Academy Award for Best Animated Feature
| Academy Award for Best Animated Feature | |
|---|---|
| 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 (AMPAS) |
| First awarded | 2001 (for Shrek) |
| Currently held by | Coco (2017) |
| Website | oscars |
The Academy Awards are given each year by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS or the Academy) 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 awarded in 2002 for films made 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, which has happened nine times, otherwise there will only be three films on the shortlist.[4] 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 also be nominated for other categories, but have rarely been so; Beauty and the Beast (1991) was the first animated film ever nominated for Best Picture. Up (2009) and Toy Story 3 (2010) also received Best Picture nominations after the Academy expanded the number of nominees from five to ten.
Waltz with Bashir (2008) is the only animated film ever nominated for Best Foreign Language Film (though it did not receive a nomination for Best Animated Feature). The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993) and Kubo and the Two Strings (2016) are the only two animated films to ever be nominated for Best Visual Effects.
History
For much of the Academy Awards' history, AMPAS was resistant to the idea of a regular Oscar 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 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 creation of the award, only one animated film was nominated for Best Picture: 1991's Beauty and the Beast, also by Walt Disney Pictures.
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.[9] The Academy Award for Best Animated Feature was first given out at the 74th Academy Awards,[10] held on March 24, 2002.[11] The Academy included a rule that stated that the award would not be presented in a year in which fewer than eight eligible films opened in theaters.[12]
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. DreamWorks had advertised heavily during the holiday 2001 season for Shrek, but was disappointed when the rumored Best Picture nomination did not materialize, though it was nominated for and ended up winning the inaugural Best Animated Feature award.[1]
The criticism of Best Animated Feature was particularly prominent at the 81st Academy Awards, in which WALL-E won the award but was not nominated for Best Picture, despite receiving widespread acclaim from critics and audiences alike and being generally considered one of the best films of 2008.[13][14][15][16] 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.[4] There have been complaints that the Best Animated Feature award is held in unfairly low regard by Academy members with many members refusing to vote for films they consider mere children's fare beneath them, or letting their own children see the films and go with their opinions instead. The dominance of Disney and Pixar allegedly as a result of this bias is suggested to be injuring the credibility of the award.[17]
In 2009, when the nominee slots for Best Picture were doubled to ten, 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. Since 2010 onward, with the increasing competitiveness of the Animated Feature category, Pixar (a perennial nominee) did not receive nominations for several recent films considering the studio has released films of more mixed critical reaction and box office earnings, while Pixar's sister studio Disney Animation won their first three awards.[18]
In 2010, the Academy enacted a new rule regarding the motion capture technique employed in films such as Robert Zemeckis' A Christmas Carol and Steven Spielberg's The Adventures of Tintin, 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.
Winners and nominees
2000s
2010s
Wins
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Multiple nominations
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Studios with multiple nominations
Medium breakdown
Computer-animated nomineesPixar
DisneyDreamWorks Animation
NickelodeonBlue SkySonyOther films
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Stop-motion nomineesAardmanLaikaTim BurtonAmerican Empirical PicturesOther films
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Traditionally animated nomineesDisneyStudio Ghibli
Les ArmateursCartoon SaloonOther films
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Foreign language films
The Academy Awards have also nominated a number of non-English language films.
Japanese nominees
All the Japanese films on this list have also been released with English language dubbing.
Studio Ghibli
- Spirited Away
- Howl's Moving Castle
- The Wind Rises
- The Tale of the Princess Kaguya
- When Marnie Was There
Other films
French nominees
Les Armateurs
Other films
Other languages
- Chico and Rita (Spanish)
- Boy and the World (Portuguese)
See also
- Lists of animated feature films
- Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film
- Golden Globe Award for Best Animated Feature Film
- Annie Award for Best Animated Feature
- Annie Award for Best Animated Feature — Independent
- Producers Guild of America Award for Best Animated Motion Picture
- BAFTA Award for Best Animated Film
- Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Animated Feature
- Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Animated Film
- List of animated feature films nominated for Academy Awards
- List of submissions to the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature
- Saturn Award for Best Animated Film
- Japan Media Arts Festival
- Animation Kobe
- Tokyo Anime Award
References
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- ^ "'Shrek' wins for animated feature". USA Today. Associated Press. March 25, 2002. Retrieved March 29, 2012.
- ^ "100 Greatest Movies, TV Shows, and More". Entertainment Weekly. December 4, 2009. Retrieved March 29, 2012.
- ^ a b "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.
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- ^ "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. Archived from the original on July 17, 2011. Retrieved April 9, 2014.
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- ^ Amidi, Amid. "Academy Members Don't Care About Animation: 2017 Edition". Cartoon Brew. Retrieved 2 March 2017.
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- ^ "75th Academy Awards Nominees". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Retrieved November 28, 2012.
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- ^ "81st Academy Awards Nominees". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Retrieved November 28, 2012.
- ^ "82nd Academy Awards Nominees". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Retrieved November 28, 2012.
- ^ "83rd Academy Awards Nominees". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Retrieved November 28, 2012.
- ^ "84th Academy Awards Nominees". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Retrieved November 28, 2012.
- ^ "85th Academy Awards Nominees". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Retrieved January 16, 2014.
- ^ "86th Academy Awards Nominees". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Retrieved January 16, 2014.
- ^ "87th Academy Awards Nominees". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Retrieved January 15, 2015.
- ^ "88th Academy Awards Nominees". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Retrieved January 14, 2016.
- ^ "89th Academy Awards Nominees". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Retrieved January 24, 2017.
- ^ "90th Academy Awards Nominees". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Retrieved January 23, 2018.
- ^ "91st Academy Awards Nominees". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Retrieved January 22, 2019.
External links
- Academy Awards Database – AMPAS
- Academy Award WInning Feature Films at BCDB
- Best Animated Picture Submissions for 2011 Oscars
