Joey Magidson
A new week and a new column! Continuing a tradition I’ve been keen on for years, I’m ranking the new crop of Academy Award winners. For nearly all of the Oscar categories, you’ll see me list the top 25 recipients of that prize. Sometimes, our newest winner will appear. Other times, they’ll be relegated to the Honorable Mention category. Who knows, maybe one or two won’t even make the cut? It’s a list series that I’ll do each and every single year, in the weeks after the ceremony concludes. So, while this is a fun way to think about the Oscars in the aftermath of the latest telecast, it’s also a beginning for another column here on the site. Of course, definitely show us your own lists as well, in the comments section below. We’re definitely keen to know what you think!
Today’s category is Best Animated Feature. As you all know, for better or (to a select few) worse, Pixar has dominated this category, almost since its inception. A full twelve of the twenty Animated Feature winners have been Pixar offerings. Among those dozen, they’re very well spaced out on the list you’re about to see. For my money, they have the top two spots in Toy Story 3 and WALL-E, with a non Disney/Pixar effort next in line with Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse. Other things that make the top tier slots include Coco, Frozen, Inside Out, Shrek, and Up. Where did the latest winner in Flow wind up placing? What about the other most recent ones in The Boy and the Heron and Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio? Read on below to find out…
Here are what I consider to be the 24 (since there aren’t yet 25) best winners of the Best Animated Feature Oscar, to date:
24. Encanto
23. The Boy and the Heron
22. Brave
21. Spirited Away
20. Soul
19. Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
18. Rango
17. Ratatouille
16. Happy Feet
15. Big Hero 6
14. Zootopia
13. Finding Nemo
12. Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio
11. The Incredibles
10. Inside Out
9. Shrek
8. Toy Story 4
7. Flow
6. Coco
5. Up
4. Frozen
3. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
2. WALL-E
1. Toy Story 3
Stay tuned for another category early next week!
Always a fun category !
24.Spitrited Away
23.Happy Feet
22.Big Hero 6
21.Soul
20.Spider Man into the Spider verse
19.Brave
18.The Boy and The Heron
17.Frozen
16.Wallace and Gromit The Curse of The Were Rabbit
15.Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio
14.The Incredibles
13.Finding Nemo
12.Wall.E
11.Inside Out
10.Encanto
9.Shrek
8.Toy Story 4
7.Coco
6.Ratatoille
5.Zootopia
4.Flow
3.Rango
2.Up
1.Toy Story 3
Right? And even next year, every winner still gets ranked!
I like to think of what would have won in the past.Sometimes it’s easy other times it’s less obvious.
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