Animation Movies That Have Won Oscars and Golden Globes



The Most Prestigious Awards for Animation Films: Oscars & Golden Globes

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2017, Kyle Balda, Pierre Coffin

90 minutes

Action, Animation, Comedy, Family, Adventure

Gru and his wife Lucy must stop former '80s child star Balthazar Bratt from achieving world domination.

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2016, Patrick Osborne

6 minutes

Animation

The story of a girl and her dad as they cross the United States in an older model hatchback chasing their dreams.

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2015, Richard Williams

6 minutes

Action, Animation

Prologue depicts Spartan and Athenian warriors locked in a gory battle to the death.

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2008, Byron Howard, Chris Williams

98 minutes

Animation, Family, Adventure, Comedy

Bolt is the star of the biggest show in Hollywood. The only problem is, he thinks it's real. After he's accidentally shipped to New York City and separated from Penny, his beloved co-star and owner, Bolt must harness all his "super powers" to find a way home.

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2007, null

85 minutes

Animation, Comedy, Family

A young surfer enters his first contest, hoping a win will earn him respect. But an encounter with a laid-back local forces him to rethink his values.

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2006, null

73 minutes

Animation, Comedy, Family, TV Movie

Lilo, Stitch, Jumba, and Pleakley have finally caught all of Jumba's genetic experiments and found the one true place where each of them belongs. Stitch, Jumba and Pleakley are offered positions in the Galactic Alliance, turning them down so they can stay on Earth with Lilo, but Lilo realizes her alien friends have places where they belong – and it's finally time to say "aloha".

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2004, Darrell Rooney, Lynne Southerland

79 minutes

Animation, Comedy, Family, Action

Fa Mulan gets the surprise of her young life when her love, Captain Li Shang asks for her hand in marriage. Before the two can have their happily ever after, the Emperor assigns them a secret mission, to escort three princesses to Chang'an, China. Mushu is determined to drive a wedge between the couple after he learns that he will lose his guardian job if Mulan marries into the Li family.

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1998, Shui-Bo Wang

29 minutes

Documentary, Animation

This film illustrates the life of the film director, Shui-Bo Wang in The People's Republic of China. We learn of the life of the director in his own words and images from a child steeped in the values of Chinese communism exemplified by Chairman Mao, to a young man striving to live up to those ideals both as an artist and a soldier.

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Award-Winning Animation Films That Made History at the Oscars and Golden Globes

Biggest Upsets: When Animation Films Lost Major Awards

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2018, Jumpei Mizusaki

85 minutes

Animation, Action, Science Fiction

Batman, along with many of his allies and adversaries, finds himself transported to feudal Japan by Gorilla Grodd's time displacement machine.

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2004, Jeff Fowler

5 minutes

Animation, Comedy

A gopher finds himself on a road where trucks are hauling produce to market. He hits on the idea of shaking some of the produce loose for himself, but other animals always beat him to the booty. That is, until a truck comes along with a cow...

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2007, Cody Cameron

6 minutes

Animation, Comedy, Family, Fantasy

Meeper and the ChubbChubbs go to the North Pole; when Santa Claus is injured and can't deliver his presents, he is replaced by Meeper.

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2024, Jens Møller, Jesper Møller

82 minutes

Animation, Family, Comedy

When a homeless little ghost knocks on the door to the eccentric residents of a Ghost Train on the lookout for a place to belong, she accidentally attracts the attention from the outside world and must team up with the motley crew of monsters on a crazy quest to save not only the future of the Ghost Train but also her only chance to finally have a family of her own.

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1962, null

16 minutes

Science Fiction, Animation, Drama

The film focuses on the thoughts inside the head of a man, an astronaut scheduled to go to the Moon. As he ponders the flight, he laments having an “ordinary” name he fears will not resonate throughout history. His thoughts lead him to consider some of the pioneers of flight-Icarus and his wings, the Montgolfier brothers and their balloon and the Wright brothers and heavier than air flight.

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2008, Kari Juusonen, Michael Hegner

80 minutes

Animation, Family, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy

A young reindeer named Niko dreams about flying like his father, whom he has never met. Despite constant teasing from others, he sneaks out of his home valley to take flying lessons from Julius, a flying squirrel.

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2011, Amanda Forbis, Wendy Tilby

14 minutes

Animation, Western, Fantasy

An English dreamer experiences both the beauty and harshness of nature when he relocates to the Canadian prairie.

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1998, Bradley Raymond, Tom Ellery

72 minutes

Animation, Family, Adventure, Romance

When news of John Smith's death reaches America, Pocahontas is devastated. She sets off to London with John Rolfe, to meet with the King of England on a diplomatic mission: to create peace and respect between the two great lands. However, Governor Ratcliffe is still around; he wants to return to Jamestown and take over. He will stop at nothing to discredit the young princess.

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