The MoFo Top 100 Animated Films - The Countdown

Number of great animated films is very small though because there are very few of them. As a result the mainstream blockbusters dominate the list since they are the only ones everybody who send their lists had watched. It doesn't matter how good a film is if only 2-3 people out of ca. 70 who submitted their lists watched it.

If we ever try another top animated list, I would like to try another format, though. Just out of curiosity. Maybe a tournament or preliminary nominations. Same goes for the tops of the decade and other lists we make.

I rather like the system we use. I think it seems more fair to the voters and the films than what you're suggesting.

Tournaments are unfair because not every film would go up against every other film, it's luck of the draw as to which contestants actually compete with each other. And all preliminary nominations would do is further limit the pool that people can vote from.

The only thing preliminary nominations do in this case is adding another round. Say, for instance, if we pick the 100 most voted movies like we did here, we would make a list and this list would be visible. The second round of voting would consist on ordering this list in a 100-1 point scale. This would not allow to discover more stuff, but would serve to order this top using different standards. It would be a longer term thing (since it's two rounds of voting), and of course the content is inherently limited to those nominated in the first round, but I believe that the effect of popularity or previous knowledge would be effectively weighed.

I don't see any substantial advantage to a tournament, but it's fun

That said, what you're describing might be a theoretically better way to measure the aggregate tastes of the community, but not necessarily in practice. I think your way might be better if we could ensure that just as many people would do all that, but I don't think they would. Especially assigning points to 100 movies!

Welcome to the bathhouse! I assure you that you won't regret your visit...

It was a warm night in spring, a couple of years ago. I was just starting out as a "serious" movie watcher and I was looking for something "out of the box" (for me). While scrolling through the IMDb top 250 list (which is a place where many young cinephiles begin nowadays, even though they later learn to condemn it), I clicked on this film's title. I had read about the huge acclaim it had, but I didn't really know what to expect. I decided to watch it...

Spirited Away ended up being a film that completely opened my mind for a whole new medium of filmmaking (anime). I was absolutely mesmerized by it. It was one of the most magical film experiences I'd ever had. I immediately considered it as my new favorite animated movie and while the film has been challenged by a few other great films since, it still holds that place today.

Miyazaki's surreal masterpiece about a girl who suddenly - while visiting an old, abandoned amusement park - gets caught up in a strange fantasy world where her parents are changed into pigs and where magical creatures run a giant bathhouse is an absolute wonder to behold. It's one of the few truly original cinematic visions of our postmillennial era. It fills my heart with joy that so many people seem to love and appreciate this film as much as I do. It's one of the most respected and popular animated films ever made (it also won the Oscar) and I hope it will be the number one film on our MoFo Top 100 list.

Just put it on, let yourself be overtaken by its highly imaginative world and interpret the rich adventure of Chichiro in any way you want (every watching experience is different), while enjoying the film's warm atmosphere and sheer beauty...

Up is 2nd, Toy Story 1st. Okay, we're done. Now who is running the 60s countdown? Not someone who has run a countdown before. And not some noob either!