2020 in animation
This is a list of events in animation in 2020.

Events

February
 February 9: 92nd Academy Awards: 
 Toy Story 4, directed by Josh Cooley, Jonas Rivera and Mark Nielsen, produced by Pixar and the Walt Disney Company wins the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature.
 Hair Love by Matthew A. Cherry and Karen Rupert Toliver wins the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film.

Awards
 Academy Award for Best Animated Feature: Toy Story 4
 Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film: Hair Love	
 American Cinema Editors Award for Best Edited Animated Feature Film: TBD
 Annecy International Animated Film Festival Cristal du long métrage: TBD
 Annie Award for Best Animated Feature: Klaus
 Annie Award for Best Animated Feature — Independent: I Lost My Body
 Asia Pacific Screen Award for Best Animated Feature Film: TBD
 BAFTA Award for Best Animated Film: Klaus
 César Award for Best Animated Film: TBD
 Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Animated Film: Toy Story 4
 Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Animated Feature: Toy Story 4
 Dallas–Fort Worth Film Critics Association Award for Best Animated Film: Toy Story 4
 European Film Award for Best Animated Feature Film: TBD
 Florida Film Critics Circle Award for Best Animated Film: I Lost My Body	
 Golden Globe Award for Best Animated Feature Film: Missing Link
 Golden Reel Awards: TBD
 Goya Award for Best Animated Film: TBD
 Japan Academy Film Prize for Animation of the Year: TBD
 Kids' Choice Award for Favorite Animated Movie: TBD
 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Animated Film: I Lost My Body
 Mainichi Film Award for Best Animation Film: TBD
 National Board of Review Award for Best Animated Film: How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World
 New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Animated Film: TBD
 Online Film Critics Society Award for Best Animated Film: TBD
 Producers Guild of America Award for Best Animated Motion Picture: Toy Story 4
 San Diego Film Critics Society Award for Best Animated Film: TBD
 San Francisco Film Critics Circle Award for Best Animated Feature: TBD
 Satellite Award for Best Animated or Mixed Media Feature: TBD
 Saturn Award for Best Animated Film: TBD
 St. Louis Gateway Film Critics Association Award for Best Animated Film: Toy Story 4
 Tokyo Anime Award: TBD
 Toronto Film Critics Association Award for Best Animated Film: Missing Link
 Visual Effects Society Award for Outstanding Visual Effects in an Animated Feature: Missing Link
 Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Award for Best Animated Feature: TBD

Film Released

Television series debuts

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! scope="col" | Title
! scope="col" | Channel
! scope="col" | Year
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| rowspan=4 | Early || The Great North || Fox || 2020
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| Adventures in Wonder Park  || Nickelodeon || 2020
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| High Guardian Spice || Crunchyroll || 2020
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| Long Gone Gulch || YouTube || 2020
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| January 4 || Go! Go! Cory Carson || Netflix || 2020–present
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| January 6 || Deathstroke: Knights & Dragons || CW Seed || 2020–present
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| January 10 || The Owl House || Disney Channel || 2020–present
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| January 14 || Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts || Netflix || 2020–present
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| January 18 || It’s Pony || Nickelodeon || 2020–present
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| January 19 || Powerbirds || Universal Kids || 2020–present
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| January 20 || The Adventures of Paddington || Nickelodeon || 2020–present
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| February 16 || Duncanville || Fox || 2020–present
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| February 21 || Glitch Techs || Netflix || 2020–present
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| February 22 || ThunderCats Roar || Cartoon Network || 2020–present
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| February 28 || 101 Dalmatian Street || Disney+ || 2020–present
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| March 20 || Mira, Royal Detective || Disney Junior || 2020
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| May 8 || Solar Opposites || Hulu || 2020
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| June 1 || Hero Elementary || PBS Kids || 2020
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| July || Kamp Koral: SpongeBob's Under Years || Nickelodeon || 2020
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| September 7 || Elinor Wonders Why || PBS Kids|| 2020
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| rowspan=35 | TBA || Crossing Swords || rowspan=5 | Hulu || 2020
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| Animaniacs || 2020
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| TrollsTopia || 2020
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| The Mighty Ones || 2020
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| Madagascar: A Little Wild || 2020
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| Central Park || Apple TV+ || 2020
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| Kid Cosmic || rowspan=7 | Netflix || 2020
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| Trash Truck || 2020
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| Transformers: War for Cybertron Trilogy || 2020
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| Chico Bon Bon: Monkey with a Tool Belt || 2020
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| Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous || 2020
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| Wizards: Tales of Arcadia || 2020
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| Rhyme Time Town || 2020
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| Invincible || Amazon Video || 2020
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| Untitled We Bare Bears spin-off series || Cartoon Network || 2020
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| My Little Pony: Pony Life || Discovery Family || 2020
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| Star Trek: Lower Decks || CBS All Access || 2020
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| Looney Tunes Cartoons || rowspan=8 | HBO Max || 2020
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| Tooned Out || 2020
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| Adventure Time: Distant Lands || 2020
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| Tig 'N' Seek || 2020
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| The Fungies || 2020
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| Jellystone! || 2020
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| Close Enough || 2020
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| Boondocks || 2020
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| The Chicken Squad || Disney Junior || 2020
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| The Curse of Molly McGee || rowspan=3 | Disney Channel || 2020
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| Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur || 2020
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| Vikingskool || 2020
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| Housebroken || Fox || 2020
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| Santiago of the Seas || rowspan="3" | Nickelodeon || 2020
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| Garfield Originals || 2020
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| Baby Shark || 2020
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| Yabba-Dabba Dinosaurs || Boomerang || 2020
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| Fairy Tales || Adult Swim || 2020
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Television series endings

Deaths
January
 January 9: , Japanese animator (Fate/stay night), dies at an unknown age. 

February
 February 3: Philippe Adamov, French illustrator, animator and comics artist (worked for René Laloux on the film Gandahar), dies at age 63. 
 February 5: Kirk Douglas, American actor (voice of Chester J. Lampwick in The Simpsons episode The Day the Violence Died), dies at age 103. 
 February 8: Ron McLarty, American dramatist, playwright and actor (did voices for several episodes of Courage the Cowardly Dog, voice of the narrator and Papa Bear in The Berenstain Bears animated TV specials), dies at age 72. 
 February 13: Yoshisada Sakaguchi, Japanese voice actor (Philip II of Macedon in Reign, Muijika in Mushishi, Hachiroh Tohbe in Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade, Tonpetty in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Phantom Blood), dies at age 80. 
  February 16: 
 Zoe Caldwell, Australian-American actress (voice of the Grand Councilwoman in Lilo & Stitch), dies at age 86. 
 Jason Davis, American actor (voice of Mikey Blumberg in Recess), dies at age 35. 
 February 17: Ja'Net DuBois, American actress (voice of Ms. Avery in The PJs''), passes away at age 74. 
 February 21: Nick Cuti, American comics writer,  editor, animator and artist (Ralph Bakshi, Walt Disney Animation), passes away at age 75.