This is one of the 10 animated films you must see in your lifetime: 32 years ago, this Disney film achieved a feat that no one else had achieved before.

How do you choose just 10 works from the thousands of animated works that have been created throughout the history of cinema? How to choose only 10 films among the many monuments of the genre?

This is a goal we set for the AlloCiné editorial team a few years ago. After long, lively, and passionate discussions on the subject, we’ve come up with our picks for 10 animated movies that the movie buff in your life should see.

A nugget at the beginning of Disney’s new golden age

In this list, which we hope is rich and varied, in any case there are works of different nationalities, from several eras and produced in different studios. As you might expect, the Disney studios are generously represented, and three of their great classics will appear there. In addition to Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and The Lion King, our selection could not completely ignore Beauty and the Beast, which many consider the most beautiful film ever signed by the famous company.

After a long period in the 80s, when the Disney studios were preparing to experience one of the most important golden ages in their history, Beauty and the Beast seems to have rediscovered the magical recipe of the Enchanted Kingdom: returning fairy tales, breathtaking animation and songs that can keep the audience humming the film. after viewing.

The first animated film nominated for an Oscar

Adapted from the famous fairy tale of Jean-Marie Leprince de Beaumont, this project, which Walt Disney himself refused to carry out, was thus transformed into an authentic masterpiece.

We follow a young girl named Belle, considered original by everyone in her small village, who dreams of a different life and agrees to take her father’s place the day the latter is kidnapped by a monstrous monster in an isolated castle.

Sublimated by the songs of Alan Menken and Howard Ashman, this “eternal story” – perhaps one of the most beautiful novels ever told by the Disney studios – first of all achieved an unprecedented success: Beauty and the Beast really became the first animated film. The feature film will be selected for the Academy Awards in the Best Picture category.

A result that only Toy Story 3 and Coco from the Pixar studio managed to reproduce there. The famous award eventually went to The Silence of the Lambs, but no matter, the Disney classic still managed to make history!

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