Hayao Miyazaki |
2 | Pete Docter | |
2 | Chris Buck | |
0 | 3 | Chris Sanders |
2 | John Lasseter | |
2 | Ron Clements | |
2 | Sylvain Chomet | |
2 | Tim Burton |
Studio breakdown
Computer animated nominees
Pixar
- Monsters, Inc. lost to Shrek
- Finding Nemo
- The Incredibles
- Cars lost to Happy Feet
- Ratatouille
- WALL-E
- Up
- Toy Story 3
- Brave
DreamWorks
- Shrek
- Shark Tale lost to The Incredibles
- Shrek 2 also lost to The Incredibles
- Kung Fu Panda lost to WALL-E
- How to Train Your Dragon Lost to Toy Story 3
- Kung Fu Panda 2 lost to Rango
- Puss in Boots also lost to Rango
- The Croods lost to Frozen
Disney
- Bolt lost to WALL-E
- Wreck-It Ralph lost to Brave
- Frozen
Other films
- Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius lost to Shrek
- Ice Age lost to Spirited Away
- Happy Feet
- Monster House lost to Happy Feet
- Surf's Up lost to Ratatouille
- Rango
- Despicable Me 2 lost to Frozen
Stop-motion nominees
- Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
- Corpse Bride lost to Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
- Coraline lost to Up
- Fantastic Mr. Fox also lost to Up
- The Pirates! Band of Misfits lost to Brave
- Frankenweenie also lost to Brave
- ParaNorman also lost to Brave
Traditionally-animated nominees
American-made
- Lilo & Stitch lost to Spirited Away
- Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron also lost to Spirited Away
- Treasure Planet also lost to Spirited Away
- Brother Bear lost to Finding Nemo
- The Princess and the Frog lost to Up
Foreign Films
- Spirited Away
- The Triplets of Belleville lost to Finding Nemo
- Howl's Moving Castle lost to Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
- Persepolis lost to Ratatouille
- The Secret of Kells lost to Up
- The Illusionist lost to Toy Story 3
- A Cat in Paris also lost to Rango
- Chico and Rita lost to Rango
- Ernest & Celestine lost to Frozen
- The Wind Rises also lost to Frozen
Events
- ^ a b "Rule Seven: Special Rules for the Animated Feature Film Award". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Retrieved April 26, 2011.
- ^ "The 2008 Top Tens". Archived from the original on 31 May 2009. Retrieved 2009-05-27.
- ^ Keegan Winters, Rebecca (July 7, 2008). "Can WALL-E Win Best Picture?". Time. Retrieved April 9, 2014.
- ^ Bandyk, Matthew (January 22, 2009). "Academy Awards Controversy: Wall-E Gets Snubbed For Best Picture Oscar". US News. Retrieved April 9, 2014.
- ^ Breznican, Anthony (July 2, 2008). "Is the best-picture Oscar within WALL-E's reach?". USA Today. Retrieved April 9, 2014.
- ^ "History of the Academy Awards". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Retrieved August 23, 2011.
- ^ a b "The 74th Academy Awards (2002) Nominees and Winners". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Retrieved November 28, 2012.
- ^ "The 75th Academy Awards (2003) Nominees and Winners". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Retrieved November 28, 2012.
- ^ "The 76th Academy Awards (2004) Nominees and Winners". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Retrieved November 28, 2012.
- ^ "The 77th Academy Awards (2005) Nominees and Winners". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Retrieved November 28, 2012.
- ^ "The 78th Academy Awards (2006) Nominees and Winners". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Retrieved November 28, 2012.
- ^ "The 79th Academy Awards (2007) Nominees and Winners". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Retrieved November 28, 2012.
- ^ "The 80th Academy Awards (2008) Nominees and Winners". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Retrieved November 28, 2012.
- ^ "The 81st Academy Awards (2009) Nominees and Winners". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Retrieved November 28, 2012.
- ^ "The 82nd Academy Awards (2010) Nominees and Winners". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Retrieved November 28, 2012.
- ^ "The 83rd Academy Awards (2011) Nominees and Winners". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Retrieved November 28, 2012.
- ^ "The 84th Academy Awards (2012) Nominees and Winners". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Retrieved November 28, 2012.
- ^ "The 85th Academy Awards (2013) Nominees and Winners". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Retrieved January 16, 2014.
- ^ Oscars Winners & Results | Academy Awards – Oscars 2014. Oscar.go.com. Retrieved on 2014-05-12.
- ^ "2014 Oscar Nominees". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Retrieved January 16, 2014.
See also
- Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film
- List of animated feature-length films
- Annie Award for Best Animated Feature
- BAFTA Award for Best Animated Film
- Golden Globe Award for Best Animated Feature Film