31 Animated Features Are In This Year’s Oscar Race: Full List
Thirty-one animated features are eligible for consideration in the Animated Feature Film category of the 97th edition of the Academy Awards.
The number of eligible films is two shy of last year’s record 33 contenders.
The list of eligible films was released today by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences:
- Art College 1994
- Captain Avispa
- Chicken for Linda!
- The Colors Within
- The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie
- Despicable Me 4
- Flow
- The Garfield Movie
- Ghost Cat Anzu
- The Glassworker
- The Imaginary
- Inside Out 2
- Kensuke’s Kingdom
- Kung Fu Panda 4
- Living Large
- Look Back
- The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim
- Mars Express
- Memoir of a Snail
- Moana 2
- Piece by Piece
- Rocket Club: Across the Cosmos
- Sirocco and the Kingdom of Winds
- Spellbound
- Sultana’s Dream
- That Christmas
- Thelma the Unicorn
- Transformers One
- Ultraman: Rising
- Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl
- The Wild Robot
The feature animation category is a one-and-done voting process and won’t have a shortlist like the animated short Oscar category. The five nominees in the category will be selected directly from this list by members of the Academy’s Short Films and Feature Animation Branch.
Academy members in other branches are also eligible to vote for who will become a nominee, but they are required to opt-in and view a minimum percentage of submitted eligible films. Once the nominees are revealed in mid January, the final voting for the winner is open to all active and lifetime Academy members.
There are a surprisingly diverse number of countries represented on the list including Pakistan (The Glassworker), Dominican Republic (Capitan Avispa), China (Art College 1994), Australia (Memoir of a Snail), Latvia (Flow), and Czech Republic (Living Large), among others.
French producers were involved in the production of at least six films on the qualified list: Chicken for Linda!, Flow, Ghost Cat Anzu, Kensuke’s Kingdom, Mars Express, and Sirocco and the Kingdom of Winds. Japan is represented through four titles: The Colors Within, Ghost Cat Anzu, The Imaginary, and Look Back.
Also notable, nine of the films have at least one woman director, which is possibly a record for the category.
Oscar nominations will be announced on Friday, January 17, with the 97th Oscars ceremony to be held on Sunday, March 2, 2025.
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