Top 50 Animated Movies of All Time

WASHINGTON – “Frozen” just won Best Animated Film at the Academy Awards.

Pharrell Williams still has many of us singing “Happy” from “Despicable Me 2.”

“The Lego Movie” is still big at the box office, grossing $334 million worldwide.

And “Mr. Peabody and Sherman” opens today, about a genius dog who adopts a human son, invents a time machine and travels to various points in history, from Ancient Egypt to the French Revolution to the Italian Renaissance.

With so much animation on the brain, it has us asking a question that is sure to ignite passionate debate: what are the greatest animated movies of all time?

Take a listen to my audio montage to the right for a journey through animated movie history, in rough chronological order.

Then check out the gallery for our Top 50 Animated Movies.

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Jason Fraley

Hailed by The Washington Post for “his savantlike ability to name every Best Picture winner in history," Jason Fraley began at WTOP as Morning Drive Writer in 2008, film critic in 2011 and Entertainment Editor in 2014, providing daily arts coverage on-air and online.

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