The Big Bad Fox & Other Tales

Birdboy: The Forgotten Children

The Boss Baby

The Breadwinner

Captain Underpants The First Epic Movie

Cars 3

Cinderella the Cat

Coco

Despicable Me 3

The Emoji Movie

Ethel & Ernest

Ferdinand

The Girl without Hands

In This Corner of the World

The Lego Batman Movie

The Lego Ninjago Movie

Loving Vincent

Mary and the Witch’s Flower

Moomins and the Winter Wonderland

My Entire High School Sinking into the Sea

Napping Princess

A Silent Voice

Smurfs: The Lost Village

The Star

Sword Art Online: The Movie – Ordinal Scale

Window Horses: The Poetic Persian Epiphany of Rosie Ming

The Academy points out that even though the films have been submitted doesn’t mean they’ve all qualified yet:

Several of the films have not yet had their required Los Angeles qualifying run. Submitted features must fulfill the theatrical release requirements and comply with all of the category’s other qualifying rules before they can advance in the voting process.

Sixteen or more films must qualify for the maximum of five nominees to be voted, which will certainly happen this year.

There is one less film this year than last year’s record-breaking 27 animated feature submissions. The category could have been bigger, and some films that we had anticipated would be submitted were not, among them, Big Fish & Begonia, Have A Nice Day, and Tehran Taboo.

Of the submissions, eleven of the films were produced by major Hollywood studios and fifteen were produced by independent and/or foreign companies.

The Academy has changed the voting process this year, opening up nominations voting in the category to its entire eligible voting membership. The controversial move is widely perceived within the animation community as a way to diminish the influence of the Short Films and Feature Animation Branch (which has exhibited a strong tendency to nominate artistic and challenging films), by adding in more Academy members from other branches, who have a bias towards recognizing mainstream Hollywood productions.