Best Animated Movies – Methodology
I searched far and wide for lists of best horror movies of all time. Criteria included the movies being ranked, not just listed, and covering all time, not just a decade. The lists were generally created by groups, whether teams or committees or based on general public voting (like Ranker.com).
I was able to find 26 lists. I took the 26 lists and added all their content into a spreadsheet, noting the rank of every film. The total number was almost 1,500 including all the repeats. I experimented with different formulas, trying to balance the value of being ranked high on any list and being included on the most lists. I ended up averaging the rankings each movie got (there were 211 that were on at least 2 lists) and dividing that average by a factor of the number of lists that movie was on. The lowest score meant a high ranking average on many lists. The complete spreadsheet is attached at the bottom.
The movies that were on the most lists (out of 26) were:
- Toy Story (1995) – all 26 lists
- Spirited Away (2001) – 25 lists
- The Lion King (1994) – 23 lists
- Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) – 23 lists
- Finding Nemo (2003) – 22 lists
- Up (2009) – 22 lists
- WALL-E (2008) – 21 lists
- Beauty and the Beast (1991) – 20 lists
Here are links to the lists I used along with dates the lists were created:
- Chillopedia – 21 Oct 2022
- Pink Villa – 11 Oct 2022
- Parade – 26 Sep 2022
- Featured Animation – 16 Sep 2022
- Bored Panda – 27 Aug 2022
- TopTens – 14 Jul 2022
- TimeOut – 30 Jun 2022
- Wirally – 22 Apr 2022
- Ranker.com – 19 Apr 2022
- DigitalDreamDoor – 7 Feb 2022
- Empire Online – 14 Sep 2021
- Stacker/Metacritic – 31 Jan 2021
- WatchMojo – Jul 2020
- WTOP – 1 Jul 2020
- 24/7 Wall St. – 17 Apr 2020
- AmEx Essentials – 30 Mar 2020
- Rolling Stone – 13 Oct 2019
- Business Insider – 10 Mar 2018
- Harpers Bazaar – 31 Aug 2017
- Mental Floss – 13 Jun 2017
- Awesome Inventions – 20 Aug 2015
- Rotten Tomatoes – 4 Jul 2012
- TIME – 21 Jun 2011
- IGN – 24 Jun 2010
- Flickchart – no date
- Java T Point – no date