Every blithe pic that's won an Oscar

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  • The Oscars didn't innovate the best animated feature category until 2002 when "Shrek" won.
  • A scattering of animated movies won Oscars before that, mostly for best song 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's starting time full length animated motion-picture show.
Disney

Though "Snowfall White and the Seven 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 but receive ane statue. He received i regular-sized statue and seven miniature Oscars to announce the film's seven dwarfs.

1940: "Pinocchio" was the commencement animated Disney movie to receive an official Oscar.

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

After a few nominations, Disney won its starting time major University Awards for one of its animated features.

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

1941: "Dumbo" won an Oscar the post-obit year for best original score.

"Dense" was nominated for two music Oscars.
Disney

"Dumbo" was also nominated for best original vocal that year for "Baby Mine," simply lost out to "The Last Time I Saw Paris" from "Lady Exist Good."

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

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

After around two decades of mostly forgettable movies, Walt Disney Blitheness Studios produced "The Picayune Mermaid" to critical acclamation. It won the Oscar for all-time original score, and "Under the Sea" won for all-time original vocal.

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

"Beauty and the Creature."
Disney

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

The flick likewise received a best flick nomination, the first animated moving picture in history to do so, as well as one for best sound. It retains the championship of the animated picture with the most Oscar nominations, tied with 2008'due south "Wall-Due east."

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

"Aladdin."
Disney

The moving picture received the same awards every bit its predecessor, for best score and best vocal, honoring "A Whole New World."

"Friend Similar Me" was also nominated in the vocal category, and the flick received nominations in the all-time sound and best audio effects editing categories.

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

"Pocahontas."
Disney/"Pocahontas"

1995 was a milestone year for blithe 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 moving picture received three nominations, plus a special achievement award for director John Lasseter.

But the traditional Disney movie remained dominant in the end. "Pocahantas" won both of its nominations: in the score category— now renamed "Original Musical or Comedy Score" — and in the song category for "Colors of the Air current."

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

"The Prince of Egypt."
Dreamworks

For the 1998 Oscars, both Disney's "Hercules" and 20th Century Fox'southward "Anastasia" received nominations, just they were shut out by the dominance of "Titanic."

But in 1999, "The Prince of Arab republic of egypt" won an award, for "When Y'all Believe" in the original song category. "The Prayer" from "Quest for Camelot" was as well nominated in that category. Information technology was as well nominated alongside "A Bug's Life" and "Mulan" in the "All-time Original Musical or Comedy Score," which existed in the mid-1990s, just lost them all to "Shakespeare in Love."

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

"Tarzan."
Disney

Disney notched upwardly another victory every bit Phil Collins's "You'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 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 movie "Shrek" won the first Oscar for best animated feature. It was also nominated in the all-time adjusted screenplay award.

"Monsters, Inc.," though, won the the original song accolade for "If I Didn't Accept Y'all" and received nominations for original score and audio editing.

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

"Spirited Away."
Studio Ghibli

Hayao Miyazaki'south masterpiece "Spirited Abroad," from Studio Ghibli, received the award.

The movie'south English language-linguistic communication dub and release were supervised by Disney. Still, it beat out out ii Disney features nominated in the category: "Lilo & Stitch" and "Treasure Planet," while "Ice Age" and "Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron" were too nominated.

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

"Finding Nemo."
Pixar

The moving picture won in the best animated film category over "Blood brother Comport" and "The Triplets of Belleville." It also received original screenplay, score, and audio editing nominations.

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

"the Incredibles."
Pixar

Disney'southward "Home on the Range" is completely ignored past 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'southward 2005 offering, "Craven Little," was close out of the Oscars. The Miyazaki movie "Howl's Moving Castle" and Tim Burton'southward "Corpse Bride" that lost to the "Wallace & Gromit" movie.

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

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

Afterward years of negotiations and tangled business organisation relationships, Disney bought Pixar outright in 2006 for $7.iv billion. Information technology followed a years-long dormant menstruation for Disney's in-house animated films.

It was just a month before the release of "Cars." But though "Cars" got a nomination for the best blithe feature, along with "Monster House," they both lost to "Happy Anxiety" from Warner Bros.

2008: Pixar's "Ratatouille" won.

"Ratatouille."
Disney / Pixar

Aside from a best animated feature win, the movie was too nominated in the original screenplay, score, sound editing, and sound mixing categories. "Persepolis" and "Surf's Upwardly" were also nominated in the blithe feature category.

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

"Wall-Eastward."
Pixaar

Andrew Stanton's follow-upwardly to "Finding Nemo" won the animated feature Oscar over Disney stablemate "Bolt" and Dreamworks'due 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 vocal categories.

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

2010: "Upwards" kept up Disney'due south streak.

"Up."
Pixar

Because the all-time picture category was expanded to ten nominees, "Upwardly" became the offset Pixar movie — and the commencement animated picture since "Beauty and the Beast" — to be nominated in that category. It lost to "The Injure Locker."

"Up" won ii Oscars, for blithe feature and score, and was as well nominated in the original screenplay and sound editing categories. The other animated feature nominees that twelvemonth were potent: "Fantastic Mr. Fox," "Coraline," "The Princess and the Frog," and "The Secret of Kells."

2011: "Toy Story iii" once once more gets a best motion picture nomination for Pixar.

"Toy Story 3."
Pixar

A follow-up to the first 2 "Toy Story" movies that made Pixar a formidable forcefulness in the 1990s, "Toy Story iii" became ane of Pixar'south most acclaimed movies, and received a best picture Oscar nomination forth with a win in the animated feature category (information technology lost to "The King'south Speech").

The film also won an original song Oscar, for "We Belong Together," and nominations for adapted screenplay and audio editing.

The other nominees in the animated feature category were "How to Railroad train Your Dragon" and "The Illusionist." "Tangled," Disney's start princess flick 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 best animated feature Oscar even though the studio, Paramount, didn't even take an official animation sectionalization.

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

Pixar, however, was completely shut out with their panned offering "Cars 2," and Disney'due south "Winnie the Pooh" wasn't nominated for annihilation.

2013: "Brave" brought Pixar back.

"Brave."
Disney / Pixar

Pixar was victorious over 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's "Wreck-It Ralph."

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

"Frozen."
Disney

"Frozen" became Disney Animation Studios's kickoff movie to win the animated feature Oscar since "Tarzan." Information technology besides won the only other category it was nominated in, original song, for "Allow Information technology Become."

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

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

"Big Hero 6."
Disney

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

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

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

"Inside Out."
Disney/Pixar

For the get-go time, Pixar released two movies in a single yr. "The Good Dinosaur" was ignored while "Inside Out" won the animated feature Oscar and received an original screenplay nomination. It wasn't nominated for all-time picture, though.

Disney Animation 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 show," and "When Marnie Was There."

2017: "Zootopia" won every bit "Finding Dory" got snubbed.

"Zootopia."
Disney

Pixar'south long-awaited sequel to "Finding Nemo," "Finding Dory," was ignored at the Oscars while Disney'south "Zootopia" won the blithe feature Oscar. Information technology was nominated alongside Disney'due south "Moana," "Kubo and the Two Strings," "My Life every bit 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's entry won in one case again in 2018. "Coco" won the best animated characteristic category also as best vocal, 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 honor went to "Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse." An inter-dimensional Spider-Man origin story, it added a new layer of diversity to the franchise by focusing on Miles Morales instead of Peter Parker, and pioneered a new animation style inspired past hand-fatigued comic books.

The pic was produced by Sony, fifty-fifty though they allowed Disney to brand a series of Peter Parker-starring live-action movies equally part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. What had to injure Disney even 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 another Disney product, "Ralph Breaks the Internet," along with "Mirai" and "Island of Dogs."

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

"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 nevertheless winning best animated picture show.

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

2021: "Soul" crush out some big contest.

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

"Soul" swept at the awards circuit, and then it was little surprise the film, which features Pixar's showtime Blackness atomic number 82, also won the Oscar this yr.

The movie trounce some other Pixar film, "Onward," in addition to "Over the Moon," "Wolfwalkers," and "A Shaun the Sheep Pic: Farmageddon."

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

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

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

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

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

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