# List of Pixar shorts

This is a list of animated short films produced by Pixar Animation Studios.
Beginning with Pixar's first film Toy Story, almost all subsequent Pixar feature films have been shown in theaters along with a Pixar-created original short film, known as a "short." Other Pixar shorts, released only on home media, were created to showcase Pixar's technology or cinematic capabilities, or on commission for clients.
Pixar began producing shorts in the 1980s. The first shorts were made while Pixar was still a computer hardware company, when John Lasseter was the only professional animator in the company's small animation department. Starting with Geri's Game, after Pixar had converted into an animation studio, all later shorts have been produced with a larger crew and budget.
Pixar produced four CGI shorts for the educational TV series Sesame Street between 1990 and 1994. The shorts illustrate different weights and directions starring Luxo Jr. and Luxo — Light & Heavy, Surprise, Up and Down, and Front and Back.
During the development of Toy Story, Pixar set up a division to work on Pixar video games called Pixar's Interactive Products Group, specifically Toy Story entries in the Disney's Animated Storybook and Disney's Activity Center. Due to the intense resources required, the division was eventually folded and the staff were redistributed to start creating short films to accompany Pixar's theatrical releases.
Beginning with A Bug's Life, Pixar has created extra content for each of their films that are not part of the main story. For their early theatrical releases, this content was in the form of outtakes and appeared as part of the film's credits. For each of their films, this content was a short made exclusively for the DVD release of the film.
Toy Story 4 was the first film not to have a theatrical short before it. Coco and Onward had theatrical shorts from other subsidiaries related to Disney. Lightyear and Inside Out 2 had no theatrical shorts before them. Elemental was the first film, released theatrically in the United States, to have a Pixar-produced short in front of it since Incredibles 2.

## Shorts
### Original short films

| Title | Year | Director(s) | Initial release with | Initial release with | Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film |
| Title | Year | Director(s) | Theatrical | Home/Premiere | Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film |
| The Adventures of André & Wally B. | 1984 | Alvy Ray Smith | Toy Story | | |
| Luxo Jr. | 1986 | John Lasseter | Toy Story 2 | Toy Story 2 | Nominated |
| Red's Dream | 1987 | John Lasseter | | | |
| Tin Toy | 1988 | John Lasseter | | Toy Story | Won |
| Knick Knack | 1989 | John Lasseter | Finding Nemo (first release) The Nightmare Before Christmas (second release) | Finding Nemo | |
| Geri's Game | 1997 | Jan Pinkava | A Bug's Life | A Bug's Life | Won |
| For the Birds | 2000 | Ralph Eggleston | Monsters, Inc. (first release) Luca (second release) | Monsters, Inc. | Won |
| Boundin' | 2003 | Bud Luckey | The Incredibles | The Incredibles | Nominated |
| One Man Band | 2006 | Andrew Jimenez and Mark Andrews | Cars | Cars | | Nominated |
| Lifted | 2007 | Gary Rydstrom | Ratatouille | Ratatouille | | Nominated |
| Presto | 2008 | Doug Sweetland | WALL-E | WALL-E | | Nominated |
| Partly Cloudy | 2009 | Peter Sohn | Up | Up | Shortlisted |
| Day & Night | 2010 | Teddy Newton | Toy Story 3 | Toy Story 3 | Nominated |
| La Luna | 2011 | Enrico Casarosa | Brave | Brave | | Nominated |
| The Blue Umbrella | 2013 | Saschka Unseld | Monsters University | Monsters University | |
| Lava | 2014 | James Ford Murphy | Inside Out | Inside Out | | |
| Sanjay's Super Team | 2015 | Sanjay Patel | The Good Dinosaur | The Good Dinosaur | Nominated |
| Piper | 2016 | Alan Barillaro | Finding Dory | Finding Dory | Won |
| Lou | 2017 | David Mullins | Cars 3 | Cars 3 | Nominated |
| Bao | 2018 | Domee Shi | Incredibles 2 | Incredibles 2 | Won |

### Feature-related

| Title | Year | Director(s) | Initial release with | Initial release with | Associated Feature Film | Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film |
| Title | Year | Director(s) | Theatrical | Home/Premiere | Associated Feature Film | Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film |
| Mike's New Car | 2002 | Pete Docter and Roger Gould | | Monsters, Inc. | Monsters, Inc. | Nominated |
| Exploring the Reef | 2003 | Roger Gould | | Finding Nemo | Finding Nemo | |
| Jack-Jack Attack | 2005 | Brad Bird | | The Incredibles | The Incredibles | |
| Mr. Incredible and Pals | 2005 | Roger Gould | | The Incredibles | The Incredibles | |
| Mater and the Ghostlight | 2006 | John Lasseter | | Cars | Cars | |
| Your Friend the Rat | 2007 | Jim Capobianco | | Ratatouille | Ratatouille | |
| BURN-E | 2008 | Angus MacLane | | WALL-E | WALL-E | |
| Dug's Special Mission | 2009 | Ronnie del Carmen | | Up | Up | |
| George and A.J. | 2009 | Josh Cooley | | Up | Up | |
| The Legend of Mor'du | 2012 | Brian Larsen | | Brave | Brave | |
| Party Central | 2013 | Kelsey Mann | Muppets Most Wanted | Disney Movies Anywhere | Monsters University | |
| Riley's First Date? | 2015 | Josh Cooley | | Inside Out | Inside Out | |
| Marine Life Interviews | 2016 | Ross Haldane Stevenson | | Finding Dory | Finding Dory | |
| Miss Fritter's Racing Skoool | 2017 | James Ford Murphy | | Cars 3 | Cars 3 | |
| Dante's Lunch | 2017 | Jason Katz | | Coco | Coco | |
| Auntie Edna | 2018 | Ted Mathot | | Incredibles 2 | Incredibles 2 | |
| Lamp Life | 2020 | Valerie LaPointe | | Disney+ | Toy Story 4 | |
| 22 vs. Earth | 2021 | Kevin Nolting | | Disney+ | Soul | |
| Ciao Alberto | 2021 | McKenna Harris | | Disney+ | Luca | |

### SparkShorts series

SparkShorts is a series of animated short films produced by Pixar filmmakers and artists, similar to its sister series Short Circuit from Walt Disney Animation Studios. It consists of longer independent shorts. Under the project, Pixar's employees are merely given six months and limited budgets to develop these animated short films.
| Title | Year | Director(s) | Premiered | Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film |
| Purl | 2019 | Kristen Lester | YouTube | |
| Smash and Grab | 2019 | Brian Larsen | YouTube | |
| Kitbull | 2019 | Rosana Sullivan | YouTube Theatrical with Turning Red | Nominated |
| Float | 2019 | Bobby Alcid Rubio | Disney+ | |
| Wind | 2019 | Edwin Chang | Disney+ | |
| Loop | 2020 | Erica Milsom | Disney+ | |
| Out | 2020 | Steven Clay Hunter | Disney+ | Shortlisted |
| Burrow | 2020 | Madeline Sharafian | Theatrical with Soul | Nominated |
| Twenty Something | 2021 | Aphton Corbin | Disney+ | |
| Nona | 2021 | Louis Gonzales | Disney+ | |
| Self | 2024 | Searit Kahsay Huluf | Disney+ | |

### Pixar Popcorn

| Title | Associated Feature Film | Year(s) | Director(s) | Premiere |
| To Fitness and Beyond | Toy Story 4 | 2021 | Adam Rodriguez | Disney+ |
| Unparalleled Parking | Cars 3 | 2021 | James Ford Murphy | Disney+ |
| Dory Finding | Finding Dory | 2021 | Michal Makarewicz | Disney+ |
| Soul of the City | Soul | 2021 | Christopher Chua | Disney+ |
| Fluffy Stuff with Ducky and Bunny: Love | Toy Story 4 | 2021 | Robert H. Russ | Disney+ |
| Chore Day the Incredibles Way | Incredibles 2 | 2021 | Alan Barillaro | Disney+ |
| A Day in the Life of the Dead | Coco | 2021 | Allison Rutland | Disney+ |
| Fluffy Stuff with Ducky and Bunny: Three Heads | Toy Story 4 | 2021 | Robert H. Russ | Disney+ |
| Dancing with the Cars | Cars 3 | 2021 | Juan Carlos Navarro Carrión | Disney+ |
| Cookie Num Num | Incredibles 2 | 2021 | Jae Hyung Kim | Disney+ |