How the Animated Movies bracket works
Animated movie tier list without dragging anything into rows. You get one matchup at a time — Spirited Away or The Lion King? Toy Story or Shrek? — and after 31 picks the bracket has a champion, with everything else placed by how far it got. The awkward pairings are the point: they are the calls a drag-and-drop tier list quietly lets you avoid.
This bracket runs 5 rounds at the default 32-slot size (Round of 32, Sweet 16, Elite 8, Final Four, Championship), with every one of the 32 films in the field. The field is reshuffled on every play, so the same film can meet a different opponent in round one and finish somewhere else entirely. You can also play it at 8 or 16 slots for a shorter or longer run.
31 picks, 5 rounds
- Round of 3216 matchups
- Sweet 168 matchups
- Elite 84 matchups
- Final Four2 matchups
- Championship1 matchup
Roughly 2-4 minutes start to finish.
All 32 entrants
All 32 entrants are listed below, including Spirited Away, The Lion King, Toy Story and Shrek.
Spirited Away
2001 - Studio Ghibli
The Lion King
1994 - Disney
Toy Story
1995 - Pixar
Shrek
2001 - DreamWorks
Finding Nemo
2003 - Pixar
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
2018 - Sony
Frozen
2013 - Disney
WALL-E
2008 - Pixar
Up
2009 - Pixar
How to Train Your Dragon
2010 - DreamWorks
The Incredibles
2004 - Pixar
Ratatouille
2007 - Pixar
Coco
2017 - Pixar
Inside Out
2015 - Pixar
Princess Mononoke
1997 - Studio Ghibli
Beauty and the Beast
1991 - Disney
Aladdin
1992 - Disney
Kung Fu Panda
2008 - DreamWorks
The Iron Giant
1999 - Warner Bros
Monsters, Inc.
2001 - Pixar
Shrek 2
2004 - DreamWorks
Moana
2016 - Disney
Akira
1988 - TMS
The Nightmare Before Christmas
1993 - Disney
Soul
2020 - Pixar
Zootopia
2016 - Disney
The Lego Movie
2014 - Warner Bros
Across the Spider-Verse
2023 - Sony
Tangled
2010 - Disney
Puss in Boots: The Last Wish
2022 - DreamWorks
Megamind
2010 - DreamWorks
Coraline
2009 - Laika
Would rather group them than rank them? Open all 32 in the tier list maker and sort them into S, A, B, C, D and F tiers instead — same entrants, no matchups.
How everyone else ranked them
Aggregated from 15 completed Animated Movies brackets. Win rate is the share of head-to-head matchups each entrant has won across every play.
- 1
Across the Spider-Verse
30W - 12L · won 3 brackets
71%
win rate
- 2
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
26W - 12L · won 2 brackets
68%
win rate
- 3
The Incredibles
28W - 13L · won 1 bracket
68%
win rate
- 4
Monsters, Inc.
25W - 13L · won 1 bracket
66%
win rate
- 5
The Lion King
26W - 14L · won 1 bracket
65%
win rate
- 6
Shrek
25W - 14L · won 1 bracket
64%
win rate
- 7
Finding Nemo
23W - 15L
61%
win rate
- 8
How to Train Your Dragon
19W - 13L · won 1 bracket
59%
win rate
- 9
Kung Fu Panda
17W - 14L
55%
win rate
- 10
The Nightmare Before Christmas
16W - 14L · won 1 bracket
53%
win rate
Getting a ranking you actually agree with
- 1Pick the film you would actually rewatch tonight, not the one with the better reputation.
- 2The default run puts all 32 films in the draw. Short on time? Drop to 16 slots — a quicker run over a random 16 of them.
- 3Undo exists for a reason: an early-round mistake propagates all the way to the final, and there is no shame in taking it back.
Animated Movies bracket FAQ
How many films are in the Animated Movies bracket?
The pool holds 32 films. A default run puts all of them in the draw and takes 31 picks across 5 rounds: Round of 32, Sweet 16, Elite 8, Final Four, Championship. Other field sizes are available too — 8, 16, 32 slots.
Which films are included?
Spirited Away, The Lion King, Toy Story, Shrek, Finding Nemo, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, Frozen, WALL-E, Up, How to Train Your Dragon, The Incredibles and Ratatouille, plus 20 more. Every entrant is listed further down this page with its artwork.
How long does the animated movie tier list take?
About 2-4 minutes — 31 choices at the default size, or 7 if you drop to a 8-slot bracket. No account is needed, and you can abandon a run at any point without losing anything.
Can I turn the result into S/A/B tiers?
Both are here, and the bracket is closer to a tier list than it looks. It ends with a champion, a runner-up and then every other film grouped by the round it went out in — which is exactly a set of tiers, decided by 31 direct comparisons rather than by your first guess at a layout. What it deliberately does not do is claim a precise gap between two films that never met. If you would rather place the films into S through F rows yourself, the tier list maker loads all 32 of them at bracketranker.com/tier-list-maker.
Can I compare my order with other people's?
Every completed bracket feeds the Animated Movies community results page, which aggregates win rates across all plays and tracks how often each of the 32 entrants takes the title. It updates continuously, so it moves as more people play.
What if a film I wanted is missing?
Use the bracket maker: add your own films, name it, and share the link so other people play the same field. That is the route to take when this pool of 32 is missing something you would have picked, or when you want a version scoped to one era, label or franchise.