Kids' Choice Award for Favorite Animated Movie facts for kids

The Kids' Choice Award for Favorite Animated Movie is a cool award given out at the Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards. This award celebrates the best animated movies that kids love! It first started in 2006, and since then, many amazing films have won.

Awesome Animated Movie Winners and Nominees

Here's a look at the animated movies that have won this special award, along with some of the other great movies that were nominated. The movie that won each year is shown in bold.

2006-2010: Early Winners

• 2006: Madagascar
  • Nominees included: Chicken Little, Robots, Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
• 2007: Happy Feet
  • Nominees included: Cars, Ice Age: The Meltdown, Over the Hedge
• 2008: Ratatouille
  • Nominees included: Bee Movie, Shrek the Third, The Simpsons Movie
• 2009: Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa
  • Nominees included: Bolt, Kung Fu Panda, WALL-E
• 2010: Up
  • Nominees included: A Christmas Carol, Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs, Monsters vs. Aliens

2011-2015: More Animated Hits

• 2011: Despicable Me
  • Nominees included: How to Train Your Dragon, Shrek Forever After, Toy Story 3
• 2012: Puss in Boots
  • Nominees included: Cars 2, Kung Fu Panda 2, Rio
• 2013: Wreck-It Ralph
  • Nominees included: Brave, Ice Age: Continental Drift, Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted
• 2014: Frozen
  • Nominees included: Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2, Despicable Me 2, Monsters University
• 2015: Big Hero 6
  • Nominees included: How to Train Your Dragon 2, The Lego Movie, Penguins of Madagascar, Rio 2, The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water

2016-2020: Recent Favorites

• 2016: Hotel Transylvania 2
  • Nominees included: Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip, Home, Inside Out, Minions, The Peanuts Movie
• 2017: Finding Dory
  • Nominees included: Moana, The Secret Life of Pets, Sing, Trolls, Zootopia
• 2018: Coco
  • Nominees included: Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie, Cars 3, Despicable Me 3, The Emoji Movie, Ferdinand, The Lego Batman Movie, Smurfs: The Lost Village
• 2019: Incredibles 2
  • Nominees included: The Grinch, Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation, Peter Rabbit, Ralph Breaks the Internet, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
• 2020: Frozen II
  • Nominees included: The Angry Birds Movie 2, The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part, The Lion King, The Secret Life of Pets 2, Toy Story 4

2021-2025: The Latest Winners

• 2021: Soul
  • Nominees included: Onward, Phineas and Ferb the Movie: Candace Against the Universe, The Croods: A New Age, Trolls World Tour, Scoob!
• 2022: Encanto
  • Nominees included: Luca, Paw Patrol: The Movie, Sing 2, The Boss Baby: Family Business, The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run
• 2023: Minions: The Rise of Gru
  • Nominees included: DC League of Super-Pets, Hotel Transylvania: Transformania, Lightyear, The Bad Guys, Turning Red
• 2024: Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
  • Nominees included: Elemental, Kung Fu Panda 4, Paw Patrol: The Mighty Movie, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem, The Garfield Movie, The Super Mario Bros. Movie, Trolls Band Together
• 2025: Inside Out 2
  • Nominees included: Despicable Me 4, Dog Man, Moana 2, Mufasa: The Lion King, Plankton: The Movie, The Wild Robot, Transformers One

Movie Series with Lots of Nominations

Some movie series have been nominated many times, and some have even won more than once!

• Despicable Me - Nominated 6 times (won 2 times)
• Madagascar - Nominated 4 times (won 2 times)
• Hotel Transylvania - Nominated 3 times (won 1 time)
• Shrek - Nominated 3 times (won 1 time)
• Cars - Nominated 3 times (no wins)
• Ice Age - Nominated 3 times (no wins)
• Kung Fu Panda - Nominated 3 times (no wins)
• The Lego Movie - Nominated 3 times (no wins)
• Spongebob Squarepants - Nominated 3 times (no wins)
• Toy Story - Nominated 3 times (no wins)
• Frozen - Nominated 2 times (won 2 times)
• Inside Out - Nominated 2 times (won 1 time)
• Spider Verse - Nominated 2 times (won 1 time)
• Wreck-It-Ralph - Nominated 2 times (won 1 time)
• Moana - Nominated 2 times (no wins)
• Paw Patrol - Nominated 2 times (no wins)
• Rio - Nominated 2 times (no wins)
• The Secret Life of Pets - Nominated 2 times (no wins)
• Sing - Nominated 2 times (no wins)
• Trolls - Nominated 3 times (no wins)