Saturn Award for Best Animated Film

The Saturn Award for Best Animated Film (formerly Saturn Award for Best Animation) is one of the annual awards given by the American professionnel organization, the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films. The Saturn Awards, which are the oldest film-specialized awards to reward science fiction, fantasy, and horror achievements (the Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, awarded by the World Science Fiction Society who reward science fiction and fantasy in various media, is the oldest award for science fiction and fantasy films), included the Best Animated Film category for the first time only in 1978, was revived in 1982, and still currently reactivated since 2002.

Saturn Award for Best Animated Film
Awarded for	Best animated motion picture of the year
Country	United States
Presented by	Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films
First award	1978 (awarded to Watership Down)
Currently held by	The Wild Robot (2023/2024)
Website	www.saturnawards.org

It is one of the oldest awards to reward animated films. This award has been achieved sixteen times, including ten times to Pixar films.

Winners and nominees

Early years

Year	Film	Ref.
1978 (6th)	Watership Down
1982 (10th)	The Secret of NIMH
	The Last Unicorn
	Les Maîtres du temps
	Phoenix 2772
	Tron

2000s

Year	Film	Ref.
2002 (29th)	Spirited Away
	Ice Age
	Lilo & Stitch
	Treasure Planet
2003 (30th)	Finding Nemo
	Brother Bear
	Looney Tunes: Back in Action
	Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas
2004 (31st)	The Incredibles
	The Polar Express
	Shark Tale
	Shrek 2
2005 (32nd)	Corpse Bride
	Chicken Little
	Hoodwinked
	Howl's Moving Castle
	Madagascar
	Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
2006 (33rd)	Cars
	Flushed Away
	Happy Feet
	Monster House
	Over the Hedge
	A Scanner Darkly
2007 (34th)	Ratatouille
	Beowulf
	Meet the Robinsons
	Shrek the Third
	The Simpsons Movie
	Surf's Up
2008 (35th)	WALL-E
	Bolt
	Horton Hears a Who!
	Kung Fu Panda
	Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa
	Star Wars: The Clone Wars
2009 (36th)	Monsters vs. Aliens
	A Christmas Carol
	Coraline
	Fantastic Mr. Fox
	Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs
	Up

2010s

Year	Film	Ref.
2010 (37th)	Toy Story 3
	Despicable Me
	How to Train Your Dragon
	Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole
	Shrek Forever After
	Tangled
2011 (38th)	Puss in Boots
	The Adventures of Tintin
	Cars 2
	Kung Fu Panda 2
	Rango
	Rio
2012 (39th)	Frankenweenie
	Brave
	ParaNorman
	Wreck-It Ralph
2013 (40th)	Frozen
	Despicable Me 2
	From Up on Poppy Hill
	Monsters University
2014 (41st)	The Lego Movie
	Big Hero 6
	The Boxtrolls
	How to Train Your Dragon 2
	The Wind Rises
2015 (42nd)	Inside Out
	Anomalisa
	The Good Dinosaur
	Kung Fu Panda 3
	Minions
	When Marnie Was There
2016 (43rd)	Finding Dory	[1]
	Kingsglaive: Final Fantasy XV	[2]
	Moana
	Sing
	Trolls
	Zootopia
2017 (44th)	Coco	[3]
	The Boss Baby	[4]
	Cars 3
	Despicable Me 3
	Your Name
2018/2019 (45th)	Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse	[5]
	The Grinch	[6]
	How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World
	Incredibles 2
	Ralph Breaks the Internet
	Toy Story 4
2019/2020 (46th)	Onward	[7]
	Abominable	[8]
	The Addams Family
	Frozen II
	Spies in Disguise
	Trolls World Tour

2020s

Year	Film	Ref.
2021/2022 (50th)	Marcel the Shell with Shoes On	[9]
	The Addams Family 2
	Encanto
	Lightyear
	Luca
	Minions: The Rise of Gru
2022/2023 (51st)	Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse	[10]
	Elemental
	Puss in Boots: The Last Wish
	The Super Mario Bros. Movie
	Suzume
	Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem
2023/2024 (52nd)	The Wild Robot	[11]
	The Boy and the Heron
	Despicable Me 4
	Inside Out 2
	Kung Fu Panda 4
	Spy x Family Code: White
	Transformers One