St. Louis Gateway Film Critics Association Award for Best Animated Film

The St. Louis Gateway Film Critics Association Award for Best Animated Film is an award given by the St. Louis Gateway Film Critics Association, honoring the finest achievements in animated filmmaking.

Winners

2000s

Year	Film	Director(s)	Nominees
2004	The Incredibles	Brad Bird	Shark Tale	Vicky Jenson Shrek 2	Andrew Adamson, 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, Simon J. Smith Surf's Up	Ash Brannon, Chris Buck
2008	WALL-E	Andrew Stanton	Bolt	Chris Williams, Byron Howard Kung Fu Panda	John Wayne Stevenson, 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, John Musker

2010s

Year	Film	Director(s)	Nominees
2010	Toy Story 3	Lee Unkrich	Despicable Me	Pierre Coffin, Chris Renaud How To Train Your Dragon	Chris Sanders, Dean DeBlois The Illusionist L'Illusionniste	Sylvain Chomet Tangled	Nathan Greno Byron Howard
2011	The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn	Steven Spielberg	Cars 2	John Lasseter, 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, Brenda Chapman Frankenweenie	Tim Burton Hotel Transylvania	Genndy Tartakovsky Rise of the Guardians	Peter Ramsey, William Joyce
2013	Frozen	Chris Buck and Jennifer Lee	The Croods	Chris Sanders Despicable Me 2	Pierre Coffin, 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, Chris Williams The Boxtrolls	Anthony Stacchi, 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, Duke Johnson The Good Dinosaur	Peter Sohn The Peanuts Movie	Steve Martino Shaun the Sheep Movie	Richard Starzak, Mark Burton
2016	Zootopia	Byron Howard and Rich Moore	April and the Extraordinary World	Christian Desmares, 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, Kyle Balda The LEGO Batman Movie	Chris McKay Loving Vincent	Dorota Kobiela, Hugh Welchman
2018	Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse	Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey, Rodney Rothman	Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation	Genndy Tartakovsky Incredibles 2	Brad Bird Isle of Dogs	Wes Anderson Ralph Breaks the Internet	Rich Moore, Phil Johnston
2019	Toy Story 4	Josh Cooley	Frozen II	Chris Buck, Jennifer Lee How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World	Dean DeBlois Klaus	Sergio Pablos Missing Link	Chris Butler

2020s

Year	Film	Director(s)	Nominees
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