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.

Zootopia by Byron Howard, Rich Moore, and Clark Spencer wins the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature.

Piper by Alan Barillaro and Marc Sondheimer wins the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film.

The final episode of Regular Show airs.

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.January 15: Your Name becomes the highest grossing anime film, grossing nearly $300 million.

This is a list of events in animation in 2017.

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