diff --git a/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/animated/BUCK b/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/animated/BUCK
index af3a76e0cec5a9..ac827a56ee1b05 100644
--- a/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/animated/BUCK
+++ b/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/animated/BUCK
@@ -6,10 +6,12 @@ android_library(
     '*.java',
   ]),
   deps = [
+    react_native_dep('libraries/fbcore/src/main/java/com/facebook/common/logging:logging'),
     react_native_dep('third-party/android/support/v4:lib-support-v4'),
     react_native_dep('third-party/java/infer-annotations:infer-annotations'),
     react_native_dep('third-party/java/jsr-305:jsr-305'),
     react_native_target('java/com/facebook/react/bridge:bridge'),
+    react_native_target('java/com/facebook/react/common:common'),
     react_native_target('java/com/facebook/react/module/annotations:annotations'),
     react_native_target('java/com/facebook/react/modules/core:core'),
     react_native_target('java/com/facebook/react/uimanager/annotations:annotations'),
diff --git a/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/animated/NativeAnimatedNodesManager.java b/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/animated/NativeAnimatedNodesManager.java
index 95d90549b5f118..0e53f59ef6e7c7 100644
--- a/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/animated/NativeAnimatedNodesManager.java
+++ b/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/animated/NativeAnimatedNodesManager.java
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@
 import android.util.SparseArray;
 
 import com.facebook.infer.annotation.Assertions;
+import com.facebook.common.logging.FLog;
 import com.facebook.react.bridge.Arguments;
 import com.facebook.react.bridge.Callback;
 import com.facebook.react.bridge.JSApplicationIllegalArgumentException;
@@ -19,6 +20,8 @@
 import com.facebook.react.bridge.ReadableMap;
 import com.facebook.react.bridge.UiThreadUtil;
 import com.facebook.react.bridge.WritableMap;
+import com.facebook.react.common.ReactConstants;
+import com.facebook.react.uimanager.IllegalViewOperationException;
 import com.facebook.react.uimanager.UIImplementation;
 import com.facebook.react.uimanager.UIManagerModule;
 import com.facebook.react.uimanager.events.Event;
@@ -446,7 +449,17 @@ public void runUpdates(long frameTimeNanos) {
       nextNode.update();
       if (nextNode instanceof PropsAnimatedNode) {
         // Send property updates to native view manager
-        ((PropsAnimatedNode) nextNode).updateView(mUIImplementation);
+        try {
+          ((PropsAnimatedNode) nextNode).updateView(mUIImplementation);
+        } catch (IllegalViewOperationException e) {
+            // An exception is thrown if the view hasn't been created yet. This can happen because views are
+            // created in batches. If this particular view didn't make it into a batch yet, the view won't
+            // exist and an exception will be thrown when attempting to start an animation on it.
+            //
+            // Eat the exception rather than crashing. The impact is that we may drop one or more frames of the
+            // animation.
+            FLog.e(ReactConstants.TAG, "Native animation workaround, frame lost as result of race condition", e);
+          }
       }
       if (nextNode instanceof ValueAnimatedNode) {
         // Potentially send events to JS when the node's value is updated