The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences today announced feature films eligible for consideration in the Animated Feature Film, Documentary Feature Film and International Feature Film categories for the 98th Academy Awards.
Thirty-five features are eligible for consideration in the Animated Feature Film category for the 98th Academy Awards. Some of the films have not yet had their required qualifying release and must fulfill that requirement and comply with all the category’s other qualifying rules to advance in the voting process.
To determine the five nominees, members of the Animation Branch are automatically eligible to vote in the category. Academy members outside of the Animation Branch are invited to opt in to participate and must meet a minimum viewing requirement to be eligible to vote in the category. Films submitted in the Animated Feature Film category may also qualify for Academy Awards in other categories, including Best Picture. Animated features that have been submitted in the International Feature Film category as their country’s official selection are also eligible in the category.
98th Academy Awards preliminary voting for select categories will begin on Monday, December 8 and end on Friday, December 12, 2025. Shortlists for the 98th Academy Awards will be announced on Tuesday, December 16, 2025. Nominations for the 98th Academy Awards will be announced on Thursday, January 22, 2026. The 98th Oscars will be held on Sunday, March 15, 2026, at the Dolby Theatre at Ovation Hollywood and will be televised live on ABC and in more than 200 territories worldwide.
Complete 98th Academy Awards rules can be found at oscars.org/rules.
Eligible Animated Feature Films:
- Arco
- The Bad Guys 2
- Black Butterflies
- Boys Go to Jupiter
- Chainsaw Man – The Movie: Reze Arc
- ChaO
- Colorful Stage! The Movie: A Miku Who Can’t Sing
- David
- Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle
- Dog Man
- Dog of God
- Dragon Heart – Adventures Beyond This World
- Elio
- Endless Cookie
- Fixed
- Gabby’s Dollhouse: The Movie
- In Your Dreams
- KPop Demon Hunters
- The Legend of Hei 2
- Light of the World
- Little Amélie or the Character of Rain
- Lost in Starlight
- A Magnificent Life
- Mahavatar Narsimha
- Night of the Zoopocalypse
- Olivia & the Clouds (Olivia & las Nubes)
- 100 Meters
- Out of the Nest
- Scarlet
- Slide
- The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants
- Stitch Head
- The Twits
- Zootopia 2
Additionally, Endless Cookie has also made the cut for Documentary Features, and Dog of God has been entered as Latvia’s bid for International Feature Film, hoping to follow in the gilded footsteps of Flow.
