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Best Animation Movies of the 1960s, Ranked by IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and TMDB

28 animation films from the 1960s are in our catalog; the 28 best are ranked below. Top of the list is How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (1966), at 8.3 on IMDb. The average IMDb score across this list is 7.4. Biggest split between audiences and critics: A Boy Named Charlie Brown, 7.3 on IMDb against 57 on Metacritic.

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1 How the Grinch Stole Christmas! '1966 Animation / Comedy 8.3 - - 7.5 Chuck Jones
2 A Charlie Brown Christmas '1965 Animation / Comedy 8.3 94% - 7.7 Bill Melendez
3 Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer '1964 Animation / Fantasy 8.0 95% - 7.4 Larry Roemer
4 It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown '1966 Animation 8.1 90% - 7.5 Bill Melendez
5 The Jungle Book '1967 Animation 7.6 88% 65 7.3 Wolfgang Reitherman
6 Winnie-the-Pooh '1969 Animation 8.2 - - 7.4 Fyodor Khitruk
7 The Fabulous Baron Munchausen '1962 Animation / Fantasy / Comedy 7.7 - - 7.4 Karel Zeman
8 The Monkey King: Uproar in Heaven '1961 Animation / Fantasy / Action 8.0 - - 7.8 Wan Laiming
9 Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree '1966 Animation 8.0 - - 7.6 Wolfgang Reitherman
10 Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day '1968 Animation / Musical 7.9 - - 7.3 Wolfgang Reitherman
11 Yellow Submarine '1968 Musical / Animation / Comedy / Fantasy 7.4 96% 79 7.2 George Dunning
12 One Hundred and One Dalmatians '1961 Animation / Comedy 7.3 98% 83 7.2 Hamilton Luske
13 Junior and Karlson '1968 Animation 8.1 - - 7.0 Boris Stepantsev
14 The Bremen Town Musicians '1969 Animation / Drama / Fantasy 7.9 - - 7.1 Inessa Kovalevskaya
15 Frosty the Snowman '1969 Animation 7.3 73% - 6.9 Jules Bass
16 Gena the Crocodile '1969 Animation 7.8 - - 7.7 Roman Kachanov
17 A Boy Named Charlie Brown '1969 Animation / Comedy / Drama 7.3 95% 57 7.0 Bill Melendez
18 Asterix and Cleopatra '1968 Animation / Comedy 7.2 - - 6.9 René Goscinny
19 The Sword in the Stone '1963 Animation / Fantasy 7.1 65% 61 7.2 Wolfgang Reitherman
20 Bambi Meets Godzilla '1969 Comedy / Animation 6.9 - - 6.5 Marv Newland
21 The Little Drummer Boy '1968 Animation / Drama 6.9 75% - 6.6 Jules Bass
22 Mothlight '1963 Animation 6.2 - - 5.6 Stan Brakhage
23 Tintin and the Temple of the Sun '1969 Animation / Comedy 6.6 - - 6.7 Raymond Leblanc
24 Horus: Prince of the Sun '1968 Drama / Animation / Fantasy 6.6 - - 6.4 Isao Takahata
25 The Incredible Mr. Limpet '1964 Animation / Comedy / War / Fantasy 6.5 40% - 6.2 Arthur Lubin
26 The Alphabet '1969 Animation / Horror 6.7 - - 6.4 David Lynch
27 Asterix the Gaul '1967 Animation / Comedy 6.6 - - 6.5 Ray Goossens
28 Six Men Getting Sick '1967 Animation 5.6 - - 5.5 David Lynch

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 Bill Melendez Wolfgang Reitherman Karel Zeman Hamilton Luske Isao Takahata Arthur Lubin David Lynch

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Boris Karloff June Foray Burl Ives Evgeni Leonov Sterling Holloway