01/03/2023
Best Animated Feature films, Series and Short films of 2022
In the midst of 2023 Award Season, journalists, critics and animated industry professionals also compile a list of the best animated productions of the past year. Find all the titles below.
The invitation by author Adrián Encinas Salamanca and Animacion Para Adultos director Ray Laguna extended to 48 journalists, critics, researchers, festival organizers, and professionals in the animated productions industry produced a list with the best of 2022 features, series, and shorts.
Here the best animated features films:
- My Father's Dragon - Nora Twomey
- Puss in Boots: The Last Wish - Joel Crawford, Januel Mercado
- Le petit Nicolas: Qu'est-ce qu'on attend pour étre heureux ? - Amandine Fredon, Benjamin Massoubre
- Inu-oh - Masaaki Yuasa
- The House - Paloma Baeza, Emma De Swaef, Niki Lindroth von Bahr, Marc James Roels
- Marcel the Shell with Shoes On - Dean Fleischer-Camp
- Interdit aux chiens et aux italiens (No Dogs or Italians Allowed) - Alain Ughetto
- Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio - Guillermo del Toro, Mark Gustafson
- Turning Red - Domee Shi
- Unicorn Wars - Alberto Vázquez
Best animated series:
- Chainsaw Man
- Cyberpunk: Edgerunners
- The Cuphead Show!
- The Legend of Vox Machina
- Love, Death + Robots (season 3)
- Mob Psycho 100 (season 3)
- Oni: Thunder God's Tale
- Primal (season 2)
- Spy x Family
- Undone (season 2)
Best animated short films:
- Amok - Balàzs Turai
- An Ostrich Told Me the World is Fake and I Think I Believe it - Lachlan Pendragon
- The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse - Peter Baynton, Charlie Mackesy
- Ice Merchants - Joào Gonzalez
- Loop - Pablo Polledri
- My Year of Dicks - Sara Gunnarsdóttir
- Pasajero - Juan Pablo Zaramella
- Sierra - Sander Joon
- Steakhouse - Spela Čadez
- The Flying Sailor - Amanda Forbis, Wendy Tilby
Votes by:
Adrián Encinas Salamanca, author of the books ¡Bien hecho, Gromit! and Animando lo imposible
Aitor Onederra, filmmaker and director of the Animadeba festival
Alfred Sesma, from the distributor Pack Màgic
Bárbara Cerro, audiovisual editorial staff and director of the Bitbang International Animation Festival
Carlos Navarro, director and professor of animation at ESDIP Madrid
Carmen Russo, stop-motion animation director
Chris Perkins, editor-in-chief of Animation for Adults
Christopher Holliday, Lecturer in Liberal Arts and Visual Culture Education at King's College London, UK
Cristina Formenti, professor at the University of Udine
Daniel Castilla, author of the AnimeFagos website
Daniel Suljić, artistic director of the Animafest ZAGREB Festival
David Heredia Pitarch, author of books such as Anime! 100 years of Japanese animation or The 100 best anime films.
Diego Cabarcos, responsible for the Cardboard Festival, Argentina
Felipe Múgica, author of the book Explosión anime
Francesco Padua, editor of Animation World and Animation Italy
Grace Han, PhD Student, Stanford University, Film and Television Review Editor, Fantasy/Animation
Guadalupe Arensburg, purchasing manager Movistar+ short films
Isabel Ibáñez and Alejandro Serrador, from the Ninguna Parte website
Iván Portillo, journalist and collaborator in the animation industry
JP Bango, journalist and regular contributor to El Séptimo Vicio
Jamie Lang, editor of Cartoon Brew
Jose Ant. Cuenca, director of MangAnimeList
Juan Cuesta, coordinator of the animation department of the ECIB
Juan José Zanoletti, author of the blog The written animation
Juan Manuel Domínguez, editor of Diario Perfil
Keyfriends, authors of the podcast of the same name
Laura Montero Plata, Production Manager at Tonic DNA Animation Studio
Leticia Fernández, CEO and Communications Director of PIXELODEON 3D School
Lucia Cavalchini, producer of Fedora Productions and director of Animasivo
Marcos Gil, director of the Estanteria Otaku website
Marie-Pauline Mollaret, critic (Semaine de la Critique à Cannes, Annecy Film Festival, Paris International Animated Film Festival)
Margit Antauer 'Buba', director of Animafest Zagreb from 1992 to 2006 and since 2005 heads its board
María Victoria Rivas, film critic specializing in animation, in Animari Reviews
Mihaela Mihailova, assistant professor of animation at San Francisco State University
Milen Alempijevic, artistic director and editor of ANIMANIMA Festival
Muriel Salzard, editor of Little Big Animation
Nicolas Bardot, film critic for Le Polyester
Nicolás Schmerkin, producer and director of Autour de Minuit Productions
Nicolas Thys, journalist specialized in animation -24 images and Animascope- and professor at the universities Paris Nanterre and Sorbonne Nouvelle
Paola Becco, director of the International Stop motion Festival OUR FEST
Pedro Alpera, animator and editor of Paparruchas
Ramin Zahed, editor-in-chief of Animation Magazine
Ray Laguna, director of Animacion for adults
Rocío Ayuso, journalist and regular contributor to El País
Rocío Benavent, PhD student of Cultural Industries on animation festivals in Spain
Salva Navarro, author of BlogVisual
Xavier Kawa Topor, co-founder of Blink Blank magazine
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