Pixar Animation Studios is a CGI animation production company based in Emeryville, California, United States. Created in 1979 as a division of Lucasfilm, it has been a subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company since 2006. Feature films produced by Pixar have won numerous awards, including eighteen Academy Awards, ten Golden Globe Awards and eleven Grammy Awards.
The following is a list of all the feature films Pixar has released with the nominations and awards they received.
Films Toy Story Toy Story was released in 1995 to be the first feature film in history produced using only computer animation. The film, directed by John Lasseter and starring Tom Hanks and Tim Allen, went on to gross over $191 million in the United States during its initial theatrical release, and took in more than $373 million worldwide. Reviews were overwhelmingly positive, praising both the technical innovation of the animation and the wit and sophistication of the screenplay.
Awards Year Association Award Category Recipient (if any) Result Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards Best Animation Won1996 ASCAP Film and Television Music Awards Tox Box Office Films of 1995 Award Randy NewmanAcademy Awards Best Original Screenplay Joss Whedon (screenplay), Andrew Stanton (screenplay/story), Joel Cohen (screenplay), Alec Sokolow (screenplay), John Lasseter (story), Pete Docter (story) and Joe Ranft (story) rowspan="3" Best Original Musical or Comedy ScoreRandy Newman Best Original Song (for "You've Got a Friend in Me") Special Achievement John LasseterWonAcademy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films Best Fantasy Film rowspan="2" Best Writing Joss Whedon, Alec Sokolow, Andrew Stanton and Joel CohenAnnie AwardsAnnie Awards - 24th Annie AwardsBest Animated FeatureWon Best Individual Achievement: Animation Pete DocterBest Individual Achievement: Directing John LasseterBest Individual Achievement: Music Randy Newman Best Individual Achievement: Producing Bonnie Arnold and Ralph GuggenheimBest Individual Achievement: Production Design Ralph EgglestonBest Individual Achievement: Voice ActingTom Hanks as Woody Best Individual Achievement: Technical Achievement WonBest Individual Achievement: Writing Andrew Stanton, Joss Whedon, Joel Cohen and Alec Sokolow Chicago Film Critics Association Best Original Score Randy NewmanGolden Globe AwardsBest Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy rowspan="5" Best Original Song – Motion Picture (for "You've Got a Friend in Me") Randy Newman Hugo Awards Best Dramatic Presentation Kids' Choice Awards Favorite Movie MTV Movie Awards Best On-Screen Duo Tim Allen and Tom Hanks Motion Picture Sound Editors Best Sound Editing – Animated Feature Gary RydstromWon Producers Guild of America Award Special Award of Merit Bonnie Arnold and Ralph GuggenheimYoung Artist Awards Best Family Feature – Musical or Comedy Best Voiceover Performance by a Young Actress Sarah Freeman BAFTA Awards Best Achievement in Special Visual Effects Eben Ostby and William Reeves rowspan="3" 2001 Online Film Critics Society Best DVD(The Ultimate Toy Box Edition) Best DVD Special Features(The Ultimate Toy Box Edition) AFI's 100 Years...100 Songs "You've Got a Friend in Me" Randy Newman National Film Preservation Board Added to the National Film Registry Won
A Bug's Life A Bug's Life (officially trademarked as a bug's life) was released on November 25, 1998, in the United States. It tells the tale of a misfit individualist ant who hires what he thinks are "warrior bugs" (actually circus performers) to protect his colony from greedy grasshoppers. The film was directed by John Lasseter and also marked the last film appearances for Roddy McDowall and Madeline Kahn.
AwardsYearAssociationAward CategoryRecipient (if any)Result1998 Kansas City Film Critics Circle Best Animated Film Won Los Angeles Film Critics Association Best Animation – Feature-Length 1999 Academy Awards Best Original Musical or Comedy Score Randy Newman rowspan="6" Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films Best Fantasy Film Annie AwardsOutstanding Achievement in an Animated Theatrical Feature Outstanding Individual Achievement for Directing in an Animated Feature Production John Lasseter and Andrew StantonOutstanding Individual Achievement for Production Design in an Animated Feature Production William ConeOutstanding Individual Achievement for Writing in an Animated Feature Production John Lasseter, Andrew Stanton, Joe Ranft, Don McEnery and Bob Shaw Blockbuster Entertainment Awards Favorite Animated Family Movie Won Bogey Awards Bogey Award in Silver Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards Best Animated Film John Lasseter and Andrew StantonWon(tied withThe Prince of Egypt) Best Family FilmWon Casting Society of America Best Casting for Animated Voiceover Ruth Lambert Chicago Film Critics Association Best Original ScoreRandy Newman rowspan="2" Golden Globes Best Original Score Golden Screen Awards Golden Screen Won Kids' Choice Awards Favorite Movie Motion Picture Sound Editors Best Sound Editing – Animated Feature Gary Rydstrom, Tim Holland, Pat Jackson, Michael Silvers, Mary Helen Leasman, and Marian WildeWon Best Sound Editing, Music – Animated Feature Unknown Satellite Awards Best Motion Picture – Animated or Mixed Media Darla K. Anderson and Kevin ReherWonYoung Artist Awards Best Family Feature – Animated rowspan="3" Best Performance in a Voice Over in a Feature or TV – Best Young Actress Hayden Panettiere2000 BAFTA Awards Best Achievement in Special Visual Effects William Reeves, Eben Ostby, Rick Sayre, and Sharon CallahanGrammy Awards Best Instrumental CompositionRandy NewmanWon Best Song(for the song "The Time of Your Life")
Toy Story 2
Toy Story 2 was released in 1999, directed by John Lasseter, Lee Unkrich and Ash Brannon. The movie keeps most of the original characters and voices from Toy Story, including Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Don Rickles, Jim Varney, Wallace Shawn, Annie Potts, and John Ratzenberger. They are joined by new characters voiced by Joan Cusack, Kelsey Grammer, Wayne Knight, and Estelle Harris.
Monsters, Inc. Monsters, Inc. was released in 2001 written by Jack W. Bunting, Jill Culton, Peter Docter, Ralph Eggleston, Dan Gerson, Jeff Pidgeon, Rhett Reese, Jonathan Roberts and Andrew Stanton. It was directed by Pete Docter, co-directed by Lee Unkrich, and David Silverman.
Monsters, Inc. premiered in the United States on October 28, 2001, and went into general release on November 2, 2001, and was a commercial and critical success, grossing over $525 million worldwide during its initial theatrical release. Review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes also reported extremely positive reviews with a fresh 96% approval rating.
Awards Year Association Award Category Recipient (if any) Result2002 ASCAP Film and Television Music Awards Top Box Office Films of 2002 Award Randy NewmanWonAcademy Awards Best Animated Feature Pete Docter and John Lasseter rowspan="2" Best Original ScoreRandy Newman Best Original Song (for "If I Didn't Have You")Won Best Sound Editing Gary Rydstrom and Michael Silvers rowspan="4" Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films Best animated Film Best film Robert L. Baird and Daniel Gerson American Cinema Editors Best animated Feature Film – Comedy or Musical Jim Stewart BAFTA Awards BAFTA Children's Award - Best Feature Film Darla K. Anderson, Pete Docter, Andrew Stanton and Daniel GersonWon Bogey Awards Bogey Award in Silver Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards Best Animated Film Golden Trailer Awards Best Animation/Family (for "Trailer #1")Won Best Comedy Hochi Film Awards Best Foreign Language Film Pete Docter, David Silverman and Lee UnkrichWon Hugo Awards Best animated cinema rowspan="6" Kids' Choice Awards Favorite Voice from an Animated Movie Billy CrystalMotion Picture Sound Editors Best Sound Editing – Animated Feature Film, Domestic and Foreign Gary Rydstrom, Michael Silvers, Karen G. Wilson, Jonathan Null, Tom Myers, Shannon Mills, Teresa Eckton, Stephen Kearney and Lindakay Brown Best Sound Editing, Music – Animated Feature Bruno Coon Online Film Critics Society Best Animated Feature Satellite Awards Best Motion Picture, Animated or Mixed MediaWorld Soundtrack Awards Best Original Song Written for a Film (for "If I Didn't Have You") Randy Newman, Billy Crystal and John GoodmanWon Best Original Soundtrack of the Year - OrchestralRandy Newman rowspan="5" Soundtrack Composer of the Year Young Artist Awards Best Family Feature Film – Animation2003Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films Best DVD Special Edition ReleaseAnnie Awards Outstanding Achievement in an Animated Theatrical FeatureOutstanding Character Animation Doug SweetlandWon John Kahrs rowspan="6" Outstanding Character Design in an Animated Feature Production Ricky Nierva Outstanding Directing in an Animated Feature Production Pete Docter, Lee Unkrich and David Silverman Outstanding Music in an Animated Feature Production Randy Newman Outstanding Production Design in an Animated Feature Production Harley Jessup Outstanding Writing in an Animated Feature Production Andrew Stanton and Daniel GersonGrammy Awards Best Song (for "If I Didn't Have You")Randy NewmanWon Best Score Soundtrack Album Satellite Awards Best Youth DVDWon
Finding Nemo Finding Nemo was released in 2003, written by Andrew Stanton, directed by Stanton and Lee Unkrich. It tells the story of the overly protective clownfish Marlin (Albert Brooks), who along with a regal tang called Dory (Ellen DeGeneres), searches for his son Nemo (Alexander Gould). Along the way he learns to take risks and that his son is capable of taking care of himself.
The film received overwhelmingly positive reviews and won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, the first Pixar feature to do so. It was a financial blockbuster as it grossed over $867 million worldwide during its initial theatrical release. It is the best-selling DVD of all time, with over 40 million copies sold as of 2006Boone, Louis E. Contemporary Business 2006, Thomson South-Western, page 4 - and is the third highest-grossing G-rated film of all time, behind Toy Story 3 and The Lion King. In 2008, the American Film Institute named it the 10th greatest American Animated film ever made during their 10 Top 10.AFI: 10 Top 10