At the 89th Academy Awards , Kubo and the Two Strings lost to Zootopia and The Jungle Book .
The film won the BAFTA Award for Best Animated Film at the 70th British Academy Film Awards and at the 89th Academy Awards , the film was nominated for Best Animated Feature Film and Best Visual Effects , becoming the second animated film ever to be nominated in the latter category following 1993 's The Nightmare Before Christmas , and the first film to be nominated for both.
Kubo and the Two Strings