List of Pixar films

Pixar Animation Studios is an American CGI film production company based in Emeryville, California, United States. Pixar has produced 28 feature films, which were all released by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures through the Walt Disney Pictures banner, with its first being Toy Story (which was also the first CGI-animated feature ever theatrically released) on November 22, 1995, and its latest being Inside Out 2 on June 14, 2024.

Its upcoming slate of films includes Elio in 2025, Hoppers and Toy Story 5 in 2026, and Incredibles 3 at an unspecified date. In addition, an unannounced film is scheduled to be released on June 18, 2027.

Films

Released

Film	Release date	Director(s)	Writer(s)		Producer(s)	Composer(s)
			Story	Screenplay
Toy Story	Template:Date table sorting	John Lasseter	Pete Docter, Lasseter, Joe Ranft & Andrew Stanton	Joel Cohen, Alec Sokolow, Stanton & Joss Whedon	Bonnie Arnold & Ralph Guggenheim	Randy Newman
A Bug's Life	Template:Date table sorting	John Lasseter Co-directed by: Andrew Stanton	Lasseter, Joe Ranft & Stanton	Donald McEnery, Bob Shaw & Stanton	Darla K. Anderson & Kevin Reher
Toy Story 2	Template:Date table sorting	John Lasseter Co-directed by: Ash Brannon & Lee Unkrich	Brannon, Pete Docter, Lasseter & Andrew Stanton	Doug Chamberlin, Rita Hsiao, Stanton & Chris Webb	Karen Robert Jackson & Helene Plotkin
Monsters, Inc.	Template:Date table sorting	Pete Docter Co-directed by: David Silverman & Lee Unkrich	Jill Culton, Docter, Ralph Eggleston & Jeff Pidgeon	Dan Gerson & Andrew Stanton	Darla K. Anderson
Finding Nemo	Template:Date table sorting	Andrew Stanton Co-directed by: Lee Unkrich	Stanton	Bob Peterson, David Reynolds & Stanton	Graham Walters	Thomas Newman
The Incredibles	Template:Date table sorting	Brad Bird			John Walker	Michael Giacchino
Cars	Template:Date table sorting	John Lasseter Co-directed by: Joe Ranft	Lasseter, Jorgen Klubien & Ranft	Dan Fogelman, Klubien, Lasseter, Phil Lorin, Kiel Murray & Ranft	Darla K. Anderson	Randy Newman
Ratatouille	Template:Date table sorting	Brad Bird Co-directed by: Jan Pinkava	Bird, Jim Capobianco & Pinkava	Bird	Brad Lewis	Michael Giacchino
WALL-E	Template:Date table sorting	Andrew Stanton	Pete Docter & Stanton	Jim Reardon & Stanton	Jim Morris	Thomas Newman
Up	Template:Date table sorting	Pete Docter Co-directed by: Bob Peterson	Docter, Tom McCarthy & Peterson	Docter & Peterson	Jonas Rivera	Michael Giacchino
Toy Story 3	Template:Date table sorting	Lee Unkrich	John Lasseter, Andrew Stanton & Unkrich	Michael Arndt	Darla K. Anderson	Randy Newman
Cars 2	Template:Date table sorting	John Lasseter Co-directed by: Brad Lewis	Dan Fogelman, Lasseter & Lewis	Ben Queen	Denise Ream	Michael Giacchino
Brave	Template:Date table sorting	Mark Andrews & Brenda Chapman Co-directed by: Steve Purcell	Chapman	Andrews, Chapman, Irene Mecchi & Purcell	Katherine Sarafian	Patrick Doyle
Monsters University	Template:Date table sorting	Dan Scanlon	Robert L. Baird, Dan Gerson & Scanlon		Kori Rae	Randy Newman
Inside Out	Template:Date table sorting	Pete Docter Co-directed by: Ronnie del Carmen	del Carmen & Docter	Josh Cooley, Docter & Meg LeFauve	Jonas Rivera	Michael Giacchino
The Good Dinosaur	Template:Date table sorting	Peter Sohn	Erik Benson, Meg LeFauve, Kelsey Mann, Bob Peterson & Sohn	LeFauve	Denise Ream	Mychael & Jeff Danna
Finding Dory	Template:Date table sorting	Andrew Stanton Co-directed by: Angus MacLane	Stanton	Stanton & Victoria Strouse	Lindsey Collins	Thomas Newman
Cars 3	Template:Date table sorting	Brian Fee	Fee, Eyal Podell, Ben Queen & Jonathan E. Stewart	Kiel Murray, Bob Peterson & Mike Rich	Kevin Reher	Randy Newman
Coco	Template:Date table sorting	Lee Unkrich Co-directed by: Adrian Molina	Matthew Aldrich, Jason Katz, Molina & Unkrich	Aldrich & Molina	Darla K. Anderson	Michael GiacchinoTemplate:Efn
Incredibles 2	Template:Date table sorting	Brad Bird			Nicole Paradis Grindle & John Walker	Michael Giacchino
Toy Story 4	Template:Date table sorting	Josh Cooley	Cooley, Stephany Folsom, Martin Hynes, Rashida Jones, Valerie LaPointe, John Lasseter, Will McCormack & Andrew Stanton	Folsom & Stanton	Mark Nielsen & Jonas Rivera	Randy Newman
Onward	Template:Date table sorting	Dan Scanlon	Keith Bunin, Jason Headley & Scanlon		Kori Rae	Mychael & Jeff Danna
Soul	Template:Date table sorting	Pete Docter Co-directed by: Kemp Powers	Docter, Mike Jones & Powers		Dana Murray	Trent Reznor & Atticus RossTemplate:Efn
Luca	Template:Date table sorting	Enrico Casarosa	Jesse Andrews, Casarosa & Simon Stephenson	Andrews & Mike Jones	Andrea Warren	Dan Romer
Turning Red	Template:Date table sorting	Domee Shi	Julia Cho, Shi & Sarah Streicher	Cho & Shi	Lindsey Collins	Ludwig GöranssonTemplate:Efn
Lightyear	Template:Date table sorting	Angus MacLane	Matthew Aldrich, Jason Headley & MacLane	Headley & MacLane	Galyn Susman	Michael Giacchino
Elemental	Template:Date table sorting	Peter Sohn	John Hoberg, Brenda Hsueh, Kat Likkel & Sohn	Hoberg, Hsueh & Likkel	Denise Ream	Thomas Newman
Inside Out 2	Template:Date table sorting	Kelsey Mann	Meg LeFauve & Mann	Dave Holstein & LeFauve	Mark Nielsen	Andrea Datzman

Upcoming

Film	Release date	Director(s)	Writer(s)		Producer(s)	Composer(s)	Production status	Template:Ref heading
			Story	Screenplay
Elio	Template:Date table sorting	Domee Shi, Madeline Sharafian & Adrian Molina	Template:TBA	Template:TBA	Mary Alice Drumm	Rob Simonsen	In production
Hoppers	Template:Date table sorting	Daniel Chong			Nicole Paradis Grindle	Template:TBA
Toy Story 5	Template:Date table sorting	Andrew Stanton Co-directed by: McKenna Harris	Stanton		Jessica Choi	Template:TBA
Incredibles 3	Template:TBA	Template:TBA	Template:TBA	Template:TBA	Template:TBA	Template:TBA	In pre-production

Unspecified projects

In addition, an unannounced film is scheduled to be released on June 18, 2027.

In-development projects

Additionally, Enrico Casarosa, Aphton Corbin, Brian Fee, Kristen Lester, Adrian Molina, Domee Shi, and Rosana Sullivan have been working on their respective untitled feature films, all of which would be based upon original ideas.Template:Efn

In November 2023, creative director of the Cars franchise Jay Ward said he was working on multiple projects for the franchise.

In October 2024, Pixar was looking to cast Romani actors to voice two Romani characters for an unannounced film project.

Production cycle

In July 2013, then-Pixar president Edwin Catmull said that the studio planned to release one original film each year, and a sequel every other year, as part of a strategy to release "one and a half movies a year". On July 3, 2016, Pixar's current president Jim Morris announced that the studio might move away from sequels after Toy Story 4 and Pixar was only developing original ideas with five films in development at the time of the announcement.

Cancelled projects

Monkey

Back when Pixar was still a part of Lucasfilm in 1985, it started pre-production on a film called Monkey. After Pixar spun off as a new company in 1986, however, it was still working on it. In the end, Pixar abandoned the project due to technical limitations.

The Yellow Car

In 1995, Jorgen Klubien started writing a script for a film titled The Yellow Car. He wrote the first draft of the script with Joe Ranft. Then in 1998, the film was scrapped in favor of Toy Story 2 (1999). In 2001, The Yellow Car would eventually be reworked into Cars (2006).

1906

In 2005, Pixar began collaborating with Disney and Warner Bros. on a live-action film adaptation of James Dalessandro's novel 1906, with Brad Bird announced as the director. It would have marked Pixar's first involvement in a live-action production and its first collaboration with a major production company other than Disney. Disney and Pixar left the project due to script problems and an estimated budget of $200 million, and it is in limbo at Warner Bros. However, in June 2018, Bird mentioned the possibility of adapting the novel as a TV series, and the earthquake sequence as a live-action feature film.

Newt

A Pixar film titled Newt (which was set to be directed by Gary Rydstrom) was announced in April 2008, with Pixar planning to release it in 2011, which was later delayed to 2012, but it had finally been canceled by early 2010. John Lasseter noted that the film's proposed plot line was similar to another film, Blue Sky Studios' Rio (2011). In a March 2014 interview, then-Pixar president Edwin Catmull stated that Newt was an idea that was not working in pre-production. When the project was passed to Pete Docter, the director of Monsters, Inc. and Up, he pitched an idea that Pixar thought was better, and that concept became Inside Out.

ShadeMaker

In 2010, Henry Selick formed a joint venture with Pixar called Cinderbiter Productions, which was to exclusively produce stop-motion films. Its first project under the deal, a film titled ShadeMaker was set to be released on October 4, 2013, but was canceled in August 2012 due to creative differences. Selick was given the option to shop ShadeMaker (now titled The Shadow King) to other studios. Selick later stated in interviews that the film suffered from interference from John Lasseter who Selick claimed came in and constantly changed elements of the script and production that ended up raising the budget that would lead to its cancelation. By November 2022, it was announced that Selick had reacquired the rights for The Shadow King from Disney and that he might revive the project.

The Graveyard Book

Template:Main In April 2012, Walt Disney Pictures acquired the rights and hired Henry Selick, director of The Nightmare Before Christmas and the film adaptation of Gaiman's novel Coraline, to direct The Graveyard Book. The film was moved to Pixar as a stop-motion production, which would have been the company's first adapted work. After the studio and Selick parted ways over scheduling and development, it was announced in January 2013 that Ron Howard would direct the film. In July 2022, it was announced that Marc Forster would direct the adaptation with a screenplay by David Magee under Walt Disney Studios.

Circle Seven Animation projects

In addition, when the now-defunct Circle Seven Animation was open, there were plans for sequels to Finding Nemo (for which Pixar made its own sequel, Finding Dory) and Monsters, Inc. (for which Pixar made a prequel, Monsters University), as well as a different version of Toy Story 3. Pixar's later sequels had no basis in Circle Seven's projects, and were created completely separately.

Other cancelled projects

Teddy Newton, Mark Andrews, Bob Peterson, Lee Unkrich, and Dan Scanlon worked on untitled original films that were shelved before their announcement. The screenplay for Newton's film was written by Derek Connolly.

Co-production

Buzz Lightyear of Star Command: The Adventure Begins is an animated direct-to-video film and a spin-off of the Toy Story franchise produced by Walt Disney Television Animation with an opening sequence created by Pixar. The film was released on August 8, 2000, and led to a television series called, Buzz Lightyear of Star Command with Pixar creating the CGI portion of the opening theme.

A Spark Story is a feature-length documentary film co-produced by Pixar, Disney+, and Supper Club. The film centers on directors Aphton Corbin and Louis Gonzales as they work to bring their SparkShorts projects Twenty Something and Nona to the screen.

Collaboration

Pixar assisted in the English localization of several Studio Ghibli films, mainly those from Hayao Miyazaki.

Pixar was brought on board to fine tune the script of The Muppets. The film was released on November 23, 2011.

Pixar assisted with the story development for The Jungle Book, as well as providing suggestions for the film's end credits sequence. The film was released on April 15, 2016. Additional special thanks credit was given to Mark Andrews.

Mary Poppins Returns includes a sequence combining live-action and traditional hand-drawn animation. The animation was supervised by Ken Duncan and James Baxter. Over 70 animators specializing in hand-drawn 2D animation from Pixar and Walt Disney Animation Studios were recruited for the sequence. The film was released on December 19, 2018.

Related productions

Planes is a spin-off of the Cars franchise, produced by the now defunct DisneyToon Studios and co-written and executive produced by John Lasseter. The film was conceived from the short film Air Mater, which introduces aspects of Planes and ends with a hint of the film. It was released on August 9, 2013. A sequel, Planes: Fire & Rescue, was released on July 18, 2014. A Planes spin-off film was announced in July 2017, with a release date of April 12, 2019, but was removed from the release schedule on March 1, 2018. The film was eventually canceled when DisneyToon Studios was shut down on June 28, 2018.

Ralph Breaks the Internet, produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios and co-executive produced by Lasseter, features Kelly Macdonald reprising her role as Merida from Brave, as well as a cameo from Tim Allen reprising his role (via archive recordings) as Buzz Lightyear from the Toy Story franchise, and a sample of Patrick Doyle's score from Brave. The film, released on November 21, 2018, also features many visual references to Pixar and its films. Additionally, Andrew Stanton received a "Narrative Guru" credit.

Reception

Box office

Year	Film	Budget	Box office gross			Template:Ref heading
			U.S. and Canada	Other territories	Worldwide
1995	Toy Story	$30 million	$223,225,679	$171,210,907	$394,436,586
1998	A Bug's Life	$120 million	$162,798,565	$200,460,294	$363,258,859
1999	Toy Story 2	$90 million	$245,852,179	$265,506,097	$511,358,276
2001	Monsters, Inc.	$115 million	$255,873,250	$272,900,000	$528,773,250
2003	Finding Nemo	$94 million	$339,714,978	$531,300,000	$871,014,978
2004	The Incredibles	$92 million	$261,441,092	$370,001,000	$631,442,092
2006	Cars	$120 million	$244,082,982	$217,900,167	$461,983,149
2007	Ratatouille	$150 million	$206,445,654	$417,280,431	$623,726,085
2008	WALL-E	$180 million	$223,808,164	$297,503,696	$521,311,860
2009	Up	$175 million	$293,004,164	$442,094,918	$735,099,082
2010	Toy Story 3	$200 million	$415,004,880	$651,964,823	$1,066,969,703
2011	Cars 2	$200 million	$191,452,396	$368,400,000	$559,852,396
2012	Brave	$185 million	$237,283,207	$301,700,000	$538,983,207
2013	Monsters University	$200 million	$268,492,764	$475,066,843	$743,559,607
2015	Inside Out	$175 million	$356,461,711	$501,149,463	$857,611,174
2015	The Good Dinosaur	$175 million	$123,087,120	$209,120,551	$332,207,671
2016	Finding Dory	$200 million	$486,295,561	$542,275,328	$1,028,570,889
2017	Cars 3	$175 million	$152,901,115	$231,029,541	$383,930,656
2017	Coco	$175 million	$210,460,015	$604,181,157	$814,641,172
2018	Incredibles 2	$200 million	$608,581,744	$634,223,615	$1,242,805,359
2019	Toy Story 4	$200 million	$434,038,008	$639,356,585	$1,073,394,593
2020	Onward	$175–200 million	$61,555,145	$80,384,897	$141,940,042
2020	Soul	$150 million	$946,154	$120,957,731	$121,903,885
2021	Luca	Template:N/a	$1,324,302Template:Efn	$49,788,012	$51,112,314
2022	Turning Red	$175 million	$1,399,001Template:Efn	$20,414,357	$21,813,358
2022	Lightyear	$200 million	$118,307,188	$108,118,232	$226,425,420
2023	Elemental	$200 million	$154,426,697	$342,017,611	$496,444,308
2024	Inside Out 2	$200 million	$652,980,194	$1,045,050,771	$1,698,030,965

Critical and public response

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Film	Critical		Public
	Rotten Tomatoes	Metacritic	CinemaScore
A Bug's Life	92% (91 reviews)	78 (23 reviews)	Template:Sort grade
Ratatouille	96% (253 reviews)	96 (37 reviews)	Template:Sort grade
WALL-E	95% (261 reviews)	95 (39 reviews)	Template:Sort grade
Up	98% (297 reviews)	88 (37 reviews)	Template:Sort grade
Brave	79% (256 reviews)	69 (37 reviews)	Template:Sort grade
The Good Dinosaur	75% (220 reviews)	66 (37 reviews)	Template:Sort grade
Coco	97% (357 reviews)	81 (48 reviews)	Template:Sort grade
Onward	88% (350 reviews)	64 (56 reviews)	Template:Sort grade
Soul	95% (360 reviews)	83 (55 reviews)	rowspan="3" Template:N/a
Luca	91% (303 reviews)	71 (52 reviews)
Turning Red	95% (289 reviews)	83 (52 reviews)
Elemental	73% (262 reviews)	58 (45 reviews)	Template:Sort grade

Academy Awards

Film	Best Picture	Animated Feature	Original Screenplay	Adapted Screenplay	Original Score	Original Song	SoundTemplate:Efn		Other
							Sound Editing	Sound Mixing
Toy Story		rowspan="3" Template:N/A	Template:Nom	rowspan="2" Template:N/A	rowspan=2 Template:Nom	Template:Nom			Template:Won
A Bug's Life
Toy Story 2		Template:N/A			Template:Nom
Monsters, Inc.		Template:Nom		rowspan="7" Template:N/A	rowspan=2 Template:Nom	Template:Won	rowspan=2 Template:Nom
Finding Nemo		rowspan=2 Template:Won	rowspan=2 Template:Nom
The Incredibles				Template:Won	Template:Nom
Cars		Template:Nominated			Template:Nominated
Ratatouille		rowspan=4 Template:Won	rowspan=3 Template:Nom	rowspan=2 Template:Nom		rowspan=4 Template:Nom	rowspan=2 Template:Nom
WALL-E		Template:Nom
Up	rowspan=2 Template:Nom	Template:Won
Toy Story 3	rowspan="2" Template:N/A	Template:Nom		Template:Won
Cars 2
Brave		Template:Won		Template:N/A
Monsters University			Template:N/A
Inside Out		Template:Won	Template:Nom	rowspan="2" Template:N/A
The Good Dinosaur
Finding Dory			rowspan="2" Template:N/A
Cars 3
Coco		Template:Won		Template:N/A		Template:Won
Incredibles 2		Template:Nom	rowspan="2" Template:N/A
Toy Story 4		Template:Won			Template:Nom
Onward		Template:Nom		rowspan="4" Template:N/A
Soul		Template:Won		Template:Won		colspan="2" Template:Nom
Luca		rowspan="2" Template:Nom
Turning Red
Lightyear			Template:N/A
Elemental		Template:Nom		Template:N/A
Inside Out 2			Template:N/A

See also

• List of Pixar shorts
• List of Pixar television series
• List of computer-animated films
• List of Blue Sky Studios productions
• List of Walt Disney Animation Studios films
• List of Disney theatrical animated feature films
• List of 20th Century Studios theatrical animated feature films

External links

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