Add Wolfwalkers to the list. It probably would have won the academy award for Best Animated Feature if that category wasn't a total joke.
(It's a joke category because all Academy members get to vote. There's no requirement that they have seen all the nominees, or that they have seen any of them.
A few years ago some animation trade magazine (I don't remember which one) surveyed Academy members after a year where a movie that most animation professionals thought would easily win lost to a movie they thought was good but clearly not as good.
What they found was that a significant fraction of voters don't watch animation, considering it to be just for kids. If they have young kids they vote for whatever movie the kids watched over and over. If they didn't have young kids they'd ask their young nieces or nephews or grandkids what cartoon they liked that year and vote for it. Or they would vote for the one they remembered seeing ads for).
(It's a joke category because all Academy members get to vote. There's no requirement that they have seen all the nominees, or that they have seen any of them.
A few years ago some animation trade magazine (I don't remember which one) surveyed Academy members after a year where a movie that most animation professionals thought would easily win lost to a movie they thought was good but clearly not as good.
What they found was that a significant fraction of voters don't watch animation, considering it to be just for kids. If they have young kids they vote for whatever movie the kids watched over and over. If they didn't have young kids they'd ask their young nieces or nephews or grandkids what cartoon they liked that year and vote for it. Or they would vote for the one they remembered seeing ads for).