San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle Award for Best Animated Feature

The San Francisco Film Critics Circle Award for Best Animated Feature is an award given by the San Francisco Film Critics Circle to honor an outstanding animated film.

San Francisco Film Critics Circle Award for Best Animated Feature
Country	United States
Presented by	San Francisco Film Critics Circle
First award	Henry Selick Coraline (2009)
Currently held by	Gints Zilbalodis Flow (2024)
Website	sffcc.org

Winners and nominees

  indicates the winners.

2000s

Year	Film	Director
2009[1]
	Coraline	Henry Selick

2010s

Year	Film	Director
2010[2]
	Toy Story 3	Lee Unkrich
2011[3]
	Rango	Gore Verbinski
2012[4]
	ParaNorman	Sam Fell and Chris Butler
2013[5]
	Frozen	Chris Buck and Jennifer Lee
	The Croods	Kirk DeMicco and Chris Sanders
	Despicable Me 2	Chris Renaud and Pierre Coffin
	Monsters University	Dan Scanlon
	The Wind Rises	Hayao Miyazaki
2014[6]
	The Lego Movie	Phil Lord and Christopher Miller
	Big Hero 6	Don Hall and Chris Williams
	The Boxtrolls	Graham Annable and Anthony Stacchi
	How to Train Your Dragon 2	Dean DeBlois
	The Tale of the Princess Kaguya	Isao Takahata
2015[7]
	Anomalisa	Charlie Kaufman and Duke Johnson
	Boy and the World	Alê Abreu
	Inside Out	Pete Docter
	The Peanuts Movie	Steve Martino
	Shaun the Sheep Movie	Mark Burton and Richard Starzak
2016[8]
	The Red Turtle	Michaël Dudok de Wit
	Finding Dory	Andrew Stanton
	Kubo and the Two Strings	Travis Knight
	Moana	John Musker and Ron Clements
	Zootopia	Byron Howard and Rich Moore
2017[9]
	Coco	Lee Unkrich
	The Breadwinner	Nora Twomey
	The Lego Batman Movie	Chris McKay
	Loving Vincent	Dorota Kobiela and Hugh Welchman
	Your Name	Makoto Shinkai
2018[10]
	Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse	Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey and Rodney Rothman
	Incredibles 2	Brad Bird
	Isle of Dogs	Wes Anderson
	Mirai	Mamoru Hosoda
	Ralph Breaks the Internet	Rich Moore and Phil Johnston
2019[11]
	I Lost My Body	Jérémy Clapin and Marc Du Pontavice
	How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World	Dean DeBlois
	Klaus	Sergio Pablos
	Missing Link	Chris Butler
	Toy Story 4	Josh Cooley

2020s

Year	Film	Director
2020[12]
	Soul	Pete Docter
	Marona's Fantastic Tale	Anca Damian
	Onward	Dan Scanlon
	Over the Moon	Glen Keane
	Wolfwalkers	Tomm Moore and Ross Stewart
2021[13]
	Encanto	Jared Bush and Byron Howard
	Belle	Mamoru Hosoda
	Flee (Honorable Mention)	Jonas Poher Rasmussen
	Luca	Enrico Casarosa
	The Mitchells vs. the Machines	Mike Rianda
2022[14]
	Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio	Guillermo del Toro
	Apollo 10 1⁄2: A Space Age Childhood	Richard Linklater
	Marcel the Shell with Shoes On	Dean Fleischer Camp
	Puss in Boots: The Last Wish	Joel Crawford
	Turning Red	Domee Shi
2023[15]
	The Boy and the Heron	Hayao Miyazaki
	Elemental	Peter Sohn
	Nimona	Nick Bruno and Troy Quane
	Robot Dreams	Pablo Berger
	Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse	Joaquim Dos Santos & Kemp Powers
2024[16]
	Flow	Gints Zilbalodis
	Inside Out 2	Kelsey Mann
	Memoir of a Snail	Adam Elliot
	Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl	Nick Park & Merlin Crossingham
	The Wild Robot	Chris Sanders

Multiple wins

Lee Unkrich is the only director to win this award multiple times, for Toy Story 3 and Coco.

2 wins

• Lee Unkrich

Multiple nominations

2 nominations

• Chris Butler
• Dean DeBlois
• Pete Docter
• Mamoru Hosoda
• Byron Howard
• Hayao Miyazaki
• Rich Moore
• Dan Scanlon
• Lee Unkrich