New York Film Critics Circle Award / Best Animated Film

Winner of the New York Film Critics Circle in the category Best Animated Film ( Best Animated Movie ). The most successful in this category was the Japanese Hayao Miyazaki , who has won the award three times so far.

The annual figures in the table indicate the film years assessed; the awards were given in the following year.

year	Award winners	German title	Director
2000	Chicken Run	Chicken Run - hens run	Peter Lord Nick Park
2001	Waking Life	Waking Life	Richard Linklater
2002	千 と 千尋 の 神 隠 し (Sen to Chihiro no Kamikakushi) *	Spirited Away	Hayao Miyazaki
2003	Les Triplettes de Belleville	The great race of Belleville	Sylvain Chomet
2004	The Incredibles *	The Incredibles	Brad Bird
2005	ハ ウ ル の 動 く 城 (Hauru no Ugoku Shiro)	Howl's Moving Castle	Hayao Miyazaki
2006	Happy Feet *	Happy feet	George Miller
2007	Persépolis	Persepolis	Vincent Paronnaud Marjane Satrapi
2008	WALL-E *	WALL-E	Andrew Stanton
2009	Fantastic Mr. Fox	The fantastic Mr. Fox	Wes Anderson
2010	L'Illusionniste	The illusionist	Sylvain Chomet
2011	Prize not awarded
2012	Frankenweenie	Frankenweenie	Tim Burton
2013	風 立 ち ぬ (Kaze Tachinu)	How the wind rises	Hayao Miyazaki
2014	The LEGO Movie	The LEGO Movie	Phil Lord Chris Miller
2015	Inside Out *	Everything is upside down	Pete Docter
2016	Zootopia *	Zoomania	Byron Howard Rich Moore
2017	Coco *	Coco - more alive than life!	Lee Unkrich
2018	Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse *	Spider-Man: A New Universe	Bob Persichetti Peter Ramsey Rodney Rothman
2019	J'ai perdu mon corps	I lost my body	Jérémy Clapin

* = Film productions, later the Oscar as Best Animated Film of the Year won