Academy Award for Best Animated Feature
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.
| Academy Award for Best Animated Feature | |
|---|---|
2023 co-recipient: Hayao Miyazaki | |
| Awarded for | 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 | Shrek (2001) |
| Most recent winner | The Boy and the Heron (2023) |
| Most awards | Pixar (11) / Pete Docter (3) |
| Most nominations | Pixar (18) / Pete Docter and Hayao Miyazaki (4) |
| Website | oscars |
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.