Best Animated Movies

Compiled 2026-10-24. The main table copies the animated countdown published on 2019-06-24 and modified on 2022-08-18, 140 films in all. No. 1 is Hayao Miyazaki’s Spirited Away (2001). No. 2 is Roger Allers, Rob Minkoff’s The Lion King (1994). No. 140 is Takeshi Koike’s Redline (2009). The publish date, the modified date, the archive date, and the compile date stay separate. The top 10 and the top 25 are the first 10 and first 25 rows of this table.

The 140 films

All 140 rows follow the countdown. Years and directors are copied from the archive.

How this ranking was built

Compiled 2026-10-24. The list was published 2019-06-24 and modified 2022-08-18. Rotten Tomatoes posted it. Alex Vo is the byline. The page title is The 140 Essential Animated Movies To Watch Now. It runs across two pages, from No. 140 down to No. 1. This table runs from No. 1 to No. 140. The top 10 and the top 25 are the first 10 and first 25 rows.

On 2026-10-24 both live pages left all 70 title blocks empty. The live page’s modified date is still 2022-08-18. The newest capture that prints 138 titles is the 2025-10-04 page 1 and page 2. Ranks 45 and 98 have no entry in that capture. The 2026-01-14 page 1 also omits rank 98, and ranks 140 through 71 match the 2025-10-04 titles. Page 2 from 2023-04-02 still has rank 45, and page 1 from 2022-10-07 still has rank 98. The other ranks are the same films, so those two go back to their original numbers. Director names are the Directed By lines in each capture.

Chinese and Russian titles are Wikidata labels. Chinese labels are simplified.

2 films have no Chinese Wikidata label, so the Chinese cell keeps the English title: No. 93 Le Roman de Renard, No. 139 The Thief and the Cobbler. 6 films keep the English title in the Russian cell.

The picture, and the other movie page

Rows S through D hold all 140 films, 28 a row. The drag-and-drop pool is the same 140 films.

Science fiction: best science fiction movies.