Best Pixar movies

21157 duels later, WALL-E is still #1 in the Pixar ranking, with Cars close behind.

WALL-E edges out Cars by 17 ELO points at the top, but the sharpest divide appears one step below: 41 ELO points separate Cars from Coco at rank 3. This gap marks the clearest break in the ranking, setting the top two apart from the rest of the field. The Incredibles claims rank 4 with 1294 ELO points, while Up holds rank 5 at 1291 points. The entire top 5 clusters within a 71-point range, reflecting tight competition among Pixar's most celebrated releases. WALL-E wins 56% of its duels across 740 matchups, while The Incredibles posts the highest win rate in the top tier at 58% over 774 duels. At the bottom, The Good Dinosaur sits at rank 23 with 1028 ELO points, and Onward anchors the ranking at rank 24 with 990 points. This lower tier suggests that the studio's more recent experiments have yet to win over the community in the same way its early catalog did.

This ranking draws on 21157 duels from 261 players across 24 contenders, updated on 10 October 2026. The vote remains open: each new duel shifts the standings and sharpens the picture of which Pixar film holds up best. Head to the ranking and cast your own comparisons to weigh in.

Updated on October 10, 2026

How this ranking is computed

Every duel won lifts a contender and every loss drops them, by an amount that depends on the opponent's strength: beating the leader is worth more than beating the last. It is an ELO, the same principle as in chess. Duels are not drawn at random — an adaptive entropy sort puts the least predictable match-ups first, which settles the ranking far faster than a full round robin. A worldwide ranking is only published past 30 completed plays. Known limit: a contender who has faced few opponents keeps an approximate score, and the bottom of the table moves more than the podium.

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