100 Animated Feature Films

Andrew Osmond is a journalist and critic based in Berkshire, UK. He is the author of Spirited Away (BFI Film Classics, 2008, 2020), Kon: The Illusionist (2009) and Ghost in the Shell (2017). He has co-written two books with Jonathan Clements on two key Japanese animated films, Hakujaden and The Little Norse Prince. He was one of two main editors working for Giannalberto Bendazzi on his three-volume Animation: A World History, published in 2016. He frequently contributes to Sight & Sound magazine, SFX and Empire, as well as numerous other magazines in the UK, France and America. He writes regularly for Neo magazine and for the commercial blog All The Anime, which both specialise in Japanese animation. He has also had pieces on animation published in the Guardian.

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction1.The Adventures of Prince Achmed2.Akira3.Aladdin4.Alice5.Allegro non troppo6.Animal Farm7.Anomolisa 8.April and the Extraordinary World 9.Bambi10.Beauty and the Beast11.Belladonna of Sadness 12.Belleville Rendez-vous13.Boy and the World 14.The Breadwinner 15.Cinderella16.Coco17.The Congress 18.Coraline19.Dumbo20.Fantasia21.Fantastic Planet22.Finding Nemo23.Fritz the Cat24.Frozen 25.The Garden of Words 26.Ghost in the Shell 27.Grave of the Fireflies28.Hoppity Goes to Town29.How To Train Your Dragon30.I Lost My Body 31.Ice Age32.Idiots and Angels33.The Illusionist34.The Incredibles35.Inside Out 36.Invention for Destruction 37.The Iron Giant38.Ivan and His Magic Pony39.The Jungle Book40.The King and the Mockingbird 41.Kiki’s Delivery Service42.Klaus43.Kung Fu Panda44.Laputa: Castle in the Sky45.The Lego Movie46.Lilo and Stitch47.The Lion King48.The Little Mermaid 49.Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted50.A Midsummer Night’s Dream51.Mind Game52.Moana 53.Monsters Inc54.My Life as McDull 55.My Neighbour Totoro56.Nausicaa of the Valley of Wind 57.Nezha Conquers the Dragon King58.Night on the Galactic Railroad59.The Nightmare Before Christmas60.One Hundred and One Dalamatians61.Only Yesterday62.Perfect Blue 63.Persepolis64.Pinocchio65.Porco Rosso66.Princess Mononoke67.Rango68.The Red Turtle 69.Rocks in My Pockets 70.Le Roman de Renard71.The Secret of NIMH72.Shrek73.A Silent Voice 74.Sita Sings the Blues75.The Snow Queen 76.Snow White and the Seven Dwarves77.Son of White Mare78.Song of the Sea 79.Spider-Man: Into the Spider Verse 80.Spirited Away81.Summer Wars82.The Tale of the Princess Kaguya 83.The Thief and the Cobbler84.Tokyo Godfathers85.Tower 86.Toy Story87.Toys in the Attic 88.Wallace and Gromit in the Curse of the Were-Rabbit89.Wall-E90.Waltz with Bashir91.Watership Down92.When Marnie was There 93.Whisper of the Heart94.Who Framed Roger Rabbit95.The Wolf Children 96.Wolfwalkers 97.Wreck-it Ralph 98.Yellow Submarine99.Your Name 100.Zootropolis

Osmond’s reviews are thoughtful, engaging reveries not only of each film, but of its context and gossip … Osmond cops to personal bias in his introduction, but his personal bias is partly what we are paying for – we trust him to come up with a hundred cartoons that can fairly encapsulate the medium as it appears today, such that someone who knew nothing could watch a film a day and become an animation expert in just three months.