| Golden Globe for Best Animated Feature Film | |
|---|---|
| Awarded for | Best Animated Motion Picture |
| Location | United States |
| Presented by | Hollywood Foreign Press Association |
| First award | Cars (2006) |
| Currently held by | Flow (2024) |
| Website | www.goldenglobes.com |
TheGolden Globe Award for Best Animated Feature Film is aGolden Globe Award category that was awarded for the first time at the64th Golden Globe Awards in 2007.[1] It was the first time that the Golden Globe Awards had created a separate category foranimated 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. ThePixar filmCars was the first recipient of the award.[2]
English-language films may be nominated in only one feature category. Therefore, films nominated in this category are ineligible to be nominated forBest Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy,Best Motion Picture – Drama if their principal dialogue is in English. However, films nominated forBest 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, specificallyBest 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; until 2023 prior of the now-defunctHollywood Foreign Press Association, the rule is amended byDick Clark Productions following controversies of splitting votes and snub between the main categories, which animated films are still allowed to be eligible in Comedy or Drama as well as Animated at the same time in similar vein toGolden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film and recently-establishedCinematic and Box Office Achievement.[5]
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) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 (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,NEON | |
| 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 andCarlos López Estrada | Walt Disney Pictures, Walt Disney Animation Studios | |
| Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio | Guillermo del Toro andMark Gustafson | Netflix (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,A24 | |
| Puss in Boots: The Last Wish | Joel Crawford | DreamWorks Animation | |
| Turning Red | Domee Shi | Walt Disney Pictures, Pixar Animation Studios | |
| 2023[6] | The Boy and the Heron | Hayao Miyazaki | Studio Ghibli,GKIDS |
| Elemental | Peter Sohn | Walt Disney Pictures, Pixar Animation Studios | |
| Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse | Joaquim Dos Santos,Kemp Powers andJustin K. Thompson | Columbia Pictures, Marvel Entertainment, Sony Pictures Animation | |
| The Super Mario Bros. Movie | Aaron Horvath andMichael Jelenic | Universal Pictures, Illumination,Nintendo | |
| Suzume | Makoto Shinkai | CoMix Wave Films, Studio, Inc.,Toho | |
| Wish | Chris Buck andFawn Veerasunthorn | Walt Disney Pictures, Walt Disney Animation Studios | |
| 2024[7] | Flow | Gints Zilbalodis | Janus Films, Sacrebleu Productions |
| Inside Out 2 | Kelsey Mann | Walt Disney Pictures, Pixar Animation Studios | |
| Memoir of a Snail | Adam Elliot | IFC Films, Snails Pace Films | |
| Moana 2 | David Derrick Jr., Jason Hand and Dana Ledoux Miller | Walt Disney Pictures, Walt Disney Animation Studios | |
| Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl | Nick Park and Merlin Crossingham | Aardman Animations, Netflix | |
| The Wild Robot | Chris Sanders | DreamWorks Animation |
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.