Computer Animated Movies

Want to know the best Computer Animated movies?  How about the worst Computer Animated movies?  Curious about Computer Animated box office grosses or which Computer Animated movie picked up the most Oscar® nominations? Need to know which Computer Animated movie got the best reviews from critics and audiences? Well you have come to the right place …. because we have all of that information.

Pixar started the whole computer animated movie business with their ground breaking movie…1995’s Toy Story.  DreamWorks entered the computer animated movie business with 1998’s Antz. Although Pixar and DreamWorks seem to be the leaders in the computer animated business, the other movie companies realize there was gold in computer animation.  Fox, Universal, Warner Brothers, Weinstein Company, MGM, Sony/Columbia and many others now release computer animated movies on a regular basis.  

Between 9 and 11 computer animated movies get released every year.  So about once a month the latest and greatest computer animated movie hits your local theaters.  This page will rank most (currently 121 movies) of the Computer Animated movies from Best to Worst by 6 different columns of sortable information.  A few of the CGI Star movies were not included…movies like Garfield, Scooby-Doo and Casper did not make the cut.

The Toy Story gang is what got the Computer Animated craze going.
The Toy Story gang is what got the Computer Animated craze going.

Computer Animated Movies Can Be Ranked 6 Ways In The Table Below

The really cool thing about this table is that it is “user-sortable”. Rank the movies anyway you want.

  • Sort Computer Animated movies by the voice talent
  • Sort Computer Animated movies by adjusted domestic box office grosses using current movie ticket cost (in millions)
  • Sort Computer Animated movies by adjusted worldwide box office grosses using current movie ticket cost (in millions)
  • Sort Computer Animated movies by critic reviews and audiences voting.  60% rating or higher should indicate a good movie.
  • Sort by how many Oscar® nominations and how many Oscar® wins each Computer Animated movie received.
  • Sort Computer Animated movies by Ultimate Movie Ranking (UMR) Score.  UMR Score puts box office, reviews and awards into a mathematical equation and gives each movie a score.  The ceiling to earn points for box office is $200 million…once a movie passes that mark it stops earning points in that category.
  • You can use the search button to sort by year or star….it is a pretty cool search and sort button.
Gotta have a picture of Frozen on this page.
Gotta have a picture of Frozen on this page.

Stats and Possibly Interesting Things From The Above Table

1. 82 Computer Animated movies crossed the magical $100 million mark.  That is a percentage of 62.59% of the  movies listed. Shrek 2 (2004) is the all-time leader when looking at domestic box office grosses…while Frozen (2013) is the all-time leader when looking at worldwide box office grosses,

2. An average Computer Animated movie grosses $160.10 million in adjusted box office gross.

3. Using RottenTomatoes.com’s 60% fresh meter.  78 Computer Animated movies are rated as good movies…or 59.54% of movies listed.  Toy Story 3 (2010) is the highest rated movie while Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked (2011) is the lowest rated movie.

4. 39 Computer Animated movies received at least one Oscar® nomination in any category…..or 29.77% of her movies.

5. 14 Computer Animated movies won at least one Oscar® in any category…..or 10.68% of her movies.

6.  An average Ultimate Movie Ranking (UMR) Score is 40.  87 Computer Animated movies scored higher that average….or 50.00% movies listed.  Toy Story 3 (2010) got the the highest UMR Score while Norm Of The North (2016) got the lowest UMR Score.

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32 thoughts on “Computer Animated Movies”

    1. @Paula….I am sure your grandbabies probably think computer animated movies are how they have always been done.

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  2. Interesting info on CG animation Bruce, so Shrek 2 is number one adjusted for inflation? Finding Nemo is no.2.
    If I had to pick one fave from the Pixar movies it would be the first Toy Story, which was just perfect. The Incredibles at no.2.
    Non-Pixar I did enjoy the first Shrek a lot, How to Train your Dragon was great too.
    Shocked at how successful Despicable 2 was, I enjoyed it but it’s not a favourite, the first was better.
    I’ve seen 90 of the 110 films you’ve listed, there are 20 I missed, ignored or haven’t got round to yet.
    Great work amigo, top marks, voted Up. 🙂

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    1. @Steve Lensman…..thanks for the comment and the visit. I see you have bought most of these movies as well. I have a feeling I will be updating this page on a very regular basis.

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  3. Good god. I had no idea that they had already made so many computer animated movies. Great detail here.

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    1. @Dennis. It is amazing how many computer animated movies have been made the last 10 years. Thanks for the visit.

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  4. I always think Pixar is not really Disney. Yes they own them but they work seperately. Since John Lassister moved to being the head of Disney Animation, they have outshined Pixar. Tangled and Frozen are right there with the old Pixar classics and destroy the new Pixar movies.

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  5. I have seen at least 70% of these movies…great look at how each studio measures up! I generally think of Pixar when I think computer-animated, and sure enough, Pixar is king.

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