Asia Pacific Screen Award for Best Animated Film

The Asia Pacific Screen Award for Best Animated Film^[1] formerly the Asia Pacific Screen Award for Best Animated Feature Film, are an award category in the annual Asia Pacific Screen Awards.^[2] The awards are given for animated films made in the Asia-Pacific region.

Milestones

Japan has the most wins with five.

In 2024, The Missing is the first Filipino and Southeast Asian film to win in that category.

Winners and nominees

Year	English title	Original title	Director(s)	Country(s)
2007 (1st)	5 Centimeters Per Second	Byōsoku Go Senchimētoru	Makoto Shinkai	Japan
	The Big Fighting Between Wukong and God Erlang	Wukong Da Zhan Er Lang Shen	Liang Hansen	China
	Summer Days with Coo	Kappa no Kū to Natsuyasumi	Keiichi Hara	Japan
2008 (2nd)	Waltz with Bashir	Vals Im Bashir	Ari Folman	Israel France Germany
	If You Were Me: Anima Vision 2	Byul-Byul Yi-Ya-Gi 2: Yeo-Seot-Bit-Ggal Mu-Ji-Gae	Ann Dong-hee, Ryu Jung-oo, Hong Deok-pyo, Lee Hong-soo, Lee Hong-min, Jung Min-young, Gwon Mi-jeong, and Park Yeong-jae	South Korea
	Sword of the Stranger	Sutorenjia Mukōhadan	Masahiro Andō	Japan
2009 (3rd)	Mary and Max		Adam Elliot	Australia
	First Squad: The Moment of Truth	Perviy otryad Fāsuto sukuwaddo	Yoshiharu Ashino	Russia Japan
	The Sky Crawlers	Sukai Kurora	Mamoru Oshii	Japan
	Summer Wars	Samā Wōzu	Mamoru Hosoda	Japan
	The Tale of Soldier Fedot, The Daring Fellow	Pro Fedota-Streltsa, Udalogo Molodtsa	Lyudmila Steblyanko	Russia
2010 (4th)	Piercing I	Cì Tòng Wǒ	Liu Jian	China
	King of Thorn	Ibara no Ou	Kazuyoshi Katayama	Japan
	Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole		Zack Snyder	Australia United States
	Mai Mai Miracle	Maimai Shinko to Sen-nen no Mahō	Sunao Katabuchi	Japan
	Oblivion Island: Haruka and the Magic Mirror	Hottarake no Shima: Haruka to Mahō no Kagami	Shinsuke Sato	Japan
2011 (5th)	Leafie, A Hen into the Wild	Madangeul Naon Amtak	Oh Sung-yun	South Korea
	Children Who Chase Lost Voices	Hoshi o Ou Kodomo	Makoto Shinkai	Japan
	RPG Metanoia		Luis C. Suárez	Philippines
	Tatsumi		Eric Khoo	Singapore
	The Ugly Duckling	Gadkiy utyonok	Garri Bardin	Russia
2012 (6th)	A Letter to Momo	Momo e no tegami	Hiroyuki Okiura	Japan
	From Up on Poppy Hill	Kokurikozaka Kara	Gorō Miyazaki	Japan
	Happy Feet Two		George Miller	Australia United States
	Rainbow Fireflies	Niji-Iro Hotaru: Eien no Natsu Yasumi	Kōnosuke Uda	Japan
	Wolf Children	Ōkami Kodomo no Ame to Yuki	Mamoru Hosoda	Japan
2013 (7th)	Ku! Kin-dza-dza	Ку! Кин-дза-дза	Georgiy Daneliya and Tatyana Ilyina	Russia
	The Fake	Saibi	Yeon Sang-ho	South Korea
	Patema Inverted	Sakasama no Patema	Yasuhiro Yoshiura	Japan
	The Wind Rises	Kaze Tachinu	Hayao Miyazaki	Japan
	The World of Goopi and Bagha	Goopi Gawaiya Bagha Bajaiya	Shilpa Ranade	India
2014 (8th)	The Tale of the Princess Kaguya	Kaguya-hime no Monogatari	Isao Takahata	Japan
	The Frog Kingdom	Qingwa Wangguo	Nelson Shin	China
	Maya the Bee Movie		Alexs Stadermann	Australia Germany
	On the White Planet	Chang-baek-Han Eol-gul-deul	Hur Bum-wook	South Korea
	The Satellite Girl and Milk Cow	Woo-ri-byul Il-ho-wa Ul-ruk-so	Chang Hyung-yun	South Korea
2015 (9th)	Miss Hokusai	Sarusuberi	Keiichi Hara	Japan
	Blinky Bill the Movie		Deane Taylor	Australia India Ireland
	The Road Called Life	Mae-mil-ggot, Un-su Jo-eun Nal, Geu-ri-go Bom-bom	Ahn Jae-Hun and Han Hye-jin	South Korea
	The Snow Queen 2: The Snow King	Snezhnaya koroleva 2: Snezhny korol	Alexey Tsitsilin	Russia
	When Marnie Was There	Omoide no Mānī	Hiromasa Yonebayashi	Japan
2016 (10th)	Seoul Station	Seoul-Yeok	Yeon Sang-ho	South Korea
	Bilal: A New Breed of Hero		Khurram H. Alavi and Ayman Jamal	United Arab Emirates
	Manang Biring		Carl Joseph Papa	Philippines
	Savva: Heart of the Warrior	Savva. Serdtse voina	Maxim Fadeev	Russia
	Sheep and Wolves	Volki i ovtsy	Maxim Volkov	Russia
2017 (11th)	Window Horses: The Poetic Persian Epiphany of Rosie Ming		Ann Marie Fleming	Canada
	Have a Nice Day	Da Shi Jie	Liu Jian	China
	Saving Sally		Avid Liongoren	Philippines
	A Silent Voice	Eiga Koe no Katachi	Naoko Yamada	Japan
	Your Name	Kimi no na wa.	Makoto Shinkai	Japan
2018 (12th)	Rezo	Znaesh', mama, gde ya byl	Leo Gabriadze	Russia
	Hoffmaniada	Gofmaniada	Stanislav Sokolov	Russia
	Maquia: When the Promised Flower Blooms	Sayonara no Asa ni Yakusoku no Hana o Kazarô	Mari Okada	Japan
	Mirai	Mirai no Mirai	Mamoru Hosoda	Japan
	On Happiness Road	Hsing Fu Lu Shang	Sung Hsin-yin	Taiwan
2019 (13th)	Weathering with You	Tenki no Ko	Makoto Shinkai	Japan
	Mosley		Kirby Atkins	New Zealand China
	Penguin Highway	Pengin Haiwei	Hiroyasu Ishida	Japan
	The Unseen	Kaghaz-Pareh ha	Behzad Nalbandi	Iran
	Underdog	Eondeodog	Oh Sung-yoon and Lee Chun-baek	South Korea
2021 (14th)	The Nose or the Conspiracy of Mavericks	Nos ili zagovor netakikh	Andrei Khrzhanovsky	Russia
	Beauty Water		Ningxia Film Group	South Korea
	Fortune Favors Lady Nikuko	Gyokō no Nikuko-chan	Studio 4°C	Japan
	The Knight and the Princess		Alsahar Animation	Saudi Arabia Egypt
	Where Is Anne Frank		Purple Whale Films Doghouse Films	Belgium
2022 (15th)	Aurora's Sunrise	Արշալույսի լուսաբացը	Inna Shahakyan[3]	Armenia Lithuania Germany
	Dounia and the Princess of Aleppo	Dounia et la princesse d'Alep	André Kadi, Marya Zarif	Canada France
	Goodbye, Don Glees!	Gubbai, Don Gurīzu!	Atsuko Ishizuka	Japan
	Silver Bird and Rainbow Fish		Lei Lei	USA Netherlands China
	To the Bright Side		Xiya Lan, Nianze Li, Yi Zhao, Kun Yu, Gaoxiang Liu, Maoning Liu, Chen Chen	China
2023 (16th)	The Siren		Sepideh Farsi	France Germany Luxembourg Belgium
	Deep Sea	Shēnhǎi	Tian Xiaopeng	China
	The First Slam Dunk		Takehiko Inoue	Japan
	Scarygirl		Ricard Cussó	Australia
	Suzume	Suzume no Tojimari	Makoto Shinkai	Japan
2024 (17th)	The Missing	Iti Mapukpukaw	Carl Joseph Papa, Geo Lomuntad, Dan Villegas	Philippines
	Ghost Cat Anzu	Bakeneko Anzu-chan	Yoko Kuno, Nobuhiro Yamashita, Keiichi Kondo, Emmanuel-Alain Raynal, Pierre Baussaron, Hiroyuki Negishi	Japan France
	Memoir of a Snail		Adam Elliot, Liz Kearney	Australia
	Pig That Survived Foot-and-Mouth Disease		Hur Bum-wook, Cho Heaseung	South Korea
	The Colors Within	Kimi no Iro	Naoko Yamada, Eunyoung Choi, Yoshihiro Furusawa, Genki Kawamura, Wakana Okamura, Kohei Sakita	Japan