# Saturn Award for Best Animated Film

The Saturn Award for Best Animated Film (formerly Saturn Award for Best Animation) is one of the annual awards given by the American professionnel organization, the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films. The Saturn Awards, which are the oldest film-specialized awards to reward science fiction, fantasy, and horror achievements (the Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, awarded by the World Science Fiction Society who reward science fiction and fantasy in various media, is the oldest award for science fiction and fantasy films), included the Best Animated Film category for the first time only in 1978, was revived in 1982, and still currently reactivated since 2002.
It is one of the oldest awards to reward animated films. This award has been achieved sixteen times, including ten times to Pixar films.

## Winners and nominees
### Early years

| Year | Film |
| 1978 (6th) | Watership Down |
| 1982 (10th) | The Secret of NIMH |
| 1982 (10th) | The Last Unicorn |
| 1982 (10th) | Les Maîtres du temps |
| 1982 (10th) | Phoenix 2772 |
| 1982 (10th) | Tron |

### 2000s

| Year | Film |
| 2002 (29th) | Spirited Away |
| 2002 (29th) | Ice Age |
| 2002 (29th) | Lilo & Stitch |
| 2002 (29th) | Treasure Planet |
| 2003 (30th) | Finding Nemo |
| 2003 (30th) | Brother Bear |
| 2003 (30th) | Looney Tunes: Back in Action |
| 2003 (30th) | Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas |
| 2004 (31st) | The Incredibles |
| 2004 (31st) | The Polar Express |
| 2004 (31st) | Shark Tale |
| 2004 (31st) | Shrek 2 |
| 2005 (32nd) | Corpse Bride |
| 2005 (32nd) | Chicken Little |
| 2005 (32nd) | Hoodwinked |
| 2005 (32nd) | Howl's Moving Castle |
| 2005 (32nd) | Madagascar |
| 2005 (32nd) | Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit |
| 2006 (33rd) | Cars |
| 2006 (33rd) | Flushed Away |
| 2006 (33rd) | Happy Feet |
| 2006 (33rd) | Monster House |
| 2006 (33rd) | Over the Hedge |
| 2006 (33rd) | A Scanner Darkly |
| 2007 (34th) | Ratatouille |
| 2007 (34th) | Beowulf |
| 2007 (34th) | Meet the Robinsons |
| 2007 (34th) | Shrek the Third |
| 2007 (34th) | The Simpsons Movie |
| 2007 (34th) | Surf's Up |
| 2008 (35th) | WALL-E |
| 2008 (35th) | Bolt |
| 2008 (35th) | Horton Hears a Who! |
| 2008 (35th) | Kung Fu Panda |
| 2008 (35th) | Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa |
| 2008 (35th) | Star Wars: The Clone Wars |
| 2009 (36th) | Monsters vs. Aliens |
| 2009 (36th) | A Christmas Carol |
| 2009 (36th) | Coraline |
| 2009 (36th) | Fantastic Mr. Fox |
| 2009 (36th) | Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs |
| 2009 (36th) | Up |

### 2010s

| Year | Film |
| 2010 (37th) | Toy Story 3 |
| 2010 (37th) | Despicable Me |
| 2010 (37th) | How to Train Your Dragon |
| 2010 (37th) | Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole |
| 2010 (37th) | Shrek Forever After |
| 2010 (37th) | Tangled |
| 2011 (38th) | Puss in Boots |
| 2011 (38th) | The Adventures of Tintin |
| 2011 (38th) | Cars 2 |
| 2011 (38th) | Kung Fu Panda 2 |
| 2011 (38th) | Rango |
| 2011 (38th) | Rio |
| 2012 (39th) | Frankenweenie |
| 2012 (39th) | Brave |
| 2012 (39th) | ParaNorman |
| 2012 (39th) | Wreck-It Ralph |
| 2013 (40th) | Frozen |
| 2013 (40th) | Despicable Me 2 |
| 2013 (40th) | From Up on Poppy Hill |
| 2013 (40th) | Monsters University |
| 2014 (41st) | The Lego Movie |
| 2014 (41st) | Big Hero 6 |
| 2014 (41st) | The Boxtrolls |
| 2014 (41st) | How to Train Your Dragon 2 |
| 2014 (41st) | The Wind Rises |
| 2015 (42nd) | Inside Out |
| 2015 (42nd) | Anomalisa |
| 2015 (42nd) | The Good Dinosaur |
| 2015 (42nd) | Kung Fu Panda 3 |
| 2015 (42nd) | Minions |
| 2015 (42nd) | When Marnie Was There |
| 2016 (43rd) | Finding Dory |
| 2016 (43rd) | Kingsglaive: Final Fantasy XV |
| 2016 (43rd) | Moana |
| 2016 (43rd) | Sing |
| 2016 (43rd) | Trolls |
| 2016 (43rd) | Zootopia |
| 2017 (44th) | Coco |
| 2017 (44th) | The Boss Baby |
| 2017 (44th) | Cars 3 |
| 2017 (44th) | Despicable Me 3 |
| 2017 (44th) | Your Name |
| 2018/2019 (45th) | Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse |
| 2018/2019 (45th) | The Grinch |
| 2018/2019 (45th) | How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World |
| 2018/2019 (45th) | Incredibles 2 |
| 2018/2019 (45th) | Ralph Breaks the Internet |
| 2018/2019 (45th) | Toy Story 4 |
| 2019/2020 (46th) | Onward |
| 2019/2020 (46th) | Abominable |
| 2019/2020 (46th) | The Addams Family |
| 2019/2020 (46th) | Frozen II |
| 2019/2020 (46th) | Spies in Disguise |
| 2019/2020 (46th) | Trolls World Tour |

### 2020s

| Year | Film |
| 2021/2022 (50th) | Marcel the Shell with Shoes On |
| 2021/2022 (50th) | The Addams Family 2 |
| 2021/2022 (50th) | Encanto |
| 2021/2022 (50th) | Lightyear |
| 2021/2022 (50th) | Luca |
| 2021/2022 (50th) | Minions: The Rise of Gru |
| 2022/2023 (51st) | Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse |
| 2022/2023 (51st) | Elemental |
| 2022/2023 (51st) | Puss in Boots: The Last Wish |
| 2022/2023 (51st) | The Super Mario Bros. Movie |
| 2022/2023 (51st) | Suzume |
| 2022/2023 (51st) | Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem |
| 2023/2024 (52nd) | The Wild Robot |
| 2023/2024 (52nd) | The Boy and the Heron |
| 2023/2024 (52nd) | Despicable Me 4 |
| 2023/2024 (52nd) | Inside Out 2 |
| 2023/2024 (52nd) | Kung Fu Panda 4 |
| 2023/2024 (52nd) | Spy x Family Code: White |
| 2023/2024 (52nd) | Transformers One |