Every animated movie that's won an Oscar

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"Encanto" was directed past Jared Bush-league, Byron Howard, and Charise Castro Smith.
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  • The Oscars didn't introduce the best animated characteristic category until 2002 when "Shrek" won.
  • A handful of animated movies won Oscars earlier that, more often than not for best vocal or original score.
  • From "Dumbo" to "Encanto," here's every animated picture to win an Oscar.
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1938: Walt Disney received an honorary accolade for "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" where he received one normal sized statue and vii miniature ones.

"Snow White" was Disney's showtime full length blithe picture.
Disney

Though "Snowfall White and the Vii Dwarfs" didn't win its Oscar nomination for all-time original score, Disney was given an honorary laurels to recognize the characteristic's innovation in filmmaking.

Disney didn't only receive one statue. He received one regular-sized statue and seven miniature Oscars to denote the film's seven dwarfs.

1940: "Pinocchio" was the kickoff animated Disney picture show to receive an official Oscar.

"Pinocchio" was honored at the 13th Oscars.
DIsney

Afterwards a few nominations, Disney won its commencement major University Awards for one of its animated features.

"Pinocchio" won ii Oscars for best original score and best original song, "When You Wish Upon a Star."

1941: "Dense" won an Oscar the following year for best original score.

"Dumbo" was nominated for ii music Oscars.
Disney

"Dumbo" was also nominated for best original song that twelvemonth for "Baby Mine," only lost out to "The Last Time I Saw Paris" from "Lady Be Good."

1990: "The Little Mermaid" brought prestige back to Disney, which went on to boss Oscars for animated movies. Information technology won Oscars for all-time score and vocal.

"The Little Mermaid."
Walt Disney Productions/"The Little Mermaid"

Later on around two decades of mostly forgettable movies, Walt Disney Animation Studios produced "The Fiddling Mermaid" to critical acclaim. It won the Oscar for best original score, and "Nether the Sea" won for best original song.

1992: "Beauty and the Beast" broke Oscar records.

"Beauty and the Beast."
Disney

The motion picture was nominated for six Oscars, winning for best score and all-time original song, for the song "Beauty and the Brute." "Exist Our Invitee" and "Belle" were also nominated in the all-time song category.

The movie also received a best picture nomination, the first animated film in history to do so, too as i for best sound. It retains the title of the animated movie with the most Oscar nominations, tied with 2008's "Wall-E."

1993: "Aladdin" kept up Disney'southward streak.

"Aladdin."
Disney

The picture received the aforementioned awards as its predecessor, for best score and all-time song, honoring "A Whole New World."

"Friend Like Me" was also nominated in the vocal category, and the movie received nominations in the best sound and best sound effects editing categories.

1996: "Pocahontas" won 2 Oscars even though "Toy Story" had more than nominations.

"Pocahontas."
Disney/"Pocahontas"

1995 was a milestone year for animated features. Pixar studios, founded by a class of ex-Disney animators, released its first feature, "Toy Story," which was instantly hailed as a masterpiece. The movie received three nominations, plus a special achievement award for manager John Lasseter.

But the traditional Disney movie remained ascendant in the stop. "Pocahantas" won both of its nominations: in the score category— now renamed "Original Musical or One-act Score" — and in the song category for "Colors of the Wind."

1999: A new studio broke through as "The Prince of Egypt" wins an Oscar.

"The Prince of Egypt."
Dreamworks

For the 1998 Oscars, both Disney's "Hercules" and 20th Century Fox's "Anastasia" received nominations, but they were shut out by the say-so of "Titanic."

Merely in 1999, "The Prince of Arab republic of egypt" won an laurels, for "When Y'all Believe" in the original song category. "The Prayer" from "Quest for Camelot" was too nominated in that category. It was also nominated alongside "A Problems's Life" and "Mulan" in the "Best Original Musical or Comedy Score," which existed in the mid-1990s, only lost them all to "Shakespeare in Love."

2000: "Tarzan" scored a victory with "Yous'll Be in My Heart."

"Tarzan."
Disney

Disney notched up another victory as Phil Collins's "You'll Be in My Eye" won the best original song award. "Toy Story 2" was nominated in the category as well, for Randy Newman's song "When She Loved Me."

2002: "Shrek" won the first best animated feature Oscar.

"Shrek."
DreamWorks

Winning over "Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius" and Pixar's "Monsters, Inc.," the Dreamworks flick "Shrek" won the first Oscar for best blithe characteristic. It was too nominated in the best adjusted screenplay laurels.

"Monsters, Inc.," though, won the the original song award for "If I Didn't Have You" and received nominations for original score and audio editing.

2003: The Japanese flick "Spirited Away" claimed victory.

"Spirited Away."
Studio Ghibli

Hayao Miyazaki's masterpiece "Spirited Away," from Studio Ghibli, received the accolade.

The picture's English-language dub and release were supervised by Disney. Withal, it shell two Disney features nominated in the category: "Lilo & Sew together" and "Treasure Planet," while "Ice Age" and "Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron" were too nominated.

2004: "Finding Nemo" gave Pixar its first win.

"Finding Nemo."
Pixar

The movie won in the best blithe pic category over "Blood brother Carry" and "The Triplets of Belleville." It too received original screenplay, score, and audio editing nominations.

2005: Pixar won again with "The Incredibles."

"the Incredibles."
Pixar

Disney'due south "Abode on the Range" is completely ignored by the University while "The Incredibles" nabs the animated characteristic and sound editing categories and racks up nominations for original screenplay and sound mixing. The other animated feature nominees are "Shrek 2" and "Shark Tale."

2006: Disney loses again while British claymation movie "Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit."

"Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit."
DreamWorks Pictures

Disney Animation's 2005 offering, "Craven Little," was close out of the Oscars. The Miyazaki motion picture "Howl'south Moving Castle" and Tim Burton'south "Corpse Bride" that lost to the "Wallace & Gromit" movie.

2007: Disney buys Pixar — but all the same loses, to "Happy Feet."

Elijah Wood voiced Mumble in "Happy Feet."
Warner Bros. via Youtube

Later on years of negotiations and tangled business relationships, Disney bought Pixar outright in 2006 for $vii.four billion. Information technology followed a years-long fallow menstruation for Disney'south in-firm animated films.

Information technology was just a month earlier the release of "Cars." Just though "Cars" got a nomination for the best animated feature, along with "Monster Business firm," they both lost to "Happy Feet" from Warner Bros.

2008: Pixar's "Ratatouille" won.

"Ratatouille."
Disney / Pixar

Aside from a all-time blithe characteristic win, the movie was also nominated in the original screenplay, score, sound editing, and sound mixing categories. "Persepolis" and "Surf'southward Upward" were also nominated in the animated characteristic category.

2009: "Wall-East," another Pixar movie, grabbed the Oscar.

"Wall-Eastward."
Pixaar

Andrew Stanton's follow-up to "Finding Nemo" won the animated feature Oscar over Disney stablemate "Bolt" and Dreamworks's "Kung Fu Panda." It likewise received an original screenplay nomination, despite having almost no dialogue, as well as nominations in the audio editing, sound mixing, and song categories.

The lack of best motion-picture show nominations for "Wall-E" and "The Dark Knight" that twelvemonth, however, rankled the movie industry and led the Academy to aggrandize the category to ten nominees. It was later inverse so that somewhere between five and 10 nominees would exist admitted depending on an algorithm.

2010: "Up" kept upward Disney'due south streak.

"Up."
Pixar

Considering the all-time picture category was expanded to 10 nominees, "Up" became the first Pixar movie — and the first blithe movie since "Dazzler and the Beast" — to be nominated in that category. It lost to "The Injure Locker."

"Up" won two Oscars, for animated feature and score, and was also nominated in the original screenplay and audio editing categories. The other blithe feature nominees that yr were strong: "Fantastic Mr. Play tricks," "Coraline," "The Princess and the Frog," and "The Secret of Kells."

2011: "Toy Story 3" again gets a best moving picture nomination for Pixar.

"Toy Story iii."
Pixar

A follow-up to the first ii "Toy Story" movies that fabricated Pixar a formidable force in the 1990s, "Toy Story three" became one of Pixar'south nigh acclaimed movies, and received a best picture Oscar nomination along with a win in the animated feature category (it lost to "The King's Speech").

The movie besides won an original vocal Oscar, for "We Belong Together," and nominations for adapted screenplay and sound editing.

The other nominees in the blithe feature category were "How to Railroad train Your Dragon" and "The Illusionist." "Tangled," Disney's commencement princess movie animated to more resemble a Pixar film, was snubbed.

2012: Paramount came out of nowhere with "Rango."

"Rango."
Paramount

"Rango," a neo-Western movie where Johnny Depp voices a lizard with a Hawaiian shirt, won the all-time animated feature Oscar even though the studio, Paramount, didn't fifty-fifty have an official blitheness division.

Dreamworks as well did well, nominated for both "Puss in Boots" and "Kung Fu Panda 2" in the category, alongside independent features "A Cat in Paris" and "Chico & Rita."

Pixar, nevertheless, was completely shut out with their panned offering "Cars two," and Disney'southward "Winnie the Pooh" wasn't nominated for anything.

2013: "Brave" brought Pixar back.

"Dauntless."
Disney / Pixar

Pixar was victorious once again with "Brave," which didn't receive whatsoever other nominations. The other nominees in the animated feature category were "Frankenweenie," "ParaNorman," "The Pirates! Band of Misfits," and Disney'due south "Wreck-Information technology Ralph."

2014: A non-Pixar Disney film finally won once again, with "Frozen."

"Frozen."
Disney

"Frozen" became Disney Animation Studios'south offset picture show to win the animated feature Oscar since "Tarzan." It also won the only other category it was nominated in, original vocal, for "Allow It Go."

Pixar's "Monsters University," on the other paw, was ignored at the Oscars. The other blithe feature nominees were "The Croods," "Despicable Me ii," "Ernest & Celestine," and Hayao Miyazaki'south "The Air current Rises."

2015: Disney won once again with "Big Hero 6."

"Big Hero 6."
Disney

"Big Hero 6" won the animated characteristic award, the only category it was nominated in. The other nominees were "The Boxtrolls," "How to Train Your Dragon two," "Song of the Bounding main," and "The Tale of the Princess Kaguya."

Pixar, on the other hand, didn't release any movies in 2014.

2016: Pixar reclaimed the crown with "Inside Out."

"Inside Out."
Disney/Pixar

For the first time, Pixar released two movies in a single year. "The Good Dinosaur" was ignored while "Inside Out" won the animated characteristic Oscar and received an original screenplay nomination. It wasn't nominated for best motion-picture show, though.

Disney Animation didn't release annihilation in 2015, and the other nominees in the blithe feature category were "Anomalisa," "Boy and the World," "Shaun the Sheep Moving-picture show," and "When Marnie Was In that location."

2017: "Zootopia" won as "Finding Dory" got snubbed.

"Zootopia."
Disney

Pixar's long-awaited sequel to "Finding Nemo," "Finding Dory," was ignored at the Oscars while Disney's "Zootopia" won the animated feature Oscar. It was nominated aslope Disney'due south "Moana," "Kubo and the Two Strings," "My Life as a Zucchini," and "The Red Turtle."

2018: "Coco" seized another win for Pixar.

In "Coco," Miguel enters the underworld to follow his passion for music.
Pixar

Pixar'south entry won over again in 2018. "Coco" won the best blithe feature category as well every bit best song, for "Call back Me."

In its victory, it won over "The Boss Baby," "Loving Vincent," "Ferdinand," and "The Breadwinner."

2019: "Spider-Man" sticks it to Disney.

"Spider-Human being: Into the Spider-Verse."
Sony Pictures

Though Pixar released its long-awaited "Incredibles" sequel in 2018, it wasn't the ultimate Oscar winner. Instead, the award went to "Spider-Homo: Into the Spider-Poesy." An inter-dimensional Spider-Man origin story, it added a new layer of diversity to the franchise past focusing on Miles Morales instead of Peter Parker, and pioneered a new blitheness style inspired past mitt-drawn comic books.

The movie was produced by Sony, even though they immune Disney to brand a series of Peter Parker-starring live-action movies equally role of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. What had to hurt Disney even more than, though, is that "Spider-Verse" was co-produced by Phil Lord and Chris Miller — the same people Disney fired from "Solo: A Star Wars Story."

The other nominees in the category included another Disney production, "Ralph Breaks the Internet," along with "Mirai" and "Isle of Dogs."

2020: Disney took back the crown with "Toy Story 4."

"Toy Story 4" was directed past Josh Cooley.
Walt Disney Studios Movement Pictures

Originally announced in 2014, and delayed a few times, a major script rewrite didn't prevent the sequel from still winning all-time animated motion-picture show.

"Toy Story 4" beat out out "Klaus," "Missing Link," "I Lost My Body," and "How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World."

2021: "Soul" crush some big competition.

Joe Gardner dreams of beingness a jazz musician in "Soul."
Disney/Pixar

"Soul" swept at the awards circuit, so it was piddling surprise the film, which features Pixar's commencement Black lead, also won the Oscar this year.

The film trounce out another Pixar moving picture, "Onward," in addition to "Over the Moon," "Wolfwalkers," and "A Shaun the Sheep Flick: Farmageddon."

2022: Disney edged out Sony Pictures Blitheness with "Encanto" to take the crown again.

"Encanto" was directed by Jared Bush, Byron Howard, and Charise Castro Smith.
Walt Disney Blitheness

Disney'south enchanting picture about the Madrigal family shell out "The Mitchells vs. the Machines," "Flee," and "Raya and the Last Dragon."

"Encanto" was also nominated for best original song, "Dos Oruguitas," and all-time original score.

Read Insider'due south review of "Encanto" hither.

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