Studio: PDI/DreamWorks Production DreamWorks Image Credit: ©DreamWorks/courtesy Everett Here’s a year-by-year recap of all the Oscar winners for best animated feature film. He also won an Oscar for directing The Shape of Water. He’s the first person to win Oscars for both best picture ( The Shape of Water) and best animated feature film ( Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio). This year’s win allowed del Toro to make Oscar history. This year’s award in that category went to Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio, which was co-written, co-directed and co-produced by del Toro. Throughout the ’90s, the Oscars resisted adding a category for animated features, though John Lasseter received a special achievement award in 1995 “for his inspired leadership of the Pixar Toy Story team, resulting in the first feature-length computer-animated film.” It wasn’t until 2001 that the Academy finally added a category for best animated feature.

Beauty and the Beast was the Annies’ first winner, followed by such smash hits as Aladdin (1992), The Lion King (1993-94), Pocahontas (1995) and Toy Story (1996). That same year, the rival Annie Awards added a category for best animated feature. The film also won three competitive Oscars.īut it wasn’t until 1991’s Beauty and the Beast that an animated film was nominated for best picture.

Walt Disney received a special award in 1938 for the previous year’s Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, which was “recognized as a significant screen innovation which has charmed millions and pioneered a great new entertainment field for the motion picture cartoon.”įifty years later, Richard Williams received a special achievement award for the animation direction of Who Framed Roger Rabbit. Animated films have a rich history at the Academy Awards.

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