Disney Movies

 

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

When Walt Disney decided to produce a full length animated movie in the mid-1930s … almost everybody thought it was a disaster waiting to happen.  It even earned the nickname …. Disney’s Folly.  While it turns out the man knew what he was doing…..as Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs become one of the biggest box office hits of all time.  Since then the Disney company has been producing one hit movie after another for almost the last 80 years.  So far there have been 54 Disney Animated Movies.

This page will rank those 54 Disney movies from Best to Worst in six different sortable columns of information. Movies that were only distributed by Disney did not make the list…..so you will not find any Pixar or Disney Toons movies…in other words if the animation was done outside of Disney it does not make the list. If you are interested in Pixar movies you can check out my Pixar page here.  Another page you might be interested in checking out is Walt Disney Live Action Movies 1937 – 1967.

Mickey Mouse in 1941's Fantasia ....Fantasia is the highest rated Disney movie according to critics and audiences.
Mickey Mouse in 1941’s Fantasia ….Fantasia is the highest rated Disney movie according to critics and audiences.

Disney Movies Ranked In Chronological Order With Ultimate Movie Rankings Score (1 to 5 UMR Tickets) *Best combo of box office, reviews and awards.

Disney Movies Can Be Ranked 6 Ways In This Table

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

  • Sort Disney movies by the voice stars
  • Sort Disney movies by adjusted domestic box office grosses using current movie ticket cost (in millions)
  • Sort Disney movies by yearly domestic box office rank
  • Sort Disney movies how they were received by critics and audiences.  60% rating or higher should indicate a good movie
  • Sort by how many Oscar® nominations and how many Oscar® wins each Disney movie received.
  • Sort Disney movies by Ultimate Movie Rankings (UMR) Score.  UMR Score puts box office, reviews and awards into a mathematical equation and gives each movie a score.

Disney Movies World Wide Box Office Grosses

Gotta have a picture of Frozen on this page.
Gotta have a picture of Frozen on this page.


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  1. I’m always amazed how much Walt Disney has given to culture even beyond his death. I know they don’t count him too often in most profitable dead celebs but it probably would be different given how Disney was a mutlimedia corp when he died. I’m not sure but anyway it’s definitely cool how much he’s influenced pop culutre.

    1. Hey Alecia….he was probably one of the most influential people of the last 112 years….and his name still brings magic to children. While doing this research for this hub…I found one article that says Disney reported 30 billion in revenue in 2010….not too bad….thanks for the comment and the visit.

  2. I’ve seen 41 of these movies! Thanks, little sisters, for keeping me up to date on Disney movies!

    1. Hey KTCAT94….41 is pretty impressive….figuring out my number now….I have only seen 30….beat my a soon to be 18 year old….but I have seen some of the movies on the list many many many times…..thanks for stopping by.

  3. Quick note first: It’s great to see another movie page. I notice this is a Disney company page, not Walt Disney’s lifetime page. Yet a lot of the top critical films were made during his lifetime. Now his nephew Roy is dead too.

    I’m glad that Disney-Pixar movies were excluded because they really deserve to have their own page as they are a completely different type of animation.

    1. I have no time to go over this properly in total, so I’ll just talk top lists in terms of what I’ve seen, regardless of what I think of them:

      Box Office: 12? Not 10?

      Well, I’ve seen:

      1,2,4,5,6,7,9,10,11, and 12

      Critics 10:

      1,2,3,4,5,6,8 and 9

      movie Score 12:

      1,3,4,5,6,7,10,11, and 12

      1. Hey Flora…I am not surprised you have seen so many of the top films….I put the Top 12 box office hits because, I was looking at the Top 200 hits of all-time….and it seemed that Peter Pan and Beauty and the Beast deserved some mention as they are on the list of biggest hits of all-time. Thanks for checking out my latest page.

    2. Hey Flora….well I am still working on a table that looks at the Disney movies during his lifetime and those since he passed….and do a comparison….to see how far they have gone down since his passing. Yep back to movie pages….my last page was not in my comfort area.

    1. Hey Josh. To get the adjusted box office….I take the box office the year the movie was released (a challenge for some of the older Disney movies as they got numerous release dates through the years)…I divide that box office by average ticket price the year the movie was released….then gets me tickets sold…..then multiple that the current average ticket price. Luckily my awesome wife designed a program that I input one number and out pops the adjusted box office number.
      Hope that explains it. Thanks for visiting my website.

    1. Hey Rachel….Oliver and Company kinda of struggled at the box office…especially compared to all of these Disney blockbuster winners. On the reviews side Oliver and Company was not well received by critics or audiences.
      I have over 15,000 movies that have scores in my database….and Oliver and Company is in better than average category….personally I like the movie …especially the Billy Joel songs…thanks for the visit.

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