Golden Globe Award for Best Animated Feature Film

Eligibility

English-language films may be nominated in only one feature category. Therefore, films nominated in this category are ineligible to be nominated for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy, Best Motion Picture – Drama if their principal dialogue is in English. However, films nominated for Best Foreign Language Film are eligible for Best Animated Feature; the only Golden Globe film awards for which they are ineligible are the aforementioned two Best Motion Picture awards. This has led to much confusion leading many to believe animated films are snubbed in the Best Motion Picture categories, specifically Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy where animated films have won and/or were nominated before, but in reality (since 2006) they simply are not eligible to be nominated; until 2023 prior of the now-defunct Hollywood Foreign Press Association, the rule is amended by Dick Clark Productions following controversies of splitting votes and snub between the main categories, which animated films are still allowed to be eligible in Comedy or Drama as well as Animated at the same time in similar vein to Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film and recently-established Cinematic and Box Office Achievement.

On November 17, 2009, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association announced that at the 67th Annual Golden Globe Awards, there will be five nominees for Best Animated Feature Film, as its members voted to amend its rules: eligible films must be feature-length (70 minutes or longer) with no more than 25% live action. If fewer than eight animated films qualify, the award will not be given, in which case the films would be eligible for Best Picture. If fewer than twelve animated films qualify, the category will be limited to three nominations per year.

Winners and nominees

2000s

2010s

2020s

Breakdown

• Pixar Animation Studios - 9 wins, 19 nominations
• Walt Disney Animation Studios - 3 wins, 15 nominations
• Sony Pictures Animation - 2 wins, 7 nominations
• DreamWorks Animation - 1 win, 13 nominations
• Laika - 1 win, 4 nominations
• Nickelodeon Movies - 1 win, 2 nominations
• Netflix - 1 win, 3 nominations
• Sacrebleu Productions - 1 win, 2 nominations
• Studio Ghibli - 1 win, 1 nomination
• Illumination Entertainment - no wins, 4 nominations
• Aardman Animations - no wins, 3 nominations
• Blue Sky Studios - no wins, 2 nominations
• Warner Bros. Pictures - no wins, 2 nominations
• Cartoon Saloon - no wins, 2 nominations
• Indian Paintbrush/American Empirical Pictures - no wins, 2 nominations
• Melusine Productions - no wins, 2 nominations

References

References

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