List of animated feature films nominated for Academy Awards

This page highlights the animated feature films nominated for or won Academy Awards aside from the Best Animated Feature category.

Best Picture
Animated feature films were nominated for Best Picture in only three cases: 1991, 2009 and 2010. Beauty and the Beast is the only animated-feature film Best Picture nominee before the inception of Best Animated Feature and in the five-nominee format. Up and Toy Story 3 were both nominated after the inception of the animated feature category and in the expanded ten-nominee format.

Best International Feature Film
Only two animated films have been nominated in the Best International Feature Film category.

Best Documentary Feature
Only one animated film has been nominated in the Best Documentary Feature category.

Best Original Screenplay
All films are distributed/produced by Disney/Pixar.

Best Original Song
Since the category's inception in 1934, twelve animated films have won this music category, with Disney winning eleven (three with Pixar), and DreamWorks winning one. Beauty and the Beast (1991) and The Lion King (1994) both had three nominations in this category, the first and second films to do so.

Wet Blanket Policy, a 1948 Woody Woodpecker short cartoon, was also nominated for Best Original Song. "The Woody Woodpecker" song was written by George Tibbles and Ramey Idriess and was nominated for the 21st Academy Awards (21st). It is the only animated short subject to be nominated in a traditionally feature film category.

In addition of outside of Disney and Pixar theatrical films, The Prince of Egypt (1998) marks their first time and is the only film for DreamWorks Animation to win an award category as of 2023.

Visual Effects
With the nomination of The Lion King in 2019, three animated films are nominated for Best Visual Effects.

Honorary Awards and Special Achievement Awards
Honorary Awards and Special Achievement Award are given to celebrate noted achievements in motion picture arts.

Honorary Awards
A handful of the honorary award recipients are awarded in their achievements in animated feature films.

Live-action/animated films
Live-action animated film blends various traditional animation or computer animation in live action films.