Golden Globe Award for Best Animated Feature Film

Golden Globe for Best Animated Feature Film
Golden Globe for Best Animated Feature Film
Awarded for	Best Animated Motion Picture
Location	United States
Presented by	Hollywood Foreign Press Association
First awarded	Cars (2006)
Currently held by	The Boy and the Heron (2023)
Website	www.goldenglobes.com

The Golden Globe Award for Best Animated Feature Film is a Golden Globe Award that was awarded for the first time at the 64th Golden Globe Awards in 2007.^[1] It was the first time that the Golden Globe Awards had created a separate category for animated films since its establishment. The nominations are announced in January and an awards ceremony is held later in the month. Initially, only three films were nominated for best animated film, in contrast to five nominations for the majority of other awards. The Pixar film Cars was the first recipient of the award.^[2]

Eligibility

English-language films may be nominated in only one feature category. Therefore, films nominated in this category are ineligible to be nominated for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy, Best Motion Picture – Drama if their principal dialogue is in English. However, films nominated for Best Foreign Language Film are eligible for Best Animated Feature; the only Golden Globe film awards for which they are ineligible are the aforementioned two Best Motion Picture awards.^[3] This has led to much confusion leading many to believe animated films are snubbed in the Best Motion Picture categories, specifically Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy where animated films have won and/or were nominated before,^[4] but in reality (since 2006) they simply are not eligible to be nominated. On November 17, 2009, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association announced that at the 67th Annual Golden Globe Awards, there will be five nominees for Best Animated Feature Film, as its members voted to amend its rules: eligible films must be feature-length (70 minutes or longer) with no more than 25% live action. If fewer than eight animated films qualify, the award will not be given, in which case the films would be eligible for Best Picture. If fewer than twelve animated films qualify, the category will be limited to three nominations per year.

Winners and nominees

2000s

Year	Film	Nominee(s)	Studio(s)
2006	Cars	John Lasseter	Walt Disney Pictures, Pixar Animation Studios
	Happy Feet	George Miller	Village Roadshow Pictures, Animal Logic, Kennedy Miller Productions, Warner Animation Group
	Monster House	Gil Kenan	ImageMovers, Amblin Entertainment, Relativity Media
2007	Ratatouille	Brad Bird	Walt Disney Pictures, Pixar Animation Studios
	Bee Movie	Simon J. Smith and Steve Hickner	DreamWorks Animation
	The Simpsons Movie	David Silverman	20th Century Fox Animation, Gracie Films
2008	WALL-E	Andrew Stanton	Walt Disney Pictures, Pixar Animation Studios
	Bolt	Chris Williams and Byron Howard	Walt Disney Pictures, Walt Disney Animation Studios
	Kung Fu Panda	Mark Osborne and John Stevenson	DreamWorks Animation
2009	Up	Pete Docter	Walt Disney Pictures, Pixar Animation Studios
	Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs	Phil Lord and Christopher Miller	Sony Pictures Animation
	Coraline	Henry Selick	Laika, Pandemonium, Focus Features
	Fantastic Mr. Fox	Wes Anderson	20th Century Fox Animation, American Empirical Pictures, Regency Enterprises, Indian Paintbrush
	The Princess and the Frog	Ron Clements and John Musker	Walt Disney Pictures, Walt Disney Animation Studios

2010s

Year	Film	Nominee(s)	Studio(s)
2010	Toy Story 3	Lee Unkrich	Walt Disney Pictures, Pixar Animation Studios
	Despicable Me	Pierre Coffin and Chris Renaud	Illumination Entertainment
	How to Train Your Dragon	Chris Sanders and Dean DeBlois	DreamWorks Animation
	The Illusionist	Sylvain Chomet	Pathé, Django Films
	Tangled	Nathan Greno and Byron Howard	Walt Disney Pictures, Walt Disney Animation Studios
2011	The Adventures of Tintin	Steven Spielberg	Nickelodeon Movies, Amblin Entertainment, WingNut Films, The Kennedy/Marshall Company, Weta Digital, Hemisphere Media
	Arthur Christmas	Sarah Smith	Aardman Animations, Sony Pictures Animation
	Cars 2	John Lasseter	Walt Disney Pictures, Pixar Animation Studios
	Puss in Boots	Chris Miller	DreamWorks Animation
	Rango	Gore Verbinski	Nickelodeon Movies, GK Films, Industrial Light & Magic
2012	Brave	Mark Andrews and Brenda Chapman	Walt Disney Pictures, Pixar Animation Studios
	Frankenweenie	Tim Burton	Walt Disney Pictures, Tim Burton Productions
	Hotel Transylvania	Genndy Tartakovsky	Sony Pictures Animation
	Rise of the Guardians	Peter Ramsey	DreamWorks Animation
	Wreck-It Ralph	Rich Moore	Walt Disney Pictures, Walt Disney Animation Studios
2013	Frozen	Chris Buck and Jennifer Lee	Walt Disney Pictures, Walt Disney Animation Studios
	The Croods	Kirk DeMicco and Chris Sanders	DreamWorks Animation
	Despicable Me 2	Pierre Coffin and Chris Renaud	Illumination Entertainment
2014	How to Train Your Dragon 2	Dean DeBlois	DreamWorks Animation
	Big Hero 6	Don Hall and Chris Williams	Walt Disney Pictures, Walt Disney Animation Studios
	The Book of Life	Jorge Gutierrez	Reel FX Creative Studios, 20th Century Fox Animation
	The Boxtrolls	Graham Annable and Anthony Stacchi	Laika, Focus Features
	The Lego Movie	Phil Lord and Christopher Miller	Village Roadshow Pictures, Lego System A/S, Vertigo Entertainment, Lin Pictures, Animal Logic, Warner Animation Group
2015	Inside Out	Pete Docter	Walt Disney Pictures, Pixar Animation Studios
	Anomalisa	Charlie Kaufman and Duke Johnson	Starburns Industries, Snoot Films
	The Good Dinosaur	Peter Sohn	Walt Disney Pictures, Pixar Animation Studios
	The Peanuts Movie	Steve Martino	Blue Sky Studios, 20th Century Fox Animation, Peanuts Worldwide, Feigco Entertainment
	Shaun the Sheep Movie	Richard Starzak and Mark Burton	Aardman Animations
2016	Zootopia	Byron Howard and Rich Moore	Walt Disney Pictures, Walt Disney Animation Studios
	Kubo and the Two Strings	Travis Knight	Laika, Focus Features
	Moana	Ron Clements and John Musker	Walt Disney Pictures, Walt Disney Animation Studios
	My Life as a Zucchini	Claude Barras	Rhône-Alpes Studios
	Sing	Garth Jennings	Illumination Entertainment
2017	Coco	Lee Unkrich	Walt Disney Pictures, Pixar Animation Studios
	The Boss Baby	Tom McGrath	DreamWorks Animation
	The Breadwinner	Nora Twomey	Cartoon Saloon, Telefilm Canada, Irish Film Board, Melusine Productions, Jolie Pas, Guru Studio, Aircraft Pictures
	Ferdinand	Carlos Saldanha	Blue Sky Studios, 20th Century Fox Animation, Davis Entertainment
	Loving Vincent	Dorota Kobiela and Hugh Welchman	BreakThru Productions, Trademark Films
2018	Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse	Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey and Rodney Rothman	Columbia Pictures, Sony Pictures Animation, Marvel Entertainment
	Incredibles 2	Brad Bird	Walt Disney Pictures, Pixar Animation Studios
	Isle of Dogs	Wes Anderson	Studio Babelsberg, Indian Paintbrush, American Empirical Pictures
	Mirai	Mamoru Hosoda	Studio Chizu
	Ralph Breaks the Internet	Rich Moore and Phil Johnston	Walt Disney Pictures, Walt Disney Animation Studios
2019	Missing Link	Chris Butler	Annapurna Pictures, Laika
	Frozen II	Chris Buck and Jennifer Lee	Walt Disney Pictures, Walt Disney Animation Studios
	How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World	Dean DeBlois	DreamWorks Animation
	The Lion King	Jon Favreau	Walt Disney Pictures, Fairview Entertainment
	Toy Story 4	Josh Cooley	Walt Disney Pictures, Pixar Animation Studios

2020s

Year	Film	Nominee(s)	Studio(s)
2020	Soul	Pete Docter	Walt Disney Pictures, Pixar Animation Studios
	The Croods: A New Age	Joel Crawford	DreamWorks Animation
	Onward	Dan Scanlon	Walt Disney Pictures, Pixar Animation Studios
	Over the Moon	Glen Keane	Netflix Animation, Pearl Studio, Sony Pictures Imageworks, Glen Keane Productions
	Wolfwalkers	Tomm Moore and Ross Stewart	Cartoon Saloon, Melusine Productions
2021	Encanto	Jared Bush and Byron Howard	Walt Disney Pictures, Walt Disney Animation Studios
	Flee	Jonas Poher Rasmussen	Vice Studios, etc.
	Luca	Enrico Casarosa	Walt Disney Pictures, Pixar Animation Studios
	My Sunny Maad	Michaela Pavlátová	Negativ Film, Sacrebleu Productions
	Raya and the Last Dragon	Don Hall and Carlos López Estrada	Walt Disney Pictures, Walt Disney Animation Studios
2022	Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio	Guillermo del Toro and Mark Gustafson	Netflix Animation, Double Dare You!, ShadowMachine, The Jim Henson Company, Taller del Chucho
	Inu-Oh	Masaaki Yuasa	Science Saru
	Marcel the Shell with Shoes On	Dean Fleischer Camp	Cinereach, You Want I Should LLC., Human Woman Inc., Sunbeam TV & Films, Chiodo Bros. Productions
	Puss in Boots: The Last Wish	Joel Crawford	DreamWorks Animation
	Turning Red	Domee Shi	Walt Disney Pictures, Pixar Animation Studios
2023^[5]	The Boy and the Heron	Hayao Miyazaki	Studio Ghibli
	Elemental	Peter Sohn	Walt Disney Pictures, Pixar Animation Studios
	Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse	Joaquim Dos Santos, Justin K. Thompson and Kemp Powers	Columbia Pictures, Sony Pictures Animation, Marvel Entertainment
	The Super Mario Bros. Movie	Aaron Horvath and Michael Jelenic	Universal Pictures, Illumination, Nintendo
	Suzume	Makoto Shinkai	CoMix Wave Films, Studio, Inc.
	Wish	Chris Buck and Fawn Veerasunthorn	Walt Disney Pictures, Walt Disney Animation Studios

Breakdown

Pixar Animation Studios - 9 wins, 17 nominations
Walt Disney Animation Studios - 3 wins, 13 nominations
DreamWorks Animation - 1 win, 11 nominations
Sony Pictures Animation - 1 win, 5 nominations
Laika - 1 win, 4 nominations
Nickelodeon Movies - 1 win, 2 nominations
Netflix - 1 win, 2 nominations
Studio Ghibli - 1 win, 1 nomination
Illumination Entertainment - no wins, 4 nominations
Aardman Animations - no wins, 2 nominations
Blue Sky Studios - no wins, 2 nominations
Warner Bros. Pictures - no wins, 2 nominations
Cartoon Saloon - no wins, 2 nominations
Indian Paintbrush/American Empirical Pictures - no wins, 2 nominations

References

^ Ball, Ryan (2006-01-30). "Golden Globes in Toon for '07". Animation Magazine. Retrieved 2006-06-13.
^ 'Cars' Lapped the Competition in 2006 and won a Golden Globe - The Hollywood Reporter
^ "70th Golden Globe Awards Consideration: Best Foreign Language Film – Submission" (PDF). Hollywood Foreign Press Association. Archived from the original (PDF) on January 17, 2013. Retrieved February 12, 2013. Films that qualify for the best foreign language film award also qualify for Golden Globe awards in all other categories except best motion picture drama and best motion picture musical or comedy which are for English-language films exclusively.
^ Oscars 1992: How 'Beauty and the Beast' changed animation|EW.com
^ Golden Globes: ‘Barbie’ and ‘Succession’ Lead Nominations; See Full List - The Hollywood Reporter

[1] Ball, Ryan (2006-01-30). "Golden Globes in Toon for '07". Animation Magazine. Retrieved 2006-06-13.

[2] 'Cars' Lapped the Competition in 2006 and won a Golden Globe - The Hollywood Reporter

[3] "70th Golden Globe Awards Consideration: Best Foreign Language Film – Submission" (PDF). Hollywood Foreign Press Association. Archived from the original (PDF) on January 17, 2013. Retrieved February 12, 2013. Films that qualify for the best foreign language film award also qualify for Golden Globe awards in all other categories except best motion picture drama and best motion picture musical or comedy which are for English-language films exclusively.

[4] Oscars 1992: How 'Beauty and the Beast' changed animation|EW.com

[5] Golden Globes: ‘Barbie’ and ‘Succession’ Lead Nominations; See Full List - The Hollywood Reporter

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