Animated Movies (non-Disney/Pixar)

The first (and still only) hand-drawn film to win the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, and it held the record as Japan's highest-grossing film for 19 years (about $395M worldwide, later re-passed). It is routinely ranked among the greatest films ever made in any medium.

Won the Oscar for Best Animated Feature and holds a 97% Rotten Tomatoes score. Its comic-book visual style is widely credited with reshaping mainstream animation and directly influenced later features.

Landmark 1988 cyberpunk anime that revolutionized animation worldwide, with breakthrough fluid movement and detailed dystopian Neo-Tokyo. A cornerstone of animated cinema and hugely influential on Western sci-fi.

Holds a 100% Rotten Tomatoes rating; Roger Ebert placed it on his Great Movies list and called it one of the most powerful war films ever made, animated or not. It is a fixture on all-time greatest-animation lists.

Rotten Tomatoes gives it a 99% approval rating, and it earned Academy Award nominations for Best Animated Feature and Best Original Score. It anchored a trilogy widely regarded as DreamWorks' finest work.

A notorious box-office flop on release (about $31M against a roughly $50M budget) that became a canonical classic, now at 96% on Rotten Tomatoes and widely cited as one of the greatest animated films ever made.

Won the very first Academy Award for Best Animated Feature and was selected for the National Film Registry in 2020 as culturally significant. It grossed about $492M worldwide and launched a franchise that has earned several billion dollars.

Wes Anderson's stop-motion adaptation of Roald Dahl is meticulously crafted, wickedly funny, and visually singular. Warm, witty and widely acclaimed as one of the best modern stop-motion films.

Laika's debut is a gorgeously eerie stop-motion masterpiece with unforgettable design and genuine childhood dread. A high-water mark for the medium and a modern classic.

A film that had every reason to be a cynical toy commercial and instead delivered sharp writing, dazzling animation and a genuinely moving twist. Everything is awesome.

Satoshi Kon's psychological thriller is a masterclass in tension and identity, blurring reality and delusion with editing that influenced Aronofsky's Requiem for a Dream. Mature, gripping and formally brilliant.

Won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, one of only a few stop-motion films to take that prize, beating Corpse Bride and Howl's Moving Castle. It remains Aardman's sole Best Animated Feature Oscar.

Its song 'When You Believe' won the Academy Award for Best Original Song, and at about $218M worldwide it was the highest-grossing traditionally animated non-Disney film at the time. It is often praised as one of the best hand-drawn epics of its era.

Aardman's poultry prison-break is charming, inventive and hugely successful, blending Great Escape homage with claymation warmth. A crowd-pleasing highlight of stop-motion.

Grossed about $632M as one of the top animated films of 2008 and earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Animated Feature (losing to WALL-E). It won 10 awards at the 36th Annie Awards, the most that year.

Co-won the Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival and was nominated for the Best Animated Feature Oscar, with Marjane Satrapi among the first women nominated in that category. It holds 96% on Rotten Tomatoes and a 90 on Metacritic.

Won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, yet its roughly $246M worldwide gross was modest against a reported $135M budget and it has faded from the popular canon relative to its contemporaries. A critical winner with a comparatively muted legacy.

Won the Golden Raspberry (Razzie) Award for Worst Picture and sits at just 6% on Rotten Tomatoes, where critics savaged its thin story and heavy product placement. It has become a byword for cynical corporate animation.

Frequently cited as one of the worst animated films ever made, it grossed roughly $120,000 worldwide against a reported budget in the tens of millions after a decade of troubled production. Its crude animation and rampant brand placement are infamous.