List of animated feature films of 2020

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This is a list of animated feature films that were released in 2020.

Highest-grossing animated films[]

The following is a list of the 10 highest-grossing animated feature films first released in 2020.

The year was severely impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic which led to a major decline in box office revenue due to the closure of cinemas and movie theaters. For the first time in box office history, two non-American animated film productions (Asian films), Demon Slayer: Mugen Train from Japan and Jiang Ziya from China, have become the highest-grossing animated films of the year.^[180] It is also the first time since 1987 that a non-American animated film (Japanese anime), Demon Slayer: Mugen Train, became the highest-grossing animated film of the year, and the first time an anime has made the top 10 highest-grossing films of the year worldwide.

2020 was also the first year since 2014 to not have an animated film gross $700, $800, $900 million and $1 billion, the first year since 2005 to not have an animated film gross $600 million.

Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba the Movie: Mugen Train, It set the all-time box office records for the highest-grossing Japanese film, the highest-grossing anime film, and the highest-grossing R-rated animated film.^[181] In Japan, Mugen Train set the first-day opening record with ¥1.2 billion ($11.3 million),^[182] before breaking the opening weekend record with ¥4.6 billion ($43.8 million) over three days.^[183] It went on to have the highest-grossing second weekend, and in ten days became the fastest film to cross ¥10 billion ($96.7 million), surpassing Spirited Away (2001) which had previously crossed the ¥10 billion milestone in 19 days and held the record for 19 years.^[184] Mugen Train also became the fastest film to cross ¥20 billion in Japan, again faster than Spirited Away.^[185] It also set the record for the highest-grossing IMAX release in Japan, surpassing the previous record holder Bohemian Rhapsody (2018).^[186] In 59 days, Mugen Train set another record as the fastest film to cross the ¥30 billion milestone,^[187] faster than Spirited Away which took 253 days to reach the same milestone.^[188] In 66 days, the film set another record as the first film to top the Japanese box office charts for ten straight weekends (since the charts began publication in 2004).^[189] In 73 days, Mugen Train grossed ¥32.48 billion to become the highest-grossing film of all time in Japan, surpassing Spirited Away which held the record for 19 years.^[190]

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