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since its second edition in 2018. It is given for the best anime film from the previous year. Winners are determined through a combined voting process by judges and public voting.

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'' first won the award in 2018, which also awarded ''

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'' for the second time in 2023, the first film director and animation studio to win twice.

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holds the record for the most nominations—also the most nominations without a win—for films with four.

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'', together with Shinkai's ''Disaster'' trilogy, have the most nominations for a film franchise with two.

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's '' Mirai'' is the first (and so far, only) film ever to rarely received nominations of

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and Crunchyroll Anime Award for Film of the Year at the same time. For his direction of ''

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is the first non-Japanese to win the award in 2022. In the latest edition in 2025, Kiyotaka Oshiyama and Studio Durian's '' Look Back'' won the award, the first independent film to do so.

Winners and nominees

In the following list, the first titles listed in gold are the winners; those not in gold are nominees, which are listed in alphabetical order. The years given are those in which the ceremonies took place.

Winners and nominees

2010s

2020s

Records

Studios

Directors

Franchises

Notes

References