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Thousands of full-length animated films were produced during the first decade of the 21st Century. Building on developments in the 1990s, numerous studios started using computer-generated imagery to create full length animated feature films after the success of films like Toy Story, Toy Story 2 and A Bug's Life.
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In addition, this decade saw an increase in popularity of the anime and stop motion genres with blockbusters such as Spirited Away, Howl's Moving Castle, Chicken Run and Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, also Spirited Away and Wallace & Gromit became the first, and only, anime and stop motion films to win the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature and Up became the second animated film to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture.
Highest-grossing animated films
The list has more 2006 and 2009 in the top 50 than any other year, each with seven. Figures are given in United States dollars (USD).
List of films
Lists of animated feature films released in the 2000s organized by year of release: