Disney's timeless masterpiece may indeed be the king of its collection: not only is it an Academy Award-winner, but also the highest-grossing traditionally-animated film of all time. The animation, voice-casting, storyline, and production values are the all-time high for Disney.

The pinnacle of Miyazaki's celebrated work and quite possibly the pinnacle of Japanese animation overall. "Spirited Away" is the first anime to ever win an Academy Award.

Disney's 28th animated masterpiece proved to be a true pearl in the ocean: winning Academy Awards is one thing, but the film single-handedly revived the company's propsperous "Golden Era" for a new generation.

Katsuhiro Otomo's film adaptation of his celebrated manga set the standard for anime as we know it and introduced the world at large to Japanese animation.

Just about all animation in the western world is indebted for the first truly popular feature-length "cartoon", the legacy of which helped shaped the face of the Walt Disney empire as we know it.

Bluth's second feature-film broke the record of how sucessful an animated film could be (it grossed over $84 million: nearly twice as much as the previous holder), and for the coming years, "Fievel" would become one of the most popular children's characters in film.

A most sucessful experiment in animation and music, Disney's third feature-length film remains unrivaled as an epic, harmonious marriage of sights and score.

The adaptation of Kipling's "Mowgli" stories saw the birth of the modern Disney musical as we know it, and showcased just how much of one's self a voice actor could insert into a character.

Despite being plagued by one of the worst cases of over-sequelization in history, Bluth's original children's epic is as beautiful and terrifying as animated films can get.

The undisputed best of its kind: never before and never again have human and cel-animated characters interacted so flawlessly.

One of Disney's most aesthetic features became the most sucessful film of 1961, and also saw the emergeance of the evil Cruella DeVil - a character so exagerrated that she was the sole reason for the film's live-action re-make.

Considered by many to be the most heart-wrenching film in all of anime, Isao Takahata's antiwar gem is recognized as the animated parallel of Steven Spielberg's "Schindler's List"; its subject matter alone is enough to qualify for any best-of list.

Easily Miyazaki's most mature and socially-themed masterpiece. It became the highest-grossing film in Japan at the time of its release.

A Tim Burton classic that didn't take long to become a cult essential among fans of the director's unique type of film-making: the film mixed expertly-crafted stop motion graphics with Burton's playfully macabre style of storytelling for one of best-received features of its kind.

Besides being the pinnacle of CGI, Disney's Pixar animation creates one of the best showcases of expression without words ever seen on the silver screen, making this sweet, meaningful sci-fi opus the undisputed most popular film of 2008.

A dazzling Otomo masterpiece, once more displaying everything good and influential about anime.

Perhaps the best "adaptation" ever made: though it followed no particular story, George Dunning's escapist style of animation is the greatest (and only) attempt to bring the music and the meaning of the Beatles to life.

Perhaps the single greatest technical feat ever achieved in computer animation: the quality and realism of this oft-forgotten blockbuster is second to no other theatrical release.