The Best Animated Feature Oscar only gave its first award in 2002 and has consistently recognized some of the best-animated movies, and sometimes films in general, of the year.

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They are often some of the years most beloved and acclaimed movies, which can be gauged via Rotten Tomatoes. There have only been nineteen Best Animated Feature winners, meaning that ranking the lowest-rated ones leads to a lot of seriously acclaimed and brilliant movies falling on the list. Nevertheless, here are the ten lowest-rated Best Animated Feature winners, ranked according to Rotten Tomatoes.

Spirited Away (2001) - 97%

Chihiro's parents eating food while Chihiro looks on angrily.

Spirited Away is a Japanese film directed by the widely revered Hayao Miyazaki. It follows Chihiro as her parents turn to giant pigs, and she must figure out how to get them back, which she finds out from a mysterious Haku who reveals the supernatural nature of the amusement park where Chihiro and her parents stumbled.

The movie has a 97% Tomatometer rating from 185 reviews. The film beat out Lilo & Stitch and Ice Age for its Oscar, and despite being on the low rated list is an excellent movie with stunning animation and a brilliant story.

Ratatouille (2007) - 96%

Ratatouille is another outstanding Pixar effort, directed by Brad Bird. It follows a rat, Remy, who longs to be a chef, and finds that his dream can come true by controlling a restaurant worker by the name of Linguini, and can put his skill as a chef to the test.

It has a rating of 96% from 249 reviews. Beating out Persepolis and Surf's Up en route to an easy Oscar win, Ratatouille is another beautiful movie that is only on this list by way of how few Best Animated Feature's there have been. It is full of heart and is entertaining with its fast pace and unsurprisingly delightful animation.

Wall-E (2008) - 95%

Wall-E follows the titular character who, over seven hundred years as the last robot on Earth, left tidying it piece by piece. Over this time, he has developed a personality to the point that he feels immense loneliness before a mysterious robot EVE leads him on his most excellent adventure.

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With 256 reviews, Wall-E sits at 95% on the Tomatometer. Beating out Kung Fu Panda and BoltWall-E earned its Oscar win for its visuals and its characters who are entertaining for children and engaging for older audiences, as well as having a thought-provoking nature to its narrative.

Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005) - 95%

Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were Rabbit

Wallace & Gromit: The Curse Of The Were-Rabbit follows the stop-motion pair as they open a new business to relocate pests who have been eating local produce, but using Wallace's latest invention on the job leads to disastrous results.

With 183 reviews, the movie sat at 95% on the Tomatometer and beat out the competition in Corpse Bride and Howl's Moving Castle for its Oscar. It is an eccentric adventure that is both funny and touching, all of which is expected from the series in what was its first feature-length film.

Frozen (2013) - 90%

Frozen Elsa Let It Go Song

Frozen follows Anna as she embarks on a mission alongside Kristoff and Sven to find her sister Elsa who has accidentally used her powers to engulf Arendelle in ice and perpetual winter.

Frozen sits at 90% on Rotten Tomatoes with 242 reviews, and it won the Oscar over The Wind Riseand Despicable Me 2. The movie became a phenomenon due to its smash hit song "Let It Go," but out with that, it has some beautiful animation and is super fun.

Big Hero 6 (2014) - 89%

Big Hero 6 sees Hiro, a robotics whizz, thrown into a dangerous plot in San Fransokyo, and he must transform his six friends, including perhaps his closest Baymax, into a group of hi-tech heroes.

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The movie sits at 89% on Rotten Tomatoes with 223 reviews, and it won the Oscar over How To Train Your Dragon 2 and Song Of The Sea. The movie gains acclaim for the common factors of animation style and being generally great fun, as well as being pretty heartfelt and touching at times.

Rango (2011) - 88%

Rango riding birds through the desert

Rango follows a chameleon who shares the name with the title as he undergoes an identity crisis and ends up in a small frontier town. This leads to Rango falling into the role of Sherrif and hero.

The movie sits at 88% on Rotten Tomatoes with 220 reviews; it beat out A Cat In Paris and Kung Fu Panda 2 for its Academy Award. Johnny Depp delivers in the titular role, and his colorful vocal performance matches the picturesque nature of the animation and the fun story.

Shrek (2001) - 88%

Shrek exiting his outhouse in Shrek

A movie that has become doubly as iconic in today's social media, meme-centric worldShrek was the first movie to be awarded Best Animated Feature. It follows an Ogre named Shrek as he and his new companion Donkey find themselves on their way to rescue a princess from a castle, all when he was trying to get some peace on his swamp.

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It sits at 88% on Rotten Tomatoes with 204 reviews, and it won the Oscar over Monster's Incand Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius. The movie is funny, fast-paced, and embraces fairy tales within its plot, offering something different to Disney, but something just as entertaining to all, with a killer soundtrack nonetheless.

Brave (2012) - 78%

Brave tells the story of Princess Merida, who is desperate to be a free, independent spirit and not be set up with a marriage to one of the various clan leader's sons. This desire leads to Merida using a witch's curse to turn her mother into a bear and having to protect her while finding a way to turn her back.

Brave sits at 78% on the Tomatometer from 247 reviews. It beat out Wreck-It-Ralph and Frankenweenie for its Oscar. The movie is not the best offered by Pixar, but it does have charm, enjoyability, and humor, even if critics feel it does not live up to what it advertises in terms of progressiveness.

Happy Feet (2006) - 76%

Happy Feet is a story of a young penguin who is unable to sing and therefore has no heart song to attract his soul mate. What young Mumble can do, though, is dance, which takes him on his journey through the movie.

It sits as the lowest-rated Best Animated Feature winner at 76% from 167 reviews. To take home the Oscar, Happy Feet beat out Cars and Monster House. It is visually dazzling but also kind of weird, definitely the weakest movie on this list even though it does have its fun moments and catchy tunes, and ultimately will entertain most young kids to no end.

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