Favorite Best Animated Picture Winner since 2008

[Mr. Smith]

Seemed like a reasonable poll to do alongside the Best Picture one.

These are all the past Oscar winners for best Animated Feature within a decade. And unlike the general one, there's actually a good variety of genres and ideas here.

With the exception of one bald-patch of mediocrity (The true winners were Kung Fu Panda 2 for 2011, Wreck-it Ralph for 2012, The Wind Rises for 2013, and The Boxtrolls for 2014)...most of these were arguably better than the slate for Best Picture [though UP and Toy Story 3 were correctly at least nominated to this one]. Spider-Man this year was better than pretty much all but BlacKKKlansman for instance.

In the end though, I think it's going to be a long, loooong time before anything surpasses Inside Out.

[Landslide Lyndon]

"Inside Out" was my favorite movie of 2015, period.

[Chancellor Tanterterg]

"Inside Out" was my favorite movie of 2015, period.

[Illiniwek]

Back in 2008 I was so hyped for Wall-E, and was really really disappointed.

[Pyro]

Zootopia is my pick, though Inside Out, Coco and Spider-Man were all great.

[LAKISYLVANIA]

I've seen them all except for Big Hero 6 and the last winner.

1. Coco (2017)
2. Frozen (2013)
3. Toy Story 3 (2010)
4. Zootopia (2016)
5. Brave (2012)
6. WALL-E (2008)
7. Inside Out (2015)
8. Up (2009)

Might see Big Hero 6 soon.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

Spider-Verse, the first mainstream American animated feature to make a compelling affirmative case for computer-generated animation's value and viability as an art form in and of itself.

MormDem is definitely right that there's more thematic and genre variation here than in the Best Picture winners, but I'm not sure the Academy's habit of defaulting to the latest Disney or Pixar offering in this category is necessarily any better than their habit of defaulting to the bleakest prestige drama in that category. Ratatouille winning over Persepolis in 2007 is the most galling example of this, although I like both movies.

[Beet]

The animated category is atrocious, it's pretty much limited to Disney Pixar stuff and the voters don't even watch the movies before voting. I refuse to give this list any credence.

[Grassroots]

UP is the greatest animated movie of all time, period.

[Chancellor Tanterterg]

The animated category is atrocious, it's pretty much limited to Disney Pixar stuff and the voters don't even watch the movies before voting. I refuse to give this list any credence.

A non-Disney/Pixar film literally just won.

[Progressive Pessimist]

'Coco,' 'Inside Out,' 'Up,' and 'Zootopia.' I love all of these movies just about equally but 'Zootopia' is the only one of them that didn't make me bawl like an infant.

[Mr. Smith]

The animated category is atrocious, it's pretty much limited to Disney Pixar stuff and the voters don't even watch the movies before voting. I refuse to give this list any credence.

So what? The Oscars are a joke regardless anyway, and it used to be that animated features weren't even considered...I mean sans the music anyway, took all the way to f*(kin 1991 for even a mention.