For seven years, veteran animator and educator Marco Sensei has been tracking the performance of French animated films in France. He updates his all-time box-office chart, which is hosted on his forum Anime Agora, on an annual basis. With the 2020 numbers now in, we thought we’d share this excellent resource.
The chart (see it here) is a more or less complete list of French-produced animated features that have had a French theatrical run. It is ordered by number of entries (i.e. theater tickets sold) — a standard metric for box-office performance in France.
Other columns display the year of release, animation technique, maximum number of copies, and budget (not including prints and advertising). Data is broadly collected from public sources, with some coming from the subscription-based box-office tracker CBO.