150 best animations of all time (from 2003 Laputa Festival)

[niffiwan]

At the 2003 Laputa Animation Festival in Tokyo, 140 animation artists and film critics from around the world were asked to list what they thought were the 20 best animated films or animated series. These lists were then combined into one list with 150 titles on it. Many films from the finished list were shown at the festival that year, and after

Comments

[scene_freak]

Shock, horror! Snow White is in the top one hundred and fifty! My life is not worth living any longer!

[niffiwan]

Your words confuse me.

Snow White

[telamonides]

I think the person is implying that Snow White is not worthy of being on the list. Of course they must not really like good animation if they cannot see why this film is highly regarded if only for historical reasons.

Re: Snow White

[sychuanka]

I think that Snow White is much better then many of cartoons in this list.

[anonymous]

I have seen juste a little more than a hundred of the films in this list. Most I haven't seen are japanese, some of them I heard of.

Good list. No perfect I must say. Some curious entries, some missing (I'm thinking of some Chuck Jones which usually make those lists) and weird idea of choosing series as a whole).

[anonymous]

Are you sure that #31 is the TV series "Tom and Jerry", and not the series of theatrical cartoons? I've never seen any acclaim for the tv series.

[niffiwan]

You're probably right. The original list mentioned only the directors and the names, not the dates, so that was my mistake.

Fixed.

Error

[anonymous]

There's 21 films or series in that list I haven't seen (though in some case I haven't seen all the Mickey Mouse, neither all the studies by Fischinger). I doubt I'll ever see some of them.

I noted a error: Number 28, The Magic Fox, it's japanese name is Okonjoruri, which you seem to have wrote as the author's name. The author is Tadanari Okamoto, who made three other films that made the list.
-Saturnome

Re: Error

[niffiwan]

Thanks, it's now fixed.

Small note - again!

[anonymous]

I just bought a Kihachiro Kawamoto DVD (Kino), and they translate number 104 as "The Breaking of Branches Is Forbidden". Now I think certainly your translation may be more accurate, but it's just a small note.
-Saturnome

Re: Small note - again!

[niffiwan]

Thanks again. I changed it, but I added a note that it has another translation. It wasn't actually my translation; you can see it on some websites online.