The is an award given to the best animated feature film at the Mainichi Film Awards. The award was established to reward large scale cinematic animation, enabling the Ōfuji Noburō Award to focus on shorter pieces. This award was first presented in 1989 for by Hayao Miyazaki.

Winners No.YearTitleStudioDirector 1 1989 Kiki's Delivery Service Studio Ghibli Hayao Miyazaki 2 1990 Hashire! Shiroi Ōkami Group TAC Tsuneo Maeda 3 1991 Roujin Z A.P.P.P. Hiroyuki Kitakubo 4 1992 Porco Rosso Studio Ghibli Hayao Miyazaki 5 1993 Patlabor 2: The Movie Production I.G Mamoru Oshii 6 1994 Pom Poko Studio Ghibli Isao Takahata 7 1995 Junkers Come Here Triangle Staff Junichi Sato 8 1996 Black Jack Tezuka Productions Satoshi Kuwabara 9 1997 Princess Mononoke Studio Ghibli Hayao Miyazaki 10 1998 Doraemon: Nobita's Great Adventure in the South Seas Shin-Ei Animation Tsutomu Shibayama 11 1999 Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade Production I.G Hiroyuki Okiura 12 2000 Doraemon: A Grandmother's Recollections Shin-Ei Animation Ayumu Watanabe 13 2001 Spirited Away Studio Ghibli Hayao Miyazaki 14 2002 Crayon Shin-chan: The Storm Called: The Battle of the Warring States Shin-Ei Animation Keiichi Hara 15 2003 Tokyo Godfathers Madhouse Satoshi Kon 16 2004 The Place Promised in Our Early Days CoMix Wave Films Makoto Shinkai 17 2005 Fullmetal Alchemist the Movie: Conqueror of Shamballa Bones Seiji Mizushima 18 2006 The Girl Who Leapt Through Time Madhouse Mamoru Hosoda 19 2007 Summer Days with Coo Shin-Ei Animation Keiichi Hara 20 2008 The Sky Crawlers Production I.G Mamoru Oshii 21 2009 Summer Wars Madhouse Mamoru Hosoda 22 2010 Colorful Ascension Keiichi Hara 23 2011 Hotarubi no Mori e Brain's Base Takahiro Omori 24 2012 Wolf Children Studio Chizu, Madhouse Mamoru Hosoda 25 2013 The Tale of the Princess Kaguya Studio Ghibli Isao Takahata 26 2014 Giovanni's Island Production I.G Mizuho Nishikubo 27 2015 Miss Hokusai Production I.G Keiichi Hara 28 2016 Your Name CoMix Wave Films Makoto Shinkai 29 2017 Complex × Complex Panpokopina Miyuki Fukuda 30 2018 Okko's Inn DLE, Madhouse Kitaro Kosaka 31 2019 Children of the Sea Studio 4°C Ayumu Watanabe 32 2020 Looking for Magical Doremi Toei Animation Haruka Kamatani, Junichi Sato 33 2021 The House of the Lost on the Cape David Production Shin'ya Kawatsura 32 2022 Takano Intersection (Independent production) Mizuki Ito 33 2023 Maboroshi MAPPA Mari Okada

See also List of animation awards

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