Crunchyroll Anime Award for Film of the Year
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The Crunchyroll Anime Award for Film of the Year is a penultimate award given at the Crunchyroll Anime Awards 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.[1]
- United States
- Japan
| Crunchyroll Anime Award for Film of the Year | |
|---|---|
| Awarded for | Best anime film of the previous year |
| Country |
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| First award | CoMix Wave Films — Your Name (2018) |
| Currently held by | Ufotable — Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba – The Movie: Infinity Castle (2026) |
| Most wins |
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| Most nominations |
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| Website | Crunchyroll Anime Awards |
Makoto Shinkai and CoMix Wave Films's Your Name first won the award in 2018, which also awarded Suzume for the second time in 2023, the first film director and animation studio to win twice.[2][3] MAPPA and Toei Animation holds their record for the most nominations, while the latter has the most nominations without a win with four. Bones Films' My Hero Academia, together with Ufotable's Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, Shinkai's Disaster trilogy,[4] and Twin Engine's Mononoke, have the most nominations for a film franchise with two.
Mamoru Hosoda and Studio Chizu's Mirai is the first (and so far, only) film ever to rarely received nominations of Academy Award for Best Animated Feature and Crunchyroll Anime Award for Film of the Year at the same time.[2][5] For his direction of Jujutsu Kaisen 0, Sunghoo Park is the first non-Japanese to win the award in 2022.
In the latest edition in 2026, Ufotable's Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba – The Movie: Infinity Castle won the award.[6]
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.
2010s
| Year | Anime | Director(s) | Studio(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 (2nd) [7] | |||
| Your Name | Makoto Shinkai | CoMix Wave Films | |
| A Silent Voice | Naoko Yamada | Kyoto Animation | |
| Fate/stay night: Heaven's Feel I. presage flower | Tomonori Sudō | Ufotable | |
| Girls und Panzer der Film | Tsutomu Mizushima | Actas | |
| In This Corner of the World | Sunao Katabuchi | MAPPA | |
| Kizumonogatari III: Reiketsu-hen | Shaft | ||
| 2018 (3rd) [2] | |||
| My Hero Academia: Two Heroes | Kenji Nagasaki | Bones | |
| Fireworks |
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Shaft | |
| Liz and the Blue Bird | Naoko Yamada | Kyoto Animation | |
| Mazinger Z: Infinity | Junji Shimizu | Toei Animation | |
| Mirai | Mamoru Hosoda | Studio Chizu | |
| The Night Is Short, Walk On Girl | Masaaki Yuasa | Science SARU | |
2020s
Records
Studios
Directors
| Franchise | Wins | Nominations | Films |
|---|---|---|---|
| Makoto Shinkai | 2 | Suzume, Your Name | |
| Haruo Sotozaki | Infinity Castle, Mugen Train | ||
| Mamoru Hosoda | 0 | 3 | Belle, Mirai, Scarlet |
| Naoko Yamada | A Silent Voice, Liz and the Blue Bird, The Colors Within | ||
| Akiyuki Shinbo | 2 | Kizumonogatari III: Reiketsu-hen, Fireworks | |
| Masaaki Yuasa | The Night Is Short, Walk On Girl, Inu-Oh | ||
Franchises
| Franchise | Wins | Nominations | Films |
|---|---|---|---|
| Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba | 2 | Infinity Castle, Mugen Train | |
| Disaster trilogy | Your Name, Suzume | ||
| My Hero Academia | 1 | 2 | Two Heroes, You're Next |
| Mononoke | 0 | Phantom in the Rain, The Ashes of Rage | |
Notes
- Chief Director (総監督).
- Chief Director (総監督).
- Assistant Director (副監督). See the Shaft director credits legend.