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This page highlights the animated feature films nominated for or won Academy Awards aside from the Best Animated Feature category.
Feature film categories
Best Picture
Animated feature films were nominated for Best Picture in only three cases: 1991, 2009 and 2010. Beauty and the Beast is the only animated-feature film Best Picture nominee before the inception of Best Animated Feature and in the five-nominee format. Up and Toy Story 3 were both nominated after the inception of the animated feature category and in the expanded ten-nominee format.
| Year | Film | Award Recipient(s) | Studio | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1991 (64th) |
Beauty and the Beast | Don Hahn | Disney | Nominated |
| 2009 (82nd) |
Up | Jonas Rivera | Disney, Pixar | Nominated |
| 2010 (83rd) |
Toy Story 3 | Darla K. Anderson | Nominated |
Best International Feature Film
Only two animated films have been nominated in the Best International Feature Film category.
| Year | Film | Award Recipient(s) | Studio | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 (81st) |
Waltz with Bashir | Ari Folman | Bridgit Folman Film Gang, Les Films d'Ici, Razor Film Produktion | Nominated[1][2] |
| 2021 (94th) |
Flee | Jonas Poher Rasmussen | Neon | Nominated |
Best Documentary Feature
Only one animated film has been nominated in the Best Documentary Feature category.
| Year | Film | Award Recipient(s) | Studio | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 (94th) |
Flee | Jonas Poher Rasmussen, Monica Hellström, Signe Byrge Sørensen, and Charlotte De La Gournerie | Neon | Nominated |
Writing (screenplay) categories
Best Original Screenplay
All films are distributed/produced by Disney/Pixar.
| Year | Film | Award Recipient(s) | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1995 (68th) |
Toy Story | Andrew Stanton (screenplay and story), Joss Whedon, Joel Cohen, Alec Sokolow (screenplay), John Lasseter, Pete Docter, Joe Ranft (story) | Nominated |
| 2003 (76th) |
Finding Nemo | Andrew Stanton (screenplay and story), Bob Peterson, David Reynolds (screenplay) | Nominated |
| 2004 (77th) |
The Incredibles | Brad Bird | Nominated |
| 2007 (80th) |
Ratatouille | Brad Bird (screenplay and story), Jan Pinkava, Jim Capobianco (story) | Nominated |
| 2008 (81st) |
WALL-E | Andrew Stanton (screenplay and story), Jim Reardon (screenplay), Pete Docter (story) | Nominated |
| 2009 (82nd) |
Up | Bob Peterson, Pete Docter (screenplay and story), Tom McCarthy (story) | Nominated |
| 2015 (88th) |
Inside Out | Pete Docter (screenplay and story), Meg LeFauve, Josh Cooley (screenplay), Ronnie del Carmen (story) | Nominated |
Best Adapted Screenplay
| Year | Film | Award Recipient(s) | Studio | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 (74th) |
Shrek | Ted Elliott, Terry Rossio, Joe Stillman, Roger S. H. Schulman | DreamWorks Animation, Pacific Data Images | Nominated |
| 2010 (83rd) |
Toy Story 3 | Michael Arndt (screenplay), John Lasseter, Andrew Stanton, Lee Unkrich (story) | Disney, Pixar | Nominated |
Music categories
Best Original Score
Best Original Song
Since the category's inception in 1934, twelve animated films have won this music category, with Disney winning eleven (three with Pixar), and DreamWorks winning one. Beauty and the Beast (1991) and The Lion King (1994) both had three nominations in this category, the first and second films to do so.
Wet Blanket Policy, a 1948 Woody Woodpecker short cartoon, was also nominated for Best Original Song. "The Woody Woodpecker" song was written by George Tibbles and Ramey Idriess and was nominated for the 21st Academy Awards (21st). It is the only animated short subject to be nominated in a traditionally feature film category.
In addition of outside of Disney and Pixar theatrical films, The Prince of Egypt (1998) marks their first time and is the only film for DreamWorks Animation to win an award category as of 2023.