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Pixar, doing business as Pixar Animation Studios, is an American animation studio based in Emeryville, California, known for its commercially successful computer-animated feature films. Pixar is a subsidiary of Walt Disney Studios, a division of the Disney Entertainment segment of the Walt Disney Company.
The studio started in 1974 as part of the Lucasfilm computer division. It was known as the Graphics Group before its spin-off as a corporation in 1986, with funding from Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, who became its majority shareholder. The studio's mascot is Luxo Jr., a desk lamp from the studio's 1986 short film of the same name. Disney announced its acquisition of Pixar in January 2006, and completed it in May 2006. Pixar is best known for its feature films, technologically powered by its RenderMan software. RenderMan began as Pixar's implementation of the industry-standard RenderMan Interface Specification (RISpec) image-rendering API, which came out in 1988; support for RISpec was dropped in 2016. RenderMan became fully path-traced and physically based (PBR).
In addition to producing short films, Pixar has produced 32 feature films, with its first film being Toy Story (1995), which is also the first fully computer-animated feature film, and its most recent film was Toy Story 5 (2026). As of July 2023, its feature films have earned over $17 billion at the worldwide box office with an average gross of $589 million per film. Toy Story 3 (2010), Finding Dory (2016), Incredibles 2 (2018), Toy Story 4 (2019) and Inside Out 2 (2024) all grossed over $1 billion and are among the 50 highest-grossing films of all time. Moreover, 13 of Pixar's films are in the 50 highest-grossing animated films of all time. As of August 2025, Inside Out 2 was the second highest-grossing animated film of all time.
Pixar has earned 23 Academy Awards, 10 Golden Globe Awards, and 11 Grammy Awards, along with numerous other awards and acknowledgments. Since its inauguration in 2001, eleven Pixar films have won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, including Finding Nemo (2003), The Incredibles (2004), Ratatouille (2007), WALL-E (2008), Up (2009), Toy Story 3 and Toy Story 4, Brave (2012), Inside Out (2015), Coco (2017), and Soul (2020). Toy Story 3 and Up were also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture.
In February 2009, Pixar executives John Lasseter, Brad Bird, Pete Docter, Andrew Stanton, and Lee Unkrich were presented with the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement by the Venice Film Festival. The physical award was ceremonially handed to Lucasfilm's founder,
George
Lucas.
This
is an A to Z listing of some of the best film making companies on planet
earth, in our opinion. We
also quote and reference the views and reviews of others for the purposes
of balanced comparison.
AMAZON
MGM - PRIME VIDEO & 007 JAMES BOND FRANCHISE
ALLIANCE
FILMS - ENTERTAINMENT ONE
ALLIED
ARTISTS
AMBLIN
ENTERTAINMENT
ANCHOR
BAY ENTERTAINMENT
BBC
- BRITISH BROADCASTING CORPORATION TELEVISION
BONA
FILM GROUP
CAPTIVATE
ENTERTAINMENT LLC
CENTROPOLIS
ENTERTAINMENT
CHANNEL
4 - BRITISH FOURTH TELEVISION BROADCASTER
COLUMBIA
PICTURES
DAVIS
ENTERTAINMENT
DIMENSION
FILMS
DREAMWORKS
- ANIMATION
HBO
HOLLYWOOD
PICTURES
ILLUMINATION
- ANIMATION
LIONSGATE
MILLENIUM
MIRAMAX
MGM
NETFLIX
ORIGINAL
FILM PRODUCTION
PARAMOUNT
PICTURES
PERFECT
WORLD PICTURES
PIXAR
- ANIMATION
RELATIVITY
MEDIA
SILVER
SCREEN PARTNERS
SKY
ATLANTIC
SKYDANCE
MEDIA
TOUCHSTONE
PICTURES
TRISTAR
PICTURES
TWENTIETH
CENTURY FOX FILM CORPORATION
UNITED
ARTISTS
UNIVERSAL
PICTURES
WALT
DISNEY PICTURES
WARNER
BROS PICTURES
LINKS
& REFERENCE
https://www.pixar.com/
https://www.pixar.com/
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