The National Board of Review Award for Best Animated Feature is one of the annual awards given (since 2000) by the National Board of Review of Motion Pictures. Every year from 2001 to 2004 and from 2007 to 2011, 2015, 2017 and in 2020, 2021 and 2024 the award was given to the film that would eventually receive the Academy Award counterpart.
Winners
2000s Year Film Director(s) 2000 Chicken Run Peter Lord and Nick Park 2001 Shrek Andrew Adamson and Vicky Jenson 2002 Spirited Away (Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi) Hayao Miyazaki 2003 Finding Nemo Andrew Stanton 2004 The Incredibles Brad Bird 2005 Corpse Bride Tim Burton and Mike Johnson 2006 Cars John Lasseter 2007 Ratatouille Brad Bird 2008 WALL-E Andrew Stanton 2009 Up Pete Docter
2010s Year Film Director(s) 2010 Toy Story 3 Lee Unkrich 2011 Rango Gore Verbinski 2012 Wreck-It Ralph Rich Moore 2013 The Wind Rises (Kaze tachinu) Hayao Miyazaki 2014 How to Train Your Dragon 2 Dean DeBlois 2015 Inside Out Pete Docter 2016 Kubo and the Two Strings Travis Knight 2017 Coco Lee Unkrich 2018 Incredibles 2 Brad BirdNational Board of Review Names 'Green Book' Best Film of 2018 - Variety 2019 How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World Dean DeBloisNational Board of Review 2019 Winners|IndieWire
2020s Year Film Director(s) 2020 Soul Pete Docter2021 National Board of Review Winners and Analysis - Variety 2021 Encanto Byron HowardNational Board of Review Winners 2021|IndieWire 2022 Marcel the Shell with Shoes On Dean Fleischer Camp2022 National Board of Review Winners: ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ Takes Top Honor|IndieWireTop Gun: Maverick Named Best Movie of 2022 by National Board of Review - The Hollywood Reporter 2023 Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse Kemp Powers and Joaquim Dos SantosNational Board of Review Names ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Best Film of 2023 2024 Flow (Straume) Gints Zilbalodis 2025 Arco Ugo Bienvenu
Multiple winners Brad Bird – 3 Pete Docter – 3 Dean DeBlois – 2 Hayao Miyazaki – 2 Andrew Stanton – 2 Lee Unkrich – 2
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