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Highest grossing animated films by year

I've been putting together a list from 1937 to 2014, with multiple sources, but still I have 11 years that I can't find a movie for (47, 49,52,54,56, 57, 58, 60, 62, 65, 74), If someone knows sources for this years, please help me complete the list, and keep in mind that re-releases of Disney movies don't count

Can we see this list

  † Background shading indicates films playing in the week commencing 22 November 2024 in theaters around the world.

Year	Title	Worldwide gross	Budget	Ref(s)
1937	Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs	$418,000,000+ ($8,500,000)R	$1,488,423
1938	—	—	—
1939	Gulliver's Travels	$3,200,000*	TBA
1940	Pinocchio	$87,000,862* ($3,500,000)R	$2,600,000
1941	Dumbo	$1,600,000*	$950,000
1942	Bambi	$267,447,150 ($3,449,353)R	$1,700,000–2,000,000
1943	Victory Through Air Power	$799,000*	~$789,000
1944	The Three Caballeros	$700,000MX	TBA
1945	The Enchanted Sword	ES€5,595,283ES (~$90,000)	TBA
1946	Song of the South	$65,000,000SS	$2,125,000
1947	TBA	TBA	TBA
1948	Happy Holidays	ES€1,338,174ES (~$20,000)	ES€3,000,000 (~$50,000)
1949	TBA	TBA	TBA
1950	Cinderella	$88,000,466* ($20,000,000/$7,800,000)*R	$2,200,000
1951	Alice in Wonderland	$2,400,000*	$3,000,000
1952	TBA	TBA	TBA
1953	Peter Pan	$145,000,000	$3,000,000–4,000,000
1954	TBA	TBA	TBA
1955	Lady and the Tramp	$93,602,326* ($6,500,000)*R	$4,000,000
1956	TBA	TBA	TBA
1957	TBA	TBA	TBA
1958	TBA	TBA	TBA
1959	Sleeping Beauty	$51,600,000* ($5,300,000)R	$6,000,000
1960	TBA	TBA	TBA
1961	One Hundred and One Dalmatians	$215,880,212	$3,600,000–4,000,000
1962	TBA	TBA	TBA
1963	The Sword in the Stone	$22,182,353*R ($13,050,777)*R	$4,000,000
1964	Hey There, It's Yogi Bear	$1,940,903*-$2,438,233* ($1,130,000)R	TBA
1965	TBA	TBA	TBA
1966	The Dream Wizard	ES€36,828,956ES (~$614,000)	TBA
1967	The Jungle Book	$205,843,612 ($170,800,000–199,475,744)	$3,900,000–4,000,000
1968	Out of an Old Man's Head	SEK1,270,971SW (~$245,000)	TBA
1969	A Boy Named Charlie Brown	$6,000,000*R	$1,100,000
1970	The Aristocats	$55,675,257* ($26,462,000)R	$4,000,000
1971	Daisy Town	SEK1,202,319SW (~$253,000)	TBA
1972	Fritz the Cat	$90,000,000	$850,000
1973	Robin Hood	$32,056,467* ($17,160,000)R	$1,500,000-$15,000,000
1974	TBA	TBA	TBA
1975	The Pinchcliffe Grand Prix	$5,914,576NW	TBA
1976	The Smurfs and the Magic Flute	$19,000,000	TBA
1977	The Rescuers	$71,215,869* ($29,000,000)*	$1,200,000-$8,000,000
1978	The Lord of the Rings	$30,471,420*	$4,000,000
1979	The Little Convict	A$495,000AU (~$547,000)	A$423,467 (~$468,000)
1980	Doraemon: Nobita's Dinosaur	¥1.55×10^9JP (~$11,900,000)	TBA
1981	The Fox and the Hound	$63,456,988* ($39,900,000)*	$12,000,000
1982	The Secret of NIMH	$14,665,733*	$7,000,000
1983	Doraemon: Nobita and the Castle of the Undersea Devil	¥1×10^9JP (~$8,100,000)	TBA
1984	Doraemon: Nobita's Great Adventure into the Underworld	¥1.65×10^9JP (~$13,500,000)	TBA
1985	The Care Bears Movie	$34,000,000 ($22,934,622)*	$2,000,000-$4,500,000
1986	An American Tail	$84,542,002-$150,000,000+	$9,000,000
1987	Doraemon: Nobita and the Knights on Dinosaurs	¥1.5×10^9JP (~$13,100,000)	TBA
1988	The Land Before Time	$84,460,846	$12,300,000
1989	The Little Mermaid	$211,343,479 ($84,355,863)*	$40,000,000
1990	The Rescuers Down Under	$27,931,461*	TBA
1991	Beauty and the Beast	$424,967,620	$25,000,000
1992	Aladdin	$504,050,219	$28,000,000
1993	The Nightmare Before Christmas	$76,128,123 ($50,003,043)*	$18,000,000
1994	The Lion King	$987,483,777 ($766,964,132)	$45,000,000–79,300,000
1995	Toy Story	$361,958,736	$30,000,000
1996	The Hunchback of Notre Dame	$325,338,851	$10,000,000
1997	Hercules	$252,712,101	$85,000,000
1998	A Bug's Life	$363,398,565	$120,000,000
1999	Toy Story 2	$490,728,379	$90,000,000
2000	Dinosaur	$349,822,765	$127,500,000
2001	Monsters, Inc.	$562,816,256 ($525,373,250)	$115,000,000
2002	Ice Age	$383,257,136	$59,000,000
2003	Finding Nemo	$936,743,261 ($864,614,978)	$94,000,000
2004	Shrek 2	$919,838,758	$150,000,000
2005	Madagascar	$532,680,671	$75,000,000
2006	Ice Age: The Meltdown	$655,388,158	$80,000,000
2007	Shrek the Third	$798,958,162	$160,000,000
2008	Kung Fu Panda	$631,744,560	$130,000,000
2009	Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs	$886,686,817	$90,000,000
2010	Toy Story 3	$1.063171911×10^9	$200,000,000
2011	Kung Fu Panda 2	$665,692,281	$150,000,000
2012	Ice Age: Continental Drift	$877,244,782	$95,000,000
2013	Frozen †	$1.275772511×10^9	$150,000,000
2014	How to Train Your Dragon 2 †	$609,040,000	$145,000,000

• ( ... ) Since grosses are not limited to original theatrical runs, a film's first-run gross is included in brackets after the total if known.
• ^*Canada and U.S. gross only.
• ^ESSpanish gross only.
• ^SWSwedish gorss only.
• ^NWNorvegian gorss only.
• ^AUAustralian gorss only.
• ^JPJapanese gorss only.
• ^MXMexican gorss only.
• ^RDistributor rental.
• ^TBATo be ascertained.
• ^N/ANot Avaivle. No animated feature length film was created in that year as Gulliver's Travels (1939 film) was the second feature animated film after Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937 film)
• ^SSThis is a animated/live-action film.

DM = US domestic gross

JDM = Japanes domestic gross

ADM = Australian domestic gross

NDM = Norwegian domestic gross

R = US rentals

MX = Mexican gorss only.

I can not find anything should we ask Talk List of highest grossing films to help us find them

Any GOOD help is welcomed

done

They had answer with 1938,1939 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.102.93.78 (talk) 17:33, 28 July 2014 (UTC)

I now ask http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:List_of_highest-grossing_openings_for_films#SOS — Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.102.93.78 (talk) 19:54, 27 August 2014 (UTC)

I have already prepared a edited list, how about I post the list with the missing years and add a "construction" temple? that way people may notice the list and help complete it

go ahead after all we only got 11 years missing how about doing a list of highest-grossing animated films opening weekend

Give more then a week it is going to take a while

Hybrids

Can we have a list of highest grossing Films_with_live_action_and_animation — Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.102.93.78 (talk) 16:51, 29 August 2014 (UTC)

animes

Could animes be longer? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.102.93.78 (talk) 20:55, 31 August 2014 (UTC)

stand by GI anine

Stand by Me Doraemon is computer animated not a anime — Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.102.93.78 (talk) 19:30, 4 September 2014 (UTC)

"Anime are Japanese animated productions usually featuring hand-drawn or computer animation...the term is defined as animation from Japan or as a Japanese-disseminated animation style often characterized by colorful graphics, vibrant characters and fantastic themes"

So it both? Could animes be longer? — — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.132.222.244 (talk) 08:26, 5 September 2014 (UTC)

Inflation Adjusted Gross Receipts

Would be helpful to add a column or separate chart ranking releases in inflation adjusted ticket sales.....Noh Chung (talk) 19:33, 16 February 2011 (UTC)

I think that might need a whole separate table or list article. -- Horkana (talk) 22:21, 16 February 2011 (UTC)

Well, this article does center around a genre (animation) that has such a large scope, in terms of history, and it would help to present what films would actually be on the list if inflation was taken into account. ~ Jedi94 20:12, 1 March 2011 (UTC)

That'll be a great idea, but good luck finding a source. JDDJS (talk) 02:43, 2 March 2011 (UTC)

There's a basic algorithm for adjusting the figures (an editor brought it up in a discussion complaining about the misleading grosses of 3D films I think it was). It's less complicated than you might think, but it does need to be properly sourced. -- Horkana (talk) 11:02, 2 March 2011 (UTC)

Box Office Mojo explains how to do the adjustment here, but is that a sufficient source for doing our own calculations? Anterras (talk) 20:01, 19 March 2014 (UTC)

I ask http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:List_of_highest-grossing_films#inflation. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.132.224.222 (talk) 15:15, 10 September 2014 (UTC)

There are lists for this but theythey miss disney classics bom says how to do it http://www.boxofficemojo.com/about/adjuster.htm can we us that? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.102.93.78 (talk) 07:24, 11 September 2014 (UTC)

Calculating inflation for (animated) films is kind of pointless, since many of them had multiple releases, like Lion King, Finding Nemo and Toy Story / Toy Story 2 (3D).--Carniolus (talk) 20:21, 11 September 2014 (UTC)

boom

Can we have [a animated /List of box office bombs page — Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.102.93.78 (talk) 20:43, 11 September 2014 (UTC)

Frozen run

Frozen is now done in theaters worldwide. So you can unhighlight it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.81.41.145 (talk) 18:41, 14 September 2014 (UTC)

how long

Could animes be longer? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.102.93.78 (talk) 18:15, 17 September 2014 (UTC)

I think it can be extended to 30 but I'm not sure if I have all the correct films, from what a gathered, the continuation should look like this. If someone else knows other films that might get on the list, please comment. DCF94 (talk) 13:12, 18 September 2014 (UTC)

Rank	Title	Worldwide gross	Year
21	Pokemon: Arceus and the Jewel of Life	$50,673,078	2009
22	Doraemon: Nobita and the Island of Miracles	$44,649,222	2012
23	Case Closed: The Eleventh Striker	$44,068,406	2012
24	Pokemon: Kyurem vs. the Sword of Justice	$44,057,737	2012
25	Pokemon: Giratina and the Sky Warrior	$43,338,599	2008
26	Pokemon: The Rise of Darkrai	$42,496,749	2007
27	Case Closed: Quarter of Silence	$42,032,764	2011
28	Lupin the 3rd vs. Detective Conan: The Movie	$41,397,727	2013
29	Evangelion: 2.0 You Can (Not) Advance	$41,162,041	2009
30	Doraemon: Great Battle of the Mermaid King	$38,100,000	2010

That see right to me top 30 here we come — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.132.218.151 (talk) 15:23, 18 September 2014 (UTC)

the boxoffice trolls

how long utill The Boxtrolls hit the list . also how many more do you need to expand the list — Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.102.93.78 (talk) 17:29, 29 September 2014 (UTC)

It needs about $2 millions to get in Top 10 and as for expanding, we can't expand it yet, according to BOM [1], beyond the Top 10 we have just a few more movies with less than a million, so at this point we don't have enough material to expand the list. DCF94 (talk) 22:55, 29 September 2014 (UTC)

Puss

Is Puss in Boots a public domain? DCF94 (talk) 18:49, 2 October 2014 (UTC)

The original story will be. Later versions of the story may still be under copyright depending on when they were written. Betty Logan (talk) 00:41, 3 October 2014 (UTC)

1974

The '74 film on the high-grossing film by year list isn't a full animated movie, has no source to the bo gross and it is released worldwide in 1973 in the UK, so it is not a correct entry. DCF94 (talk) 14:29, 12 October 2014 (UTC)

timeline

I got a question About http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_highest-grossing_animated_films#Timeline_of_highest-grossing_animated_films –My question is did snow white really hold the record for 55 years as the highest-grossing animated film of all time? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.102.93.78 (talk) 21:34, 23 October 2014 (UTC)

Dragons 2

Box Office Mojo is reporting a box office total for How To Train Your Dragon 2 of $618,799,302 http://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?page=main&id=howtotrainyourdragon2.htm Total Foreign gross as of 11/5/14 was $441,907,011 Telewski (talk) 00:51, 20 November 2014 (UTC)

Rio 2 ends run

Based on data posted on Box Office Mojo http://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?page=intl&id=rio2.htm Rio 2 ended its run in Brazil as it is the last update 11/9/14. May be time to unhighlight it. Telewski (talk) 00:16, 5 December 2014 (UTC)

Frozen

frozen has made $1.276billon not 1.275billon and it is not highlighted. I do not know how to highlight or update the total can you try? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.102.93.78 (talk) 12:07, 6 December 2014 (UTC)

Frozen was re-released as in the sing-a-long version in the United Kingdom for the Weekend of Nov 30th and is still playing in theaters this weekend. The discrepancy in the earnings numbers was resolved on the Wiki page for highest grossing movies https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_highest-grossing_films and will likely be returned to $1.276 billion due to an accounting error on BOM regarding exchange rates between the USD and the UK Pound for the Nov 30 total. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:List_of_highest-grossing_films#Why_FROZEN_total_dropped._USD-Pound_exchange_rate I cannot edit this page, so this is for information purposes only Telewski (talk) 22:24, 8 December 2014 (UTC)

peak

we can include the peak of a film, what is the highest rank the film is, or was once at, like on the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_highest-grossing_films#Highest-grossing_films — Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.102.93.78 (talk) 16:12, 9 December 2014 (UTC)

We can, but we need alot of research, especially for the pre-2000 films. And I think we can do only for the main list, maybe for the computer list too, but for the rest it's very hard to find research and, in my opinion, pointless DCF94 (talk) 19:48, 13 December 2014 (UTC)

1) Frozen Peak 1

2) Toy story 3 Peak 1

3) lion king peak 1

4) Despicable 2peak 3

5) Finding Nemo peak 1

6) Sherk 2 peak 1

7) Ice age 3 peak 3

8) Ice age 4 peak 5

9) Sherk 3 peak 4

10) Sherk 4 peak 6

11) Madagaser 3 peak 8

12) Monster U peak 11

13) Up peak 6

14) Panda 2 peak 9

15) Ice age 2 peak 4

16) Panda peak 6

17) Increbiles peak 4

18) Ratatouille peak 6

19) Dragons 2 peak 19

20) Madagaser 2 peak 8

21) Tangled peak 14

22) croods peak 20

23) Monster inc peak 2

24) cars 2 peak 16

25) puss in boots peak 18

26) despicable peak 14

27) brave peak 22

28) madagscer 2 peak 4

29) Simpsons peak 10

30) wall e peak 13

31) Aladdin peak 1

32) rio 2 peak 32

33) dragons peak 19

34) toy story 2 peak 3

35) rio peak 26

36) sherk peak 5

37) Ralph peak 31

38) Lego peak 38

39) cars peak 7

40) Tarzan peak 4

41) beast peak 2

42) Snow White peak 1

43) happy feet peak 12

44) ice age peak 9

45) MVA peak 23

46) Tintin peak 34

47) toy story peak 3

48) shark peak 10

49) bugs peak 3

50)hotEl t peak 44

— Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.238.217.54 (talk) 18:45, 14 December 2014 (UTC) 

We should source this peeks, like the ones from List of highest-grossing films. The page lacks sources already, we don't need to add more unsourced content. DCF94 (talk) 22:58, 15 December 2014 (UTC)

flops

Is there any where for biggest amited folps — Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.102.93.78 (talk) 00:50, 16 December 2014 (UTC)

Studios

I don't think adding a studio section on the lists is a good idea, this page is concentrating on which is the highest grossing animated film, not what studio produced (if we add the studio, should we add who directed too?), that kind information you can find on the film's own page, not to mention the style, it looks ugly adding a section that attracts the attention from the film. The best thing would be to add a sentence before every list mentioning which studio is the most represented on the giving list. DCF94 (talk) 21:03, 31 December 2014 (UTC)

I agree. There is a lot of information we could add (studios/directors/stars etc) but it detracts from the overall goal of the article: to record the highest-grossing animated films. We used to have these columns at List of highest-grossing films but we removed them because it was a lot of superfluous information which didn't tell us a whole lot about the films. The aim of these articles is to record the different metrics we have for success; there may be something interesting to be said about the studios or directors but it can usually be covered by a paragraph in the lede or section introductions. Personally I think the charts are more useful when they only include essential information i.e. grosses, years, ranks etc. Betty Logan (talk) 19:30, 2 January 2015 (UTC)

FINALLY

Finally we have a Top 20 franchises and film series! I can't belive I was so clueless about the new Tarzan movie, granted, it wasen't a well-known big shot movie, but still. And before someone says something, YES! it does count as an entry for the list, it's not a film series, but both are part of the Tarzan franchise because both films are adapted from the same book. DCF94 (talk) 01:02, 19 September 2014 (UTC)

Are you also going to put Frozen and The Snow Queen together as one franchise? Anterras (talk) 02:26, 19 September 2014 (UTC)

Tarzan & the sonw queen are a public domain so has no legal franchise backing it up, anyone can do whatever they feel like with the content of the books. IT IS NOT THE SAME FRANCHISE

Then how on the Highest grossing franchises and film series, in the James Bond series, they added Never Say Never Again and Casino Royale besides the EON series? And the two Tarzan films at least come from the same storyline as in the book. Frozen is barely inspired from The Snow Queen story, as it says on it's wiki page. DCF94 (talk) 12:18, 19 September 2014 (UTC)

Casino Royale and Never Say Never Again are both official adaptations: Casino Royale (67) is still based on the Fleming book even though it's a comedy, and Never Say Never Again is based on Thunderball. Tarzan & frozen the hunchback of notre dome & many others are Public_domain James bond is not. If you do that the Pixar universe makes more sense and we not going to put that on. This list— Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.132.225.233 (talk) 15:56, 19 September 2014 (UTC)

So now someone needs to find the figures for The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh to maybe put the Winnie the Pooh franchise on the list or wait till next year for the Hotel Transylvania sequel. DCF94 (talk) 11:04, 20 September 2014 (UTC)

The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh has made $5,866,242

Source? DCF94 (talk) 15:17, 20 September 2014 (UTC)

Next year we got a few which can make it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_animated_feature_films_of_2015

The only sure series is Hotel Transylvania, a series needs to have a total close to $300 million to get on the list, because of the Winnie the Pooh and Dragon Ball series, I don't know if the SpongeBob sequel will make enough to get on the list and I honestly doubt that Shaun the Sheep will make enough for the Wallace and Gromit series to get on. One other thing that might be a problem is the new Dragon Ball film, we still don't know the total of the series but if the new movie makes as good as Battle of Gods, it might get very close to the Top 20 DCF94 (talk) 15:17, 20 September 2014 (UTC)

I said could who would the though frozen would make $1.275billon. Hotel t could make $250 dragon ball $60 Shaun $150 bob $60 we can not gesuues — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.132.218.244 (talk) 20:42, 20 September 2014 (UTC)

I thought you were talking about film series, since that was the subject of this discussion DCF94 (talk) 23:05, 20 September 2014 (UTC)

I was I was just says these cause these are the only series I can see make $300 million in the next few years other then peanuts (which got 6 million) finding nemo ( which got 936millon in the first one) & I do doubt that I top cat will. We can't say so by a 2016/2017 we have some more — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.132.213.154 (talk) 08:00, 21 September 2014 (UTC) and tintin — Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.102.93.78 (talk) 15:23, 20 February 2015 (UTC)