Top 100 3D Movies

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CGSociety and 3D World present a rundown of the Top 100 3D Movies as selected by the CG community

What marks out a truly great 3D movie? The knowledge that it pioneered techniques that became standards within the industry, as Flight of the Navigator did with reflection mapping?
Or that it raised the bar on the volume of effects work possible in a movie, as with Star Wars: Episode 1 - The Phantom Menace? Or simply that it told a memorable story? That was the question we posed in our recent poll to determine the most influential 3D movies of all time, organised in conjunction with 3D World magazine, the industry's leading community portal.

To qualify for inclusion on our shortlist, a movie needed to meet three criteria: to have a running time of 60 minutes or longer; to have received a full cinematic release;and to include a significant element of 3D animation or VFX work, as opposed to matte painting or compositing.

Films like Blade Runner - although undoubtedly influential - were excluded on the grounds that they featured only traditional effects.

Movies that received an Academy Award nomination were automatically included, as did those whose technology reels were screened in the Electronic Theater at SIGGRAPH.

The remainder were chosen from standard reference books such as Isaac Kerlow's The Art of 3D Computer Animation and Effects, and according to feedback from our own contacts in the industry. Visitors to CGSociety were then asked to pick the 10 films on the shortlist that they most admired technically; that had the greatest impact on their working lives; or that most made them want to work in 3D in the first place.

During the three weeks it remained online, 5,874 people filled out the poll, casting well over 50,000 individual votes. To the best of our knowledge, this makes it the largest survey of its type ever conducted - and the definitive guide to the films that shaped an industry.

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I think that MATRIX will be on 1 and it is.

[Hitboxx]

Yes, wonderful ones.

[Charan]

This is wrong .. it should have been CG Movies and not 3D .. I wonder how the cgsociety named it this way..
there is only a handfull of 3D movies made.. 3D should not be confused with CG( Computer Gfx ) which all of the above movies use. Till date I havent seen even a single 3D movie, 3D movies require a special glasses to be used to see the movie.
This is the list of all 3D films released Link

[SunnyChahal]

where is Chota Chetan????it was also a 3D movie.LOL!!!

[sachin_kothari]

great compilation.
seen many of them.
will see the rest of them soon.

[Voldy]

Matrix deserve its spot

[nvidia]

Nice list...I've seen only Matrix 1, but whats so "3D" in it?

[int86]

Originally Posted by Charan

This is wrong .. it should have been CG Movies and not 3D .. I wonder how the cgsociety named it this way..
there is only a handfull of 3D movies made.. 3D should not be confused with CG( Computer Gfx ) which all of the above movies use. Till date I havent seen even a single 3D movie, 3D movies require a special glasses to be used to see the movie.
This is the list of all 3D films released Link

Agreed

[x3060]

wrong wrong . . no 3d in those movies . .
+1 with above poster

[ax3]

nice threadding ........

[vish786]

those are not 3d movies (except Toy Story 3D Version )... do u really understand what 3D is !

[phreak0ut]

Bad, bad list. No 3D movies for you

[The Conqueror]

Where is ICE AGE 2 ??

[lywyre]

Any specific reason these movies are not in CAPS: Apollo 13, Alien3 and Labyrinth ?

[alok4best]

off course..there is a diff b/n 3D and Computer Aided Graphics..

[CrossAndZero]

avatar is good,

[Ronnie11]

these are not 3d movies....aliens,matrix etc were not in 3d..the name of the list is wrong...

[solomon_paulraj]

Charan is correct!

those are not 3D, the only films i saw in 3D are My dear kuttichathan aka. Chota Chetan and Final Destination 2009

[topgear]

Nice lsit ... came to know about some of the films I've never seen

But as Charan said they are not 3D movies ... a good 3D film I can think about is AVATAR

[kalpik]

Umm.. Major bump!

[Anorion]

yeah, even I was wondering about why these movies are called 3D. Don't agree with the list at all - the list focuses on mostly post 1990s movies, and very few of the original, pioneering efforts of CG is listed here. The last Starfighter, is just one of the many movies that had groundbreaking CG that made it to the list. Anyone who knows about CG would put the first three star wars movies instead of the last three, as these were the films that really got the whole CG ball rolling. Can think of at least twenty obvious names that the list just leaves out - and the last twenty are all recent movies where CG technology has matured - certainly not "pioneered techniques that became standards within the industry" - and there is no Avatar in there. Additionally, some of the choices are just disgusting... 2010 instead of 2001... whatever did 2010 ever achieve?
Donno if this is a sidetrack, but if you are interested in milestones, try http://www.filmsite.org/milestones2000s.html