Claim: Rango was a winner at The 84th Academy Awards.

Rango is a 2011 American 3D computer-animated Western action comedy film directed by Gore Verbinski , written by John Logan , and produced by Verbinski , Graham King and John B. Carls . Rango was a critical and commercial success , and won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature . In the film , Rango , a chameleon , accidentally ends up in the town of Dirt , an outpost that is in desperate need of a new sheriff . It features the voices of actors Johnny Depp , Isla Fisher , Bill Nighy , Abigail Breslin , Alfred Molina , Harry Dean Stanton , Ray Winstone , Timothy Olyphant , Stephen Root and Ned Beatty . The film premiered at Westwood on February 14 , 2011 and was released in the United States on March 4 , 2011 by Paramount Pictures . The film earned $ 245.7 million on a $ 135 million budget .