The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has confirmed the 35 titles competing in the Animated Feature Film category for the upcoming 98th Academy Awards.
Voting in the category will again be led by the Animation Branch, whose members are automatically eligible to participate. In addition, Academy members from other branches may opt in, provided they commit to the minimum viewing requirements. From this combined pool, five nominees will be selected, with a winner announced during the Oscars ceremony on March 16.
According to the Academy, some of the titles have not yet completed their qualifying theatrical runs, and those films will need to secure their required release and meet all remaining eligibility criteria before they can move forward in the voting process. The specific titles that haven’t met this requirement weren’t indicated in today’s release.
As in previous years, films entered in the Animated Feature race remain eligible for recognition in other Oscar categories, including Best Picture. Animated features submitted as their country’s official entry in the International Feature Film category are also allowed to compete here. The International Feature and Documentary lists were also released today, which we will highlight in a separate article.
Animated Features Qualified for the 98th Academy Awards
Arco, Ugo Bienvenue
The Bad Guys 2, Pierre Perifel, JP Sans
Black Butterflies, David Baute
Boys Go to Jupiter, Julian Glander
Chainsaw Man – The Movie: Reze Arc, Tatsuya Yoshihara
ChaO, Yasuhiro Aoki
Colorful Stage! The Movie: A Miku Who Can’t Sing, Hiroyuki Hata
David, Phil Cunningham, Brent Dawes
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle, Haruo Sotozaki
Dog Man, Peter Hastings
Dog of God, Raitis Ābele, Lauris Ābele
Dragon Heart – Adventures Beyond This World, Isamu Imakake
Elio, Adrian Molina, Madeline Sharafian, Domee Shi
Endless Cookie, Seth Scriver, Peter Scriver
Fixed, Genndy Tartakovsky
Gabby’s Dollhouse: The Movie, Ryan Crego
In Your Dreams, Alex Woo, Erik Benson
KPop Demon Hunters, Maggie Kang, Chris Applehans
The Legend of Hei 2, Jie Gu, Mtjj
Light of the World, Tom Bancroft, John J. Schafer
Little Amélie or the Character of Rain, Mailys Vallade, Liane-Cho Han
Lost in Starlight, Jiwon Han
A Magnificent Life, Sylvain Chomet
Mahavatar Narsimha, Ashwin Kumar
Night of the Zoopocalypse, Ricardo Curtis, Rodrigo Perez-Castro
Olivia & las Nubes, Tomás Pichardo-Espaillat
100 Meters, Kenji Iwaisawa
Out of the Nest, Andrew Gordon
Scarlet, Mamoru Hosoda
Slide, Bill Plympton
The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants, Derek Drymon
Stitch Head, Steve Hudson
The Twits, Todd Demong, Phil Johnston, Katie Shanahan
Zootopia 2, Jared Bush, Byron Howard