| Annie Award for Outstanding Achievement for Directing in an Animated Feature Production | |
|---|---|
| Awarded for | Excellence in direction for film animation |
| Country | United States |
| Presented by | ASIFA-Hollywood |
| First awarded | 1996 (to John Lasseter for Toy Story) |
| Currently held by | Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers, Justin K. Thompson for Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023) |
| Website | annieawards |
The Annie Award for Outstanding Achievement for Directing in a Feature Production (or Annie Award for Outstanding Achievement for Directing in an Animated Feature Production) is an Annie Award, awarded annually to the best animated feature film and introduced in 1996. It rewards directing for animated feature films. The recipients are directors as well as co-directors.
The award was formerly called Best Individual Achievement: Directing in 1996, Best Individual Achievement: Directing in a Feature Production in 1997,[1] and Outstanding Individual Achievement for Directing in an Animated Feature Production from 1998 to 2001.[2]
The award has matched up with the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature every year except for 1997, 2006, 2011 and 2020. It has been awarded 26 times. Pete Docter, Rich Moore, John Lasseter and Dean DeBlois have won it twice, and Brad Bird and Lee Unkrich hold a record of three wins.
Jeff Rowe, Mamoru Oshii, Nora Twomey, Ron Clements, Tim Johnson, Ash Brannon, Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, David Silverman, Chris Wedge, Carlos Saldanha, Mark Dindal, John Musker, Sylvain Chomet, Andrew Adamson, Kelly Asbury, Sam Fell, Mamoru Hosoda, Don Hall, Tomm Moore, Genndy Tartakovsky, Chris Butler, Jennifer Lee, Benjamin Renner, Chris McKay, Byron Howard, and Makoto Shinkai have received two nominations each. Andrew Stanton, Chris Sanders, Dean DeBlois, Nick Park, Henry Selick and Rich Moore have received three nominations. John Lasseter, Chris Buck and Pete Docter, were nominated four times. Brad Bird, Hayao Miyazaki, and Lee Unkrich both hold a record five nominations.
| Year | Film | Director(s) |
|---|---|---|
| 2020 (48th) [34][35] | ||
| Wolfwalkers | Tomm Moore and Ross Stewart | |
| Calamity Jane | Rémi Chayé | |
| Over the Moon | Glen Keane | |
| Ride Your Wave | Masaaki Yuasa | |
| Soul | Pete Docter | |
| 2021 (49th) [36][37] | ||
| The Mitchells vs. the Machines | Mike Rianda, Jeff Rowe | |
| Belle | Mamoru Hosoda | |
| Encanto | Jared Bush, Byron Howard, Charise Castro Smith | |
| Flee | Jonas Poher Rasmussen, Kenneth Ladekjær | |
| Luca | Enrico Casarosa | |
| 2022 (50th) [38] | ||
| Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio | Guillermo del Toro, Mark Gustafson | |
| Turning Red | Domee Shi | |
| Marcel the Shell with Shoes On | Dean Fleischer Camp, Kirsten Lepore, Stephen Chiodo | |
| My Father's Dragon | Nora Twomey | |
| Wendell & Wild | Henry Selick | |
| 2023 (51st) [39][40] | ||
| Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse | Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers, Justin K. Thompson | |
| The Boy and the Heron | Hayao Miyazaki | |
| Nimona | Nick Bruno, Troy Quane | |
| Robot Dreams | Pablo Berger, Benoît Feroumont | |
| Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem | Jeff Rowe, Kyler Spears |