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Best Animation Movies of the 1950s, Ranked by IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and TMDB
53 animation films from the 1950s are in our catalog; the 50 best are ranked below. Top of the list is Duck Amuck (1953), at 8.6 on IMDb. The average IMDb score across this list is 7.6.
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| # | Movie | Genre | IMDb | Tomato | Meta | TMDB | Director |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Duck Amuck '1953 | Animation / Comedy | 8.6 | - | - | 8.1 | Chuck Jones |
| 2 | Rabbit of Seville '1950 | Animation / Comedy / Musical | 8.3 | - | - | 7.6 | Chuck Jones |
| 3 | What's Opera, Doc? '1957 | Animation / Comedy / Musical | 8.3 | - | - | 7.6 | Chuck Jones |
| 4 | Rabbit Seasoning '1952 | Animation / Comedy | 8.3 | - | - | 7.4 | Chuck Jones |
| 5 | One Froggy Evening '1955 | Animation / Comedy / Musical | 8.4 | - | - | 7.7 | Chuck Jones |
| 6 | Rabbit Fire '1951 | Animation / Comedy | 8.3 | - | - | 7.5 | Chuck Jones |
| 7 | Feed the Kitty '1952 | Animation / Comedy | 8.1 | - | - | 7.4 | Chuck Jones |
| 8 | Duck Dodgers in the 24½th Century '1953 | Animation / Comedy / Sci-Fi | 8.1 | - | - | 7.6 | Chuck Jones |
| 9 | Neighbours '1952 | Comedy / Animation | 7.9 | - | - | 7.5 | Norman McLaren |
| 10 | Cue Ball Cat '1950 | Animation / Comedy | 8.0 | - | - | 7.2 | Joseph Barbera |
| 11 | The Hollywood Bowl '1950 | Animation / Comedy / Musical | 7.9 | - | - | 7.2 | William Hanna |
| 12 | Water, Water Every Hare '1952 | Animation / Comedy / Sci-Fi | 7.9 | - | - | 7.5 | Chuck Jones |
| 13 | Operation: Rabbit '1952 | Animation / Comedy | 7.9 | - | - | 7.0 | Chuck Jones |
| 14 | Duck! Rabbit, Duck! '1953 | Animation / Comedy | 8.1 | - | - | 7.4 | Chuck Jones |
| 15 | Beep, Beep '1952 | Animation / Comedy | 7.8 | - | - | 7.3 | Chuck Jones |
| 16 | Texas Tom '1950 | Animation / Comedy / Western | 7.7 | - | - | 6.9 | Joseph Barbera |
| 17 | Lambert the Sheepish Lion '1952 | Animation / Comedy | 7.6 | - | - | 7.2 | Jack Hannah |
| 18 | Pluto's Christmas Tree '1952 | Animation / Comedy | 7.5 | - | - | 7.1 | Jack Hannah |
| 19 | The Two Mouseketeers '1952 | Animation / Comedy | 7.6 | - | - | 6.8 | William Hanna |
| 20 | Bully for Bugs '1953 | Animation / Comedy | 8.0 | - | - | 7.3 | Chuck Jones |
| 21 | 8 Ball Bunny '1950 | Animation / Comedy | 7.5 | - | - | 6.9 | Chuck Jones |
| 22 | The Scarlet Pumpernickel '1950 | Animation / Comedy | 7.3 | - | - | 6.8 | Chuck Jones |
| 23 | Cinderella '1950 | Fantasy / Animation / Romance | 7.3 | 95% | 85 | 7.1 | Clyde Geronimi |
| 24 | Alice in Wonderland '1951 | Animation / Fantasy | 7.3 | 82% | 68 | 7.2 | Clyde Geronimi |
| 25 | Sleepy-Time Tom '1951 | Animation / Comedy | 7.9 | - | - | 7.0 | William Hanna |
| 26 | Lady and the Tramp '1955 | Animation / Romance / Comedy | 7.3 | 91% | 78 | 7.1 | Hamilton Luske |
| 27 | Drip-Along Daffy '1951 | Animation / Comedy / Western | 7.7 | - | - | 7.2 | Chuck Jones |
| 28 | Gerald McBoing-Boing '1950 | Animation / Comedy | 7.1 | - | - | 6.6 | Robert Cannon |
| 29 | Trick or Treat '1952 | Animation / Comedy | 7.2 | - | - | 7.0 | Jack Hannah |
| 30 | Trailer Horn '1950 | Animation / Comedy | 6.7 | - | - | 6.6 | Jack Hannah |
| 31 | Robin Hood Daffy '1958 | Animation / Comedy | 7.9 | - | - | 7.0 | Chuck Jones |
| 32 | Ali Baba Bunny '1957 | Animation / Comedy | 7.7 | - | - | 6.9 | Chuck Jones |
| 33 | The Snow Queen '1957 | Animation / Fantasy | 7.5 | - | - | 6.8 | Lev Atamanov |
| 34 | Peter Pan '1953 | Animation / Fantasy | 7.2 | 79% | 76 | 7.2 | Clyde Geronimi |
| 35 | Sleeping Beauty '1959 | Fantasy / Animation / Romance | 7.2 | 90% | 85 | 6.9 | Clyde Geronimi |
| 36 | Corn Chips '1951 | Animation / Comedy | 7.3 | - | - | 7.2 | Jack Hannah |
| 37 | Broom-Stick Bunny '1956 | Animation / Comedy / Fantasy | 7.7 | - | - | 6.8 | Chuck Jones |
| 38 | Donald in Mathmagic Land '1959 | Animation / Fantasy / Comedy | 7.8 | - | - | 7.3 | Hamilton Luske |
| 39 | Devil May Hare '1954 | Animation / Comedy | 7.5 | - | - | 7.0 | Robert McKimson |
| 40 | Animal Farm '1954 | Animation / Drama | 7.2 | 69% | - | 7.1 | Joy Batchelor |
| 41 | Pluto's Party '1952 | Animation / Comedy | 6.4 | - | - | 6.5 | Milt Schaffer |
| 42 | The Tell-Tale Heart '1953 | Animation / Horror / Crime | 7.5 | - | - | 7.2 | Ted Parmelee |
| 43 | Hare-Way to the Stars '1958 | Animation / Comedy / Sci-Fi | 8.0 | - | - | 7.2 | Chuck Jones |
| 44 | Johann Mouse '1953 | Animation / Comedy / Musical | 7.4 | - | - | 6.9 | William Hanna |
| 45 | The Twelve Months '1956 | Fantasy / Animation | 7.4 | - | - | 6.3 | Ivan Ivanov-Vano |
| 46 | Speedy Gonzales '1955 | Animation / Comedy / Western | 7.2 | - | - | 7.0 | Friz Freleng |
| 47 | Toot, Whistle, Plunk and Boom '1953 | Animation | 7.1 | - | - | 6.7 | Ward Kimball |
| 48 | Knighty Knight Bugs '1958 | Animation / Comedy | 7.5 | - | - | 7.2 | Friz Freleng |
| 49 | Don's Fountain of Youth '1953 | Animation / Comedy | 7.0 | - | - | 6.8 | Jack Hannah |
| 50 | Bearly Asleep '1955 | Animation / Comedy | 7.0 | - | - | 6.6 | Jack Hannah |
Our catalog covers roughly the 8,800 most-rated films on TMDB, so lesser-known titles may be missing. Order uses a confidence-weighted IMDb score so a perfect score from a handful of votes does not beat a well-established classic; the scores shown are the raw ones.
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Directors on this list
Chuck Jones Joseph Barbera William Hanna Jack Hannah Clyde Geronimi Hamilton Luske Friz Freleng
Actors on this list
Mel Blanc Arthur Q. Bryan Bea Benaderet William Hanna Sterling Holloway June Foray James MacDonald Clarence Nash Pinto Colvig James Mason Bill Thompson