Stop-motion is perhaps one of the most spectacular yet patience-requiring art forms ever existing. Each frame is delicately crafted by hand. It’s a repetitive cycle that consists of pausing and resuming endlessly. It’s an extremely time-consuming process that demands the utmost precision and attention, yet there’s a reason why this form has been continuously picked up by directors and storytellers.
The number of details needing to be attended to is a double-edged sword that consumes a lot of time but also gives full control to the storyteller. In stop-motion, the storyteller can literally craft and build up the entire story world.
Through the years, we’ve been blessed with many different stop-motion animated movies, yet some stand out from the others. And today, we’ve ranked the top 10 award-deserving stop motions that not only are beautiful to watch but also tell stories worth your time!
From the children’s horror movie about a spider-mom trying to sew buttons in your eyes to Wes Anderson’s adaptation of a Roald Dahl story, we have it all!
The following list was based on Maimovie on March 23, 2022, under the “award deserving” and “stop motion” Keytalks. Check out the Maimovie app or website to discover more movies and shows.
2018, 8m
A bumbling knitted dinosaur must completely unravel itself to save the love of its life.
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2009, 1h 32m
A tale of friendship between two unlikely pen pals: Mary, a lonely, eight-year-old girl living in the suburbs of Melbourne, and Max, a forty-four-year old, severely obese man living in New York. In the mid-1970s, a homely, friendless Australian girl of 8 picks a name out of a Manhattan phone book and writes to him; she includes a chocolate bar. He writes back, with chocolate. Thus begins a 20-year correspondence. Will the two ever meet face to face?
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1993, 1h 16m
Tired of scaring humans every October 31 with the same old bag of tricks, Jack Skellington, the spindly king of Halloween Town, kidnaps Santa Claus and plans to deliver shrunken heads and other ghoulish gifts to children on Christmas morning. But as Christmas approaches, Jack’s rag-doll girlfriend, Sally, tries to foil his misguided plans.
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2009, 1h 40m
When Coraline moves to an old house, she feels bored and neglected by her parents. She finds a hidden door with a bricked up passage. During the night, she crosses the passage and finds a parallel world where everybody has buttons instead of eyes, with caring parents and all her dreams coming true. When the Other Mother invites Coraline to stay in her world forever, the girl refuses and finds that the alternate reality where she is trapped is only a trick to lure her.
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2009, 1h 27m
The Fantastic Mr. Fox bored with his current life, plans a heist against the three local farmers. The farmers, tired of sharing their chickens with the sly fox, seek revenge against him and his family.
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2016, 1h 42m
Kubo mesmerizes the people in his village with his magical gift for spinning wild tales with origami. When he accidentally summons an evil spirit seeking vengeance, Kubo is forced to go on a quest to solve the mystery of his fallen samurai father and his mystical weaponry, as well as discover his own magical powers.
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2005, 1h 17m
Set in a 19th-century european village, this stop-motion animation feature follows the story of Victor, a young man whisked away to the underworld and wed to a mysterious corpse bride, while his real bride Victoria waits bereft in the land of the living.
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2015, 1h 25m
When Shaun decides to take the day off and have some fun, he gets a little more action than he bargained for. A mix up with the Farmer, a caravan and a very steep hill lead them all to the Big City and it’s up to Shaun and the flock to return everyone safely to the green grass of home.
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2018, 1h 41m
In the future, an outbreak of canine flu leads the mayor of a Japanese city to banish all dogs to an island that’s a garbage dump. The outcasts must soon embark on an epic journey when a 12-year-old boy arrives on the island to find his beloved pet.
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2015, 1h 30m
An inspirational speaker becomes reinvigorated after meeting a lively woman who shakes up his mundane existence.
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