2017 in animation
This is a list of events in animation in 2017. Events January January 15: Your Name becomes the highest grossing anime film, grossing nearly $300 million. January 16: PBS Kids Channel launches and became available on many PBS member stations as a digital subchannel (particularly those that in the past, PBS had routinely supplied content for their independently programmed, kid-targeted subchannels) and through apps and streaming services, features a broad mix of the public television service's current inventory of children's programming. The final episode of Regular Show airs. February February 4: 44th Annie Awards. February 26: 89th Academy Awards: Piper by Alan Barillaro and Marc Sondheimer wins the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film. Zootopia by Byron Howard, Rich Moore, and Clark Spencer wins the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature. April April 21: PBS Kids launched "PBS Kids Family Night," a weekly block on Friday evenings (with encore airings on Saturday and Sunday evenings) that showcase themed programming, premieres or special "movie-length" episodes of new and existing PBS Kids children's programs. June June 16: The Walt Disney Company/Pixar film Cars 3 is released. The second sequel to the 2006 Pixar film draws closer to the original Cars movie