Another list from the Online Film Critics Society is their Top 100 Animated Features of All Time. This is very Disney friendly, but does also include some early innovators that predate Disney as well as some more recent anime.
I'd be relatively impressed with the non-Disney films if it was specifically supposed to be a list of American animated films, but in the face of the wider world, which it does acknowledge, it falls apart. I had a blast with the South Park movie, for instance, but I can't accept that anyone can believe it better than Spirited Away, which to my mind, sits so far ahead of every other animated film ever made that slots 2 to 9 should remain blank.
| # |
Title |
Year |
Director |
IMDb |
| 1 |
Toy Story |
1995 |
John Lasseter |
IMDb |
| 2 |
Fantasia |
1940 |
James Algar et al |
IMDb |
| 3 |
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs |
1937 |
David Hand et al |
IMDb |
| 4 |
Toy Story 2 |
1999 |
Ash Brannon, John Lasseter & Lee Unkrich |
IMDb |
| 5 |
The Iron Giant |
1999 |
Brad Bird |
IMDb |
| 6 |
Beauty and the Beast |
1991 |
Gary Trousdale & Kirk Wise |
IMDb |
| 7 |
The Nightmare Before Christmas |
1993 |
Tim Burton |
IMDb |
| 8 |
Who Framed Roger Rabbit |
1988 |
Robert Zemeckis |
IMDb |
| 9 |
South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut |
1999 |
Trey Parker |
IMDb |
| 10 |
Spirited Away |
2001 |
Hayao Miyazaki |
IMDb |
| 11 |
Pinocchio |
1940 |
Hamilton Luske & Ben Sharpsteen |
IMDb |
| 12 |
The Lion King |
1994 |
Rogers Allers & Ron Minkoff |
IMDb |
| 13 |
Chicken Run |
2000 |
Peter Lord & Nick Park |
IMDb |
| 14 |
Bambi |
1942 |
David Hand |
IMDb |
| 15 |
Shrek |
2001 |
Aron Warner |
IMDb |
| 16 |
Princess Mononoke |
1997 |
Hayao Miyazaki |
IMDb |
| 17 |
Monsters, Inc. |
2001 |
Peter Docter, David Silverman & Lee Unkrich |
IMDb |
| 18 |
Yellow Submarine |
1968 |
George Dunning |
IMDb |
| 19 |
Aladdin |
1992 |
Ron Clements & John Musker |
IMDb |
| 20 |
Akira |
1988 |
Katsuhiro Otomo |
IMDb |
| 21 |
A Bug's Life |
1998 |
John Lasseter & Andrew Stanton |
IMDb |
| 22 |
The Little Mermaid |
1989 |
Ron Clements & John Musker |
IMDb |
| 23 |
Grave of the Fireflies |
1988 |
Isao Takahata |
IMDb |
| 24 |
Dumbo |
1941 |
Ben Sharpsteen |
IMDb |
| 25 |
Waking Life |
2001 |
Richard Linklater |
IMDb |
| 26 |
Sleeping Beauty |
1959 |
Clyde Geronimi |
IMDb |
| 27 |
The Jungle Book |
1967 |
Wolfgang Reitherman |
IMDb |
| 28 |
101 Dalmations |
1961 |
Clyde Geronimi, Hamilton Luske & Wolfgang Reitherman |
IMDb |
| 29 |
Ice Age |
2002 |
Chris Wedge & Carlos Saldanha |
IMDb |
| 30 |
My Neighbor Totoro |
1988 |
Hayao Miyazaki |
IMDb |
| 31 |
Watership Down |
1978 |
Martin Rosen |
IMDb |
| 32 |
Charlotte's Web |
1973 |
Charles A. Nichols & Iwao Takamoto |
IMDb |
| 33 |
Lady and the Tramp |
1955 |
Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson & Hamilton Luske |
IMDb |
| 34 |
The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie |
1979 |
Chuck Jones & Phil Monroe |
IMDb |
| 35 |
The Secret of NIMH |
1982 |
Don Bluth |
IMDb |
| 36 |
Peter Pan |
1953 |
Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson & Hamilton Luske |
IMDb |
| 37 |
Cinderella |
1950 |
Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson & Hamilton Luske |
IMDb |
| 38 |
Ghost in the Shell |
1995 |
Mamoru Oshi |
IMDb |
| 39 |
Alice in Wonderland |
1951 |
Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson & Hamilton Luske |
IMDb |
| 40 |
The Prince of Egypt |
1998 |
Brenda Chapman, Steve Hickner & Simon Wells |
IMDb |
| 41 |
Antz |
1998 |
Eric Darnell & Tim Johnson |
IMDb |
| 42 |
Animal Farm |
1954 |
Joy Batchelor & John Halas |
IMDb |
| 43 |
Lilo & Stitch |
2002 |
Dean DeBlois & Chris Sanders |
IMDb |
| 44 |
Alice |
1988 |
Jan Svankmajer |
IMDb |
| 45 |
The Hunchback of Notre Dame |
1996 |
Gary Trousdale & Kirk Wise |
IMDb |
| 46 |
Kiki's Delivery Service |
1989 |
Hayao Miyazaki |
IMDb |
| 47 |
Beavis & Butt-Head Do America |
1996 |
Mike Judge & Yvette Kaplan |
IMDb |
| 48 |
Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within |
2001 |
Hironobu Sakaguchi & Moto Sakakibara |
IMDb |
| 49 |
Mulan |
1998 |
Tony Bancroft & Barry Cook |
IMDb |
| 50 |
Fantastic Planet |
1973 |
René Laloux |
IMDb |
| 51 |
Fritz the Cat |
1972 |
Ralph Bakshi |
IMDb |
| 52 |
Gulliver's Travels |
1939 |
Dave Fleischer |
IMDb |
| 53 |
Heavy Metal |
1981 |
Gerald Potterton & Jimmy T. Murakami |
IMDb |
| 54 |
Metropolis |
2001 |
Rintaro |
IMDb |
| 55 |
Robin Hood |
1973 |
Wolfgang Reitherman |
IMDb |
| 56 |
Tarzan |
1999 |
Chris Buck & Kevin Lima |
IMDb |
| 57 |
The Emperor's New Groove |
2000 |
Mark Dindal |
IMDb |
| 58 |
The Adventures of Prince Achmed |
1926 |
Lotte Reiniger |
IMDb |
| 59 |
Asterix and Cleopatra |
1968 |
Rene Goscinny, Lee Payant & Albert Uderzo |
IMDb |
| 60 |
Fantasia/2000 |
1999 |
James Algar et al |
IMDb |
| 61 |
The Transformers: The Movie |
1986 |
Nelson Shin |
IMDb |
| 62 |
Batman: Mask of the Phantasm |
1993 |
Eric Radomski & Bruce W. Timm |
IMDb |
| 63 |
James and the Giant Peach |
1996 |
Henry Selick |
IMDb |
| 64 |
Snoopy Come Home |
1972 |
Bill Melendez |
IMDb |
| 65 |
An American Tail |
1986 |
Don Bluth |
IMDb |
| 66 |
The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh |
1977 |
John Lounsbery & Wolfgang Reitherman |
IMDb |
| 67 |
Song of the South |
1946 |
Harve Foster & Wilfred Jackson |
IMDb |
| 68 |
A Boy Named Charlie Brown |
1969 |
Bill Melendez |
IMDb |
| 69 |
When the Wind Blows |
1986 |
Jimmy T. Murakami |
IMDb |
| 70 |
The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr Toad |
1949 |
James Algar et al |
IMDb |
| 71 |
The Brave Little Toaster |
1988 |
Jerry Rees |
IMDb |
| 72 |
Mad Monster Party? |
1967 |
Jules Bass |
IMDb |
| 73 |
The Fox and the Hound |
1981 |
Ted Berman, Richard Rich & Art Stevens |
IMDb |
| 74 |
Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron |
2002 |
Kelly Asbury & Lorna Cook |
IMDb |
| 75 |
Anastasia |
1997 |
Don Bluth & Gary Goldman |
IMDb |
| 76 |
The Rescuers |
1977 |
John Lounsbery, Wolfgang Reitherman & Art Stevens |
IMDb |
| 77 |
The Plague Dogs |
1982 |
Martin Rosen |
IMDb |
| 78 |
The Phantom Tollbooth |
1970 |
Chuck Jones, Abe Levitow & Dave Monahan |
IMDb |
| 79 |
The Land Before Time |
1988 |
Don Bluth |
IMDb |
| 80 |
The Emperor's Nightingale |
1949 |
Jiri Trnka & Milos Makovec |
IMDb |
| 81 |
The Princess and the Cobbler |
1993 |
Richard Williams |
IMDb |
| 82 |
Titan AE |
2000 |
Don Bluth, Gary Goldman & Art Vitello |
IMDb |
| 83 |
Perfect Blue |
1997 |
Satoshi Kon |
IMDb |
| 84 |
Ninja Scroll |
1993 |
Yoshiaki Kawajiri & Kevin Seymour |
IMDb |
| 85 |
The Great Mouse Detective |
1986 |
Ron Clements et al |
IMDb |
| 86 |
The Powerpuff Girls Movie |
2002 |
Craig McCracken |
IMDb |
| 87 |
The Aristocats |
1970 |
Wolfgang Reitherman |
IMDb |
| 88 |
Gay Purr-ee |
1962 |
Abe Levitow |
IMDb |
| 89 |
Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius |
2001 |
John A. Davis |
IMDb |
| 90 |
The Lord of the Rings |
1978 |
Scott Bakshi |
IMDb |
| 91 |
The Three Caballeros |
1944 |
Norman Ferguson |
IMDb |
| 92 |
Allegro Non Troppo |
1976 |
Bruno Bozzetto |
IMDb |
| 93 |
Hercules |
1997 |
Ron Clements & John Musker |
IMDb |
| 94 |
Bébé's Kids |
1992 |
Bruce W. Smith |
IMDb |
| 95 |
Treasure Planet |
2002 |
Ron Clements & John Musker |
IMDb |
| 96 |
The Last Unicorn |
1982 |
Jules Bass & Arthur Rankin Jr. |
IMDb |
| 97 |
Coonskin |
1975 |
Ralph Bakshi |
IMDb |
| 98 |
The Adventures of Mark Twain |
1985 |
Will Vinton |
IMDb |
| 99 |
Fire and Ice |
1983 |
Ralph Bakshi |
IMDb |
| 100 |
The Black Cauldron |
1985 |
Ted Berman & Richard Rich |
IMDb |
