35 Animated Features Qualify For The 98th Academy Awards

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