Here Are The Golden Globes 2025 Nominations For Best Animated ...

Golden Globes nominees are out this morning, and the animation race is worth watching as the Golden Globe winner in this category often goes on to win the Oscar.

In fact, over the last nine years, the winners of the two awards have been the same eight times, with the only deviation in 2020 when the Golden Globes went for Laika’s Missing Link and the Academy chose Toy Story 4.

Here are this year’s nominees for best animated motion picture:

Flow (Sideshow/Janus Films) Inside Out 2 (Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures) Memoir of a Snail (IFC Films) Moana 2 (Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures) Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl (Netflix) The Wild Robot (Universal Pictures)

The nominees at the Golden Globes, which expanded their animated feature category to six slots last year, aren’t exactly surprising. The three key studio contenders – The Wild Robot, Inside Out 2, and Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl – are all on there, as are the two indie favorties, Flow and Memoir of a Snail. If anything on this list could be called a surprise, it’s the inclusion of Moana 2, which has not been considered the best anything-of-the-year by anyone who has seen it. Then again, considering that the Globes used their newly-added sixth slot last year to nominate Wish, it’s pretty clear that the slot has a political undertone and is being used by the organization as a sort of consolation prize for Disney.

Among the eight nominees for the recently added prize for cinematic and box office achievement, there are two animated films: Inside Out 2 and The Wild Robot.

Dreamworks Animation’s The Wild Robot additionally earned two more nominations: Kris Bowers’ music is nominated for original motion picture score, while the song “Kiss the Sky” is nominated for original motion picture song. The song’s music and lyrics are credited to Delacey, Jordan K. Johnson, Stefan Johnson, Maren Morris, Michael Pollack, and Ali Tamposi.

In a statement out this morning, the film’s director and writer Chris Sanders said:

On behalf of the entire cast and crew of The Wild Robot I wish to extend our heartfelt gratitude to the members of the Golden Globes, a group of people from all over the world, for their recognition of this story of a lost robot whose relentless kindness and compassion changes everything. Your four nominations for our film, incredible score, and song, mean so very much to everyone who lent their precious talents and time to a movie that struck out into uncharted territory. For all of us, it was the film of a lifetime.

The 82nd annual Golden Globes will be presented on Sunday, January 5, 2025, at 5pm PT/8pm ET.