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Academy Award for Best Animated Feature
Descriptionthe 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
First awarded2001
Currently held byFrozen (2013)
Websiteoscars.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
2001 Shrek
– Aron Warner 		[7]
2002 Spirited Away
– Hayao Miyazaki 		[8]
2003 Finding Nemo
– Andrew Stanton 		[9]
2004 The Incredibles
– Brad Bird 		[10]
2005 Howl's Moving Castle
– Hayao Miyazaki 		[11]
2006 Happy Feet
– George Miller 		[12]
2007 Ratatouille
– Brad Bird 		[13]
2008 WALL-E
– Andrew Stanton 		[14]
2009 Up
– Pete Docter 		[15]

2010s

Year Winner Nominees Ref
2010 Toy Story 3
– Lee Unkrich 		[16]
2011 Rango
– Gore Verbinski 		[17]
2012 Brave
– Mark Andrews and Brenda Chapman 		[18]
2013 The Wind Rises
– Hayao Miyazaki and Toshio Suzuki 		[20]

Multiple wins and nominations

Wins Nominations Name
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

Multiple movie companies had multiple nominations. This is a list of the movies from these movie companies that got nominated. The winners are in Bold.
Studio Wins Nominations Films
Pixar Animation Studios 7 9 Monsters, Inc., Finding Nemo, The Incredibles, Cars, Ratatouille, WALL-E, Up, Toy Story 3, Brave
DreamWorks Animation 2 10 Shrek, Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron, Shark Tale, Shrek 2, Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, Kung Fu Panda, How to Train Your Dragon, Kung Fu Panda 2, Puss in Boots, The Croods
Walt Disney Animation Studios 1 7 Lilo & Stitch, Treasure Planet, Brother Bear, Bolt, The Princess and the Frog, Wreck-It Ralph, Frozen
Studio Ghibli 1 3 Spirited Away, Howl's Moving Castle, The Wind Rises
Aardman 1 2 Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, The Pirates! Band of Misfits
Nickelodeon Movies 1 2 Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius, Rango
Warner Bros. Family Entertainment 1 2 Corpse Bride, Happy Feet
Les Armateurs 0 3 The Triplets of Belleville, The Secret of Kells, Ernest & Celestine
Laika 0 3 Corpse Bride, Coraline, ParaNorman
Sony Pictures Animation 0 2 Surf's Up, The Pirates! Band of Misfits

Computer animated nominees

Pixar

DreamWorks

Disney

Other films

Stop-motion nominees

Traditionally-animated nominees

American-made

Foreign Films

Events

  1. ^ a b "Rule Seven: Special Rules for the Animated Feature Film Award". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Retrieved April 26, 2011.
  2. ^ "The 2008 Top Tens". Archived from the original on 31 May 2009. Retrieved 2009-05-27.
  3. ^ Keegan Winters, Rebecca (July 7, 2008). "Can WALL-E Win Best Picture?". Time. Retrieved April 9, 2014.
  4. ^ Bandyk, Matthew (January 22, 2009). "Academy Awards Controversy: Wall-E Gets Snubbed For Best Picture Oscar". US News. Retrieved April 9, 2014.
  5. ^ Breznican, Anthony (July 2, 2008). "Is the best-picture Oscar within WALL-E's reach?". USA Today. Retrieved April 9, 2014.
  6. ^ "History of the Academy Awards". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Retrieved August 23, 2011.
  7. ^ a b "The 74th Academy Awards (2002) Nominees and Winners". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Retrieved November 28, 2012.
  8. ^ "The 75th Academy Awards (2003) Nominees and Winners". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Retrieved November 28, 2012.
  9. ^ "The 76th Academy Awards (2004) Nominees and Winners". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Retrieved November 28, 2012.
  10. ^ "The 77th Academy Awards (2005) Nominees and Winners". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Retrieved November 28, 2012.
  11. ^ "The 78th Academy Awards (2006) Nominees and Winners". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Retrieved November 28, 2012.
  12. ^ "The 79th Academy Awards (2007) Nominees and Winners". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Retrieved November 28, 2012.
  13. ^ "The 80th Academy Awards (2008) Nominees and Winners". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Retrieved November 28, 2012.
  14. ^ "The 81st Academy Awards (2009) Nominees and Winners". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Retrieved November 28, 2012.
  15. ^ "The 82nd Academy Awards (2010) Nominees and Winners". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Retrieved November 28, 2012.
  16. ^ "The 83rd Academy Awards (2011) Nominees and Winners". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Retrieved November 28, 2012.
  17. ^ "The 84th Academy Awards (2012) Nominees and Winners". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Retrieved November 28, 2012.
  18. ^ "The 85th Academy Awards (2013) Nominees and Winners". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Retrieved January 16, 2014.
  19. ^ Oscars Winners & Results | Academy Awards – Oscars 2014. Oscar.go.com. Retrieved on 2014-05-12.
  20. ^ "2014 Oscar Nominees". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Retrieved January 16, 2014.

See also

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