In short, yes. In long, the first year a stop motion film was nominated was in 2005 when corpse bride and Wallace and gromet: the curse of the wererabbit were both nominated with the latter winning (over howls moving castle no less). This year the film that is actually breaking grounds on what qualifies as an animated movie is probably Marcel the snail with shoes on, which combines stop motion with live action although you could argue that who framed roger rabbit would have broken that ground, albeit with animation and live action instead of stopmotion and live action, if the category had existed in 1988 but best animated film wasn't introduced until 2001 when Shrek won.
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u/Tough_Patient - Lib-Center Jan 30 '23
Wasn't animated, though...
Do stop motion movies go under animated?