# San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle Award for Best Animated Feature

The San Francisco Film Critics Circle Award for Best Animated Feature is an award given by the San Francisco Film Critics Circle to honor an outstanding animated film.

## Winners and nominees

    indicates the winners.

### 2000s

| Year | Film | Director |
| 2009 |
| 2009 | Coraline | Henry Selick |

### 2010s

| Year | Film | Director |
| 2010 |
| 2010 | Toy Story 3 | Lee Unkrich |
| 2011 |
| 2011 | Rango | Gore Verbinski |
| 2012 |
| 2012 | ParaNorman | Sam Fell and Chris Butler |
| 2013 |
| 2013 | Frozen | Chris Buck and Jennifer Lee |
| 2013 | The Croods | Kirk DeMicco and Chris Sanders |
| 2013 | Despicable Me 2 | Chris Renaud and Pierre Coffin |
| 2013 | Monsters University | Dan Scanlon |
| 2013 | The Wind Rises | Hayao Miyazaki |
| 2014 |
| 2014 | The Lego Movie | Phil Lord and Christopher Miller |
| 2014 | Big Hero 6 | Don Hall and Chris Williams |
| 2014 | The Boxtrolls | Graham Annable and Anthony Stacchi |
| 2014 | How to Train Your Dragon 2 | Dean DeBlois |
| 2014 | The Tale of the Princess Kaguya | Isao Takahata |
| 2015 |
| 2015 | Anomalisa | Charlie Kaufman and Duke Johnson |
| 2015 | Boy and the World | Alê Abreu |
| 2015 | Inside Out | Pete Docter |
| 2015 | The Peanuts Movie | Steve Martino |
| 2015 | Shaun the Sheep Movie | Mark Burton and Richard Starzak |
| 2016 |
| 2016 | The Red Turtle | Michaël Dudok de Wit |
| 2016 | Finding Dory | Andrew Stanton |
| 2016 | Kubo and the Two Strings | Travis Knight |
| 2016 | Moana | John Musker and Ron Clements |
| 2016 | Zootopia | Byron Howard and Rich Moore |
| 2017 |
| 2017 | Coco | Lee Unkrich |
| 2017 | The Breadwinner | Nora Twomey |
| 2017 | The Lego Batman Movie | Chris McKay |
| 2017 | Loving Vincent | Dorota Kobiela and Hugh Welchman |
| 2017 | Your Name | Makoto Shinkai |
| 2018 |
| 2018 | Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse | Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey and Rodney Rothman |
| 2018 | Incredibles 2 | Brad Bird |
| 2018 | Isle of Dogs | Wes Anderson |
| 2018 | Mirai | Mamoru Hosoda |
| 2018 | Ralph Breaks the Internet | Rich Moore and Phil Johnston |
| 2019 |
| 2019 | I Lost My Body | Jérémy Clapin and Marc Du Pontavice |
| 2019 | How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World | Dean DeBlois |
| 2019 | Klaus | Sergio Pablos |
| 2019 | Missing Link | Chris Butler |
| 2019 | Toy Story 4 | Josh Cooley |

### 2020s

| Year | Film | Director |
| 2020 |
| 2020 | Soul | Pete Docter |
| 2020 | Marona's Fantastic Tale | Anca Damian |
| 2020 | Onward | Dan Scanlon |
| 2020 | Over the Moon | Glen Keane |
| 2020 | Wolfwalkers | Tomm Moore and Ross Stewart |
| 2021 |
| 2021 | Encanto | Jared Bush and Byron Howard |
| 2021 | Belle | Mamoru Hosoda |
| 2021 | Flee (Honorable Mention) | Jonas Poher Rasmussen |
| 2021 | Luca | Enrico Casarosa |
| 2021 | The Mitchells vs. the Machines | Mike Rianda |
| 2022 |
| 2022 | Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio | Guillermo del Toro |
| 2022 | Apollo 10 1⁄2: A Space Age Childhood | Richard Linklater |
| 2022 | Marcel the Shell with Shoes On | Dean Fleischer Camp |
| 2022 | Puss in Boots: The Last Wish | Joel Crawford |
| 2022 | Turning Red | Domee Shi |
| 2023 |
| 2023 | The Boy and the Heron | Hayao Miyazaki |
| 2023 | Elemental | Peter Sohn |
| 2023 | Nimona | Nick Bruno and Troy Quane |
| 2023 | Robot Dreams | Pablo Berger |
| 2023 | Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse | Joaquim Dos Santos & Kemp Powers |
| 2024 |
| 2024 | Flow | Gints Zilbalodis |
| 2024 | Inside Out 2 | Kelsey Mann |
| 2024 | Memoir of a Snail | Adam Elliot |
| 2024 | Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl | Nick Park & Merlin Crossingham |
| 2024 | The Wild Robot | Chris Sanders |

### Multiple wins
#### 2 wins

* Lee Unkrich

### Multiple nominations
#### 2 nominations

* Chris Butler
* Dean DeBlois
* Pete Docter
* Mamoru Hosoda
* Byron Howard
* Hayao Miyazaki
* Rich Moore
* Dan Scanlon
* Lee Unkrich