How the Disney Animated Classics bracket works
Disney movie tier list without dragging anything into rows. You get one matchup at a time — The Lion King or Aladdin? Frozen or The Little Mermaid? — and after 31 picks the bracket has a champion, with everything else placed by how far it got. By the end you have ranked all 32 without ever having to look at more than two at a time.
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. Seeding is random, which means a replay is a genuinely different bracket rather than the same path twice. 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 The Lion King, Aladdin, Frozen and The Little Mermaid.
The Lion King
1994
Aladdin
1992
Frozen
2013
The Little Mermaid
1989
Beauty and the Beast
1991
Moana
2016
Mulan
1998
Tangled
2010
The Jungle Book
1967
Cinderella
1950
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
1937
Sleeping Beauty
1959
Pocahontas
1995
Hercules
1997
Tarzan
1999
Lilo & Stitch
2002
The Emperor's New Groove
2000
101 Dalmatians
1961
Peter Pan
1953
Bambi
1942
Wreck-It Ralph
2012
Big Hero 6
2014
Zootopia
2016
Encanto
2021
The Princess and the Frog
2009
Alice in Wonderland
1951
Dumbo
1941
Robin Hood
1973
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
1996
Lady and the Tramp
1955
Treasure Planet
2002
Fantasia
1940
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 38 completed Disney Animated Classics brackets. Win rate is the share of head-to-head matchups each entrant has won across every play.
- 1
The Lion King
85W - 30L · won 7 brackets
74%
win rate
- 2
Tangled
73W - 31L · won 6 brackets
70%
win rate
- 3
Big Hero 6
66W - 32L · won 5 brackets
67%
win rate
- 4
Beauty and the Beast
59W - 35L · won 2 brackets
63%
win rate
- 5
Zootopia
58W - 35L · won 2 brackets
62%
win rate
- 6
Mulan
51W - 35L · won 2 brackets
59%
win rate
- 7
Wreck-It Ralph
51W - 36L · won 1 bracket
59%
win rate
- 8
Moana
50W - 37L · won 1 bracket
57%
win rate
- 9
Aladdin
45W - 35L · won 2 brackets
56%
win rate
- 10
The Emperor's New Groove
43W - 36L · won 1 bracket
54%
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.
- 3If a matchup genuinely splits you, undo and replay it — a coin-flip pick in round one distorts everything below it.
Disney Animated Classics bracket FAQ
How many films are in the Disney Animated Classics 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?
The Lion King, Aladdin, Frozen, The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, Moana, Mulan, Tangled, The Jungle Book, Cinderella, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and Sleeping Beauty, plus 20 more. Every entrant is listed further down this page with its artwork.
How long does the Disney 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 Disney Animated Classics 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.