Pixar

Pixar Animation Studios, commonly referred to as Pixar (/ˈpɪksɑːr/), is an American computer animation film studio based in Emeryville, California, that is a subsidiary of Walt Disney Studios, owned by the Walt Disney Company. Pixar began in 1979 as the Graphics Group, part of the Lucasfilm computer division, before its spin-out as a corporation in 1986, with funding by Apple Inc. co-founder Steve Jobs, who became the majority shareholder. Disney purchased Pixar in 2006 at a valuation of $7.4 billion by converting each share of Pixar stock to 2.3 shares of Disney stock, a transaction that resulted in Jobs becoming Disney's largest single shareholder at the time. Pixar is best known for CGI-animated feature films created with RenderMan, Pixar's own implementation of the industry-standard RenderMan image-rendering application programming interface, used to generate high-quality images.
Pixar has produced 21 feature films, beginning with Toy Story (1995), which was the first-ever computer-animated feature film; its most recent film was Toy Story 4 (2019). All of the studio's films have debuted with CinemaScore ratings of at least an "A−," indicating positive receptions with audiences. The studio has also produced dozens of short films. As of August 2018, its feature films have earned approximately $13 billion at the worldwide box office, with an average worldwide gross of $659.7 million per film. Finding Nemo (2003), along with its sequel Finding Dory (2016), as well as Toy Story 3 (2010) and Incredibles 2 (2018) are among the 50 highest-grossing films of all time, with the latter being the second-highest-grossing animated film of all time with a gross of $1.2 billion. Fifteen of Pixar's films are also among the 50 highest-grossing animated films of all time.
The studio has earned 19 Academy Awards, 8 Golden Globe Awards, and 11 Grammy Awards, among many other awards and acknowledgments. Many of Pixar's films have been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature since its inauguration in 2001, with nine winning; this includes Finding Nemo and Toy Story 3, along with The Incredibles (2004), Ratatouille (2007), WALL-E (2008), Up (2009), Brave (2012), Inside Out (2015), and Coco (2017). Monsters, Inc. (2001) and Cars (2006) are the only two films that were nominated for the award without winning it, while Cars 2 (2011), Monsters University (2013), The Good Dinosaur (2015), Finding Dory (2016), and Cars 3 (2017), were not nominated. Up and Toy Story 3 were also the respective second and third animated films to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture, the first being Walt Disney Animation Studios' Beauty and the Beast (1991). Luxo Jr., a character from the studio's 1986 short film of the same name, is the studio's mascot.
On September 6, 2009, Pixar executives John Lasseter, Brad Bird, Pete Docter, Andrew Stanton, and Lee Unkrich were presented with the Golden Lion award for Lifetime Achievement by the Venice Film Festival. The award was presented by Lucasfilm's founder George Lucas.
==Filmography==
===Feature films===
====Released films====
# 	Title 	Release date 	Budget 	Box office 	RT 	MC
1 	Toy Story 	November 22, 1995	$30 million 	$373 million 	100%	95
2 	A Bug's Life 	November 25, 1998	$120 million 	$363 million 	92% 	77
3 	Toy Story 2 	November 24, 1999	$90 million 	$497 million 	100%	88
4 	Monsters, Inc. 	November 2, 2001 	$115 million 	$577 million 	96% 	78
5 	Finding Nemo 	May 30, 2003 	$94 million 	$940 million 	99% 	90
6 	The Incredibles 	November 5, 2004 	$92 million 	$633 million 	97% 	90
7 	Cars 	June 9, 2006 	$120 million 	$462 million 	74% 	73
8 	Ratatouille 	June 29, 2007 	$150 million 	$620 million 	96% 	96
9 	WALL-E 	June 27, 2008 	$180 million 	$533 million 	96% 	95
10	Up 	May 29, 2009 	$175 million 	$735 million 	98% 	88
11	Toy Story 3 	June 18, 2010 	$200 million 	$1.067 billion	98% 	92
12	Cars 2 	June 24, 2011 	$200 million 	$562 million 	38% 	57
13	Brave 	June 22, 2012 	$185 million 	$540 million 	79% 	69
14	Monsters University	June 21, 2013 	$200 million 	$744 million 	79% 	65
15	Inside Out 	June 19, 2015 	$175 million 	$857 million 	98% 	94
16	The Good Dinosaur 	November 25, 2015	$175 million 	$332 million 	76% 	66
17	Finding Dory 	June 17, 2016 	$175–200 million	$1.029 billion	94% 	77
18	Cars 3 	June 16, 2017 	$175 million 	$383 million 	70% 	59
19	Coco 	November 22, 2017	$175 million 	$807 million 	97% 	81
20	Incredibles 2 	June 15, 2018 	$200 million 	$1.242 billion	94% 	80
21	Toy Story 4 	June 21, 2019 	$175–200 million	$1.073 billion	97% 	84
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====Upcoming films====
# 	Title 	Release date
22	Onward 	March 6, 2020
23	Soul 	June 19, 2020
24	Untitled films	June 18, 2021
25	Untitled films	March 11, 2022
26	Untitled films	June 17, 2022
27	Untitled films	June 16, 2023
===Television specials===
#	Title 	Release date 	Network
1	Toy Story of Terror! 	October 16, 2013	ABC
2	Toy Story That Time Forgot	December 2, 2014	ABC
===Short films===
# 	Title 	Release date
1 	The Adventures of André & Wally B.	July 25, 1984
2 	Luxo Jr. 	August 17, 1986
3 	Red's Dream 	July 1987
4 	Tin Toy 	August 2, 1988
5 	Knick Knack 	January 3, 1989
6 	Geri's Game 	November 25, 1998
7 	For the Birds 	November 2, 2001
8 	Mike's New Car 	September 17, 2002
9 	Boundin' 	November 5, 2004
10	Jack-Jack Attack 	March 15, 2005
11	One Man Band 	June 9, 2006
12	Mater and the Ghostlight 	November 7, 2006
13	Lifted 	June 29, 2007
14	Your Friend the Rat 	November 6, 2007
15	Presto 	June 27, 2008
16	BURN-E 	November 18, 2008
17	Tokyo Mater 	December 12, 2008
18	Partly Cloudy 	May 29, 2009
19	Dug's Special Mission 	November 10, 2009
20	George and A.J. 	November 2009
21	Day & Night 	June 18, 2010
22	Hawaiian Vacation 	June 24, 2011
23	Small Fry 	November 23, 2011
24	La Luna 	June 22, 2012
25	Partysaurus Rex 	September 14, 2012
26	The Legend of Mor'du 	November 13, 2012
27	The Blue Umbrella 	June 21, 2013
28	Party Central 	March 21, 2014
29	Lava 	June 19, 2015
30	Riley's First Date? 	November 3, 2015
31	Sanjay's Super Team 	November 25, 2015
32	Piper 	June 17, 2016
33	Marine Life Interviews 	November 15, 2016
34	Dante's Lunch—A Short Tail 	March 29, 2017
35	Lou 	June 16, 2017
36	Miss Fritter's Racing Skoool 	November 7, 2017
37	Bao 	June 15, 2018
39	Auntie Edna 	November 6, 2018
30	Purl 	February 4, 2019
40	Smash and Grab 	February 11, 2019
41	Kitball 	February 18, 2019
42	Loop 	2019
43	Wind 	2019
44	Float 	2019
===Television series===
# 	Title 	Premiere date 	End date 	Network
1 	Buzz Lightyear of Star Command	October 2, 2000	January 13, 2001	ABC
Upcoming	Upcoming 	Upcoming 	Upcoming 	Upcoming
2 	Monsters at Work 	2020 	TBA 	Disney+
==Franchises==
Title 	Release date
Toy Story 	1995–present
Monsters, Inc. 	2001–present
Finding Nemo 	2003–present
The Incredibles	2004–present
Cars 	2006–present
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