The Saturn Award for Best Animated Film (formerly Saturn Award for Best Animation) is one of the annual awards given by the American professionnel organization, the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films. The

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, which are the oldest

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-specialized awards to reward

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, and horror achievements (the

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for Best Dramatic Presentation, awarded by the

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who reward science fiction and fantasy in various media, is the oldest award for science fiction and fantasy films), included the Best Animated Film category for the first time only in 1978, was revived in 1982, and still currently reactivated since 2002. It is one of the oldest awards to reward animated films. This award has been achieved sixteen times, including ten times to

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films.

Winners and nominees

Early years

2000s

2010s

2020s

References

External links

The Official Saturn Awards SiteSaturn Awards on IMDb
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Animated Film Animation is a method by which still figures are manipulated to appear as moving images. In traditional animation, images are drawn or painted by hand on transparent celluloid sheets to be photographed and exhibited on film. Today, most ani ...

Awards for best animated feature film Awards established in 1978