Saturn Award for Best Animated Film

Saturn Award for Best Animated Film
Awarded forBest animated motion picture of the year
CountryUnited States
Presented byAcademy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films
First awarded1978 (awarded to Watership Down)
Currently held bySpider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2022/2023)
Websitewww.saturnawards.org

The Saturn Award for Best Animated Film (formerly Saturn Award for Best Animation) is one of the annual awards given by the American professionnel organization, the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films. The Saturn Awards, which are the oldest film-specialized awards to reward science fiction, fantasy, and horror achievements (the Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, awarded by the World Science Fiction Society who reward science fiction and fantasy in various media, is the oldest award for science fiction and fantasy films), included the Best Animated Film category for the first time only in 1978, was revived in 1982, and still currently reactivated since 2002.

It is one of the oldest awards to reward animated films. This award has been achieved sixteen times, including ten times to Pixar films.

Winners and nominees

Early years

Year Film Ref.
Watership Down
The Secret of NIMH
The Last Unicorn
Les Maîtres du temps
Phoenix 2772
Tron

2000s

Year Film Ref.
Spirited Away
Ice Age
Lilo & Stitch
Treasure Planet
Finding Nemo
Brother Bear
Looney Tunes: Back in Action
Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas
The Incredibles
The Polar Express
Shark Tale
Shrek 2
Corpse Bride
Chicken Little
Hoodwinked
Howl's Moving Castle
Madagascar
Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
Cars
Flushed Away
Happy Feet
Monster House
Over the Hedge
A Scanner Darkly
Ratatouille
Beowulf
Meet the Robinsons
Shrek the Third
The Simpsons Movie
Surf's Up
WALL-E
Bolt
Horton Hears a Who!
Kung Fu Panda
Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa
Star Wars: The Clone Wars
Monsters vs. Aliens
A Christmas Carol
Coraline
Fantastic Mr. Fox
Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs
Up

2010s

Year Film Ref.
Toy Story 3
Despicable Me
How to Train Your Dragon
Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole
Shrek Forever After
Tangled
Puss in Boots
The Adventures of Tintin
Cars 2
Kung Fu Panda 2
Rango
Rio
Frankenweenie
Brave
ParaNorman
Wreck-It Ralph
Frozen
Despicable Me 2
From Up on Poppy Hill
Monsters University
The Lego Movie
Big Hero 6
The Boxtrolls
How to Train Your Dragon 2
The Wind Rises
Inside Out
Anomalisa
The Good Dinosaur
Kung Fu Panda 3
Minions
When Marnie Was There
Finding Dory [1]
Kingsglaive: Final Fantasy XV [2]
Moana
Sing
Trolls
Zootopia
Coco [3]
The Boss Baby [4]
Cars 3
Despicable Me 3
Your Name
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse [5]
The Grinch [6]
How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World
Incredibles 2
Ralph Breaks the Internet
Toy Story 4
Onward [7]
Abominable [8]
The Addams Family
Frozen II
Spies in Disguise
Trolls World Tour

2020s

Year Film Ref.
Marcel the Shell with Shoes On [9]
The Addams Family 2
Encanto
Lightyear
Luca
Minions: The Rise of Gru
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse [10]
Elemental
Puss in Boots: The Last Wish
The Super Mario Bros. Movie
Suzume
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem

References