Visual Effects Society Award for Outstanding Animated Character in an Animated Feature

The Visual Effects Society Award for Outstanding Animated Character in an Animated Feature is one of the annual awards given by the Visual Effects Society starting from 2002. Since its inception, the award's title has gone through six title changes, and one major category shift. First awarded in 2002, the award was titled "Best Character Animation in an Animated Motion Picture" and given to the best character animation in an animated film, with no specific character cited. This would change in 2004, when the category was re-titled "Outstanding Performance by an Animated Character in an Animated Motion Picture", and given to visual effects artists for work on a specified character. as well as the voice actor for the character. The category was again re-titled in 2008, this time to "Outstanding Animated Character in an Animated Feature Motion Picture". In 2015, it was titled "Outstanding Animated Performance in an Animated Feature", but changed in 2017 to "Outstanding Animated Character in an Animated Feature", its current title.

Winners and nominees

2000s

Outstanding Character Animation in an Animated Motion Picture

Year	Film	Character	Nominee
2002	Stuart Little 2		Tony Bancroft, David Schaub, Eric Armstrong, Sean Mullen
2002	Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron		James Baxter
2003	Finding Nemo	Speaking Whale	Andrew Gordon, Brett Coderre
2003	Finding Nemo	Inside the Whale	Dave DeVan, Gini Santos

Outstanding Performance by an Animated Character in an Animated Motion Picture

Year	Film	Character	Nominee
2004	The Incredibles	Bob Parr/Mr. Incredible	Craig T. Nelson, Bill Wise, Bill Sheffler, Bolhem Bouchiba
2004	The Polar Express	Steamer	Michael Jeter, David Schaub, Renato Dos Anjos, Roger Vizard
2004	Shark Tale	Angie	Renée Zellweger, Ken Duncan
2004	Shrek 2	Puss in Boots	Antonio Banderas, Raman Hui
2005	Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit	Gromit	Loyd Price
2005	Madagascar	King Julien	Rex Grignon, Denis Couchon
2005	Robot	Fendor	Robin Williams, David Torres, Mark Piretti, Ben Williams
2006	Cars	Mater	Larry the Cable Guy, Mike Krummhoefener, Tom Sanocki, Nancy Kato
2006	Happy Feet	Mumble's Banishment	Damien Gray, Tim Gibson, Carl Prud 'Homme
2006	Monster House	House	Umberto Lazzari, Michael Kimmel, Kui Han Lee, Owen Demers
2007	Ratatouille	Colette	Janeane Garofalo, Jaime Landes, Sonoko Konishi, Paul Aichele
2007	Beowulf	Beowulf	Keith Smith, Scott Holmes, Pericles Michielin, Kenn McDonald
2007	Shrek the Third	King Harold	John Cleese, Guillaume Aretos, Tim Cheung, Sean Mahoney
2007	Surf's Up	Chicken Joe	David Schaub, Moon Jun Kang, Brian Casper, Andreas Procopiou
2007	Surf's Up	Cody	David Schaub, Pete Nash, James Crossley, Shia LaBeouf

Outstanding Animated Character in an Animated Feature Motion Picture

Year	Film	Character	Nominee
2008	WALL-E	Wall-E and Eve Truck Sequence	Ben Burtt, Victor Navone, Austin Lee, Jay Shuster
2008	Bolt	Bolt	Becky Bresee, Bob Davies, Renato Dos Anjos, Wayne Unten Jr.
2008	Bolt	Rhino	Adam Dykstra, Dave Gottlieb, Clay Kaytis, Hyrum Osmond
2008	Kung Fu Panda	Po	Jack Black, Dan Wagner, Nico Marlet, Peter Farson
2009	Up	Carl	Ed Asner, Ron Zorman, Brian Tindall, Carmen Ngai
2009	Coraline	Coraline	Travis Knight, Trey Thomas
2009	Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs	Buck	Simon Pegg, Peter de Sève
2009	Monsters vs. Aliens	B.O.B.	David Burgess, Scott Cegielski, Terran Boylan, David Weatherley

2010s

Outstanding Animated Performance in an Animated Feature

Year	Film	Character	Nominee
2015	Inside Out	Joy	Shawn Krause, Tanja Krampfert, Jacob Merrell, Alexis Angelidis
2015	The Good Dinosaur	Spot	Ana Gabriela Lacaze, Jacob Brooks, Lou Hamou-Lhadj, Mark C. Harris
2015	The Peanuts Movie	Charlie Brown	Matthew Doble, Steve Vanseth, Stephen Gressak, Nikki Tomaino
2015	The Peanuts Movie	Snoopy	Jeff Gabor, Joseph Antonuccio, Ignacio Barrios, Sabine Heller
2016	Finding Dory	Hank	Jonathan Hoffman, Steven Clay Hunter, Mark Piretti, Audrey Wong
2016	Kubo and the Two Strings	Kubo	Jeff Riley, Ian Whitlock, Adam Lawthers, Jeremy Spake
2016	Kubo and the Two Strings	Monkey	Andy Bailey, Dobrin Yanev, Kim Slate, Jessica Lynn
2016	Moana	The Mighty Maui	Mack Kablan, Nikki Mull, Matthew Schiller, Marc Thyng

Outstanding Animated Character in an Animated Feature

Year	Film	Character	Nominee
2017	Coco	Hèctor	Emron Grover, Jonathan Hoffman, Michael Honsel, Guilherme Sauerbronn Jacinto
2017	The Boss Baby	Boss Baby	Alec Baldwin, Carlos Puertolas, Rani Naamani, Joe Moshier
2017	Despicable Me 3	Balthazar Bratt	Eric Guillon, Bruno Dequier, Julien Soret, Benjamin Fournet
2017	The Lego Ninjago Movie	Garmadon	Matthew Everitt, Christian So, Loic Miermont, Fiona Darwin
2017	The Lego Ninjago Movie	Garma Mecha Man	Arthur Terzis, Wei Hei, Jean-Marc Ariu, Gibson Radsavanh
2018	Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse	Miles Morales	Marcos Kang, Chad Belteau, Humberto Rosa, Julie Bernier Gosselin
2018	Dr. Seuss' The Grinch	The Grinch	David Galante, Francois Boudaille, Olivier Luffin, Yarrow Cheney
2018	Incredibles 2	Helen Parr/Elastigirl	Michal Makarewicz, Ben Porter, Edgar Rodriguez, Kevin Singleton
2018	Ralph Breaks the Internet	Ralphzilla	Dong Joo Byun, Dave K. Komorowski, Justin Sklar, Le Joyce Tong
2019	Missing Link	Susan	Rachelle Lambden, Brenda Baumgarten, Morgan Hay, Benoit Dubuc
2019	Frozen 2	The Water Nøkk	Svetla Radivoeva, Marc Bryant, Richard E. Lehmann, Cameron Black
2019	Klaus	Jesper	Yoshimishi Tamura, Alfredo Cassano, Maxime Delalande, Jason Schwartzman
2019	Toy Story 4	Bo Peep	Radford Hurn, Tanja Krampfert, George Nguyen and Becki Rocha Tower

Films with Multiple Nominations

;2 NominationsBoltEpicFinding NemoKubo and the Two StringsThe Lego Ninjago Movie The Peanuts MovieSurf's UpGuillermo del Toro's Pinocchio

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Characters with Multiple Nominations

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Puss in Boots