This is a list of movies that have been released or are soon to be released by Pixar.
All movies listed are co-produced by Walt Disney Pictures and released by Buena Vista Pictures Distribution (1995–2007)/Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures (2008–present).
| Film | Release date | Director(s) | Writer(s) | Producer(s) | Composer(s) | Note (s) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Story | Screenplay | ||||||
| Toy Story | November 22, 1995 | John Lasseter | Lasseter, Pete Docter, Andrew Stanton & Joe Ranft | Joss Whedon, Stanton, Joel Cohen & Alec Sokolow | Bonnie Arnold & Ralph Guggenheim | Randy Newman | |
| A Bug's Life | November 25, 1998 | John Lasseter Co-directed by: Andrew Stanton |
Lasseter, Stanton & Joe Ranft | Stanton, Donald McEnery & Bob Shaw | Darla K. Anderson & Kevin Reher | ||
| Toy Story 2 | November 24, 1999 | John Lasseter Co-directed by: Ash Brannon & Lee Unkrich |
Lasseter, Pete Docter, Brannon & Andrew Stanton | Stanton, Rita Hsiao, Doug Chamberlin & Chris Webb | Helene Plotkin & Karen Robert Jackson | ||
| Monsters, Inc. | November 2, 2001 | Pete Docter Co-directed by: Lee Unkrich & David Silverman |
Docter, Jill Culton, Jeff Pidgeon & Ralph Eggleston | Andrew Stanton & Dan Gerson | Darla K. Anderson | ||
| Finding Nemo | May 30, 2003 | Andrew Stanton Co-directed by: Lee Unkrich |
Stanton | Stanton, Bob Peterson & David Reynolds | Graham Walters | Thomas Newman | co-production with Araneo |
| The Incredibles | November 5, 2004 | Brad Bird | John Walker | Michael Giacchino | co-production with Araneo | ||
| Cars | June 9, 2006 | John Lasseter Co-directed by: Joe Ranft |
Lasseter, Ranft & Jorgen Klubien | Dan Fogelman, Lasseter, Ranft, Kiel Murray, Phil Lorin & Klubien | Darla K. Anderson | Randy Newman | |
| Ratatouille | June 29, 2007 | Brad Bird Co-directed by: Jan Pinkava |
Pinkava, Jim Capobianco & Bird | Bird | Brad Lewis | Michael Giacchino | |
| WALL-E | June 27, 2008 | Andrew Stanton | Stanton & Pete Docter | Stanton & Jim Reardon | Jim Morris | Thomas Newman | |
| Up | May 29, 2009 | Pete Docter Co-directed by: Bob Peterson |
Docter, Peterson & Tom McCarthy | Peterson & Docter | Jonas Rivera | Michael Giacchino | |
| Toy Story 3 | June 18, 2010 | Lee Unkrich | John Lasseter, Andrew Stanton & Unkrich | Michael Arndt | Darla K. Anderson | Randy Newman | |
| Cars 2 | June 24, 2011 | John Lasseter Co-directed by: Brad Lewis |
Lasseter, Lewis & Dan Fogelman | Ben Queen | Denise Ream | Michael Giacchino | co-production with Ellipsanime |
| Brave | June 22, 2012 | Mark Andrews & Brenda Chapman Co-directed by: Steve Purcell |
Chapman | Andrews, Purcell, Chapman & Irene Mecchi | Katherine Sarafian | Patrick Doyle | |
| Monsters University | June 21, 2013 | Dan Scanlon | Dan Gerson, Robert L. Baird & Scanlon | Kori Rae | Randy Newman | ||
| Inside Out | June 19, 2015 | Pete Docter Co-directed by: Ronnie del Carmen |
Docter & del Carmen | Docter, Meg LeFauve & Josh Cooley | Jonas Rivera | Michael Giacchino | |
| The Good Dinosaur | November 25, 2015 | Peter Sohn | Sohn, Erik Benson, Meg LeFauve, Kelsey Mann & Bob Peterson | LeFauve | Denise Ream | Mychael & Jeff Danna | |
| Finding Dory | June 17, 2016 | Andrew Stanton Co-directed by: Angus MacLane |
Stanton | Stanton & Victoria Strouse | Lindsey Collins | Thomas Newman | co-production with Ellipsanime |
| Cars 3 | June 16, 2017 | Brian Fee | Fee, Ben Queen, Eyal Podell & Jonathan E. Stewart | Kiel Murray, Bob Peterson & Mike Rich | Kevin Reher | Randy Newman | |
| Coco | November 22, 2017 | Lee Unkrich Co-directed by: Adrian Molina |
Unkrich, Jason Katz, Matthew Aldrich & Molina | Molina & Aldrich | Darla K. Anderson | Michael Giacchino
co-production with Araneo | |
| Incredibles 2 | June 15, 2018 | Brad Bird | John Walker & Nicole Paradis Grindle | Michael Giacchino | co-production with Araneo | ||
| Toy Story 4 | June 21, 2019 | Josh Cooley | John Lasseter, Andrew Stanton, Cooley, Valerie LaPointe, Rashida Jones, Will McCormack, Martin Hynes & Stephany Folsom | Stanton & Folsom | Mark Nielsen & Jonas Rivera | Randy Newman | |
| Onward | March 6, 2020 | Dan Scanlon | Scanlon, Keith Bunin & Jason Headley | Kori Rae | Mychael & Jeff Danna | ||
| Soul | December 25, 2020 | Pete Docter Co-directed by: Kemp Powers |
Docter, Mike Jones & Powers | Dana Murray | Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross | ||
| Luca | June 18, 2021 | Enrico Casarosa | Casarosa, Jesse Andrews & Simon Stephenson | Andrews & Mike Jones | Andrea Warren | Dan Romer | |
| Turning Red | March 11, 2022 | Domee Shi | Shi, Julia Cho & Sarah Streicher | Cho & Shi | Lindsey Collins | Ludwig Göransson | |
| Lightyear | June 17, 2022 | Angus MacLane | MacLane, Matthew Aldrich & Jason Headley | Headley & MacLane | Galyn Susman | Michael Giacchino | |
| Elemental | June 16, 2023 | Peter Sohn | Sohn, John Hoberg, Kat Likkel & Brenda Hsueh | Hoberg, Likkel & Hsueh | Denise Ream | Thomas Newman | |
| Inside Out 2 | June 14, 2024 | Kelsey Mann | Mann & Meg LeFauve | LeFauve & Dave Holstein | Mark Nielsen | Andrea Datzman | |
| Elio | June 20, 2025 | Madeline Sharafian, Domee Shi & Adrian Molina | Molina, Sharafian, Shi & Julia Cho | Cho, Mark Hammer & Mike Jones | Mary Alice Drumm | Rob Simonsen | |
| Hoppers | March 6, 2026 | Daniel Chong | Daniel Chong & Jesse Andrews | Jesse Andrews | Nicole Paradis Grindle | Mark Mothersbaurgh | |
| Film | Release date | Director(s) | Writer(s) | Producer(s) | Composer(s) | Production status | Ref. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Story | Screenplay | ||||||||
| Toy Story 5 | June 19, 2026 | Andrew Stanton Co-directed by: McKenna Harris |
Stanton | Jessica Choi | In production | co-production with Araneo | |||
| Gatto | March 5, 2027 | Enrico Casarosa | TBA | Andrea Warren | |||||
| Incredibles 3 | June 16, 2028 | Peter Sohn | Brad Bird | Dana Murray | Pre-production | ||||
| Coco 2 | TBA | Lee Unkrich Co-directed by: Adrian Molina |
TBA | Mark Nielsen | |||||
Additionally, Aphton Corbin, Kristen Lester, Domee Shi, and Rosana Sullivan have been working on their respective untitled feature movies, all of which would be based upon original ideas.
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.
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 movies in development at the time of the announcement.
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.
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).
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.
A Pixar film titled Newt (which would have been Gary Rydstrom's feature directorial debut) 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.
In 2010, Henry Selick formed a joint venture with Pixar called Cinderbiter Productions, which was to exclusively produce stop-motion movies. 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.
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. Later that year, Neil Gaiman stated that he has no involvement with the film. In September 2024, it was reported that the production had been halted due to a variety of factors including sexual misconduct allegations against Gaiman.
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.
Teddy Newton, Mark Andrews, Bob Peterson, Lee Unkrich, and Dan Scanlon worked on untitled original movies that were shelved before their announcement. The screenplay for Newton's film was written by Derek Connolly. Andrews, Unkrich, and Scanlon left Pixar in 2018, 2019, and 2024, respectively. Unkrich later returned to Pixar by 2025 to helm Coco 2.
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.
Pixar assisted in the English localization of several Studio Ghibli movies, 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.
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 movies. Additionally, Andrew Stanton received a "Narrative Guru" credit.
| Year | Film | Budget | Box office gross | Ref. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| U.S. and Canada | Other territories | Worldwide | ||||
| 1995 | Toy Story[broken anchor] | $30 million | $223,225,679 | $171,210,907 | $394,436,586 | |
| 1998 | A Bug's Life[broken anchor] | $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[broken anchor] | $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[broken anchor] | $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 | N/a | $1,324,302 | $49,788,012 | $51,112,314 | |
| 2022 | Turning Red | $175 million | $1,399,001 | $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 | |
| Film | Best Picture | Animated Feature | Original Screenplay | Adapted Screenplay | Original Score | Original Song | Sound | Other | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sound Editing | Sound Mixing | ||||||||
| Toy Story | Award not yet introduced | Nominated | Ineligible | Nominated | Nominated | Won Special Achievement | |||
| A Bug's Life | |||||||||
| Toy Story 2 | Ineligible | Nominated | |||||||
| Monsters, Inc. | Nominated | Ineligible | Nominated | Won | Nominated | ||||
| Finding Nemo | Won | Nominated | |||||||
| The Incredibles | Won | Nominated | |||||||
| Cars | Nominated | Nominated | |||||||
| Ratatouille | Won | Nominated | Nominated | Nominated | Nominated | ||||
| WALL-E | Nominated | ||||||||
| Up | Nominated | Won | |||||||
| Toy Story 3 | Ineligible | Nominated | Won | ||||||
| Cars 2 | |||||||||
| Brave | Won | Ineligible | |||||||
| Monsters University | Ineligible | ||||||||
| Inside Out | Won | Nominated | Ineligible | ||||||
| The Good Dinosaur | |||||||||
| Finding Dory | Ineligible | ||||||||
| Cars 3 | |||||||||
| Coco | Won | Ineligible | Won | ||||||
| Incredibles 2 | Nominated | Ineligible | |||||||
| Toy Story 4 | Won | Nominated | |||||||
| Onward | Nominated | Ineligible | |||||||
| Soul | Won | Won | Nominated | ||||||
| Luca | Nominated | ||||||||
| Turning Red | |||||||||
| Lightyear | Ineligible | ||||||||
| Elemental | Nominated | Ineligible | |||||||
| Inside Out 2 | Ineligible | ||||||||
| Elio | Ineligible | ||||||||
| Hoppers | |||||||||
Then, I'm talking to you from my own room in development, trying to figure out some cool ideas. Pixar has given me the chance to develop a feature, which I think is really cool.
In addition to Shi, Aphton Corbin and Rosana Sullivan are female story artists who have directed short movies at the studio recently and are now moving into development on features.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link){{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)Kori Rae and I are in development at Pixar, working on ideas for a new movie. We'll pitch those, and there's stuff we're very excited about.
After twenty-five incredible years, I've decided to leave Pixar. The time has come for new adventures. I'm not leaving to make movies at another studio; instead, I look forward to spending much-needed time with my family and pursuing interests that have long been back-burnered.