candidate: It held the record for the highest - grossing animated feature film ( in North America , outside North America , and worldwide ) until it was surpassed by the computer animated " Finding Nemo " ( 2003 ) , " Shrek 2 " ( 2004 ) , "" ( 2009 ) , " Toy Story 3 " ( 2010 ) , and " Frozen " ( 2013 ) .