Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Animated Film

The Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Animated Feature is one of the annual film awards by the Chicago Film Critics Association since 2007.

Winners

2000s

Year	Winner	Director(s)
2007	Ratatouille	Brad Bird
	Beowulf	Robert Zemeckis
	Meet the Robinsons	Steve Anderson
	Persepolis	Vincent Paronnaud and Marjane Satrapi
	The Simpsons Movie	David Silverman
2008	WALL-E	Andrew Stanton
	Bolt	Byron Howard and Chris Williams
	Kung Fu Panda	Mark Osborne and John Stevenson
	The Tale of Despereaux	Sam Fell and Robert Stevenhagen
	Waltz with Bashir (Vals im Bashir)	Ari Folman
2009	Up	Pete Docter
	Coraline	Henry Selick
	Fantastic Mr. Fox	Wes Anderson
	Ponyo	Hayao Miyazaki
	The Princess and the Frog	Ron Clements and John Musker

2010s

Year	Winner	Director(s)
2010	Toy Story 3	Lee Unkrich
	Despicable Me	Chris Renaud and Pierre Coffin
	How To Train Your Dragon	Chris Sanders and Dean DeBlois
	The Illusionist	Sylvain Chomet
	Tangled	Nathan Greno and Byron Howard
2011	Rango	Gore Verbinski
	The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn	Steven Spielberg
	Arthur Christmas	Sarah Smith
	Puss in Boots	Chris Miller
	Winnie the Pooh	Stephen J. Anderson and Don Hall
2012	ParaNorman	Sam Fell and Chris Butler
	Brave	Mark Andrews and Brenda Chapman
	Frankenweenie	Tim Burton
	The Secret World of Arrietty	Hiromasa Yonebayashi
	Wreck-It Ralph	Rich Moore
2013	The Wind Rises	Hayao Miyazaki
	The Croods	Kirk DeMicco and Chris Sanders
	From Up on Poppy Hill	Gorō Miyazaki
	Frozen	Chris Buck and Jennifer Lee
	Monsters University	Dan Scanlon
2014	The Lego Movie	Phil Lord and Christopher Miller
	Big Hero 6	Don Hall and Chris Williams
	The Boxtrolls	Graham Annable and Anthony Stacchi
	How to Train Your Dragon 2	Dean DeBlois
	The Tale of the Princess Kaguya	Isao Takahata
2015	Inside Out	Pete Docter and Ronnie del Carmen
	Anomalisa	Charlie Kaufman and Duke Johnson
	The Good Dinosaur	Peter Sohn
	The Peanuts Movie	Steve Martino
	Shaun the Sheep Movie	Richard Starzak and Mark Burton
2016	Kubo and the Two Strings	Travis Knight
	Moana	Ron Clements and John Musker
	The Red Turtle	Michaël Dudok de Wit
	Tower	Keith Maitland
	Zootopia	Byron Howard and Rich Moore
2017	Coco	Lee Unkrich
	The Breadwinner	Nora Twomey
	The Lego Batman Movie	Chris McKay
	Loving Vincent	Dorota Kobiela and Hugh Welchman
	Your Name	Makoto Shinkai
2018	Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse	Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey and Rodney Rothman[1]
	Incredibles 2	Brad Bird
	Isle of Dogs	Wes Anderson
	Ralph Breaks the Internet	Rich Moore & Phil Johnston
	Ruben Brandt, Collector	Milorad Krstić
2019	Toy Story 4	Josh Cooley[2]
	Frozen II	Chris Buck and Jennifer Lee
	How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World	Dean DeBlois
	I Lost My Body	Jérémy Clapin [fr]
	Missing Link	Chris Butler

2020s

Year	Winner	Director(s)
2020	Wolfwalkers	Tomm Moore and Ross Stewart[3]
	Onward	Dan Scanlon
	A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon	Will Becher and Richard Phelan
	Soul	Pete Docter and Kemp Powers
	The Wolf House	Joaquín Cociña and Cristobal León
2021	Flee	Jonas Poher Rasmussen[4][5]
	Belle	Mamoru Hosoda
	Encanto	Jared Bush and Byron Howard
	Luca	Enrico Casarosa
	The Mitchells vs. the Machines	Mike Rianda
2022	Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio	Guillermo del Toro
	Apollo 10 1⁄2: A Space Age Childhood	Richard Linklater
	Mad God	Phil Tippett
	Marcel the Shell with Shoes On	Dean Fleischer Camp
	Turning Red	Domee Shi
2023
	The Boy and the Heron	Hayao Miyazaki
	Leo	Robert Marianetti, Robert Smigel, and David Wachtenheim
	Robot Dreams	Pablo Berger
	Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse	Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers, and Justin K. Thompson
	Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem	Jeff Rowe

See also

• Academy Award for Best Animated Feature
• Golden Globe Award for Best Animated Feature Film

References

1. Roma named Best Picture by Chicago Film Critics Association|Consequence of Sound
2. Chicago Film Critics Give Best Picture To "Parasite" And Best Director To Bong Joon Ho — Deadline
3. 'Nomadland' chosen as 2020's best movie by Chicago film critics - Chicago Sun-Times
4. West Side Story Leads the 2021 Chicago Critics Nominees|Festivals & Awards|Roger Ebert.com
5. Jane Campion's The Power of the Dog Leads Chicago Critics Awards with Seven