San Diego Film Critics Society Award for Best Animated Film

The San Diego Film Critics Society Award for Best Animated Feature is an annual film award given by the San Diego Film Critics Society.

Winners

2003-2008

Year	Film	Director(s)
2003	The Triplets of Belleville (Les triplettes de Belleville)	Sylvain Chomet
2004	The Incredibles	Brad Bird
2005	Howl's Moving Castle (Hauru no ugoku shiro)	Hayao Miyazaki
2006	not awarded
2007	Ratatouille	Brad Bird
2008	WALL-E	Andrew Stanton

2009-2019

Year	Film	Director(s)	Nominees
2009	Up	Pete Docter	9 \|\| Shane Acker Coraline \|\| Henry Selick Fantastic Mr. Fox \|\| Wes Anderson Monsters vs. Aliens \|\| Conrad Vernon, Rob Letterman
2010	Toy Story 3	Lee Unkrich	Despicable Me \|\| Pierre Coffin, Chris Renaud How To Train Your Dragon \|\| Chris Sanders, Dean DeBlois The Illusionist (L'Illusionniste) \|\| Sylvain Chomet Tangled \|\| Nathan Greno, Byron Howard
2011	Arthur Christmas	Sarah Smith	Happy Feet Two \|\| George Miller Kung Fu Panda 2 \|\| Jennifer Yuh Nelson Rango \|\| Gore Verbinski Winnie the Pooh \|\| Stephen Anderson, Don Hall
2012	ParaNorman	Sam Fell and Chris Butler	Brave \|\| Mark Andrews, Brenda Chapman Frankenweenie \|\| Tim Burton Rise of the Guardians \|\| Peter Ramsey Wreck-It Ralph \|\| Rich Moore
2013	The Wind Rises	Hayao Miyazaki	The Croods \|\| Chris Sanders, Kirk DeMicco Despicable Me 2 \|\| Pierre Coffin, Chris Renaud Frozen \|\| Chris Buck, Jennifer Lee Get a Horse! \|\| Lauren MacMullan
2014	The Boxtrolls	Graham Annable and Anthony Stacchi	Big Hero 6 \|\| Don Hall, Chris Williams How to Train Your Dragon 2 \|\| Dean DeBlois The Lego Movie \|\| Phil Lord, Chris Miller The Nut Job \|\| Peter Lepeniotis
2015	Anomalisa	Charlie Kaufman and Duke Johnson	The Good Dinosaur \|\| Peter Sohn Inside Out \|\| Pete Docter, Ronnie del Carmen The Peanuts Movie \|\| Steve Martino Shaun the Sheep Movie \|\| Richard Starzak, Mark Burton
2016	Kubo and the Two Strings	Travis Knight	April and the Extraordinary World (Avril et le Monde Truqué) \|\| Christian Desmares, Franck Ekinci Long Way North (Tout en haut du monde) \|\| Rémi Chayé Moana \|\| Ron Clements, John Musker Zootopia \|\| Byron Howard, Rich Moore
2017	My Life as a Zucchini	Claude Barras	The Boss Baby \|\| Tom McGrath Coco \|\| Lee Unkrich Loving Vincent \|\| Dorota Kobiela, Hugh Welchman My Entire High School Sinking Into the Sea \|\| Dash Shaw
2018	Isle of Dogs	Wes Anderson	Have a Nice Day \|\| Liu Jian Incredibles 2 \|\| Brad Bird Ralph Breaks the Internet \|\| Rich Moore & Phil Johnston Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse \|\| Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey and Rodney Rothman
2019	I Lost My Body	Jérémy Clapin	Abominable \|\| Jill Culton How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World \|\| Dean DeBlois Missing Link \|\| Chris Butler Toy Story 4 \|\| Josh Cooley

2020s

Year	Film	Director(s)	Nominees
2020	Wolfwalkers	Tomm Moore and Ross Stewart	Onward \|\| Dan Scanlon Over the Moon \|\| Glen Keane Soul \|\| Pete Docter Trolls World Tour \|\| Walt Dohrn
2021	Luca	Enrico Casarosa and Jesse Andrews	Encanto \|\| Byron Howard Flee \|\| Jonas Poher Rasmussen The Mitchells vs. the Machines \|\| Mike Rianda Raya and the Last Dragon \|\| Don Hall
2022	Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio	Guillermo del Toro and Mark Gustafson	Marcel the Shell with Shoes On \|\| Dean Fleischer Camp Puss in Boots: The Last Wish \|\| Joel Crawford Turning Red \|\| Domee Shi Wendell & Wild \|\| Henry Selick
2023	The Boy and the Heron (Kimitachi wa Dō Ikiru ka)	Hayao Miyazaki	Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget \|\| Sam Fell Nimona \|\| Nick Bruno and Troy Quane Robot Dreams \|\| Pablo Berger Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse \|\| Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers, and Justin K. Thompson
2024	*Flow*	Gints Zilbalodis	Memoir of a Snail \|\| Adam Elliot Transformers One \|\| Josh Cooley Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl \|\| Merlin Crossingham and Nick Park The Wild Robot \|\| Chris Sanders

External links

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