List of Disney theatrical animated features

This list of theatrical animated feature films consists of animated films produced or released by The Walt Disney Studios, the film division of The Walt Disney Company.

The Walt Disney Studios releases films from Disney-owned and non-Disney owned animation studios. Most films listed below are from Walt Disney Animation Studios which began as the feature animation department of Walt Disney Productions, producing its first feature-length animated film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs in 1937 and as of 2016 has produced a total of 56 feature films. Beginning with Toy Story in 1995, The Walt Disney Studios also released animated films by Pixar Animation Studios, which became a wholly owned subsidiary in 2006.

Other studio units have also released films theatrically, namely Walt Disney Television Animation's Disney MovieToons/Video Premiere unit (now DisneyToon Studios) and the studio's distribution unit, which acquires film rights from outside animation studios to release films under the Walt Disney Pictures, Touchstone Pictures, or previously owned Miramax film labels. In 1996, The Walt Disney Studios signed a deal with Tokuma Shoten for distribution rights to the theatrical works of Studio Ghibli worldwide (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 Disney release of Spirited Away won the 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 and several other countries. Other studios globally have released films through Walt Disney Pictures which maintains distribution rights in certain territories.

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

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/studio/history.

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 2014; 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 May 2013) However it appears that WDAS will produce Big Hero 6, a fully animated Marvel film.)
 * 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, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, and Enchanted. 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.) and Winnie the Pooh, but include The Wild (*not* produced by WDAS, or even by Disney; merely Disney-distributed). Thus, UK spine numbers 39-46 & 51- 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. -->

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