Academy members will vote to determine five nominees for best animated feature film award at the 97th Oscars; films also qualify for other categories including best picture.
Today, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced 31 features that are eligible for consideration in the Animated Feature Film category for the 97th Academy Awards. Some films have not had the required qualifying release, which must be fulfilled to comply with the category’s other qualifying rules to advance in the voting process.
Members of the Short Films and Feature Animation Branch are eligible to vote in the category to determine the five nominees. Members outside of the Short Films and Feature Animation Branch can opt in to participate. They must meet a minimum viewing requirement to be eligible to vote in the category. Films submitted in the Animated Feature Film category may also qualify for Academy Awards in other categories, including Best Picture.
The eligible films in Animated Feature Film category are:
- 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
Preliminary voting for the 97th Academy Awards will begin on Monday, December 9, 2024 and end on Friday, December 13, 2024.
Shortlists for the 97th Academy Awards will be announced on Tuesday, December 17, 2024.
Nominations for the 97th Academy Awards will be announced on Friday, January 17, 2025.
The 97th Oscars will be held on Sunday, March 2, 2025, at the Dolby Theatre at Ovation Hollywood and will be televised live on ABC and in more than 200 territories worldwide.
Source: The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
Dan Sarto is Publisher and Editor-in-Chief of Animation World Network.
