Princess Mononoke was the film that made me fall head over heels for cinema in general. Artistry in storytelling, with one of my favorite antagonists in any medium.

The Iron Giant was one of the first movies I saw theatrically, and the final set-piece still activates my tear ducts to this day.

Son of the White Mare is one of the central touchstones of abstraction and consolidated story and character ethos in the history of the medium. Blew my mind when I finally caught up with it, as clearly it has influenced dozens of animators since, especially Genndy Tartakovsky (Samurai Jack, Primal).

Honorable mention #1- Fantasia 2000, specifically the Firebird Suite sequence, which remains the single greatest thing the mouse factory, and western animation as a whole, has produced in their entire output, you cannot change my mind.

HM#2- Interstella 5555, The official feature length Daft Punk AMV. It rules.