# Visual Effects Society Award for Outstanding Visual Effects in an Animated Feature

The Visual Effects Society Award for Outstanding Visual Effects in an Animated Feature is one of the annual awards given by the Visual Effects Society starting from 2008.

## Winners and nominees
### 2000s

| Year | Film | Nominee(s) |
| 2008 | WALL-E | Andrew Stanton, Jim Morris, Lindsey Collins, Nigel Hardwidge |
| 2008 | Bolt | Chris Williams, Byron Howard, John Murrah, Doug Bennett |
| 2008 | Kung Fu Panda | Markus Manninen, Dan Wagner, Alex Parkinson, Raymond Zibach |
| 2008 | Roadside Romeo | Pankaj Khandpur, Sherry Bharda, Shrirang Sathayem Suhael Merchant |
| 2008 | Waltz With Bashir | Yoni Goodman, Yael Nahlieli |
| 2009 | Up | Pete Docter, Jonas Rivera, Steve May, Gary Bruins |
| 2009 | 9 | Ken Duncan, Jinko Gotoh, Daryl Graham, Joe Ksander |
| 2009 | Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs | Pete Nash, Chris Juen, Alan Hawkins, Mike Ford |
| 2009 | Coraline | Henry Selick, Claire Jennings |
| 2009 | Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs | Melvin Tan, Galen Chu, Jeff Gabor, Anthony Nisi |

### 2010s

| Year | Film | Nominee(s) |
| 2010 | How to Train Your Dragon | Simon Otto, Craig Ring, Bonnie Arnold |
| 2010 | Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole | Zareh Naibandian, Simon Whiteley, Eric Leighton, Alex Weight |
| 2010 | Shrek Forever After | Jason Reisig, Doug Cooper, Gina Shay, Teresa Cheng |
| 2010 | Tangled | Clay Kaytis, John Kahrs, Glen Keane, Roy Conli |
| 2010 | Toy Story 3 | Lee Unkrich, Darla K. Anderson, Guido Quaroni, Michael Fong |
| 2011 | Rango | Tim Alexander, Hal Hickel, Jacqui Lopez, Katie Lynch |
| 2011 | The Adventures of Tintin | Jamie Beard, Joe Letteri, Meredith Meyer-Nichols, Eileen Moran |
| 2011 | Arthur Christmas | Doug Ikeler, Chris Juen, Alan Short, Mandy Tankenson |
| 2011 | Kung Fu Panda 2 | Melissa Cobb, Alex Parkinson, Jennifer Yuh Nelson, Raymond Zibach |
| 2011 | Puss in Boots | Joe M. Aguilar, Guillaume Aretos, Ken Bielenberg, Chris Miller |
| 2012 | Brave | Mark Andrews, Steve May, Katherine Sarafian, Bill Wise |
| 2012 | Hotel Transylvania | Lydia Bottegoni, James Crossley, Mike Ford, Daniel Kramer |
| 2012 | ParaNorman | Chris Butler, Sam Fell, Travis Knight, Brad Schiff |
| 2012 | Rise of the Guardians | Nancy Bernstein, David Prescott, Peter Ramsey, Christina Steinberg |
| 2012 | Wreck-It Ralph | Sean Jenkins, Scott Kersavage, Rich Moore, Clark Spencer |
| 2013 | Frozen | Chris Buck, Jennifer Lee, Peter Del Vecho, Lino Di Salvo |
| 2013 | Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 | Peter Nash, Michael Ford, Chris Juen, Mandy Tankenson |
| 2013 | The Croods | Jane Hartwell, Chris Sanders, Kirk DeMicco, Markus Manninen |
| 2013 | Despicable Me 2 | Chris Meledandri, Janet Healy, Chris Renaud, Pierre Coffin |
| 2013 | Monsters University | Kori Rae, Sanjay Bakshi, Jon Reisch, Scott Clark |
| 2014 | Big Hero 6 | Don Hall, Chris Williams, Roy Conli, Zach Parrish |
| 2014 | The Boxtrolls | Travis Knight, Anthony Stacchi, Graham Annable, Brad Schiff |
| 2014 | How to Train Your Dragon 2 | Bonnie Arnold, Dean DeBlois, Dave Walvoord, Simon Otto |
| 2014 | The Lego Movie | Chris McKay, Amber Naismith, Jim Dodd, David Williams |
| 2014 | Rio 2 | Carlos Saldanha, Bruce Anderson, John C. Donkin, Kirk Garfield |
| 2015 | The Good Dinosaur | Sanjay Bakshi, Denise Ream, Michael Venturini, Jon Reisch |
| 2015 | Anomalisa | Derek Smith, Rosa Tran, Joe Passarelli, John Joyce |
| 2015 | Hotel Transylvania 2 | Karl Herbst, Skye Lyons, Alan Hawkins, Genndy Tartakovsky |
| 2015 | Inside Out | Michael Fong, Jonas Rivera, Victor Navone, Paul Mendoza |
| 2015 | The Peanuts Movie | Steve Martino, Michael J. Travers, Nick Bruno, Scott Carroll |
| 2016 | Kubo and the Two Strings | Travis Knight, Arianne Sutner, Steve Emerson, Brad Schiff |
| 2016 | Finding Dory | Angus MacLane, Lindsey Collins, John Halstead, Chris J. Chapman |
| 2016 | Moana | Kyle Odermatt, Nicole P. Hearon, Hank Driskill, Ian Gooding |
| 2016 | The Little Prince | Mark Osborne, Jinko Gotoh, Pascal Bertrand, Jamie Caliri |
| 2016 | Zootopia | Scott Kersavage, Bradford S. Simonsen, David Goetz, Ernest J. Petti |
| 2017 | Coco | Lee Unkrich, Darla K. Anderson, David Ryu, Michael K. O'Brien |
| 2017 | Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie | David Soren, Mark Swift, Mireille Soria, David Dulac |
| 2017 | Cars 3 | Brian Fee, Kevin Reher, Michael Fong, Jon Reisch |
| 2017 | Despicable Me 3 | Pierre Coffin, Chris Meledandri, Kyle Balda, Eric Guillon |
| 2017 | The Lego Batman Movie | Rob Coleman, Amber Naismith, Grant Freckelton, Damien Gray |
| 2017 | The Lego Ninjago Movie | Gregory Jowle, Fiona Childton, Miles Green, Kim Taylor |
| 2018 | Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse | Joshua Beveridge, Christian Hejnal, Danny Dimian, Bret St. Clair |
| 2018 | Dr. Seuss' The Grinch | Pierre Leduc, Janet Healy, Bruno Chauffard, Milo Riccarand |
| 2018 | Incredibles 2 | Brad Bird, John Walker, Rick Sayre, Bill Watral |
| 2018 | Isle of Dogs | Mark Waring, Jeremy Dawson, Tim Ledbury, Lev Kolobov |
| 2018 | Ralph Breaks the Internet | Scott Kersavage, Bradford Simonsen, Ernest J. Petti, Cory Loftis |
| 2019 | Missing Link | Brad Schiff, Travis Knight, Steve Emerson, Benoit Dubuc |
| 2019 | Frozen 2 | Steve Goldberg, Peter Del Vecho, Mark Hammel, Michael Giaimo |
| 2019 | Klaus | Sergio Pablos, Matthew Teevan, Marcin Jakubowski, Szymon Biernacki |
| 2019 | The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part | David Burgess, Tim Smith, Mark Theriault. John Rix |
| 2019 | Toy Story 4 | Josh Cooley, Mark Nielsen, Bob Moyer, Gary Bruins |

### 2020s

| Year | Film | Nominee(s) |
| 2020 | Soul | Pete Docter, Dana Murray, Michael Fong, Bill Watral |
| 2020 | Onward | Dan Scanlon, Kori Rae, Sanjay Bakshi, Vincent Serritella |
| 2020 | Over the Moon | Glen Keane, Gennie Rim, Céline Desrumaux, David Alexander Smith |
| 2020 | The Croods: A New Age | Joel Crawford, Mark Swift, Betsyf Nofsinger, Jakob Hjort Jensen |
| 2020 | Trolls World Tour | Walt Dohrn, Gina Shay, Kendal Cronkhite-Shaindlin, Matt Baer |
| 2021 | Encanto | Scott Kersavage, Bradford Simonsen, Thaddeus P. Miller, Ian Gooding |
| 2021 | Luca | Enrico Casarosa, Andrea Warren, David Ryu, Jon Reisch |
| 2021 | The Mitchells vs. the Machines | Alan Hawkins, Carey A. Smith, Mike Lasker, Nicola Lavender |
| 2021 | Raya and the Last Dragon | Kyle Odermatt, Osnat Shurer, Kelsey Hurley, Paul Felix |
| 2021 | Sing 2 | Patrick Delage, Nathalie Vancauwenberghe, Christophe Lourdelet, Boris Jacq |
| 2022 | Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio | Aaron Weintraub, Jeffrey Schaper, Cameron Carson, Emma Gorbey |
| 2022 | The Bad Guys | Pierre Perifel, Damon Ross, Matt Baer, JP Sans |
| 2022 | Mad God | Chris Morley, Phil Tippett, Ken Rogerson, Tom Gibbons |
| 2022 | The Sea Beast | Joshua Beveridge, Christian Hejnal, Stirling Duguid, Spencer Lueders |
| 2022 | Strange World | Steve Goldberg, Laurie Au, Mark Hammel, Mehrdad Isvandi |
| 2022 | Turning Red | Domee Shi, Lindsey Collins, Danielle Feinberg, Dave Hale |
| 2023 | Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse | Alan Hawkins, Christian Hejnal, Michael Lasker, Matt Hausman |
| 2023 | Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget | Jon Biggins, Jim Lewis, Charles Copping, Matthew Perry |
| 2023 | Elemental | Peter Sohn, Denise Ream, Sanjay Bakshi, Stephen Marshall |
| 2023 | Nimona | Archie Donato, Yancy Lindquist, Theodore Ty, Anthony Kemp |
| 2023 | Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem | Matthieu Rouxel, Marie Balland, Jacques Daigle, Vincent Leroy |
| 2024 | The Wild Robot | Chris Sanders, Jeff Hermann, Jeff Budsberg, Jacob Hjort Jensen |
| 2024 | Inside Out 2 | Kelsey Mann, Mark Nielsen, Sudeep Rangaswamy, Bill Watral |
| 2024 | Moana 2 | Carlos Cabral, Tucker Gilmore, Ian Gooding, Gabriela Hernandez |
| 2024 | Transformers One | Frazer Churchill, Fiona Chilton, Josh Cooley, Stephen King |
| 2024 | Ultraman: Rising | Hayden Jones, Sean M. Murphy, Shannon Tindle, Mathieu Vig |