Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Animated Film

The Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Animated Feature is one of the annual awards given by the Los Angeles Film Critics Association.

Winners

1980s

Year	Winner	Director(s)
1989	The Little Mermaid	Ron Clements and John Musker

1990s

Year	Winner	Director(s)
1990	The Rescuers Down Under	Hendel Butoy and Mike Gabriel
1991	Beauty and the Beast	Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise
1992	Aladdin	Ron Clements and John Musker
1993	The Mighty River (Le fleuve aux grandes eaux)	Frédéric Back
1994	The Lion King	Roger Allers and Rob Minkoff
1995	Toy Story	John Lasseter
1996	A Close Shave, Creature Comforts, A Grand Day Out, and The Wrong Trousers	Nick Park
1997	Hercules	Ron Clements and John Musker
	The Spirit of Christmas	Trey Parker and Matt Stone
1998	A Bug's Life	John Lasseter
	T.R.A.N.S.I.T.	Piet Kroon
1999	The Iron Giant	Brad Bird

2000s

Year	Winner	Director(s)
2000	Chicken Run	Peter Lord and Nick Park
2001
	Shrek	Andrew Adamson and Vicky Jenson
	Runner-Up: Monsters, Inc.	Pete Docter
2002	Spirited Away (Sen to Chihiro no Kamikakushi)	Hayao Miyazaki
2003	The Triplets of Belleville (Les triplettes de Belleville)	Sylvain Chomet
2004	The Incredibles	Brad Bird
2005	Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit	Steve Box and Nick Park
2006
	Happy Feet	George Miller
	Runner-Up: Cars	John Lasseter
2007	Persepolis	Vincent Paronnaud and Marjane Satrapi
	Ratatouille	Brad Bird
2008	Waltz with Bashir (Vals Im Bashir)	Ari Folman
2009
	Fantastic Mr. Fox	Wes Anderson
	Runner-Up: Up	Pete Docter

2010s

Year	Winner	Director(s)
2010
	Toy Story 3	Lee Unkrich
	Runner-Up: The Illusionist (L'illusionniste)	Sylvain Chomet
2011
	Rango	Gore Verbinski
	Runner-Up: The Adventures of Tintin	Steven Spielberg
2012
	Frankenweenie	Tim Burton
	Runner-Up: It's Such a Beautiful Day	Don Hertzfeldt
2013
	Ernest & Celestine (Ernest et Célestine)	Stéphane Aubier, Vincent Patar, and Benjamin Renner
	Runner-Up: The Wind Rises (Kaze Tachinu)	Hayao Miyazaki
2014
	The Tale of the Princess Kaguya (Kaguya-hime no Monogatari)	Isao Takahata
	Runner-Up: The Lego Movie	Phil Lord and Christopher Miller
2015
	Anomalisa	Charlie Kaufman and Duke Johnson
	Runner-Up: Inside Out	Pete Docter
2016
	Your Name (Kimi no Na wa)	Makoto Shinkai
	Runner-Up: The Red Turtle (La Tortue rouge)	Michaël Dudok de Wit
2017
	The Breadwinner	Nora Twomey[1]
	Runner-Up: Coco	Lee Unkrich
2018
	Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse	Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey and Rodney Rothman[2]
	Runner-Up: Incredibles 2	Brad Bird
2019
	I Lost My Body	Jérémy Clapin[3]
	Runner-Up: Toy Story 4	Josh Cooley

2020s

Year	Winner	Director(s)
2020
	Wolfwalkers	Tomm Moore and Ross Stewart[4]
	Runner-Up: Soul	Pete Docter
2021
	Flee (Flugt)	Jonas Poher Rasmussen[5]
	Runner-Up: Belle (Ryū to Sobakasu no Hime)	Mamoru Hosoda
2022
	Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio	Guillermo del Toro and Mark Gustafson[6]
	Runner-Up: Marcel the Shell with Shoes On	Dean Fleischer Camp
2023
	The Boy and the Heron (Kimitachi wa Dō Ikiru ka)	Hayao Miyazaki[7]
	Runner-Up: Robot Dreams	Pablo Berger
2024
	Flow (Straume)	Gints Zilbalodis[8]
	Runner-Up: Chicken for Linda! (Linda veut du poulet!)	Chiara Malta and Sébastien Laudenbach