2001

Feature films

 * February 2 - Head Over Heels
 * February 9 - Hannibal
 * April 11 - Josie and the Pussycats
 * April 13 - Bridget Jones's Diary
 * May 4 - The Mummy Returns
 * May 18 - Shrek (DreamWorks Pictures)
 * June 15 - Atlantis: The Lost Empire (Disney)
 * June 22 - The Fast and the Furious
 * June 29 - Going Francisco
 * July 18 - Jurassic Park III
 * August 10 - American Pie 2
 * August 17 - Captain Corelli's Mandolin
 * September 7 - The Musketeer
 * October 12 - Mulholland Dr.
 * October 26 - K-PAX
 * November 2 - Monsters, Inc. (Disney/Pixar)
 * November 21 - Spy Game, Mice Tales (20th Century Fox), and A Beautiful Mind
 * December 15 - Hamtaro: Adventures in Ham-Ham Land
 * December 21 - How High and Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius (Paramount/Nickelodeon)
 * December 25 - Momo

Shorts

 * November 2 - Shrek in the Swamp Karaoke Dance Party

Television

 * August 18 - Chuck Jones Doraemon ends on Kids' WB
 * August 27 - Cookie and Cream
 * September 15 - Alienators: Evolution Continues premiered on Fox Kids
 * September 22 - Jenny Zoom premiered on Gingo.

VHS & DVD releases

 * May 15 - Mistress Masham's Repose
 * November 2 - Shrek

Direct-to-video releases

 * June 14 - Stupid Invaders: The Generation Begins
 * December 4 - The Land Before Time VIII: The Big Freeze

Video games

 * Puyo Puyo BOX, released February 24 in the US
 * Tiny Bullets, released March 13 in the US
 * The Adventures of Cookie and Cream, released April 30 in the US
 * Planetokio (Game Boy Color), released May 8 in the US
 * Gabriel Garza: Vio's Return, released August 21 in the US
 * Ico, released September 24 in the US
 * Planetokio 2, released September 25 in the US
 * Chrysocolla: Battle for Nitropolis, released December 11 in the US

Character debuts

 * May 18 - Shrek, Donkey, Fiona
 * June 14 - Sarah Smith, Zach

Events

 * June 8 - Universal Feature Animation announces that Computeropolis will be their first fully CGI feature film and they also have five CGI animated films underway (which include Computeropolis, Me & Mobo, Greenwoods and Nerd Boy).
 * Ronald Garcia, a former Disney animator and the uncle of Geo G. passes away in Palm Desert from complications related to diabetes, March 23
 * Kent Holaday passes away from a thyroid condition, June 24