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NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Animated Motion Picture

American film award

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 11, 2026
Entity authorityQ124077459 ↗
Source-derived summary

This article lists the winners and nominees for the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Animated Motion Picture.

History

This award has been given since 2021. Previously in 2010, The Princess and the Frog became the first animated film to receive a nomination for any Image Award, being nominated for Outstanding Motion Picture.

Winners and nominees

Winners are listed first and highlighted in bold.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Animated Motion Picture” as american film award. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around NAACP, Image and Award.

Editorial reviewA useful identification and reception guide that helps separate the work itself from editions, performances, ownership and later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2021, 2010—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with NAACP, Image and Award providing the first useful test.
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Evidence profile

Attribution, date and provenance are strongest when supported by the original work, a catalogue record and documented transmission. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 11, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q124077459. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2021 and 2010.

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This entry incorporates text from “NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Animated Motion Picture” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.