Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Award for Best Animated Feature

The Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Award for Best Animated Feature is an annual award given out by the Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association. Toy Story is the only franchise with multiple wins, winning two times for Toy Story 3 (2010) and Toy Story 4 (2019).

Winners and nominees

2000s

Year	Film	Director(s)	Nominees
2002	Lilo & Stitch	Chris Sanders and Dean DeBlois	Ice Age	Chris Wedge Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron	Kelly Asbury Treasure Planet	Ron Clements, John Musker The Wild Thornberrys Movie	Jeff McGrath, Cathy Malkasian
2003	Finding Nemo	Andrew Stanton and Lee Unkrich	Brother Bear	Aaron Blaise, Robert Walker The Triplets of Belleville	Sylvain Chomet
2004	The Incredibles	Brad Bird	Shark Tale	Vicky Jenson Shrek 2	Andrew Adamson, Kelly Asbury
2005	Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit	Nick Park and Steve Box	Corpse Bride	Tim Burton, Mike Johnson Howl's Moving Castle	Hayao Miyazaki
2006	Happy Feet	George Miller	Cars	John Lasseter Ice Age: The Meltdown	Carlos Saldanha Monster House	Gil Kenan Over the Hedge	Tim Johnson, Karey Kirkpatrick
2007	Ratatouille	Brad Bird	Bee Movie	Steve Hickner, Simon J. Smith Shrek the Third	Chris Miller, Raman Hui The Simpsons Movie	David Silverman Surf's Up	Ash Brannon, Chris Buck
2008	WALL-E	Andrew Stanton	Bolt	Chris Williams, Byron Howard Kung Fu Panda	John Stevenson, Mark Osborne Persepolis	Marjane Satrapi, Vincent Paronnaud The Tale of Despereaux	Rob Stevenhagen, Sam Fell
2009[1]	Up	Pete Docter	9	Shane Acker Coraline	Henry Selick Fantastic Mr. Fox	Wes Anderson Ponyo	Hayao Miyazaki

2010s

Year	Film	Director(s)	Nominees
2010	Toy Story 3	Lee Unkrich	Despicable Me	Pierre Coffin, Chris Renaud How To Train Your Dragon	Chris Sanders, Dean DeBlois The Illusionist	Sylvain Chomet Tangled	Nathan Greno, Byron Howard
2011	Rango	Gore Verbinski	The Adventures of Tintin	Steven Spielberg Puss in Boots	Chris Miller Rio	Carlos Saldanha Winnie the Pooh	Stephen Anderson and Don Hall
2012	ParaNorman	Sam Fell and Chris Butler	Brave	Mark Andrews, Brenda Chapman Hotel Transylvania	Genndy Tartakovsky Rise of the Guardians	Peter Ramsey, William Joyce Wreck-It Ralph	Rich Moore
2013	Frozen	Chris Buck and Jennifer Lee	The Croods	Chris Sanders, Kirk DeMicco Despicable Me 2	Pierre Coffin, Chris Renaud Epic	Chris Wedge Monsters University	Dan Scanlon
2014	The Lego Movie	Phil Lord and Christopher Miller	Big Hero 6	Don Hall, Chris Williams The Book of Life	Jorge Gutierrez The Boxtrolls	Anthony Stacchi, Graham Annable How to Train Your Dragon 2	Dean DeBlois
2015[2]	Inside Out	Pete Docter	The Good Dinosaur	Peter Sohn Hotel Transylvania 2	Genndy Tartakovsky The Peanuts Movie	Steve Martino Shaun the Sheep Movie	Richard Starzak, Mark Burton
2016	Kubo and the Two Strings	Travis Knight	Sausage Party	Conrad Vernon, Greg Tiernan Finding Dory	Andrew Stanton Moana	Ron Clements, John Musker Zootopia	Byron Howard, Rich Moore
2017	Coco	Lee Unkrich	The Breadwinner	Nora Twomey Despicable Me 3	Pierre Coffin, Kyle Balda The Lego Batman Movie	Chris McKay Loving Vincent	Dorota Kobiela, Hugh Welchman
2018	Isle of Dogs	Wes Anderson	Incredibles 2	Brad Bird Mirai	Mamoru Hosoda Ralph Breaks the Internet	Phil Johnston, Rich Moore Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse	Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey, Rodney Rothman
2019	Toy Story 4	Josh Cooley[3]	Frozen II	Chris Buck, Jennifer Lee How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World	Dean DeBlois Klaus	Sergio Pablos Missing Link	Chris Butler

2020s

Year	Film	Director(s)	Nominees
2020[4]	Soul	Pete Docter[5]	The Croods: A New Age	Joel Crawford Onward	Dan Scanlon Over the Moon	Glen Keane Wolfwalkers	Tomm Moore and Ross Stewart
2021	The Mitchells vs. the Machines	Mike Rianda[6][7]	Encanto	Jared Bush and Byron Howard Flee	Jonas Poher Rasmussen Luca	Enrico Casarosa Raya and the Last Dragon	Don Hall and Carlos López Estrada
2022	Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio	Guillermo del Toro[8]	Apollo 10 1⁄2: A Space Age Childhood	Richard Linklater Marcel the Shell with Shoes On	Dean Fleischer Camp Turning Red	Domee Shi Wendell & Wild	Henry Selick
2023[9]	Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse	Kemp Powers and Joaquim Dos Santos[10]	Elemental	Peter Sohn Nimona	Nick Bruno and Troy Quane Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem	Jeff Rowe The Boy and the Heron	Hayao Miyazaki
2024[11]	The Wild Robot	Chris Sanders	Flow	Gints Zilbalodis Inside Out 2	Kelsey Mann Memoir of a Snail	Adam Elliot Wallace and Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl	Merlin Crossingham and Nick Park

See also

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

References

1. "Air" Leads D.C. Critics Winners|IndieWire
2. 'Spotlight' Named Top Film by D.C. - Area Film Critics|Hollywood Reporter
3. "2019 WAFCA Award Winners - The Washington DC Area Film Critics Association (WAFCA)". www.dcfilmcritics.com. Retrieved 2020-03-23.
4. Nomadland tops the Washington DC Area Film Critics Association Awards - Metro Weekly
5. "2020 WAFCA Award Winners - The Washington DC Area Film Critics Association (WAFCA)". www.dcfilmcritics.com. Retrieved 2021-02-08.
6. Neglia, Matt (2021-12-06). "The 2021 Washington DC Area Film Critics Association (WAFCA) Winners". Retrieved 2021-12-06.
7. AwardsWatch - 2023 Washington DC Area Film Critics Association (WAFCA) Winners: ‘American Fiction’ is Best Feature, ‘Oppenheimer’ Takes Six
8. DC Film Critics Name Everything Everywhere All At Once Best Movie Of The Year - Punch Drunk Critics
9. AwardsWatch - 2023 Washington DC Critics Nominations (WAFCA)
10. AwardsWatch - 2023 Washington DC Area Film Critics Association (WAFCA) Winners: ‘American Fiction’ is Best Feature, ‘Oppenheimer’ Takes Six
11. Next Best Picture - 2024 Washington DC Critics Nominations (WAFCA)