Producers Guild of America Award for Best Animated Motion Picture

The Producers Guild of America Award for Outstanding Producer of Animated Theatrical Motion Pictures is an award annually given since 2005.

Six out of 11 PGA Best Animated Motion Pictures won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature.

About the Award

Before the Producers Guild of America handed the first outstanding award on animation, animated feature films compete against live-action films in Best Theatrical Motion Picture. Six animated feature films were nominated in this category:

1. 1989 The Little Mermaid (lost to Driving Miss Daisy)
2. 1991 Beauty and the Beast (lost to The Silence of the Lambs)
3. 1994 The Lion King (lost to Forrest Gump)
4. 1995 Toy Story (lost to Apollo 13)
5. 2001 Shrek (lost to Moulin Rouge!)
6. 2004 The Incredibles (lost to The Aviator)

After the inception of Best Animated Motion Picture award, animated films can still compete in Best Theatrical Motion Picture. Two animated feature films were nominated since 2005:

1. 2009 Up (lost to The Hurt Locker)
2. 2010 Toy Story 3 (lost to The King's Speech)

Winners and Nominees

• "†" indicates the winner of the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature.
• "‡" indicates a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature.

2000s

Year	Film	Studio(s)	Producer(s)
2005	Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit †	Aardman Animations, DreamWorks Animation	Claire Jennings and Nick Park
	Chicken Little	Walt Disney Feature Animation	Randy Fullmer
	Corpse Bride ‡	Laika Entertainment, Tim Burton Productions	Tim Burton and Allison Abbate
	Madagascar	DreamWorks Animation, Pacific Data Images	Mireille Soria
	Robots	Blue Sky Studios, 20th Century Fox Animation	Jerry Davis, John C. Donkin and William Joyce
2006	Cars ‡	Pixar Animation Studios	Darla K. Anderson
	Flushed Away	Aardman Animations, DreamWorks Animation	Cecil Kramer and Peter Lord
	Happy Feet †	Village Roadshow Pictures, Kennedy Miller Productions, Animal Logic	Bill Miller, George Miller and Doug Mitchell
	Ice Age: The Meltdown	Blue Sky Studios, 20th Century Fox Animation	Lori Forte
	Monster House ‡	Relativity Media, ImageMovers, Amblin Entertainment	Jack Rapke and Steve Starkey
2007	Ratatouille †	Pixar Animation Studios	Brad Lewis
	Bee Movie	DreamWorks Animation	Jerry Seinfeld, Christina Steinberg and Cameron Stevning
	The Simpsons Movie	20th Century Fox Animation, Gracie Films, Film Roman, AKOM Production, Rough Draft Feature Animation	James L. Brooks, Matt Groening, Al Jean, Mike Scully and Richard Sakai
2008	WALL·E †	Pixar Animation Studios	Jim Morris
	Bolt ‡	Walt Disney Feature Animation	Clark Spencer and John Lasseter
	Kung Fu Panda ‡	DreamWorks Animation	Melissa Cob
2009	Up †	Pixar Animation Studios	Jonas Rivera
	9	Bazelevs Animation, Relativity Media, Starz Animation, Tim Burton Animations	Timur Bekmambetov, Tim Burton, Dana Ginsburg and Jim Lemley
	Coraline ‡	Laika Entertainment, Pandemonium	Henry Selick and Claire Jennings
	Fantastic Mr. Fox ‡	20th Century Fox Animation, Indian Paintbrush, Regency Enterprises, American Empirical Pictures, Scott Rudin Productions, Dune Entertainment	Allison Abbate, Scott Rudin, Wes Anderson and Jeremy Dawson
	The Princess and the Frog ‡	Walt Disney Feature Animation	Peter Del Vecho and John Lasseter

2010s

Year	Film	Studio(s)	Producer(s)
2010	Toy Story 3 †	Pixar Animation Studios	Darla K. Anderson
	Despicable Me	Illumination Entertainment	Chris Meledandri, John Cohen and Janet Healy
	How to Train Your Dragon ‡	DreamWorks Animation	Bonnie Arnold
2011	The Adventures of Tintin	Nickelodeon Movies, Amblin Entertainment, The Kennedy/Marshall Company, WingNut Films, Hemisphere Media Capital and Studios Herge	Steven Spielberg, Peter Jackson and Kathleen Kennedy
	Cars 2	Pixar Animation Studios	Denise Ream
	Kung Fu Panda 2 ‡	DreamWorks Animation	Melissa Cobb
	Puss in Boots ‡	DreamWorks Animation	Latifa Ouaou and Joe M. Aguilar
	Rango †	Nickelodeon Movies, Blink Wink, GK Films and Industrial Light & Magic	Gore Verbinski, Graham King and John B. Carls
2012	Wreck-It Ralph ‡	Walt Disney Animation Studios	Clark Spencer
	Brave †	Pixar Animation Studios	Katherine Sarafian
	Frankenweenie ‡	Tim Burton Productions	Tim Burton and Allison Abbate
	ParaNorman ‡	Laika Entertainment	Travis Knight and Arianne Sutner
	Rise of the Guardians	DreamWorks Animation	Christina Steinberg and Nancy Bernstein
2013	Frozen †	Walt Disney Animation Studios	Peter Del Vecho
	The Croods ‡	DreamWorks Animation	Kristine Belson and Jane Hartwell
	Despicable Me 2 ‡	Illumination Entertainment	Chris Meledandri and Janet Healy
	Epic	Blue Sky Studios, 20th Century Fox Animation	Lori Forte and Jerry Davis
	Monsters University	Pixar Animation Studios	Kori Rae
2014	The Lego Movie	Village Roadshow Pictures, Lego System A/S, Vertigo Entertainment, Lin Pictures, Animal Logic, RatPac-Dune Entertainment, Warner Bros. Animation	Dan Lin and Roy Lee
	Big Hero 6 †	Walt Disney Animation Studios	Kristina Reed and Roy Conli
	The Book of Life	Reel FX Creative Studios, 20th Century Fox Animation	Aaron Berger, Brad Booker, Guillermo del Toro and Carina Schulze
	The Boxtrolls ‡	Laika Entertainment	Travis Knight and David Ichioka
	How to Train Your Dragon 2 ‡	DreamWorks Animation	Bonnie Arnold
2015	Inside Out †	Pixar Animation Studios	Jonas Rivera
	Anomalisa ‡	Starburn Industries, Snoot Films	Rosa Tran, Duke Johnson, Charlie Kaufman and Dino Stamatopoulos
	The Good Dinosaur	Pixar Animation Studios	Denise Ream
	Minions	Illumination Entertainment	Chris Meledandri and Janet Healy
	The Peanuts Movie	Blue Sky Studios, 20th Century Fox Animation	Craig Schulz, Bryan Schulz, Cornelius Uliano, Paul Feig and Michael J. Travers

Multiple nominations and wins

Wins	Nominations	Name (Year)
2	2	Darla K. Anderson (2006, 2010)
	2	Jonas Rivera (2009, 2015)
1	2	Claire Jennings (2005, 2009)
	2	Clark Spencer (2008, 2012)
	2	Peter Del Vecho (2009, 2013)
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	3	Allison Abbate (2005, 2009, 2012)
	3	Tim Burton (2005, 2009, 2012)
	3	Janet Healy (2010, 2013, 2015)
	3	Chris Meledandri (2010, 2013, 2015)
	2	Bonnie Arnold (2010, 2014)
	2	Melissa Cobb (2008, 2011)
	2	Jerry Davis (2005, 2013)
	2	Lori Forte (2006, 2013)
	2	John Lasseter (2008, 2009)
	2	Denis Ream (2011, 2015)
	2	Christina Steinberg (2007, 2012)
	2	Travis Knight (2012, 2014)

Comparison with Academy Awards

Year	PGA Award	Academy Award
2005	Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit	Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
2006	Cars	Happy Feet
2007	Ratatouille	Ratatouille
2008	WALL·E	WALL·E
2009	Up	Up
2010	Toy Story 3	Toy Story 3
2011	The Adventures of Tintin	Rango
2012	Wreck-It Ralph	Brave
2013	Frozen	Frozen
2014	The Lego Movie	Big Hero 6
2014	Inside Out	Inside Out

Notes

• Six out of 11 PGA-winning animated films won the coveted Academy Award for Best Animated Feature.
• Two PGA-winning animated films were not nominated in Academy Award for Best Animated Feature: The Adventures of Tintin (2011) and The Lego Movie (2014). The Adventures of Tintin was not nominated as it is ineligible by utilizing motion capture as its technique; the Academy rules do not consider motion capture as an animation technique.
• Only in the year 2008 that the nominees and eventual winner matched correctly.