The 100 best animated movies: animators and filmmakers, A to D

Bill Damaschke .

Bill Damaschke is the chief creative officer at DreamWorks animation whose work as a producer includes The Prince of Egypt and Kung Fu Panda.

1. Beauty and the Beast
2. How to Train Your Dragon
3. Shrek
4. Dumbo
5. Toy Story
6. Kung Fu Panda
7. Ratatouille
8. Chicken Run
9. My Neighbor Totoro
10. The Nightmare Before Christmas

Ken Daurio

Ken Daurio is the cowriter of Horton Hears a Who!, Hop, The Lorax, and Despicable Me and its sequels.

1. Toy Story 2
2. Beauty and the Beast
3. Pinocchio
4. Mulan
5. The Incredibles
6. Cinderella
7. Monsters, Inc.
8. The LEGO Movie
9. The Jungle Book
10. The Nightmare Before Christmas

Gideon Defoe

Gideon Defoe is the author of The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists!, which was filmed by Aardman Animations in 2012.

• Arthur Christmas
• Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
• Fantastic Mr. Fox
• The Incredibles
• The LEGO Movie
• South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut
• Spirited Away
• Toy Story
• Toy Story 2
• Watership Down

Kirk DeMicco and Chris Sanders

Kirk DeMicco and Chris Sanders directed The Croods. DeMicco had previously directed Space Chimps, while Sanders worked on How to Train Your Dragon.

1. Dumbo
2. My Neighbor Totoro
3. Wallace & Gromit in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
4. Toy Story
5. Cinderella
6. Who Framed Roger Rabbit
7. Monsters, Inc.
8. Pinocchio
9. South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut

Mike Disa

Mike Disa is an artist and animator, and the director of 2014’s Postman Pat: The Movie.

• Fantastic Planet
• Gulliver’s Travels
• Kiki’s Delivery Service
• The Lord of the Rings
• My Neighbor Totoro
• The Secret of Kells
• Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
• Twice Upon a Time
• Wizards

“A hundred years later and Snow White will still be the greatest animated movie ever made—the only one that will ever rival it is My Neighbor Totoro. Wizards was the reason I got into animation. Experimental and brave filmmaking; the closest American animation ever got to visual jazz before the big studios locked everything into formula. As for Bakshi’s The Lord of the Rings: Peter Jackson, eat your heart out.”

Paul Driessen

Paul Driessen is an animator and lecturer whose work spans 40 years in the industry, from Yellow Submarine through countless DIY animated shorts.

1. Toy Story 2
2. Wallace & Gromit in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
3. Rango
4. Who Framed Roger Rabbit
5. Fritz the Cat
6. Alice in Wonderland
7. Sita Sings the Blues
8. The Triplets of Belleville
9. Yellow Submarine
10. Fantastic Mr. Fox

 

Nicole Dubuc

Nicole Dubuc is a TV and film writer and an actress. She cowrote 2014’s Postman Pat: The Movie.

1. Beauty and the Beast
2. The Flight of Dragons
3. Up
4. The Incredibles
5. Spirited Away
6. Chicken Run
7. Bambi
8. James and the Giant Peach
9. The Secret of NIMH
10. The Secret of Kells

Michael Dudok de Wit

Michael Dudok de Wit is a Dutch illustrator and animator who won an Oscar for his 2001 short film “Father and Daughter.”

• Bambi
• Fantasia
• Grave of the Fireflies
• The Jungle Book
• A Letter to Momo
• My Neighbors the Yamadas
• My Neighbor Totoro
• The Nightmare Before Christmas
• Spirited Away
• Yellow Submarine