Golden Globe Award for Best Animated Feature Film

American film award since 2007

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. 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.

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. 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, 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.

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

Year Film Nominee(s) Studio(s) 2020 Soul Pete Docter Walt Disney Pictures, Pixar Animation StudiosThe Croods: A New Age Joel Crawford DreamWorks AnimationOnward Dan Scanlon Walt Disney Pictures, Pixar Animation StudiosOver the Moon Glen KeaneNetflix Animation, Pearl Studio, Sony Pictures Imageworks, Glen Keane ProductionsWolfwalkers Tomm Moore and Ross StewartCartoon Saloon, Melusine Productions 2021 Encanto Jared Bush and Byron Howard Walt Disney Pictures, Walt Disney Animation StudiosFlee Jonas Poher Rasmussen Vice Studios, etc. Luca Enrico Casarosa Walt Disney Pictures, Pixar Animation StudiosMy Sunny Maad Michaela Pavlátová Negativ Film, Sacrebleu ProductionsRaya 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 ChuchoInu Oh Masaaki Yuasa Science SaruMarcel the Shell with Shoes On Dean Fleischer Camp Cinereach, You Want I Should LLC., Human Woman Inc., Sunbeam TV & Films, Chiodo Bros. ProductionsPuss in Boots: The Last Wish Joel Crawford DreamWorks AnimationTurning Red Domee Shi Walt Disney Pictures, Pixar Animation Studios 2023 The Boy and the Heron Hayao Miyazaki Studio GhibliElemental Peter Sohn Walt Disney Pictures, Pixar Animation StudiosSpider Man: Across the Spider Verse Joaquim Dos Santos, Justin K. Thompson and Kemp Powers Columbia Pictures, Sony Pictures Animation, Marvel EntertainmentThe Super Mario Bros. Movie Aaron Horvath and Michael Jelenic Universal Pictures, Illumination, NintendoSuzume Makoto Shinkai CoMix Wave Films, Studio, Inc. Wish Chris Buck and Fawn Veerasunthorn Walt Disney Pictures, Walt Disney Animation Studios