This is a list of my 100 favorite animated films of all time. This is an ever changing list, but this is the list as of October 2025.
This list was first made in October of 2022. For this revision of the list, a total of 11 films dropped out from the original. The highest ranking film to drop was The Little Mermaid from 29. Of the films that joined in, the highest ranking one is Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion (6). All 19 films to join the list were first time watches since October 2024.
The newest film on this list is KPop Demon Hunters (81). The oldest film on this list is The Adventures of Prince…
This is a list of my 100 favorite animated films of all time. This is an ever changing list, but this is the list as of October 2025.
This list was first made in October of 2022. For this revision of the list, a total of 11 films dropped out from the original. The highest ranking film to drop was The Little Mermaid from 29. Of the films that joined in, the highest ranking one is Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion (6). All 19 films to join the list were first time watches since October 2024.
The newest film on this list is KPop Demon Hunters (81). The oldest film on this list is The Adventures of Prince Achmed (24).
5 films have kept their placement with the highest being the Tragedy of Man (1) and the lowest being Justice League Dark: Apokolips War (93). The film that moved down the most spots was Marcel the Shell with Shoes On (90) which moved down 40 spots. The film that moved up the most spots was Fantastic Mr. Fox (58) which moved up 30 spots.
Every decade starting from the 1920's is represented on this list:
1920's: 1
1930's: 1
1940's: 2
1950's: 2
1960's: 1
1970's: 3
1980's: 14
1990's: 14
2000's: 16
2010's: 20
2020's: 26
Along with this, 2024 is the most represented year with 8 films.
17 countries are represented on this list:
United States: 56
Japan: 32
United Kingdom: 9
France: 7
Ireland: 4
Australia: 3
Belgium: 3
Luxembourg: 2
Hungary: 2
Mexico: 2
South Korea: 2
Spain: 2
Hong Kong: 1
Germany: 1
Denmark: 1
Singapore: 1
Latvia: 1
115 directors are represented on this list. The following are directors with multiple films on the list:
Hayao Miyazaki: 6 (Spirited Away, Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, Princess Mononoke, My Neighbor Totoro, The Boy and the Heron, Kiki's Delivery Service)
Mamoru Hosoda: 4 (Wolf Children, Digimon Adventure: Our War Game, Belle, Summer Wars)
Don Bluth: 4 (Anastasia, All Dogs Go to Heaven, An American Tail, The Land Before Time)
Marcell Jankovics: 2 (The Tragedy of Man, Son of the White Mare)
Adam Elliott: 2 (Mary and Max, Memoir of a Snail)
Simon Wells: 2 (The Prince of Egypt, Balto)
Tom Moore: 2 (Wolfwalkers, Song of the Sea)
Kirk Wise: 2 (The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Beauty and the Beast)
Gary Trousdale: 2 (The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Beauty and the Beast)
Satoshi Kon: 2 (Millennium Actress, Perfect Blue)
Naoko Yamada: 2 (The Silent Voice, Liz and the Blue Bird)
Dean DeBlois: 2 (How to Train Your Dragon 2, Lilo & Stitch)
Peter Ramsey: 2 (Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, Rise of the Guardians)
Martin Rosen: 2 (Watership Down, The Plague Dogs)
Ralph Bakshi: 2 (The Lord of the Rings, Wizards)
Nick Park: 2 (Chicken Run, Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl)
Isao Takahata: 2 (Grave of the Fireflies, Only Yesterday)
Chris Sanders: 2 (Lilo & Stitch, The Wild Robot)
Ben Sharpsteen: 2 (Pinocchio, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs)
Wilfred Jackson: 2 (Pinocchio, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs)
David Hand: 2 (Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Bambi)
These films earned a total of 49 Oscar nominations and won 14 of them. These nominations include 1 for Best Picture for Beauty and the Beast (23) which did not win.
The average length of the list is 93.78 minutes with the longest film being The Tragedy of Man (1) at 166 minutes and the shortest being Digimon Adventure: Our War Game (30) at 41 minutes.
The average letterbox score of the list is 3.86 with the highest rated film being Grave of the Fireflies (44) with a 4.5 and the lowest rated film being Godzilla: The Planet Eater (38) with a 2.5. I personally gave the top 9 of these films 5 stars and the rest 4.5.