Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Award for Best Animated Feature

The Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Award for Best Animated Feature is an annual award given out by the Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association. Toy Story is the only franchise with multiple wins, winning two times for Toy Story 3 (2010) and Toy Story 4 (2019).

Winners and nominees

2000s

Year	Film	Director(s)
2002	Lilo & Stitch	Chris Sanders and Dean DeBlois[1]
	Ice Age	Chris Wedge[1]
2003 [2]	Finding Nemo	Andrew Stanton and Lee Unkrich
	Brother Bear	Aaron Blaise and Robert Walker
	The Triplets of Belleville	Sylvain Chomet
	Looney Tunes: Back in Action	Joe Dante
	Rugrats Go Wild	Norton Virgien and John Eng
2004	The Incredibles	Brad Bird[3]
2005 [4]	Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit	Nick Park and Steve Box
	Chicken Little	Mark Dindal
	Corpse Bride	Tim Burton, Mike Johnson
	Madagascar	Eric Darnell and Tom McGrath
	Robots	Chris Wedge
2006	Happy Feet	George Miller[5]
2007	Ratatouille	Brad Bird[6]
2008	WALL-E	Andrew Stanton[7]
2009[8]	Up	Pete Docter
	9	Shane Acker
	Coraline	Henry Selick
	Fantastic Mr. Fox	Wes Anderson
	Ponyo	Hayao Miyazaki

2010s

Year	Film	Director(s)
2010 [9]	Toy Story 3	Lee Unkrich
	Despicable Me	Pierre Coffin, Chris Renaud
	How To Train Your Dragon	Chris Sanders, Dean DeBlois
	Shrek Forever After	Mike Mitchell
	Tangled	Nathan Greno, Byron Howard
	Megamind	Tom McGrath
2011 [10]	Rango	Gore Verbinski
	The Adventures of Tintin	Steven Spielberg
	Puss in Boots	Chris Miller
	Arthur Christmas
	Winnie the Pooh	Stephen Anderson and Don Hall
2012 [11]	ParaNorman	Sam Fell and Chris Butler
	Brave	Mark Andrews, Brenda Chapman
	Frankenweenie	Tim Burton
	Rise of the Guardians	Peter Ramsey, William Joyce
	Wreck-It Ralph	Rich Moore
2013 [12]	Frozen	Chris Buck and Jennifer Lee
	Turbo	David Soren
	Despicable Me 2	Pierre Coffin, Chris Renaud
	The Wind Rises	Hayao Miyazaki
	Monsters University	Dan Scanlon
2014 [13]	The Lego Movie	Phil Lord and Christopher Miller
	Big Hero 6	Don Hall, Chris Williams
	The Book of Life	Jorge Gutierrez
	The Boxtrolls	Anthony Stacchi, Graham Annable
	How to Train Your Dragon 2	Dean DeBlois
	Rio 2	Carlos Saldanha
	Mr. Peabody and Sherman	Rob Minkoff
2015[14]	Inside Out	Pete Docter
	The Good Dinosaur	Peter Sohn
	Hotel Transylvania 2	Genndy Tartakovsky
	The Peanuts Movie	Steve Martino
	Shaun the Sheep Movie	Richard Starzak, Mark Burton
2016 [15]	Kubo and the Two Strings	Travis Knight
	Sausage Party	Conrad Vernon, Greg Tiernan
	Finding Dory	Andrew Stanton
	Moana	Ron Clements, John Musker
	Zootopia	Byron Howard, Rich Moore
2017 [16]	Coco	Lee Unkrich
	The Breadwinner	Nora Twomey
	Despicable Me 3	Pierre Coffin, Kyle Balda
	The Lego Batman Movie	Chris McKay
	Loving Vincent	Dorota Kobiela, Hugh Welchman
	The Boss Baby	Tom McGrath
	Cars 3	Brian Fee
2018 [17]	Isle of Dogs	Wes Anderson
	Incredibles 2	Brad Bird
	Mirai	Mamoru Hosoda
	Ralph Breaks the Internet	Phil Johnston, Rich Moore
	Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse	Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey, Rodney Rothman
	The Grinch	Scott Mosier and Yarrow Cheney
	Early Man	Nick Park
2019	Toy Story 4	Josh Cooley[18]
	Frozen 2	Chris Buck, Jennifer Lee
	How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World	Dean DeBlois
	Klaus	Sergio Pablos
	Missing Link	Chris Butler

2020s

Year	Film	Director(s)
2020[19]	Soul	Pete Docter[20]
	The Croods: A New Age	Joel Crawford
	Onward	Dan Scanlon
	Over the Moon	Glen Keane
	Wolfwalkers	Tomm Moore and Ross Stewart
2021	The Mitchells vs. the Machines	Mike Rianda[21][22]
	Encanto	Jared Bush and Byron Howard
	Flee	Jonas Poher Rasmussen
	Luca	Enrico Casarosa
	Raya and the Last Dragon	Don Hall and Carlos López Estrada
2022	Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio	Guillermo del Toro[23]
	Apollo 10 1⁄2: A Space Age Childhood	Richard Linklater
	Marcel the Shell with Shoes On	Dean Fleischer Camp
	Turning Red	Domee Shi
	Wendell & Wild	Henry Selick
2023[24]	Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse	Kemp Powers and Joaquim Dos Santos[25]
	Elemental	Peter Sohn
	Nimona	Nick Bruno and Troy Quane
	Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem	Jeff Rowe
	The Boy and the Heron	Hayao Miyazaki
2024[26]	The Wild Robot	Chris Sanders
	Flow	Gints Zilbalodis
	Inside Out 2	Kelsey Mann
	Memoir of a Snail	Adam Elliot
	Wallace and Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl	Merlin Crossingham and Nick Park

See also

• Academy Award for Best Animated Feature
• Golden Globe Award for Best Animated Feature Film