The Crunchyroll Anime Award for Film of the Year is a penultimate award given at the Crunchyroll Anime Awards since its second edition in 2018. It is given for the best anime film from the previous year. Winners are determined through a combined voting process by judges and public voting.
Makoto Shinkai and CoMix Wave Films's Your Name first won the award in 2018, which also awarded Suzume for the second time in 2023, the first film director and animation studio to win twice. MAPPA and Toei Animation holds their record for the most nominations, while the latter has the most nominations without a win with four. Bones Films' My Hero Academia, together with Ufotable's Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, Shinkai's Disaster trilogy, and Twin Engine's Mononoke, have the most nominations for a film franchise with two.
Mamoru Hosoda and Studio Chizu's Mirai is the first (and so far, only) film ever to rarely received nominations of Academy Award for Best Animated Feature and Crunchyroll Anime Award for Film of the Year at the same time. For his direction of Jujutsu Kaisen 0, Sunghoo Park is the first non-Japanese to win the award in 2022.
In the latest edition in 2026, Ufotable's Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba – The Movie: Infinity Castle won the award.
Winners and nominees In the following list, the first titles listed in gold are the winners; those not in gold are nominees, which are listed in alphabetical order. The years given are those in which the ceremonies took place.
2010s Year Anime Director(s) Studio(s) 2017(2nd) Your Name Makoto Shinkai CoMix Wave Films A Silent Voice Naoko Yamada Kyoto Animation Fate/stay night: Heaven's Feel I. presage flower Tomonori Sudō Ufotable Girls und Panzer der Film Tsutomu Mizushima Actas In This Corner of the World Sunao Katabuchi MAPPA Kizumonogatari III: Reiketsu-hen Shaft 2018(3rd) My Hero Academia: Two Heroes Kenji Nagasaki Bones Fireworks Shaft Liz and the Blue Bird Naoko Yamada Kyoto Animation Mazinger Z: Infinity Junji Shimizu Toei Animation Mirai Mamoru Hosoda Studio Chizu The Night Is Short, Walk On Girl Masaaki Yuasa Science SARU
2020s Year Anime Director(s) Studio(s) 2021(6th) Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba – The Movie: Mugen Train Haruo Sotozaki Ufotable Belle Mamoru Hosoda Studio Chizu Evangelion 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time Khara Josee, the Tiger and the Fish Kotaro Tamura Bones Shirobako: The Movie Tsutomu Mizushima P.A. Works Words Bubble Up Like Soda Pop Kyōhei Ishiguro Signal.MD and Sublimation 2021/2022(7th) Jujutsu Kaisen 0 Sunghoo Park MAPPA Bubble Tetsurō Araki Wit Studio Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero Tetsuro Kodama Toei Animation Inu-Oh Masaaki Yuasa Science SARU One Piece Film: Red Gorō Taniguchi Toei Animation The Deer King Production I.G 2022/2023(8th) Suzume Makoto Shinkai CoMix Wave Films Black Clover: Sword of the Wizard King Ayataka Tanemura Pierrot Blue Giant Yuzuru Tachikawa NUT The First Slam Dunk Takehiko Inoue Toei Animation and DandeLion Animation Studio Kaguya-sama: Love Is War – The First Kiss That Never Ends Mamoru Hatakeyama A-1 Pictures Psycho-Pass Providence Naoyoshi Shiotani Production I.G 2023/2024(9th) Look Back Kiyotaka Oshiyama Studio Durian Haikyu!! The Dumpster Battle Susumu Mitsunaka Production I.G Mononoke the Movie: Phantom in the Rain Kenji Nakamura EOTA My Hero Academia: You're Next Tensai Okamura Bones Film Spy × Family Code: White Takashi Katagiri Wit Studio and CloverWorks The Colors Within Naoko Yamada Science SARU 2025(10th) Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba – The Movie: Infinity Castle Haruo Sotozaki Ufotable 100 Meters Kenji Iwaizawa Rock 'n' Roll Mountain Chainsaw Man – The Movie: Reze Arc Tatsuya Yoshihara MAPPA Mononoke the Movie: The Ashes of Rage Kiyotaka Suzuki EOTA and Crew-Cell Scarlet Mamoru Hosoda Studio Chizu The Rose of Versailles Ai Yoshimura MAPPA
Records
Studios StudioWinsNominationsFilmsUfotable23Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba – The Movie: Infinity Castle, Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba – The Movie: Mugen Train, Fate/stay night: Heaven's Feel I. presage flowerCoMix Wave Films2Disaster trilogy (Suzume and Your Name)MAPPA14Chainsaw Man – The Movie: Reze Arc, In This Corner of the World, Jujutsu Kaisen 0, The Rose of VersaillesBones Film3Josee, the Tiger and the Fish, My Hero Academia: Two Heroes, My Hero Academia: You're NextToei Animation04Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero, Mazinger Z: Infinity, One Piece Film: Red, The First Slam DunkProduction I.G3Haikyu!! The Dumpster Battle, Psycho-Pass Providence, The Deer KingScience SARUInu-Oh, The Night Is Short, Walk On Girl, The Colors WithinStudio ChizuBelle, Mirai, ScarletEOTA2Mononoke the Movie: Phantom in the Rain, Mononoke the Movie: The Ashes of RageKyoto AnimationA Silent Voice, Liz and the Blue BirdShaftFireworks, Kizumonogatari III: Reiketsu-henWit StudioBubble, Spy × Family Code: White
Directors
FranchiseWinsNominationsFilmsMakoto Shinkai2Suzume, Your NameHaruo SotozakiInfinity Castle, Mugen TrainMamoru Hosoda03Belle, Mirai, ScarletNaoko YamadaA Silent Voice, Liz and the Blue Bird, The Colors WithinAkiyuki Shinbo2Kizumonogatari III: Reiketsu-hen, FireworksMasaaki YuasaThe Night Is Short, Walk On Girl, Inu-Oh
Franchises FranchiseWinsNominationsFilmsDemon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba2Infinity Castle, Mugen TrainDisaster trilogyYour Name, SuzumeMy Hero Academia12Two Heroes, You're NextMononoke0Phantom in the Rain, The Ashes of Rage
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