Academy Award for Best Animated Feature

Academy Award for Best Animated Feature
2023 co-recipients
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 awardedShrek (2001)
Most recent winnerThe Boy and the Heron (2023)
Most awardsPixar (11) / Pete Docter (3)
Most nominationsPixar (18) / Pete Docter and Hayao Miyazaki (4)
Websiteoscars.org

The Academy Award for Best Animated Feature is given each year for the best animated 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. The Academy Award for Best Animated Feature was first awarded in 2002 for films released in 2001.[1][2][3]

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, otherwise there will only be three films on the shortlist.[4]

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  3. ^ "100 Greatest Movies, TV Shows, and More". Entertainment Weekly. December 4, 2009. Archived from the original on January 25, 2022. Retrieved March 28, 2022.
  4. ^ "Rule Seven: Special Rules for the Animated Feature Film Award". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Archived from the original on June 5, 2011. Retrieved April 26, 2011.