# Golden Globe Award for Best Animated Feature Film

The Golden Globe Award for Best Animated Feature Film is a Golden Globe Award category that was awarded for the first time at the 64th Golden Globe Awards in 2007. It was the first time that the Golden Globe Awards had created a separate category for animated 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. The Pixar film Cars was the first recipient of the award.

## Eligibility

English-language films may be nominated in only one feature category. Therefore, films nominated in this category are ineligible to be nominated for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy, Best Motion Picture – Drama if their principal dialogue is in English. However, films nominated for Best 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. This has led to much confusion leading many to believe animated films are snubbed in the Best Motion Picture categories, specifically Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy where animated films have won and/or were nominated before, but in reality (since 2006) they simply are not eligible to be nominated; until 2023 prior of the now-defunct Hollywood Foreign Press Association, the rule is amended by Dick 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 to Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film and newly-established Cinematic and Box Office Achievement.
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.

## Winners and nominees
### 2000s

| Year | Film | Nominee(s) | Studio(s) |
| 2006 | Cars | John Lasseter | Walt Disney Pictures, Pixar Animation Studios |
| 2006 | Happy Feet | George Miller | Village Roadshow Pictures, Animal Logic, Kennedy Miller Productions, Warner Animation Group |
| 2006 | Monster House | Gil Kenan | ImageMovers, Amblin Entertainment, Relativity Media |
| 2007 | Ratatouille | Brad Bird | Walt Disney Pictures, Pixar Animation Studios |
| 2007 | Bee Movie | Simon J. Smith and Steve Hickner | DreamWorks Animation |
| 2007 | The Simpsons Movie | David Silverman | 20th Century Fox Animation, Gracie Films |
| 2008 | WALL-E | Andrew Stanton | Walt Disney Pictures, Pixar Animation Studios |
| 2008 | Bolt | Chris Williams and Byron Howard | Walt Disney Pictures, Walt Disney Animation Studios |
| 2008 | Kung Fu Panda | Mark Osborne and John Stevenson | DreamWorks Animation |
| 2009 | Up | Pete Docter | Walt Disney Pictures, Pixar Animation Studios |
| 2009 | Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs | Phil Lord and Christopher Miller | Sony Pictures Animation |
| 2009 | Coraline | Henry Selick | Laika, Pandemonium, Focus Features |
| 2009 | Fantastic Mr. Fox | Wes Anderson | 20th Century Fox Animation, American Empirical Pictures, Regency Enterprises, Indian Paintbrush |
| 2009 | The Princess and the Frog | Ron Clements and John Musker | Walt Disney Pictures, Walt Disney Animation Studios |

### 2010s

| Year | Film | Nominee(s) | Studio(s) |
| 2010 | Toy Story 3 | Lee Unkrich | Walt Disney Pictures, Pixar Animation Studios |
| 2010 | Despicable Me | Pierre Coffin and Chris Renaud | Illumination Entertainment |
| 2010 | How to Train Your Dragon | Chris Sanders and Dean DeBlois | DreamWorks Animation |
| 2010 | The Illusionist | Sylvain Chomet | Pathé, Django Films |
| 2010 | Tangled | Nathan Greno and Byron Howard | Walt Disney Pictures, Walt Disney Animation Studios |
| 2011 | The Adventures of Tintin | Steven Spielberg | Nickelodeon Movies, Amblin Entertainment, WingNut Films, The Kennedy/Marshall Company, Weta Digital, Hemisphere Media |
| 2011 | Arthur Christmas | Sarah Smith | Aardman Animations, Sony Pictures Animation |
| 2011 | Cars 2 | John Lasseter | Walt Disney Pictures, Pixar Animation Studios |
| 2011 | Puss in Boots | Chris Miller | DreamWorks Animation |
| 2011 | Rango | Gore Verbinski | Nickelodeon Movies, GK Films, Industrial Light & Magic |
| 2012 | Brave | Mark Andrews and Brenda Chapman | Walt Disney Pictures, Pixar Animation Studios |
| 2012 | Frankenweenie | Tim Burton | Walt Disney Pictures, Tim Burton Productions |
| 2012 | Hotel Transylvania | Genndy Tartakovsky | Sony Pictures Animation |
| 2012 | Rise of the Guardians | Peter Ramsey | DreamWorks Animation |
| 2012 | Wreck-It Ralph | Rich Moore | Walt Disney Pictures, Walt Disney Animation Studios |
| 2013 | Frozen | Chris Buck and Jennifer Lee | Walt Disney Pictures, Walt Disney Animation Studios |
| 2013 | The Croods | Kirk DeMicco and Chris Sanders | DreamWorks Animation |
| 2013 | Despicable Me 2 | Pierre Coffin and Chris Renaud | Illumination Entertainment |
| 2014 | How to Train Your Dragon 2 | Dean DeBlois | DreamWorks Animation |
| 2014 | Big Hero 6 | Don Hall and Chris Williams | Walt Disney Pictures, Walt Disney Animation Studios |
| 2014 | The Book of Life | Jorge Gutierrez | Reel FX Creative Studios, 20th Century Fox Animation |
| 2014 | The Boxtrolls | Graham Annable and Anthony Stacchi | Laika, Focus Features |
| 2014 | The Lego Movie | Phil Lord and Christopher Miller | Village Roadshow Pictures, Lego System A/S, Vertigo Entertainment, Lin Pictures, Animal Logic, Warner Animation Group |
| 2015 | Inside Out | Pete Docter | Walt Disney Pictures, Pixar Animation Studios |
| 2015 | Anomalisa | Charlie Kaufman and Duke Johnson | Starburns Industries, Snoot Films, Paramount Animation |
| 2015 | The Good Dinosaur | Peter Sohn | Walt Disney Pictures, Pixar Animation Studios |
| 2015 | The Peanuts Movie | Steve Martino | Blue Sky Studios, 20th Century Fox Animation, Peanuts Worldwide, Feigco Entertainment |
| 2015 | Shaun the Sheep Movie | Richard Starzak and Mark Burton | Aardman Animations |
| 2016 | Zootopia | Byron Howard and Rich Moore | Walt Disney Pictures, Walt Disney Animation Studios |
| 2016 | Kubo and the Two Strings | Travis Knight | Laika, Focus Features |
| 2016 | Moana | Ron Clements and John Musker | Walt Disney Pictures, Walt Disney Animation Studios |
| 2016 | My Life as a Zucchini | Claude Barras | Rhône-Alpes Studios |
| 2016 | Sing | Garth Jennings | Illumination Entertainment |
| 2017 | Coco | Lee Unkrich | Walt Disney Pictures, Pixar Animation Studios |
| 2017 | The Boss Baby | Tom McGrath | DreamWorks Animation |
| 2017 | The Breadwinner | Nora Twomey | Cartoon Saloon, Telefilm Canada, Irish Film Board, Melusine Productions, Jolie Pas, Guru Studio, Aircraft Pictures |
| 2017 | Ferdinand | Carlos Saldanha | Blue Sky Studios, 20th Century Fox Animation, Davis Entertainment |
| 2017 | Loving Vincent | Dorota Kobiela and Hugh Welchman | BreakThru Productions, Trademark Films |
| 2018 | Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse | Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey and Rodney Rothman | Columbia Pictures, Marvel Entertainment, Sony Pictures Animation |
| 2018 | Incredibles 2 | Brad Bird | Walt Disney Pictures, Pixar Animation Studios |
| 2018 | Isle of Dogs | Wes Anderson | Studio Babelsberg, Indian Paintbrush, American Empirical Pictures |
| 2018 | Mirai | Mamoru Hosoda | Studio Chizu |
| 2018 | Ralph Breaks the Internet | Rich Moore and Phil Johnston | Walt Disney Pictures, Walt Disney Animation Studios |
| 2019 | Missing Link | Chris Butler | Annapurna Pictures, Laika |
| 2019 | Frozen II | Chris Buck and Jennifer Lee | Walt Disney Pictures, Walt Disney Animation Studios |
| 2019 | How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World | Dean DeBlois | DreamWorks Animation |
| 2019 | The Lion King | Jon Favreau | Walt Disney Pictures, Fairview Entertainment |
| 2019 | Toy Story 4 | Josh Cooley | Walt Disney Pictures, Pixar Animation Studios |

### 2020s

| Year | Film | Nominee(s) | Studio(s) |
| 2020 | Soul | Pete Docter | Walt Disney Pictures, Pixar Animation Studios |
| 2020 | The Croods: A New Age | Joel Crawford | DreamWorks Animation |
| 2020 | Onward | Dan Scanlon | Walt Disney Pictures, Pixar Animation Studios |
| 2020 | Over the Moon | Glen Keane | Netflix Animation, Pearl Studio, Sony Pictures Imageworks, Glen Keane Productions |
| 2020 | Wolfwalkers | Tomm Moore and Ross Stewart | Cartoon Saloon, Melusine Productions |
| 2021 | Encanto | Jared Bush and Byron Howard | Walt Disney Pictures, Walt Disney Animation Studios |
| 2021 | Flee | Jonas Poher Rasmussen | Vice Studios, NEON |
| 2021 | Luca | Enrico Casarosa | Walt Disney Pictures, Pixar Animation Studios |
| 2021 | My Sunny Maad | Michaela Pavlátová | Negativ Film, Sacrebleu Productions |
| 2021 | Raya and the Last Dragon | Don Hall and Carlos López Estrada | Walt Disney Pictures, Walt Disney Animation Studios |
| 2022 | Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio | Guillermo del Toro and Mark Gustafson | Netflix Animation, Double Dare You!, ShadowMachine, The Jim Henson Company, Taller del Chucho |
| 2022 | Inu-Oh | Masaaki Yuasa | Science Saru |
| 2022 | Marcel the Shell with Shoes On | Dean Fleischer Camp | Cinereach, You Want I Should LLC., Human Woman Inc., Sunbeam TV & Films, Chiodo Bros. Productions |
| 2022 | Puss in Boots: The Last Wish | Joel Crawford | DreamWorks Animation |
| 2022 | Turning Red | Domee Shi | Walt Disney Pictures, Pixar Animation Studios |
| 2023 | The Boy and the Heron | Hayao Miyazaki | Studio Ghibli, GKIDS |
| 2023 | Elemental | Peter Sohn | Walt Disney Pictures, Pixar Animation Studios |
| 2023 | Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse | Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers and Justin K. Thompson | Columbia Pictures, Marvel Entertainment, Sony Pictures Animation |
| 2023 | The Super Mario Bros. Movie | Aaron Horvath and Michael Jelenic | Universal Pictures, Illumination, Nintendo |
| 2023 | Suzume | Makoto Shinkai | CoMix Wave Films, Studio, Inc., Toho |
| 2023 | Wish | Chris Buck and Fawn Veerasunthorn | Walt Disney Pictures, Walt Disney Animation Studios |
| 2024 | Flow | Gints Zilbalodis | Janus Films, Sacrebleu Productions |
| 2024 | Inside Out 2 | Kelsey Mann | Walt Disney Pictures, Pixar Animation Studios |
| 2024 | Memoir of a Snail | Adam Elliot | IFC Films, Snails Pace Films |
| 2024 | Moana 2 | David Derrick Jr., Jason Hand and Dana Ledoux Miller | Walt Disney Pictures, Walt Disney Animation Studios |
| 2024 | Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl | Nick Park and Merlin Crossingham | Aardman Animations, Netflix |
| 2024 | The Wild Robot | Chris Sanders | DreamWorks Animation |

## Breakdown

* Pixar Animation Studios - 9 wins, 18 nominations
* Walt Disney Animation Studios - 3 wins, 14 nominations
* DreamWorks Animation - 1 win, 13 nominations
* Sony Pictures Animation - 1 win, 5 nominations
* Laika - 1 win, 4 nominations
* Nickelodeon Movies - 1 win, 2 nominations
* Netflix - 1 win, 2 nominations
* Sacrebleu Productions - 1 win, 2 nominations
* Studio Ghibli - 1 win, 1 nomination
* Illumination Entertainment - no wins, 4 nominations
* Aardman Animations - no wins, 3 nominations
* Blue Sky Studios - no wins, 2 nominations
* Warner Bros. Pictures - no wins, 2 nominations
* Cartoon Saloon - no wins, 2 nominations
* Indian Paintbrush/American Empirical Pictures - no wins, 2 nominations