Top 3 Disney/Pixar animated movies by decade

I was going to do a list of the sole best by decade but that would have been too controversial. I give an overall rating of the top 3 by decade in my list for conversation. I probably have older decades underrated for many’s liking but I’m a young millennial so I grew up with films in the 90s and later. Feel free to disagree. I also did not rank any movies that I haven’t seen before so that could explain older films I missed. Probably could have done a top 10 list from the 1990s & 2000s and still left out movies I enjoyed. Those were really hard to narrow down to a top 3.

In replies you can leave just your favorite by decade. Curious to see what more recent movies people have as their favorites now that we’re getting dozens of movies a decade. Of course with the plethora of movies now theres lots of crap put out there but is it just quantity over quality these days or do the best of recent decades stack up against the best from previous ones?

1940s and earlier 8.3/10
Snow White (1937)
Pinocchio (1940)
Bambi (1941)

1950s 8.6/10
Cinderella (1950)
Alice in Wonderland (1951)
Lady and the Tramp (1955)

1960s 7.4/10
101 Dalmatians (1961)
The Sword in the Stone (1963)
The Jungle Book (1967)

1970s 6.8/10
The Aristocats (1970)
Robin Hood (1973)
The Rescuers (1977)

1980s 7.9/10
The Fox and the Hound (1981)
The Great Mouse Detective (1986)
The Little Mermaid (1989)

1990s 9.9/10
The Lion King (1994)
Toy Story (1995)
Mulan (1998)

2000s 9.7/10
Finding Nemo (2003)
Ratatouille (2007)
Up (2009)

2010s 8.8/10
Frozen (2013)
Zootopia (2016)
Moana (2016)

2020s 7.0/10
Onward (2020)
Luca (2021)
Inside Out 2 (2024)