Random Animated Movie Generator: Hand-Drawn, Stop-Motion, Computer

How this list was compiled: Compiled by Random Generator HQ from general film knowledge, then every line checked on 2026-09-19 against two live sources. What counts: a film is on the list only if it is an animated feature by the Academy's own test, more than 40 minutes long with animation in at least 75 percent of the running time (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academy_Award_for_Best_Animated_Feature). Films that Wikipedia's opening sentence calls live-action/animated were left out (The Phantom Tollbooth, Dot and the Kangaroo), with one exception the Academy itself accepted as an animated feature, Marcel the Shell with Shoes On. A few kept films have short live-action passages, such as the concert hall host in Fantasia and the framing story in Balto. Year, running time, studio, country and the wording of each premise were checked against the film's own English Wikipedia article (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ plus the film title). The year is the first release year the article gives. The King and the Mockingbird is dated 1980, the year the finished film came out, and The Tale of the Fox 1937, its first release. Technique: hand-drawn means drawn or painted frame by frame on cels, paper or a tablet, including rotoscoped and oil-painted films. Stop-motion means puppets, clay, cut-outs or silhouettes photographed frame by frame. Computer-animated means built in software, whether 3D models or 2D vector animation. We used the film's own article where it says how the film was made (238 films) and otherwise the Animation technique column of Wikipedia's list of animated feature films for that year (70 films), for example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_animated_feature_films_of_2013. A film the sources describe as mixed carries two techniques. Fantastic Planet is filed as cut-out animation after https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cutout_animation and the article's own categories, although the 1973 list calls it traditional. Two films were left out because neither source settled the technique. Ratings: each film was looked up by title in the Motion Picture Association's database at https://www.filmratings.com and the certificate number is kept in the data. 78 are G, 143 PG, 20 PG-13, 7 R, and 60 have no entry we could match and are shown as Not rated, which is not a statement that a film suits children. PG-13 has existed only since 1 July 1984 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motion_Picture_Association_film_rating_system), so an older PG can be stronger than a modern one. Some titles are filed there under another name: The Thief and the Cobbler as Arabian Knight, Rock & Rule as Ring Of Power, My Life as a Courgette as My Life As A Zucchini, The Pirates! as The Pirates! Band Of Misfits, and Underdogs with the alternate title Foosball. Princess Mononoke, Perfect Blue, Millennium Actress, Boy and the World and Mune carry the rating given for their later United States release. Where the only entries found were other films of the same name we refused them and show Not rated: Gulliver's Travels, Animal Farm, The Snow Queen, Cat City, Ghost in the Shell, Nocturna, The Painting, The Little Humpbacked Horse, Tad the Lost Explorer, Una película de huevos, Ne Zha, Valhalla and The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh. The grown-ups band (30 films) holds every R film on the list (American Pop, Akira, Perfect Blue, Waking Life, Paprika, Waltz with Bashir, Ruben Brandt, Collector); unrated films whose Wikipedia article calls them adult animation (Animal Farm, Cat City, When the Wind Blows, Grave of the Fireflies, Ghost in the Shell, Mary and Max, Chico and Rita, The Rabbi's Cat, Wrinkles, Alois Nebel, Rocks in My Pockets, Buñuel in the Labyrinth of the Turtles, I Lost My Body, White Snake); four films given a PG before PG-13 existed that Wikipedia also calls adult animation (Fantastic Planet, Wizards, The Lord of the Rings, Rock & Rule); and five more placed there on our own judgement of their subject matter (Funan, The Girl Without Hands, Aya of Yop City, Fire and Ice, Allegro Non Troppo). These cards say grown-ups after the rating, and the first draw on the page leaves the band out. Rated films that Wikipedia calls adult animation but the MPA passed as PG or PG-13 stay in their MPA band. We left out films whose MPA rating reason leads with sexual content, films built around drug use, and a few crude comedies. Genre chips come from the opening sentence of each film's Wikipedia article: every genre word in it counts, so a musical fantasy sits under both. Horror, Gothic, supernatural, dark fantasy and psychological thriller are grouped as spooky; superhero, martial arts and thriller as action; coming-of-age, war, biographical and documentary as drama. Where the sentence names no genre we set one from the rest of the article (20 films), and three films whose articles name none carry none. Academy Award marks: 25 winners and 81 other nominees of the Best Animated Feature award, from the same Wikipedia page, up to the ceremony for films of 2025. Balance: no more than five films from one series, and 24 features whose first listed country is Japan, since the site has a separate anime page. Text only: no posters, stills, logos or streaming links. 308 entries on the check date. Review interval: every 12 months. Licence: own work