Ferdinand - 1 nomination

Animated Feature, Carlos Saldanha and Lori Forte

Remember the childhood book of Ferdinand the bull who refuses to fight?  This is that book, but animated as a feature film.  I was not expecting to like it.  But it is the most adorable film.  

Ferdinand is sweet and gentle by nature and is more interested in flower tending than fighting others.  After Ferdinand's father goes to the bullring in Spain and doesn't return, Ferdinand becomes more ardent that he will not fight.  To his good fortune, he is adopted by a family with a farm where he is free to play with other animals and enjoy the flower beds.  One day, his owner and her father go to the flower show, and they leave him behind because he has gotten so big, much too big for people to feel comfortable around him.  Ferdinand disobeys and goes to the show, as well, and ends up scaring the townspeople and destroying a china shop.  Turns out the expression is true - bulls don't do well in china shops.  Animal control captures him and he is returned to the place of his childhood - the place where they raise bulls for the bullfights (or if not the bull fights, for the slaughter houses).  Ferdinand figures out that the system is rigged against the bull, no matter how big, how strong, how hard they fight, and with this new information, is determined to save his peers in the pen, even those who oppose him.

What a beautiful little animated feature, kudos to the film's producers.