Every animated movie that'southward won an Oscar

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"Encanto" was directed by Jared Bush-league, Byron Howard, and Charise Castro Smith.
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  • The Oscars didn't introduce the best animated feature category until 2002 when "Shrek" won.
  • A handful of animated movies won Oscars earlier that, by and large 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 award for "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" where he received one normal sized statue and seven miniature ones.

"Snow White" was Disney'due south first full length animated picture show.
Disney

Though "Snow White and the 7 Dwarfs" didn't win its Oscar nomination for best original score, Disney was given an honorary award to recognize the feature's innovation in filmmaking.

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

1940: "Pinocchio" was the first animated Disney flick to receive an official Oscar.

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

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

"Pinocchio" won two Oscars for all-time original score and best original song, "When You Wish Upon a Star."

1941: "Dumbo" won an Oscar the following year for all-time original score.

"Dense" was nominated for 2 music Oscars.
Disney

"Dense" was too nominated for best original song that yr for "Baby Mine," merely lost out to "The Last Time I Saw Paris" from "Lady Be Skilful."

1990: "The Picayune Mermaid" brought prestige back to Disney, which went on to boss Oscars for animated movies. It won Oscars for best score and vocal.

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

Later on around ii decades of generally forgettable movies, Walt Disney Animation Studios produced "The Footling Mermaid" to disquisitional acclamation. Information technology won the Oscar for best original score, and "Nether the Body of water" won for best original vocal.

1992: "Beauty and the Animate being" broke Oscar records.

"Dazzler and the Animate being."
Disney

The picture was nominated for six Oscars, winning for all-time score and all-time original song, for the vocal "Beauty and the Beast." "Be Our Guest" and "Belle" were also nominated in the best vocal category.

The moving-picture show also received a all-time moving-picture show nomination, the beginning animated pic in history to do so, every bit well every bit i for best audio. It retains the title of the animated motion picture with the most Oscar nominations, tied with 2008's "Wall-Eastward."

1993: "Aladdin" kept upward Disney'due south streak.

"Aladdin."
Disney

The movie received the same awards as its predecessor, for best score and best song, honoring "A Whole New Earth."

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

1996: "Pocahontas" won two Oscars fifty-fifty though "Toy Story" had more than nominations.

"Pocahontas."
Disney/"Pocahontas"

1995 was a milestone yr for animated features. Pixar studios, founded by a grade 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 director John Lasseter.

Merely the traditional Disney movie remained dominant in the terminate. "Pocahantas" won both of its nominations: in the score category— at present renamed "Original Musical or Comedy Score" — and in the song category for "Colors of the Wind."

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

"The Prince of Arab republic of egypt."
Dreamworks

For the 1998 Oscars, both Disney's "Hercules" and 20th Century Pull a fast one on's "Anastasia" received nominations, simply they were close out by the say-so of "Titanic."

Simply in 1999, "The Prince of Arab republic of egypt" won an award, for "When You Believe" in the original vocal category. "The Prayer" from "Quest for Camelot" was also nominated in that category. Information technology was besides nominated alongside "A Bug's Life" and "Mulan" in the "Best Original Musical or Comedy Score," which existed in the mid-1990s, but lost them all to "Shakespeare in Dearest."

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

"Tarzan."
Disney

Disney notched up another victory equally Phil Collins's "Yous'll Be in My Heart" won the all-time original song award. "Toy Story 2" was nominated in the category as well, for Randy Newman's vocal "When She Loved Me."

2002: "Shrek" won the showtime best blithe feature Oscar.

"Shrek."
DreamWorks

Winning over "Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius" and Pixar's "Monsters, Inc.," the Dreamworks movie "Shrek" won the first Oscar for all-time animated characteristic. It was also nominated in the best adapted screenplay award.

"Monsters, Inc.," though, won the the original song honour for "If I Didn't Have Y'all" and received nominations for original score and sound editing.

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

"Spirited Abroad."
Studio Ghibli

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

The motion picture's English-linguistic communication dub and release were supervised by Disney. Still, information technology shell two Disney features nominated in the category: "Lilo & Stitch" and "Treasure Planet," while "Ice Age" and "Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron" were also nominated.

2004: "Finding Nemo" gave Pixar its starting time win.

"Finding Nemo."
Pixar

The flick won in the best animated picture category over "Brother Comport" and "The Triplets of Belleville." It also received original screenplay, score, and sound editing nominations.

2005: Pixar won once again with "The Incredibles."

"the Incredibles."
Pixar

Disney'south "Dwelling on the Range" is completely ignored by the Academy while "The Incredibles" nabs the animated feature and sound editing categories and racks up nominations for original screenplay and audio mixing. The other animated feature nominees are "Shrek ii" and "Shark Tale."

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

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

Disney Animation'due south 2005 offer, "Chicken Little," was shut out of the Oscars. The Miyazaki movie "Howl's Moving Castle" and Tim Burton's "Corpse Bride" that lost to the "Wallace & Gromit" moving-picture show.

2007: Disney buys Pixar — but notwithstanding loses, to "Happy Feet."

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

After years of negotiations and tangled business relationships, Disney bought Pixar outright in 2006 for $seven.4 billion. It followed a years-long fallow period for Disney's in-firm blithe films.

It was just a month earlier the release of "Cars." But though "Cars" got a nomination for the best animated feature, forth with "Monster Firm," they both lost to "Happy Feet" from Warner Bros.

2008: Pixar's "Ratatouille" won.

"Ratatouille."
Disney / Pixar

Bated from a best animated feature win, the picture show was besides nominated in the original screenplay, score, sound editing, and sound mixing categories. "Persepolis" and "Surf'due south Up" were besides nominated in the blithe feature category.

2009: "Wall-Due 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'south "Kung Fu Panda." It also received an original screenplay nomination, despite having almost no dialogue, too as nominations in the sound editing, sound mixing, and song categories.

The lack of best moving-picture show nominations for "Wall-E" and "The Dark Knight" that year, nevertheless, rankled the movie manufacture and led the University to expand the category to ten nominees. It was later on inverse so that somewhere betwixt v and ten nominees would be admitted depending on an algorithm.

2010: "Upwards" kept up Disney's streak.

"Upwardly."
Pixar

Because the best motion picture category was expanded to ten nominees, "Up" became the showtime Pixar movie — and the first animated pic since "Beauty and the Beast" — to exist nominated in that category. Information technology lost to "The Injure Locker."

"Up" won two Oscars, for animated feature and score, and was besides nominated in the original screenplay and sound editing categories. The other animated feature nominees that year were strong: "Fantastic Mr. Pull a fast one on," "Coraline," "The Princess and the Frog," and "The Undercover of Kells."

2011: "Toy Story three" in one case again gets a all-time flick nomination for Pixar.

"Toy Story 3."
Pixar

A follow-upwards to the first two "Toy Story" movies that made Pixar a formidable forcefulness in the 1990s, "Toy Story 3" became one of Pixar's most acclaimed movies, and received a best moving-picture show Oscar nomination along with a win in the blithe characteristic category (information technology lost to "The King'south Spoken language").

The movie likewise won an original song Oscar, for "Nosotros Belong Together," and nominations for adapted screenplay and audio editing.

The other nominees in the animated feature category were "How to Train Your Dragon" and "The Illusionist." "Tangled," Disney's first princess pic animated to more resemble a Pixar motion picture, 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 best animated feature Oscar even though the studio, Paramount, didn't even take an official animation sectionalization.

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

Pixar, nevertheless, was completely shut out with their panned offering "Cars 2," and Disney's "Winnie the Pooh" wasn't nominated for anything.

2013: "Brave" brought Pixar dorsum.

"Brave."
Disney / Pixar

Pixar was victorious again with "Brave," which didn't receive any other nominations. The other nominees in the blithe characteristic category were "Frankenweenie," "ParaNorman," "The Pirates! Band of Misfits," and Disney's "Wreck-It Ralph."

2014: A not-Pixar Disney film finally won again, with "Frozen."

"Frozen."
Disney

"Frozen" became Disney Blitheness Studios'due south beginning picture show to win the blithe feature Oscar since "Tarzan." It also won the only other category it was nominated in, original vocal, for "Let Information technology Get."

Pixar'south "Monsters University," on the other hand, was ignored at the Oscars. The other animated feature nominees were "The Croods," "Despicable Me 2," "Ernest & Celestine," and Hayao Miyazaki's "The Wind Rises."

2015: Disney won again with "Big Hero vi."

"Large Hero 6."
Disney

"Big Hero 6" won the animated feature award, the merely category information technology was nominated in. The other nominees were "The Boxtrolls," "How to Railroad train Your Dragon 2," "Vocal of the Sea," 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 fourth dimension, Pixar released 2 movies in a unmarried yr. "The Good Dinosaur" was ignored while "Inside Out" won the animated feature Oscar and received an original screenplay nomination. Information technology wasn't nominated for all-time movie, though.

Disney Blitheness didn't release anything in 2015, and the other nominees in the animated feature category were "Anomalisa," "Boy and the World," "Shaun the Sheep Moving picture," and "When Marnie Was There."

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

"Zootopia."
Disney

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

2018: "Coco" seized some other win for Pixar.

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

Pixar's entry won once more in 2018. "Coco" won the best animated characteristic category likewise as best song, for "Remember Me."

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

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

"Spider-Man: 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-Man: Into the Spider-Poetry." An inter-dimensional Spider-Man origin story, it added a new layer of variety to the franchise past focusing on Miles Morales instead of Peter Parker, and pioneered a new animation way inspired by manus-fatigued comic books.

The picture show was produced by Sony, fifty-fifty though they allowed Disney to make a series of Peter Parker-starring alive-action movies as office of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. What had to hurt Disney fifty-fifty more, 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 some other Disney production, "Ralph Breaks the Internet," along with "Mirai" and "Isle of Dogs."

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

"Toy Story 4" was directed by Josh Cooley.
Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures

Originally announced in 2014, and delayed a few times, a major script rewrite didn't prevent the sequel from even so winning best blithe picture.

"Toy Story 4" crush "Klaus," "Missing Link," "I Lost My Torso," and "How to Train Your Dragon: The Subconscious World."

2021: "Soul" beat out some large competition.

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

"Soul" swept at the awards circuit, then it was footling surprise the picture show, which features Pixar's first Black atomic number 82, likewise won the Oscar this year.

The film vanquish out another Pixar film, "Onward," in addition to "Over the Moon," "Wolfwalkers," and "A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon."

2022: Disney edged out Sony Pictures Animation with "Encanto" to have the crown once again.

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

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

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

Read Insider'southward review of "Encanto" hither.

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