The 10 Highest-Grossing Animated Films of All Time

"Ne Zha 2" didn't just top the animated chart in 2025 — it banked $2,270,700,370 worldwide and took fifth place on the all-time chart while the confetti fell. That's the verdict, and the rest of this list explains how strange the animated top ten's become: nine of the ten opened in 2013 or later, every one of them cleared a billion dollars, and the No. 10 seat survives by $75,556,593. Argue with the ranking all you like. The criteria run below, in the open, before a single title appears.

"Ne Zha 2" Tops the Animated Chart at $2,270,700,370, With $400,391,079 to Spare

The verdict where a skim reader lands: "Ne Zha 2" leads the animated chart by the widest margin on this list, "Zootopia 2" runs second, and the population rule deciding who's even eligible gets its own section next — because on this chart, the filing is half the fight.

The Population: How Mojo Draws the Animated Line

This list starts from the same source as its companion ranking: Mojo's Top Lifetime Grosses worldwide chart, read in full rank order. The animated population comes from Mojo's own filing — its Genre Keyword: Animation chart, where Mojo sorts the titles it tags as animation. A film counts here when Mojo files it there. A film Mojo leaves off that chart stays off this list, whatever other rankings say.

Two calls decide the shape of the top ten, so both run in the open. Mojo files the 2019 "The Lion King" under Animation — it sits at No. 2 on Mojo's Animation chart by domestic gross, at $543,638,043 — so it counts here, photoreal fur and all. Mojo leaves the 2017 "Beauty and the Beast" off the Animation chart entirely, alongside the 2019 "Aladdin," the 2016 "The Jungle Book" and the 2025 "Lilo & Stitch," so those remakes stay out. Price the consequence: "Beauty and the Beast" grossed $1,266,115,964 worldwide, a figure that would slot seventh on this list and push "Toy Story 5" out of the ten. Mojo's filing says no, and this list follows Mojo. The keyword cuts wide lower down — Mojo even files "A Minecraft Movie" (2025) as animation — but its $960,387,780 worldwide gross lands below the line either way.

The Contract: Five Rules This Ranking Runs On

• Gross: worldwide lifetime theatrical gross, in US dollars, exactly as Box Office Mojo reports the figure.
• Adjustment: none. Nominal dollars only — a 2013 dollar counts the same as a 2026 dollar, because the chart counts it that way.
• Scope: every title on Mojo's worldwide chart carrying Mojo's Animation filing, read in full rank order through the cutoff.
• Re-releases: folded into each title's lifetime total, the way Mojo folds them in.
• Cutoff: the chart as read on November 9, 2026. First animated title out: "Toy Story 4" (2019), at $1,073,841,394 — $75,556,593 behind No. 10, so the source draws the line, never vibes.

The Countdown, No. 10 to No. 1

No. 10 — "Toy Story 5" (2026) — $1,149,397,987

The fifth "Toy Story" takes the last seat by the tightest margin on this list: it trails No. 9 by only $10,059,516 and holds off its own predecessor, "Toy Story 4," by $75,556,593. The split runs $480,294,461 domestic (41.8 percent) and $669,103,526 foreign.

No. 9 — "Minions" (2015) — $1,159,457,503

"Minions" earned $823,411,733 abroad (71.0 percent) against $336,045,770 domestic (29.0 percent) — the most lopsided split in the bottom half of this chart, from a film whose leads speak gibberish and pantomime. The joke writes itself, so the numbers get the line instead: ninth place, $83,768,164 behind No. 8.

No. 8 — "Incredibles 2" (2018) — $1,243,225,667

The domestic champion of Mojo's Animation chart — No. 1 there, at $608,581,744 — converts that home strength into eighth place worldwide, with $634,643,923 foreign beside it. Its 49.0 percent domestic share runs highest among these ten, and it still can't crack the top half. That's how tall the ladder's grown.

No. 7 — "Frozen" (2013) — $1,310,317,561

The elder statesman of the list: the only title here from before 2015, holding seventh on $400,738,009 domestic (30.6 percent) plus $909,579,552 foreign. Every film above it arrived later and louder. This one simply never gave the seat back.

No. 6 — "The Super Mario Bros. Movie" (2023) — $1,360,783,214

Nintendo's plumber lands sixth: $574,934,330 domestic (42.2 percent) and $785,848,884 foreign, trailing No. 5 by $92,900,262. A video-game adaptation out-grossed every animated title Mojo charts from the twentieth century — the highest of those, the 1994 "The Lion King," stands at $979,163,108.

No. 5 — "Frozen II" (2019) — $1,453,683,476

The sequel out-earned the original by $143,365,915, on $477,373,578 domestic (32.8 percent) and $976,309,898 foreign. Two "Frozen" titles in the top seven hand the franchise a combined $2,764,001,037 — more than the champion grossed alone, a fact the champion's entry answers shortly.

No. 4 — "The Lion King" (2019) — $1,662,020,819

The filing case, priced in full. Mojo counts this remake as animation, and its gross counts in full: $543,638,043 domestic (32.7 percent) and $1,118,382,776 foreign. Mojo's title page splits the total into a $1,656,943,394 original release plus re-release grosses on top. It trails No. 3 by $36,842,997 — close enough that the argument about its seat will outlive the margin.

No. 3 — "Inside Out 2" (2024) — $1,698,863,816

Pixar's biggest title, and the domestic heavyweight of this list: $652,980,194 at home (38.4 percent) — more domestic money than any other animated film on the worldwide chart — plus $1,045,883,622 foreign. It beats No. 4 by $36,842,997 and still finishes $171,445,475 behind No. 2.

No. 2 — "Zootopia 2" (2025) — $1,870,309,291

The near-miss gets its paragraph. "Zootopia 2" doubles as a top-ten film on the all-time chart — No. 10 there — and its animated silver comes with a $1,442,179,131 foreign gross (77.1 percent) beside $428,130,160 domestic. Why it fell short lives in one comparison: the champion earned $2,209,602,296 in China alone, a single-market gross bigger than this film's entire worldwide total. The gap at the top runs $400,391,079, the widest on this list, and a margin of that size needs a new blockbuster to close — a re-release calendar won't do it quietly.

No. 1 — "Ne Zha 2" (2025) — $2,270,700,370

$2,270,700,370, with 99.0 percent of it earned outside the domestic market and $2,209,602,296 of it earned in China alone, per Mojo's title page for the film. Its domestic gross — $23,308,176 — amounts to a rounding error beside the total. Exactly one animated film on Mojo's chart has crossed $2 billion, and you're looking at it. The list ends there because the chart does.

What the Animated List Actually Says

Rank first, interpret after. The meaning, now that the ranking stands: this chart belongs to the last dozen years. Nine of ten titles opened in 2013 or later, and unadjusted dollars reward the present, so the hand-drawn era's nowhere near this money. The map matters more than the calendar, though. The champion's a Chinese production with a 1.0 percent domestic share, the runner-up earned 77.1 percent of its gross abroad, and a reader who only tracks the domestic chart misses the story entirely. What could overturn the order? The soft spot sits at the bottom — $75,556,593 defends "Toy Story 5" against "Toy Story 4" — while the top gap, $400,391,079, needs a new blockbuster rather than a re-release. Both companion rankings in this library draw on the same Mojo chart, so the all-time list shows where these ten stand against every film ever charted: two of them, "Ne Zha 2" and "Zootopia 2," hold top-ten seats there too.