Best Animated Films of All Time – Ranked

I collected over 12 lists of the best animated films of all time from the Internet and combined them into one meta-list. The results are below: every feature or short animated film that was on at least three of the original source lists, organized by rank (that is, with the films on the most lists at the top). Note: Some of the lists had feature films, some had short films and others mixed the two.

To see a version of the list organized chronologically, go here.

On 12 lists
Spirited Away (Japan, 2002)

On 10 lists
WALL-E (US, 2008)

On 9 lists
Pinocchio (US, 1940)
Akira (Japan, 1988)
Beauty and the Beast (US, 1991)
The Lion King (US, 1994)
Fantastic Mr. Fox (US, 2009)

On 8 lists
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (US, 1937)
Fantasia (US, 1940)
The Little Mermaid (US, 1989)
Toy Story (US, 1995)
The Iron Giant (US, 1999)
Finding Nemo (US, 2003)
The Incredibles (US, 2004)
Up (US, 2009)

On 7 lists
Yellow Submarine (UK, 1968)
Who Framed Roger Rabbit? (US, 1988)
Aladdin (US, 1992)
The Nightmare Before Christmas (US, 1993)
Shrek (US, 2001)
The Triplets of Belleville (France, 2003)
Persepolis (France, 2007)
Coraline (US, 2009)
Toy Story 3 (US, 2010)

On 6 lists
Steamboat Willie (US, 1928)
Bambi (US, 1942)
The Wrong Trousers (UK, 1993)
South Park: Bigger, Longer, Uncut (US, 1999)
Princess Mononoke (Japan, 1999)
Ratatouille (US, 2007)
Kung Fu Panda (US, 2008)
Waltz with Bashir (Israel, 2008)
How to Train Your Dragon (US, 2010)
Wreck-it Ralph (US, 2012)
The LEGO Movie (US, 2014)

On 5 lists
Duck Amuck (US, 1953)
101 Dalmatians (US, 1961)
Grave of the Fireflies (Japan, 1988)
My Neighbor Totoro (Japan, 1988)
Mulan (US, 1998)
Toy Story 2 (US, 1999)
Chicken Run (UK, 2000)
Monsters, Inc. (US, 2001)
Waking Life (US, 2001)
Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (UK, 2005)
Howl’s Moving Castle (Japan, 2005)
Paprika (Japan, 2006)
Tangled (US, 2010)
Rango (US, 2011)
Inside Out (US, 2015)

On 4 lists
The Adventures of Prince Achmed (Germany, 1926)
Dumbo (US, 1941)
What’s Opera, Doc? (US, 1957)
Storytime (US, 1968)
Watership Down (UK/US, 1978)
The Secret of NIMH (US, 1982)
Ghost in the Shell (Japan, 1995)
James and the Giant Peach (US, 1996)
The Old Lady and the Pigeons (Canada/France, 1998)
The Old Man and the Sea (Russia, 1999)
Father and Daughter (Netherlands, 2000)
French Roast (France, 2008)
Mary and Max (Australia, 2009)
The Illusionist (France/UK, 2010)
ParaNorman (US, 2012)
Frozen (US, 2013)
Anomalisa (US, 2015)

On 3 lists
Lady and the Tramp (US, 1955)
Sleeping Beauty (US, 1959)
The Street (Canada, 1976)
Dimensions of Dialogue (Czechoslovakia, 1982)
Street of Crocodiles (US, 1986)
The Man Who Planted Trees (Canada, 1987)
The Cat Came Back (Canada, 1988)
Batman: Mask of the Phantasm (US, 1993)
Perfect Blue (Japan, 1997)
Geri’s Game (US, 1997)
Hercules (US, 1997)
A Bug’s Life (US, 1998)
Tarzan (US, 1999)
The Emperor’s New Groove (US, 2000)
Millennium Actress (Japan, 2001)
Lilo & Stitch (US, 2002)
Tokyo Godfathers (Japan, 2003)
Shrek 2 (US, 2004)
The Man with No Shadow (Canada, 2004)
Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride (US, 2005)
Lifted (US, 2006)
Oktapodi (France, 2007)
The Simpsons Movie (US, 2007)
Bolt (US, 2008)
La Maison en Petits Cubes (Japan, 2008)
Ponyo (Japan, 2009)
Alma (Spain, 2009)
The Princess and the Frog (US, 2009)
Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs (US, 2009)
The Secret of Kells (France/Belgium/Ireland, 2010)
Zero (Australia, 2010)
Arthur Christmas (UK/US, 2011)
Frankenweenie (US, 2012)
The Secret World of Arrietty (Japan, 2012)
Ernest & Célestine (France, 2014)
Song of the Sea (Ireland, 2014)
The Wind Rises (Japan, 2014)
Big Hero 6 (US, 2014)
The Peanuts Movie (US, 2015)
Shaun the Sheep Movie (UK, 2015)
The Little Prince (France, 2015)
Zootopia (US, 2016)
Finding Dory (US, 2016)
Kung Fu Panda 3 (US, 2016)