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Academy Announces 27 Animated Features Eligible for Oscar Consideration

Members will vote to determine five nominees for best animated feature film award at the 95th Academy Awards; films also qualify for other categories including best picture.

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has just released their list of feature films eligible for consideration in the Animated Feature Film, Documentary Feature, and International Feature Film categories for the 95th Academy Awards.  Complete 95th Academy Awards rules can be found at Oscars.org/rules

27 features have been declared eligible for consideration in the Animated Feature Film category.  Some of the films have not yet had their required qualifying release and must fulfill that requirement, as well as comply with all the category’s other qualifying rules to advance in the voting process.

To determine the five Oscar nominees, members of the Short Films and Feature Animation Branch are automatically eligible to vote in the category.  Academy members outside of the Short Films and Feature Animation Branch are invited to opt in to participate and must meet a minimum viewing requirement to be eligible to vote in the category.  Films submitted in the Animated Feature Film category also qualify for Academy Awards in other categories, including Best Picture.

The eligible Animated feature films are:

  • Apollo 10 1/2: A Space Age Childhood
  • The Bad Guys
  • The Bob’s Burgers Movie
  • Charlotte
  • DC League of Super-Pets
  • Drifting Home
  • Eternal Spring
  • Goodbye, Don Glees!
  • Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio
  • Inu-Oh
  • Lamya’s Poem
  • Lightyear
  • Little Nicholas, Happy as Can Be
  • Luck
  • Mad God
  • Marcel the Shell with Shoes On
  • Minions: The Rise of Gru
  • My Father’s Dragon
  • New Gods: Yang Jian
  • Oink
  • Paws of Fury: The Legend of Hank
  • Puss in Boots: The Last Wish
  • Run, Tiger Run!
  • The Sea Beast
  • Strange World
  • Turning Red
  • Wendell & Wild

All dates and rules for the 95th Academy Awards are subject to change based on national guidelines, state-mandated government orders and Academy-determined best practices.

Nominations for the 95th Academy Awards will be announced on Tuesday, January 24, 2023.

The 95th Oscars will be held on Sunday, March 12, 2023, 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

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