Last Updated on 13 June 2025

I searched the Internet for lists of the best stop-motion movies of all time. Criteria included the movies being ranked, not just listed by date or alphabet, and generally created by groups, whether teams or committees or based on general public voting (like Ranker.com).

I was able to find 24 lists. I took the 24 lists and added all their content into a spreadsheet, noting the rank of every film. I ended up averaging the rankings each movie got (there were 71 that were on at least 2 lists) and dividing that average by a factor of the number of lists that movie was on. The lowest score meant a high ranking average on many lists. The complete spreadsheet is attached at the bottom.

The movies that were on the most lists (out of 24) were:

  • Coraline (2009) – 23 lists
  • The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993) – 22 lists
  • Mary and Max (2009) – 21 lists
  • Chicken Run (2000) – 20 lists
  • Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009) – 19 lists
  • Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005) – 18 lists
  • Anomalisa (2015) – 16 lists
  • Kubo and the Two Strings (2016) – 14 lists
  • Shaun the Sheep Movie (2015) – 14 lists

Here are links to the lists I used along with dates the lists were created:

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