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The following are lists of highest-grossing animated films in the United States and Canada.
Included on the list are charts of the top box-office earners, a chart of high-grossing animated films adjusted for inflation.
Animated family films have performed consistently well at the box office, with Disney films enjoying lucrative re-releases prior to the home video era. Disney also enjoyed later success with its Pixar brand, of which the films from Toy Story, Finding Nemo, The Incredibles, and Inside Out have been the best performers; beyond Pixar, the Shrek, Ice Age, Madagascar and Despicable Me series have met with the most success. The Jungle Book and Mickey Mouse series saw successful returns after lying dormant for decades.
An animated feature film is defined as a motion picture with a running time of more than 40 minutes, in which movement and characters’ performances are created using a frame-by-frame technique. Motion capture by itself is not an animation technique. In addition, a significant number of the major characters must be animated, and animation must figure in no less than 75 percent of the picture's running time.
—Rule Seven - Special Rules For The Animated Feature Film Award : I. Definition