# List of accolades received by Toy Story 3

Toy Story 3 is a 2010 American animated comedy-drama film produced by Pixar Animation Studios and released by Walt Disney Pictures. It is the third installment in the Toy Story franchise and the sequel to Toy Story 2 (1999). The film was directed by Lee Unkrich from a screenplay he co-wrote with John Lasseter and Andrew Stanton. Toy Story 3 stars the voices of Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Joan Cusack, Don Rickles, Wallace Shawn, John Ratzenberger, Estelle Harris, Ned Beatty, Michael Keaton, Jodi Benson, and John Morris. In the film, Andy's (Morris) toys are accidentally donated to a daycare center as he prepares to leave for college.
Toy Story 3 debuted at the Taormina Film Fest in Italy on June 12, 2010, and was released in the United States on June 18. Produced on a budget of $200 million, Toy Story 3 grossed $1.067 billion worldwide, finishing its theatrical run as the highest-grossing film of 2010; it ranked as the highest-grossing animated film of all time from August 2010 until March 2014. On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 98% based on 313 reviews.
Toy Story 3 garnered awards and nominations in various categories with particular recognition for Michael Arndt's writing. It received five nominations at the 83rd Academy Awards, including Best Picture. The film won Best Animated Feature and Best Original Song ("We Belong Together"). Toy Story 3 was nominated for three awards at the 38th Annie Awards. At the 64th British Academy Film Awards, it was nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Special Visual Effects, and won Best Animated Film.
Toy Story 3 received five nominations at the 16th Critics' Choice Awards and won Best Animated Feature. It won Best Animated Feature Film at the 68th Golden Globe Awards. In 2011, composer Randy Newman won Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media at the Grammy Awards' 53rd ceremony. Various critic circles also picked it as the best animated feature film of the year. In addition, both the American Film Institute and the National Board of Review selected Toy Story 3 as one of the top-ten films of 2010.

## Accolades

Accolades received by Toy Story 3 :
| Award | Date of ceremony | Category | Recipient(s) | Result | Ref. |
| 3D Creative Arts Awards | February 9, 2011 | Favorite 3D Animated Movie | Toy Story 3 | Won | |
| Academy Awards | February 27, 2011 | Best Picture | Darla K. Anderson | Nominated | [12] [13] |
| Academy Awards | February 27, 2011 | Best Adapted Screenplay | Michael Arndt, John Lasseter, Andrew Stanton, and Lee Unkrich | Nominated | [12] [13] |
| Academy Awards | February 27, 2011 | Best Animated Feature | Lee Unkrich | Won | [12] [13] |
| Academy Awards | February 27, 2011 | Best Sound Editing | Tom Myers and Michael Silvers | Nominated | [12] [13] |
| Academy Awards | February 27, 2011 | Best Original Song | Randy Newman for "We Belong Together" | Won | [12] [13] |
| Alliance of Women Film Journalists Awards | December 24, 2010 | Best Animated Feature | Toy Story 3 | Won | [14] [15] |
| Alliance of Women Film Journalists Awards | December 24, 2010 | Best Animated Female | Jodi Benson | Nominated | [14] [15] |
| Alliance of Women Film Journalists Awards | December 24, 2010 | Best Animated Female | Joan Cusack | Nominated | [14] [15] |
| American Cinema Editors Awards | February 19, 2011 | Best Edited Animated Feature Film | Ken Schretzmann and Lee Unkrich | Won | [16] [17] |
| American Film Institute Awards | December 12, 2010 | Top 10 Films of the Year | Toy Story 3 | Won | |
| Annie Awards | February 5, 2011 | Best Animated Feature | Toy Story 3 | Nominated | [19] [20] |
| Annie Awards | February 5, 2011 | Outstanding Achievement for Directing in a Feature Production | Lee Unkrich | Nominated | [19] [20] |
| Annie Awards | February 5, 2011 | Outstanding Achievement for Writing in a Feature Production | Michael Arndt | Nominated | [19] [20] |
| Artios Awards | September 26, 2011 | Animation | Kevin Reher and Natalie Lyon | Won | [21] [22] |
| ASCAP Awards | June 23, 2011 | Top Box Office Films | Randy Newman | Won | |
| Austin Film Critics Association Awards | December 22, 2010 | Top 10 Films | Toy Story 3 | Won | |
| Austin Film Critics Association Awards | December 22, 2010 | Best Animated Film | Toy Story 3 | Won | |
| British Academy Children's Awards | November 28, 2010 | Feature Film | Darla K. Anderson, Lee Unkrich, and Michael Arndt | Nominated | [25] [26] |
| British Academy Children's Awards | November 28, 2010 | Kid's Vote — Film | Toy Story 3 | Nominated | |
| British Academy Film Awards | February 13, 2011 | Best Adapted Screenplay | Michael Arndt | Nominated | [28] [29] |
| British Academy Film Awards | February 13, 2011 | Best Animated Film | Lee Unkrich | Won | [28] [29] |
| British Academy Film Awards | February 13, 2011 | Best Special Visual Effects | Guido Quaroni | Nominated | [28] [29] |
| Boston Society of Film Critics Awards | December 12, 2010 | Best Film | Toy Story 3 | Runner-up | |
| Boston Society of Film Critics Awards | December 12, 2010 | Best Animated Film | Toy Story 3 | Won | |
| Chicago Film Critics Association Awards | December 20, 2010 | Best Animated Film | Toy Story 3 | Won | |
| Chicago Film Critics Association Awards | December 20, 2010 | Best Adapted Screenplay | Michael Arndt | Nominated | |
| The Comedy Awards | March 26, 2011 | Best Animated Comedy Movie | Toy Story 3 | Won | [32] [33] |
| Critics' Choice Movie Awards | January 14, 2011 | Best Picture | Toy Story 3 | Nominated | |
| Critics' Choice Movie Awards | January 14, 2011 | Best Adapted Screenplay | Michael Arndt | Nominated | |
| Critics' Choice Movie Awards | January 14, 2011 | Best Animated Feature | Toy Story 3 | Won | |
| Critics' Choice Movie Awards | January 14, 2011 | Best Sound | Randy Newman | Nominated | |
| Critics' Choice Movie Awards | January 14, 2011 | Best Song | Randy Newman for "We Belong Together" | Nominated | |
| Dallas–Fort Worth Film Critics Association Awards | December 17, 2010 | Best Animated Film | Toy Story 3 | Won | |
| Dorian Awards | January 18, 2011 | Film of the Year | Toy Story 3 | Nominated | [36] [37] |
| Dublin Film Critics' Circle Awards | December 31, 2010 | Top Ten Films | Toy Story 3 | 3rd place | |
| Empire Awards | March 27, 2011 | Best Comedy | Toy Story 3 | Nominated | |
| Florida Film Critics Circle Awards | December 20, 2010 | Best Animated Film | Toy Story 3 | Won | |
| Golden Globe Awards | January 16, 2011 | Best Animated Feature Film | Toy Story 3 | Won | |
| Golden Reel Awards | February 20, 2011 | Outstanding Achievement in Sound Editing – Sound Effects, Foley, Dialogue and ADR for Animated Feature Film | Toy Story 3 | Nominated | [41] [42] |
| Golden Trailer Awards | June 10, 2010 | Summer 2010 Blockbuster | "New Story" (CMP) | Nominated | |
| Golden Trailer Awards | June 29, 2011 | Best Animation/Family TV Spot | "Biggest Ever/Clothes" (MOCEAN) | Nominated | |
| Grammy Awards | February 13, 2011 | Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media | Randy Newman | Won | |
| Hollywood Film Awards | October 26, 2010 | Hollywood Movie Award | Toy Story 3 | Nominated | [46] [47] |
| Hollywood Film Awards | October 26, 2010 | Hollywood Animation Award | Lee Unkrich | Won | [46] [47] |
| Hollywood Post Alliance Awards | November 11, 2010 | Outstanding Editing – Feature Film | Ken Schretzmann and Lee Unkrich | Nominated | [48] [49] |
| Hollywood Post Alliance Awards | November 11, 2010 | Outstanding Sound – Feature Film | Tom Myers, Michael Silvers, and Michael Semanick | Nominated | [48] [49] |
| Houston Film Critics Society Awards | December 18, 2010 | Best Picture | Toy Story 3 | Nominated | |
| Houston Film Critics Society Awards | December 18, 2010 | Best Animated Film | Toy Story 3 | Won | |
| Houston Film Critics Society Awards | December 18, 2010 | Best Screenplay | John Lasseter, Andrew Stanton, Lee Unkrich, and Michael Arndt | Nominated | |
| Hugo Awards | August 20, 2011 | Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form | Michael Arndt, John Lasseter, Andrew Stanton, and Lee Unkrich | Nominated | [51] [52] |
| ICG Publicists Awards | February 25, 2011 | Maxwell Weinberg Publicists Showmanship Motion Picture Award | Toy Story 3 | Nominated | [53] [54] |
| International Cinephile Society Awards | February 18, 2011 | Best Animated Film | Toy Story 3 | Nominated | [55] [56] |
| International Film Music Critics Association Awards | February 24, 2011 | Best Original Score for an Animated Film | Randy Newman | Nominated | [57] [58] |
| Irish Film & Television Awards | February 12, 2011 | Best International Film | Toy Story 3 | Nominated | |
| Japan Academy Film Prize | February 18, 2011 | Outstanding Foreign Language Film | Toy Story 3 | Nominated | [60] [61] |
| Kansas City Film Critics Circle Awards | January 2, 2011 | Best Animated Feature | Toy Story 3 | Won | |
| London Film Critics' Circle Awards | February 11, 2011 | Film of the Year | Toy Story 3 | Nominated | |
| Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards | December 12, 2010 | Best Animated Film | Toy Story 3 | Won | |
| Movieguide Awards | February 18, 2011 | Best Movies for Families | Toy Story 3 | Won | [64] [65] |
| MTV Movie Awards | June 5, 2011 | Best Villain | Ned Beatty | Nominated | [66] [67] |
| National Board of Review Awards | December 2, 2010 | Best Animated Film | Toy Story 3 | Won | |
| National Board of Review Awards | December 2, 2010 | Top Ten Films | Toy Story 3 | Won | |
| National Movie Awards | May 26, 2010 | Most Anticipated Movie Of The Summer | Toy Story 3 | Nominated | [69] [70] |
| Nebula Awards | May 21, 2011 | Ray Bradbury Nebula Award for Outstanding Dramatic Presentation | Lee Unkrich, Michael Arndt, John Lasseter, and Andrew Stanton | Nominated | [71] [72] |
| New York Film Critics Online Awards | December 12, 2010 | Best Animated Feature | Toy Story 3 | Won | |
| Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards (Australia) | October 8, 2010 | Fave Movie | Toy Story 3 | Nominated | [74] [75] |
| Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards (United States) | April 2, 2011 | Favorite Animated Movie | Toy Story 3 | Nominated | [76] [77] |
| Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards (United States) | April 2, 2011 | Favorite Voice from an Animated Movie | Tom Hanks | Nominated | [76] [77] |
| Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards (United States) | April 2, 2011 | Favorite Voice from an Animated Movie | Tim Allen | Nominated | [76] [77] |
| Online Film Critics Society Awards | January 3, 2011 | Best Picture | Toy Story 3 | Nominated | [78] [79] |
| Online Film Critics Society Awards | January 3, 2011 | Best Animated Film | Toy Story 3 | Won | [78] [79] |
| People's Choice Awards | January 5, 2011 | Favorite Movie | Toy Story 3 | Nominated | [80] [81] |
| People's Choice Awards | January 5, 2011 | Favorite Family Movie | Toy Story 3 | Won | [80] [81] |
| Producers Guild of America Awards | January 22, 2011 | Best Theatrical Motion Picture | Darla K. Anderson | Nominated | [82] [83] |
| Producers Guild of America Awards | January 22, 2011 | Best Animated Motion Picture | Darla K. Anderson | Won | [82] [83] |
| San Diego Film Critics Society Awards | December 14, 2010 | Best Animated Feature | Toy Story 3 | Won | [84] [85] |
| San Diego Film Critics Society Awards | December 14, 2010 | Best Original Screenplay | Michael Arndt | Nominated | [84] [85] |
| San Francisco Film Critics Circle Awards | December 13, 2010 | Best Animated Feature | Toy Story 3 | Won | |
| Satellite Awards | December 19, 2010 | Best Animated or Mixed Media Feature | Toy Story 3 | Won | [87] [88] |
| Satellite Awards | December 19, 2010 | Best Original Screenplay | Toy Story 3 | Nominated | [87] [88] |
| Saturn Awards | June 23, 2011 | Best Animated Film | Toy Story 3 | Won | |
| Saturn Awards | June 23, 2011 | Best Writing | Michael Arndt | Nominated | |
| Scream Awards | October 16, 2010 | Best Fantasy Movie | Toy Story 3 | Nominated | [90] [91] |
| Scream Awards | October 16, 2010 | Best Scream-Play | Michael Arndt | Nominated | [90] [92] |
| Scream Awards | October 16, 2010 | Best Fantasy Actor | Tom Hanks | Nominated | [90] [93] |
| Scream Awards | October 16, 2010 | 3-D Top Three | Toy Story 3 | Nominated | [90] [94] |
| St. Louis Film Critics Association Awards | December 20, 2010 | Best Animated Feature | Toy Story 3 | Won | |
| Teen Choice Awards | August 8, 2010 | Choice Animated Movie | Toy Story 3 | Won | [95] [96] |
| Toronto Film Critics Association Awards | December 14, 2010 | Best Animated Film | Toy Story 3 | Runner-up | |
| Visual Effects Society Awards | February 1, 2011 | Outstanding Visual Effects in an Animated Feature | Lee Unkrich, Darla K. Anderson, Guido Quaroni, and Michael Fong | Nominated | [97] [98] |
| Visual Effects Society Awards | February 1, 2011 | Outstanding Effects Animation in an Animated Feature Motion Picture | Jason Johnston, Eric Froemling, David Ryu, and JD Northrup | Nominated | [97] [98] |
| Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Awards | December 6, 2010 | Best Adapted Screenplay | Michael Arndt | Nominated | |
| Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Awards | December 6, 2010 | Best Film | Toy Story 3 | Nominated | |
| Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Awards | December 6, 2010 | Best Animated Feature | Toy Story 3 | Won | |
| Women Film Critics Circle Awards | December 23, 2010 | Best Family Film | Toy Story 3 | Won | |
| World Soundtrack Awards | October 22, 2011 | Best Original Song Written Directly for a Film | Randy Newman for "We Belong Together" | Won | |