20th Century Fox Animation

**Twentieth Century Fox Animation** (stylized as **20th Century Fox Animation**) is the animation division of the film studio 20th Century Fox, tasked for production feature-length animated film.

## Film

### Fox Animation Studios

Before 20th Century Fox started its animation division in 1997, 20th Century Fox released its first six animated films, such as *Wizards*, *Raggedy Ann & Andy: A Musical Adventure* (both released in 1977), *Fire and Ice* (released in 1983), *FernGully: The Last Rainforest*, *Once Upon a Forest* and *The Pagemaster*. From 1994–2000, they operated Fox Animation Studios, a traditional animation studio which was started to compete with Walt Disney Animation Studios, which was experiencing great success at the time with films such as *Beauty and the Beast*, *Aladdin* and *The Lion King*. The Fox studio, however, was not as successful. Their first feature *Anastasia*, although critically acclaimed as being of Disney caliber and often mistaken as a Disney film, barely made a profit, taking in nearly $140 million at the worldwide box office on a $53 million budget. Their next feature, *Titan A.E.*, was a large financial loss, as it made less than $37 million worldwide against its $75 million budget. The lack of box office success, coupled with the rise of computer animation, led Fox to shut down the Fox Animation Studios after 2000.

* *Anastasia* (1997)
* *Bartok the Magnificent* (1999, made for VHS)
* *Titan A.E.* (2000)

### Blue Sky Studios

Since 1997, Fox owns Blue Sky Studios, a computer animation company. Fox has had much more success with Blue Sky, and the box office receipts of their films are competitive with those of Pixar and DreamWorks. They have released ten features:

* *Ice Age* (2002)
* *Robots* (2005)
* *Ice Age: The Meltdown* (2006)
* *Horton Hears a Who!* (2008)
* *Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs* (2009)
* *Rio* (2011)
* *Ice Age: Continental Drift* (2012)
* *Epic* (2013)
* *Rio 2* (2014)
* *The Peanuts Movie* (2015)
* *Ice Age: Collision Course* (2016)
* *Ferdinand* (2017)
* *Anubis* (2018)
* *Pigeon Impossible* (2019)

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* *Olive, the Other Reindeer* (1999) (co-production by DNA Productions, The Curiosity Company, and Fox Television Studios)
* *The Simpsons Movie* (2007) (co-production by Gracie Films, Film Roman, and Rough Draft Feature Animation)
* *Fantastic Mr. Fox* (2009) (co-production with Indian Paintbrush, Regency Enterprises, and American Empirical Pictures)

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### Other films

* *Olive, the Other Reindeer* (1999) (co-production by DNA Productions, The Curiosity Company, and Fox Television Studios)
* *The Simpsons Movie* (2007) (co-production by Gracie Films, Film Roman, and Rough Draft Feature Animation)
* *Fantastic Mr. Fox* (2009) (co-production with Indian Paintbrush, Regency Enterprises, and American Empirical Pictures)
* *The Book of Life* (2014) (co-production with Reel FX)
* *WordGirl* (2021)

### Short films

List of 20th Century Animation Short Film

#### Produced with Blue Sky Studios

* *Bunny* (1998)
* *Gone Nutty* (2002)
* *Aunt Fanny's Tour of Booty* (2005)
* *No Time for Nuts* (2006)
* *Surviving Sid* (2008)
* *Umbrellacorn* (2013)
* *Cosmic Scrat-tastrophe* (2015)

#### Other films

* *The Longest Daycare* (2012) (co-production with Gracie Films and Film Roman)
* *The Adventures of Chuy* (2015) (co-production with Reel FX)

### Upcoming films

* *Spore* (TBA)
* *Left Tern* (TBA)
* *Ice Age 6* (2022)
* *Mutts* (TBA)
* *Hero's Guide to Saving Your Kingdom* (TBA)
* *Cardboard* (TBA)
* *Alienology* (TBA)
* *Welcome to the Jungle* (TBA)
* *Mr. Men Little Miss*
* *Nimona* (2022)

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## See also

* Fox Television Animation division of 20th Century Fox Television
* Pixar
* Walt Disney Animation Studios
* Blue Sky Studios
* Fox Interactive
* Terrytoons
* PBS KIDS Studios