St. Louis Film Critics Association Award for Best Animated Feature

The St. Louis Film Critics Association Award for Best Animated Feature is an award given by the St. Louis Film Critics Association, honoring the finest achievements in animated filmmaking. Toy Story was the only franchise with multiple wins, winning three times for Toy Story 2 (1999), Toy Story 3 (2010) and Toy Story 4 (2019). The Spider-Verse franchise won two times for Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018) and Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023).

Winners

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2000s

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Year Winner Director
2004
The Incredibles Brad Bird
Shark Tale Vicky Jenson
Shrek 2 Andrew Adamson and Kelly Asbury
2005 no award given
2006
Cars John Lasseter and Joe Ranft
Happy Feet George Miller
Monster House Gil Kenan
2007
Ratatouille Brad Bird and Jan Pinkava
Bee Movie Steve Hickner and Simon J. Smith
Surf's Up Ash Brannon and Chris Buck
2008
WALL-E Andrew Stanton
Bolt Chris Williams and Byron Howard
Kung Fu Panda John Wayne Stevenson and Mark Osborne
2009
Up Pete Docter
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs Phil Lord and Christopher Miller
Coraline Henry Selick
Fantastic Mr. Fox Wes Anderson
The Princess and the Frog Ron Clements and John Musker

2010s

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Year Winner Director
2010
Toy Story 3 Lee Unkrich
Despicable Me Pierre Coffin and Chris Renaud
How To Train Your Dragon Chris Sanders and Dean DeBlois
The Illusionist (L'Illusionniste) Sylvain Chomet
Tangled Nathan Greno and Byron Howard
2011
The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn Steven Spielberg
Cars 2 John Lasseter and Brad Lewis
Kung Fu Panda 2 Jennifer Yuh Nelson
Puss in Boots Chris Miller
Rio Carlos Saldanha
2012
Wreck-It Ralph Rich Moore
Brave Mark Andrews and Brenda Chapman
Frankenweenie Tim Burton
Hotel Transylvania Genndy Tartakovsky
Rise of the Guardians Peter Ramsey and William Joyce
2013
Frozen Chris Buck and Jennifer Lee
The Croods Chris Sanders
Despicable Me 2 Pierre Coffin and Chris Renaud
Monsters University Dan Scanlon
The Wind Rises Hayao Miyazaki
2014
The LEGO Movie Phil Lord and Christopher Miller
Big Hero 6 Don Hall and Chris Williams
The Boxtrolls Anthony Stacchi and Graham Annable
How to Train Your Dragon 2 Dean DeBlois
Rio 2 Carlos Saldanha
2015
Inside Out Pete Docter and Ronnie del Carmen
Anomalisa Charlie Kaufman and Duke Johnson
The Good Dinosaur Peter Sohn
The Peanuts Movie Steve Martino
Shaun the Sheep Movie Richard Starzak and Mark Burton
2016
Zootopia Byron Howard and Rich Moore
April and the Extraordinary World Christian Desmares and Franck Ekinci
Finding Dory Andrew Stanton
Kubo and the Two Strings Travis Knight
Moana Ron Clements and John Musker
2017
Coco Lee Unkrich
Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie David Soren
Despicable Me 3 Pierre Coffin and Kyle Balda
The LEGO Batman Movie Chris McKay
Loving Vincent Dorota Kobiela and Hugh Welchman
2018
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey and Rodney Rothman
Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation Genndy Tartakovsky
Incredibles 2 Brad Bird
Isle of Dogs Wes Anderson
Ralph Breaks the Internet Rich Moore and Phil Johnston
2019
Toy Story 4 Josh Cooley
Frozen II Chris Buck and 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 Winner Director
2020
Soul Pete Docter and Kemp Powers
Onward Dan Scanlon
Over the Moon Glen Keane
The Wolf House Joaquín Cociña and Cristobal León
Wolfwalkers Tomm Moore and Ross Stewart
2021
The Mitchells vs. the Machines Mike Rianda
Encanto Jared Bush and Byron Howard
Flee Jonas Poher Rasmussen
Luca Enrico Casarosa
Vivo Kirk DeMicco
2022
Marcel the Shell with Shoes On Dean Fleischer Camp
Apollo 10 1⁄2: A Space Age Childhood Richard Linklater
Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio Guillermo del Toro
Turning Red Domee Shi
Wendell & Wild Henry Selick
2023
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers and Justin K. Thompson
The Boy and the Heron Hayao Miyazaki
Elemental Peter Sohn
Robot Dreams Pablo Berger
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem Jeff Rowe
2024
The Wild Robot Chris Sanders
Flow Gints Zilbalodis
Inside Out 2 Kelsey Mann
Memoir of a Snail Adam Elliot
Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl Nick Park and Merlin Crossingham
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