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

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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

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2000s

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Year Film Director(s)
2002 Lilo & Stitch Chris Sanders and Dean DeBlois[1]
Ice Age Chris Wedge[1]
2003 [2] Finding Nemo Andrew Stanton and Lee Unkrich
Brother Bear Aaron Blaise and Robert Walker
The Triplets of Belleville Sylvain Chomet
Looney Tunes: Back in Action Joe Dante
Rugrats Go Wild Norton Virgien and John Eng
2004 The Incredibles Brad Bird[3]
2005 [4] Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit Nick Park and Steve Box
Chicken Little Mark Dindal
Corpse Bride Tim Burton, Mike Johnson
Madagascar Eric Darnell and Tom McGrath
Robots Chris Wedge
2006 Happy Feet George Miller[5]
2007 Ratatouille Brad Bird[6]
2008 WALL-E Andrew Stanton[7]
2009[8] Up Pete Docter
9 Shane Acker
Coraline Henry Selick
Fantastic Mr. Fox Wes Anderson
Ponyo Hayao Miyazaki

2010s

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Year Film Director(s)
2010 [9] Toy Story 3 Lee Unkrich
Despicable Me Pierre Coffin, Chris Renaud
How To Train Your Dragon Chris Sanders, Dean DeBlois
Shrek Forever After Mike Mitchell
Tangled Nathan Greno, Byron Howard
Megamind Tom McGrath
2011 [10] Rango Gore Verbinski
The Adventures of Tintin Steven Spielberg
Puss in Boots Chris Miller
Arthur Christmas
Winnie the Pooh Stephen Anderson and Don Hall
2012 [11] ParaNorman Sam Fell and Chris Butler
Brave Mark Andrews, Brenda Chapman
Frankenweenie Tim Burton
Rise of the Guardians Peter Ramsey, William Joyce
Wreck-It Ralph Rich Moore
2013 [12] Frozen Chris Buck and Jennifer Lee
Turbo David Soren
Despicable Me 2 Pierre Coffin, Chris Renaud
The Wind Rises Hayao Miyazaki
Monsters University Dan Scanlon
2014 [13] 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
Rio 2 Carlos Saldanha
Mr. Peabody and Sherman Rob Minkoff
2015[14] 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 [15] 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 [16] 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
The Boss Baby Tom McGrath
Cars 3 Brian Fee
2018 [17] 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
The Grinch Scott Mosier and Yarrow Cheney
Early Man Nick Park
2019 Toy Story 4 Josh Cooley[18]
Frozen 2 Chris Buck, Jennifer Lee
How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World Dean DeBlois
Klaus Sergio Pablos
Missing Link Chris Butler

2020s

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Year Film Director(s)
2020[19] Soul Pete Docter[20]
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[21][22]
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[23]
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[24] Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse Kemp Powers and Joaquim Dos Santos[25]
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[26] 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

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References

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  2. ^ wafcaadmin (2003-12-19). "2003 WAFCA Award Winners". WAFCA. Retrieved 2025-10-23.
  3. ^ wafcaadmin (2004-12-17). "2004 WAFCA Award Winners". WAFCA. Retrieved 2025-10-23.
  4. ^ wafcaadmin (2005-12-12). "2005 WAFCA Award Winners". WAFCA. Retrieved 2025-10-23.
  5. ^ wafcaadmin (2006-12-11). "2006 WAFCA Award Winners". WAFCA. Retrieved 2025-10-23.
  6. ^ wafcaadmin (2007-12-10). "2007 WAFCA Award Winners". WAFCA. Retrieved 2025-10-23.
  7. ^ wafcaadmin (2008-12-08). "2008 WAFCA Award Winners". WAFCA. Retrieved 2025-10-23.
  8. ^ "Air" Leads D.C. Critics Winners|IndieWire
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  10. ^ wafcaadmin (2011-12-05). "2011 WAFCA Award Winners". WAFCA. Retrieved 2025-10-23.
  11. ^ wafcaadmin (2012-12-10). "2012 WAFCA Award Winners". WAFCA. Retrieved 2025-10-23.
  12. ^ wafcaadmin (2013-12-08). "2013 WAFCA Award Winners". WAFCA. Retrieved 2025-10-23.
  13. ^ wafcaadmin (2014-12-08). "2014 WAFCA Award Winners". WAFCA. Retrieved 2025-10-23.
  14. ^ 'Spotlight' Named Top Film by D.C. - Area Film Critics|Hollywood Reporter
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  16. ^ wafcaadmin (2017-12-08). "2017 WAFCA Award Winners". WAFCA. Retrieved 2025-10-23.
  17. ^ wafcaadmin (2018-12-03). "2018 WAFCA Award Winners". WAFCA. Retrieved 2025-10-23.
  18. ^ "2019 WAFCA Award Winners - The Washington DC Area Film Critics Association (WAFCA)". www.dcfilmcritics.com. Retrieved 2020-03-23.
  19. ^ Nomadland tops the Washington DC Area Film Critics Association Awards - Metro Weekly
  20. ^ "2020 WAFCA Award Winners - The Washington DC Area Film Critics Association (WAFCA)". www.dcfilmcritics.com. Retrieved 2021-02-08.
  21. ^ Neglia, Matt (2021-12-06). "The 2021 Washington DC Area Film Critics Association (WAFCA) Winners". Retrieved 2021-12-06.
  22. ^ AwardsWatch - 2023 Washington DC Area Film Critics Association (WAFCA) Winners: ‘American Fiction’ is Best Feature, ‘Oppenheimer’ Takes Six
  23. ^ DC Film Critics Name Everything Everywhere All At Once Best Movie Of The Year - Punch Drunk Critics
  24. ^ AwardsWatch - 2023 Washington DC Critics Nominations (WAFCA)
  25. ^ AwardsWatch - 2023 Washington DC Area Film Critics Association (WAFCA) Winners: ‘American Fiction’ is Best Feature, ‘Oppenheimer’ Takes Six
  26. ^ Next Best Picture - 2024 Washington DC Critics Nominations (WAFCA)