Saturn Award for Best Animated Film
{{Short description|Film award}}
{{Infobox award
| name = Saturn Award for Best Animated Film
| awarded_for = Best animated motion picture of the year
| presenter = Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films
| country = United States
| year = 1978 (awarded to Watership Down)
| holder = The Wild Robot (2023/2024)
| website = {{url|http://www.saturnawards.org}}
}}
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.
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=
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| width=7% | Year
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| {{center|1978 (6th)}} |style="background:#B0C4DE;" |Watership Down |
| rowspan=6|{{center|1982 (10th)}} |style="background:#B0C4DE;" |The Secret of NIMH |
| The Last Unicorn |
| Les Maîtres du temps |
| Phoenix 2772 |
| Tron |
=2000s=
=2010s=
=2020s=
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| width=7% | Year
! width=35% | Film ! width=7% | Ref. |
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| rowspan=6|{{center|2021/2022 (50th)}} |style="background:#B0C4DE;" |Marcel the Shell with Shoes On |
| The Addams Family 2 |
| Encanto |
| Lightyear |
| Luca |
| Minions: The Rise of Gru |
| rowspan=6|{{center|2022/2023 (51st)}} |style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse |
| Elemental |
| Puss in Boots: The Last Wish |
| The Super Mario Bros. Movie |
| Suzume |
| Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem |
| rowspan="8" |{{center|2023/2024 (52nd)}} |
| The Boy and the Heron |
| Despicable Me 4 |
| Inside Out 2 |
| Kung Fu Panda 4 |
| Spy x Family Code: White |
| Transformers One |
References
External links
- [http://www.saturnawards.org/ The Official Saturn Awards Site]
- [https://www.imdb.com/Sections/Awards/Academy_of_Science_Fiction_Fantasy_And_Horror_Films_USA/ Saturn Awards on IMDb]
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