List of Disney theatrical animated features

There are 53 animated feature films produced or released by Walt Disney Productions and its successor label, Walt Disney Pictures. Walt Disney Studios began work on animated short films in 1923. Then, in 1937, the studio released its first feature-length animated film with Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, and has continued to produce shorts, featurettes, and feature films to this day. Throughout the years, the studio has expanded its reach. Between collaborating with other studios to co-produce films to The Walt Disney Company distributing animated features produced by other companies, Walt Disney Studios no longer produces all their animated content under the Disney banner.

Walt Disney Animation Studios
<!-- First of all, please do not change "Studios" to "Canon" in the header of this title.

Second, please do not move these films from one portion of this list to another. In particular, do not add other films to the Walt Disney Animation Studio (WDAS) films portion of the list UNLESS Disney has announced a new WDAS production. What is and what isn't in the official canon is already fixed; the official canon is posted by WDAS at http://www.disneyanimation.com/aboutus/history.html.

The following are not part of the official WDAS canon:


 * Pixar films, whether made before or after Disney acquired Pixar. (Pixar remains a separate production unit within Disney. There have been no WDAS/Pixar co-productions as of 05/01/2012; if there is one, its inclusion in the list will have to be determined then.)
 * Marvel films, whether made before or after Disney acquired Marvel. (WDAS has not made any Marvel films as of 05/01/2012; if WDAS produces a fully-animated Marvel film in the future, it may be added to the list.)
 * Muppets or Bear in the Big Blue House films, whether made before or after Disney acquired those properties from The Jim Henson Company. (WDAS has not made any Muppet or Bear films as of 05/01/2012; if WDAS produces a fully-animated Muppet or Bear film in the future, it may be added to the list.)
 * Any other puppet films, even if produced by Disney.
 * Any animated films that you thought were from Disney, but are not: Anastasia (produced by Fox Animation Studios & distributed by 20th Century Fox), Quest for Camelot or The Iron Giant (both produced by Warner Bros. Feature Animation & distributed by Warner Bros.), etc.
 * Piglet's Big Movie and The Tigger Movie, produced by DisneyToon studios
 * All sequels (except The Rescuers Down Under, Fantasia 2000, and Winnie the Pooh, which were produced by WDAS and included in the canon) were produced by DisneyToon Studios. All except for the three WDAS-produced sequels, Return to Neverland and The Jungle Book 2 were released direct-to-video. DisneyToon productions are listed in a separate section below.
 * Live-action Disney films that include animated bits or sequences (even if produced by WDAS), such as Song of the South, Mary Poppins, Bedknobs and Broomsticks, Pete's Dragon and Who Framed Roger Rabbit. Those are listed below in another section. An exception is Dinosaur, which is a film with a live-action setting and animated characters, but is officially included in the canon.
 * Films distributed by Disney but not produced by Disney, such as The Wild. Those are listed below in other sections.

Third, please do *not* use the spine numbers of UK Disney releases in the WDAS section. Those numbers omit Dinosaur (made by a special unit of Walt Disney Feature Animation called "The Secret Lab" which folded shortly thereafter; included by official WDAS sources in the U.S.), but include The Wild (*not* produced by WDAS, or even by Disney; merely Disney-distributed). Thus, UK spine numbers 39-46 will *not* match this list. This list conforms to the official WDAS canon in the U.S. (where WDAS is based), *NOT* the UK.

Finally, please do not add films to the bottom of this list without a reliable source. Reliable sources can be searched by doing a Google News search on Disney. One important note is that the source MUST reveal that it is animated. No official info to date reveals Tux is animated. One special note is that although some sources say that King of the Elves will be released in 2013, those sources are old, predating when it was revealed that a Pixar film about dinosaurs was confirmed to have a fall 2013 release. -->

The following is a list of the animated films that were either entirely produced in-house by Walt Disney Productions prior to 1986, or were produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios, formerly known as Walt Disney Feature Animation, after 1986.

For advertising purposes, The Walt Disney Company began to affix numbers to each of the films in the late 1980s. Through this method, they could proclaim the film to be "Disney's nth full-length animated film". When the numbering system was introduced, the group of films included became collectively known as the "Disney Animation Canon." Many film historians and animation fans refer to them as Disney "classics" or Disney "features." The numbering system remains today, as recent press releases for such products as the 20th anniversary edition of Oliver & Company, as well as the opening and closing logos and marketing materials for Tangled, still refer to the film's number.

Features in development include a Mickey Mouse feature film; King of the Elves, based on a Philip K. Dick short story; and an adaptation of Marvel Comics' Big Hero 6.

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DisneyToon Studios
The following DisneyToon Studios films have had, or are planned to have, a theatrical release.

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Pixar Animation Studios
Pixar Animation Studios, a subsidiary of Disney, has released or will release the following films:

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Stop-motion films
The stop-motion makers Henry Selick and Tim Burton have worked on the following stop-motion films that have been released or distributed by Disney.

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ImageMovers Digital
The following films were produced by ImageMovers Digital, a film studio run by Robert Zemeckis' ImageMovers and Disney. Both of the films below are computer animated, and were also released in Disney Digital 3-D versions. Following the poor box office performance of Mars Needs Moms, Disney closed ImageMovers Digital.

Animated features produced by non-Disney studios
Unlike the films above that were made by Disney, the films below were only distributed by Disney.

Studio Ghibli
In 1996, Disney signed a deal with Tokuma Shoten for distribution rights to the theatrical works of Studio Ghibli world-wide (excluding Asia except for Japan and Taiwan and excluding Grave of the Fireflies which was not published by Tokuma), including what then was the most recent film, Princess Mononoke. The deal later grew to include DVD rights and newer Ghibli movies - the English language release of Spirited Away won the 2001, 2002 Academy Award for Best Animated Feature. Studio Ghibli remains wholly independent of Disney and maintains strict creative control over the handling of the foreign language localization Disney produces. All of the theatrical Ghibli back catalog originally included in the deal have since been released to DVD in North America (except Only Yesterday) and several other countries. The following films were given theatrical releases outside Japan by Disney and subsidiaries:

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Animated features produced by outside/third-party studios
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Partially animated live-action films
All of the following are live-action films and documentaries that contain animated scenes or sequences.

Disney productions
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Other live-action films containing Disney animation
The following are live-action films produced by other studios, that contain animation scenes or sequences produced by Walt Disney.