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01. Shrek

1403pts | 2001 | USA | Dreamworks
Top 20's: TAYLOR #3, CHEZ #4, CAMERON #5, HARRY #5, JACOB #6, UV #6, SEVEN #8, BRIGHTPLACES #9, MACK #10, JAHQ #11, DALEKTURRET #17, IZ #17, FROOT #20

And the winner here is also the first ever film to win Best Animated Feature at the Oscars, its the iconic 'Shrek' ofc. <3

Shrek is an animated fantasy film based on William Steig's 1990 fairy tale picture book of the same name and voices include Mike Myers, Eddie Murphy, Cameron Diaz, and John Lithgow. The film serves as a parody of other films adapted from numerous fairy tales, mainly animated Disney films. The film focuses on an ogre named Shrek who finds his swamp overrun by fairy tale creatures who have been banished there by order of the evil Lord Farquaad. In order to get his swamp back, Shrek makes a deal with Farquaad to bring him a queen in exchange for the deed for his swamp. Shrek sets out with a talking Donkey and rescues Princess Fiona. While they take Fiona to Farquaad so she can marry him, Shrek starts to fall in love with the princess and soon discovers a shocking secret about her. When DreamWorks studio was founded, the film was put quickly into development and originally starred Chris Farley as Shrek but he died in 1997 after recording 80/90% of his dialogue. Nicholas Cage also rejected the role originally as he didn't want to look like an ogre. The film was originally planned to be motion-captured but was changed to animation after poor results. Shrek established DreamWorks as a competitor to Pixar, it grossed $484.4m worldwide against a $60m budget and captured the attention of children- with the simple plot & humour- as well as adults- with the themes & adult-oriented jokes. Shrek won the first ever Oscar for Best Animated Feature and was also nominated for Adapted Screenplay! The film scored six BAFTA noms including Eddie Murphy in Supporting Actor and the film has spun 3 sequels to date, two holiday specials and a spin-off. The film has also inspired merchandise, video games, a stage musical (which slays), a shrek adventures in London (which slays), 'Shrek is love Shrek is life', a comic book adaptation and Shrek also has a star on Hollywood's Walk Of Fame! The film's soundtrack is also iconic (All Star and I'm A Believer still bop today *.*) and Radio Disney was told not to allow any ads for the film to air on the station, stating, "Due to recent initiatives with The Walt Disney Company, we are being asked not to align ourselves promotionally with this new release Shrek. Shrek received universal acclaim with 88% rating on RT and Entertainment Weekly put it on their End of the Decade List + it was nominated for picture musical/comedy at the Golden Globes! In June 2008, the American Film Institute revealed its "Ten top Ten"; the best ten films in ten "classic" American film genres, Shrek was acknowledged as the eighth best film in the animated genre, and the only non-Disney·Pixar film in the Top 10. Shrek was also ranked second in a Channel 4 poll of the "100 Greatest Family Films", losing out on the top spot to E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial and in 2005, Shrek came sixth in Channel 4's 100 Greatest Cartoons poll. The film was also entered to the 2001 Cannes Film Festival and was the first film since Peter Pan in 1953 to do so! The film influenced more pop culture references and end-film musical numbers becoming a trend in animated flicks.

So here's our winner and considering this just missed my top 5, I'm pretty happy with Shrek winning! This is the film I have seen the most ever, I have definitely seen it at least over 100+ times (when I was younger they would always play this when I was at the hospital). I love Shrek so much and it's easy to see why this still has such a good legacy, it's so funny & the script slays, the voice performances and animated are incredible and it is a joy watching this film. Also Gingy>>>>>>the rest of the characters. I watched this whilst I was on holiday last year and it still holds up so well, an animated classic and a worthy winner *.*

Shrek is also the only film in the top 10 that nobody put in their top 2 despite winning!!!!!

And here we are, finished the results for this pretty much exactly a year later!!!! Soz it took so bloody long but we got it done yasss *.*