Everything about The Academy Award For Best Animated Feature totally explained
The
Academy Award for Best Animated Feature is one of the annual Awards given by the
Los Angeles-based professional organization, the
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
The
Academy Awards, or Oscars, which are the oldest awards given to achievements in film, included the
Best Animated Feature category for the first time for the
2001 film year.
Beauty and the Beast (1991) remains the only animated film ever to be nominated for
Best Picture.
The award is only given if there are at least eight
animated feature films (with a theatrical release in Los Angeles). For the purposes of the award, only films over 70 minutes long are considered to be "
feature films". If there are 16 or more films submitted for the category, the winner will be voted from a shortlist of five films, otherwise there will only be three films on the shortlist.
People in the
animation industry and fans expressed hope that the prestige from this award and the resulting boost to the box office would encourage the increased production of animated features. Some members and fans however criticize the award, saying it's only intended to prevent animated films from having a chance of winning Best Picture. Official Academy Award regulations state that any movie nominated for this category can still be nominated for Best Picture. Nevertheless, psychological effects may prevent nominations or serve to suppress protests of an animated film's lack of a Best Picture nomination, much like the Oscars for Best Foreign Language film and Best Documentary Feature.
Since the Academy gives out this award, the Golden Globes and the BAFTA Awards followed the example.
List of winners and nominees
2002 (75th) Spirited Away - Toho (Japan) / Walt Disney Pictures (USA) - Hayao Miyazaki
2003 (76th) Finding Nemo Walt Disney Pictures & Pixar Animation Studios - Andrew Stanton
2004 (77th) The Incredibles - Walt Disney Pictures & Pixar Animation Studios - Brad Bird
2005 (78th) - DreamWorks SKG & Aardman Animations - Nick Park, Steve Box
2006 (79th) Happy Feet - Warner Bros. (USA) / Village Roadshow Pictures (Australia) - George Miller
2007 (80th) Ratatouille - Walt Disney Pictures & Pixar Animation Studios - Brad Bird
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