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The 64th Golden Globe Awards ceremony in January 2007 marked the first time the category existed. The organization created a dedicated category for animated films during this historic shift.
Pixar's Cars directed by John Lasseter won the award in 2006. Only three films received nominations that year as the industry hesitated to treat animation as a serious genre worthy of its own recognition.
Pixar Animation Studios holds the record with nine wins and nineteen nominations since the category's inception. Walt Disney Animation Studios follows with three wins and fifteen nominations while Sony Pictures Animation has secured two wins out of seven total nominations.
Dick Clark Productions amended the rule in 2023 following controversies over vote splitting. Now English-language animated films could be eligible for multiple categories simultaneously aligning them more closely with international productions.
Studio Ghibli's The Boy and the Heron won in 2023 marking Hayao Miyazaki's first Golden Globe for Best Animated Feature. Japanese titles such as Inu-Oh and Suzume also received nods during this period of growing global participation beyond Hollywood's traditional output.