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Pixar Animation Studios, pronounced , is an American computer animation film studio based in Emeryville, California. The studio has earned 26 Academy Awards, seven Golden Globes, and three Grammy Awards, among many other awards and acknowledgments. Its films have made over $6.3 billion worldwide...

employees who have served as Pixar's primary directors and creative executives.

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AJ: Andrew Jimenez
AS: Andrew Stanton
Andrew Stanton
Andrew Stanton is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, and occasional voice actor based at Pixar Animation Studios. His film work includes writing and directing Finding Nemo and WALL-E; both films earned him the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature.-Life and career:Stanton was...
BB: Brad Bird
Brad Bird
Phillip Bradley "Brad" Bird is an Academy Award-winning American director, voice actor, animator and screenwriter. He is best known for writing and directing Disney/Pixar's The Incredibles and Ratatouille . He also adapted and directed the critically acclaimed 2D animated 1999 Warner Brothers...
BC: Brenda Chapman
Brenda Chapman
Brenda Chapman is an American animator and film director. In 1998, she became the first woman to direct an animated feature from a major studio, DreamWorks Animation's The Prince of Egypt.-Life and career:...
BL: Bud Luckey
Bud Luckey
William "Bud" Luckey is an American cartoonist, animator, singer, musician, composer and voice actor. He is best known for his work at Pixar as a character designer for Toy Story, Boundin, Toy Story 2, A Bug's Life, Monsters, Inc., Finding Nemo, Cars, The Incredibles, and Ratatouille...
BP: Bob Peterson
DG: Dan Gerson
Dan Gerson
Daniel "Dan" Gerson is a writer who lives in California. He has worked behind the scenes on films such as Monsters Inc., Chicken Little, Curious George, Cars, Meet the Robinsons and many US TV shows like Misguided Angeles, Big Wolf on Campus and Something So Right.He was also a voice actor in the...
DKA: Darla K. Anderson
Darla K. Anderson
Darla K. Anderson is a film producer for Pixar.Her most recently released production was the 2010 film Toy Story 3, which was nominated for the 2011 Academy Award for Best Picture and which won the 2011 Academy Award for Best Animated Feature....
DL: Dan Lee
Dan Lee
Dan Lee was a Canadian animator, best known as the creator of the title character from Finding Nemo.He was born in Montreal, Quebec in 1969, the youngest of four children of Chinese immigrants and grew up in Scarborough, Ontario, a suburb of Toronto. He graduated with honours from the animation...
DS: Dan Scanlon
Dan Scanlon
Dan Scanlon was an animator for The Indescribable Nth and Joseph: King of Dreams. He served as a storyboard artist for The Little Mermaid II: Return to the Sea and 101 Dalmatians II: Patch's London Adventure...
GM: Glenn McQueen
Glenn McQueen
Glenn John McQueen was a Canadian supervisor of digital animation and supervising character animator at Pixar and PDI.-Private life:...
GQ: Guido Quaroni
Guido Quaroni
Guido Quaroni is an Italian voice actor and Supervising Technical Director at Pixar Animation Studios. He was one of the developers of solidThinking, a NURBS based 3D modeling and rendering software....
GR: Gary Rydstrom
Gary Rydstrom
Gary Roger Rydstrom is an American sound designer and director. He has won seven Academy Awards for his work in sound for movies.-Career:...
JaK: Jason Katz

JaP: Jan Pinkava
Jan Pinkava
Dr. Jan Jaroslav Pinkava, Ph.D. is the director and writer of the Pixar Oscar-winning 1997 short film Geri's Game and the originator and co-director of Pixar's Oscar-winning 2007 film Ratatouille....
JeP: Jeff Pidgeon
Jeff Pidgeon
Jeff Pidgeon is an American voice actor, writer and animator at Pixar Animation Studios.He has worked behind the scenes on films such as Ferngully: The Last Rainforest, Toy Story, A Bug's Life, Toy Story 2, Monsters, Inc. and WALL-E, as well as many US TV shows...
JL: John Lasseter
John Lasseter
John Alan Lasseter is an American animator, director and the chief creative officer at Pixar and Walt Disney Animation Studios. He is also currently the Principal Creative Advisor for Walt Disney Imagineering....
JoK: Jorgen Klubien
JR: Joe Ranft
Joe Ranft
Joseph Henry "Joe" Ranft was an American screenwriter, animator, storyboard artist and voice actor who worked for Pixar and Disney. His brother, Jerome Ranft, is a sculptor who also worked on several Pixar movies....
LR: Lou Romano
Lou Romano
Lou Romano is an animation production artist and voice actor. He did design work on Monsters, Inc. and The Incredibles, and he provided the voices of Bernie Kropp in The Incredibles, Snotrod in Cars and Alfredo Linguini in Ratatouille.Romano had an interest in drawing and painting at an early age...
LU: Lee Unkrich
Lee Unkrich
Lee Unkrich is an American director and film editor. He is a longtime member of the creative team at Pixar, where he started in 1994 as a film editor. He later began directing, first as co-director of Toy Story 2...
MA: Mark Andrews
Mark Andrews (filmmaker)
Mark Andrews is a Pixar employee. He was the story supervisor for The Incredibles, directed the short film One Man Band and co-wrote the short films Jack-Jack Attack and One Man Band....
PD: Pete Docter
PS: Peter Sohn
Peter Sohn
Peter Sohn is an American animator, voice actor and storyboard artist at Pixar Animation Studios.,Sohn started his career with Pixar in the art and story departments for Finding Nemo. He also worked on The Incredibles, Ratatouille and WALL-E. Sohn also performed the voice of Emile in Ratatouille...
RE: Ralph Eggleston
Ralph Eggleston
Ralph Eggleston is an American animator, art director, storyboard artist and production designer at Pixar Animation Studios....
RLG: Roger L. Gould
TN: Teddy Newton
Teddy Newton
Teddy Newton is an artist at Pixar Animation Studios. He has worked as a storyboard artist for 2 Stupid Dogs, The Iron Giant, and Dexter's Laboratory....
WR: William Reeves
William Reeves
William "Bill" Reeves is a pioneer in the field of computer graphics. He was the technical director who worked with John Lasseter on the animation breakthrough shorts: Luxo Jr and The Adventures of André and Wally B.....

Feature films
Film title	Director	Co-Director	Writer	Voiced character(s)	Animator	Editorial Department	Producer/Executive Producer	Production Designer	Art Department	Sound	Story Artist	Visual Effects
Toy Story Toy Story Toy Story is a 1995 American computer-animated film released by Walt Disney Pictures. It is Pixar's first feature film as well as the first ever feature film to be made entirely with CGI. The film was directed by John Lasseter and featuring the voices of Tom Hanks and Tim Allen...	JL		JL, JR, PD, AS	JR, JeP, AS	JeP, JaK, GM, PD, BP, AS, BL	LU			RE	GR	JR, JeP, JaK, AS, BL	JL, WR
A Bug's Life A Bug's Life A Bug's Life is a 1998 American computer animated adventure comedy film produced by Pixar and released by Walt Disney Pictures in the United States on November 25, 1998. A Bug's Life was the second Disney·Pixar feature film after Toy Story, and the third American computer-animated film after Toy...	JL	AS	JL, JR, AS	JL	JL, JR, JeP, AS, LU	JaK, DL, GM, BP, JaP, AS, JoK, BL	DKA, LU	JeP, DL, PD, BL		GR	JR, JeP, JaK, PD, BP, JoK, BL
Toy Story 2 Toy Story 2 Toy Story 2 is a 1999 American computer animated film directed by John Lasseter and co-directed by Lee Unkrich and Ash Brannon. It is the sequel to the 1995 film Toy Story, released by Walt Disney Pictures and the third film to be produced by Pixar...	JL	LU	JL, PD, AS	JL, JR, JeP, AS, LU	JeP, JaK, DL, GM, BP, JaP, BL	LU	JR, JeP, JaK, BP, JaP, JoK, BL		DL	GR		DL, GQ
Monsters, Inc. Monsters, Inc. Monsters, Inc. is a 2001 American computer-animated film and the fourth feature-length film produced by Pixar Animation Studios. It was directed by Pete Docter, co-directed by Lee Unkrich and David Silverman, and written by Jill Culton, Peter Docter, Ralph Eggleston, Dan Gerson, Jeff Pidgeon, Rhett...	PD	LU	JeP, DG, PD, RE, AS	JR, JeP, DG, PD, GQ, LU	JR, JaK, DL, GM, BL	LU	DKA, JL, AS		LR, DL, JaP, RE, JoK, BL	GR	JR, JaK, BP, JoK, BL	DL, AJ, GQ
Finding Nemo Finding Nemo Finding Nemo is a 2003 American comi-drama animated film written by Andrew Stanton, directed by Andrew Stanton and Lee Unkrich and produced by Pixar. It tells the story of the overly protective clownfish Marlin who, along with a regal tang called Dory , searches for his abducted son Nemo...	AS	LU	BP, AS	JR, BP, AS, LU	DL	LU	JL	RE	DL, PS	GR	JaK, LU	AJ
The Incredibles The Incredibles The Incredibles is a 2004 American computer-animated action-comedy superhero film about a family of superheroes who are forced to hide their powers. It was written and directed by Brad Bird, a former director and executive consultant of The Simpsons, and was produced by Pixar and distributed by...	BB		BB	JR, BB, JeP, TN, LR, PD, BP, AS, BL, PS	TN, PS		JL	LR	RE, PS		MA	AJ
Cars Cars (film) Cars is a 2006 American animated family film produced by Pixar and directed by John Lasseter and co-directed by Joe Ranft. It is the seventh Disney·Pixar feature film, and Pixar's final, independently-produced motion picture before its purchase by Disney...	JL	JR	JL, JR, BC, JK	JR, DS, TN, LR, BP, AS, GQ	BL	LU	DKA		DS, JoK, BL		DS, DG
Ratatouille Ratatouille (film) Ratatouille is a 2007 American computer-animated comedy film produced by Pixar Animation Studios and distributed by Walt Disney Pictures. It is the eighth film produced by Pixar, and was directed by Brad Bird, who took over from Jan Pinkava in 2005...	BB	JaP	BB, JaP	BB, TN, LR, PS	AJ, PS		JL, AS		DL		PS	AJ
WALL-E WALL-E WALL-E, promoted with an interpunct as WALL•E, is a 2008 American computer-animated science fiction film produced by Pixar Animation Studios and directed by Andrew Stanton. The story follows a robot named WALL-E, who is designed to clean up a waste-covered Earth far in the future...	AS		AS				JL, PD	RE			PS
Up Up (2009 film) Up is a 2009 American computer-animated comedy-adventure film produced by Pixar, distributed by Walt Disney Pictures and presented in Disney Digital 3-D. The film premiered on May 29, 2009 in North America and opened the 2009 Cannes Film Festival, becoming the first animated and 3D film...	PD	BP	BC, GR	PD, BP			JL, AS		LR		PS
Toy Story 3 Toy Story 3 Toy Story 3 is a 2010 American 3D computer-animated comedy-adventure film, and the third installment in the Toy Story series. It was produced by Pixar and released by Walt Disney Pictures. It was directed by Lee Unkrich. The film was released worldwide from June through October in Disney Digital...	LU		MA, JL, AS, LU	TN, BL, LU			DKA, JL

Short films
Film title	Director	Co-Director	Writer	Voiced character(s)	Animator	Producer/Executive Producer	Production Designer	Art Department	Sound	Visual Effects
Luxo Jr. Luxo Jr. Luxo Jr. is the first film produced in 1986 by Pixar Animation Studios, following its establishment as an independent film studio. It is a computer-animated short film , demonstrating the kind of things the newly-established company was capable of producing...	JL		JL						GR	JL, WR
Red's Dream Red's Dream Red's Dream is a short film produced by Pixar Animation Studios and directed by John Lasseter, which was released in 1987. To date, this is the only short that has not been attached to one of Pixar's feature films in some form, the only Pixar short to be rendered on the Pixar Image Computer, and...	JL		JL		JL, WR				GR	WR
Tin Toy Tin Toy Tin Toy is a 1988 short film using computer animation. It was directed by John Lasseter and produced by Pixar. It was the first testing of PhotoRealistic RenderMan...	JL		JL		WR				GR
Knick Knack Knick Knack Knick Knack is a computer animated short film produced by Pixar, and directed by John Lasseter. It was released in 1989, and was the last short film produced by Pixar until the success of their full-length motion picture Toy Story and the final short Pixar made as a hardware company. It was also...	JL		JL						GR
Geri's Game Geri's Game Geri's Game is a five-minute animated short film made by Pixar in 1997, written and directed by Jan Pinkava. It was the first Pixar Short created after Toy Story, the previous short being Knick Knack in 1989....	JaP			BP	PD, JaP
For the Birds	RE		JaP	RE
Boundin' Boundin' Boundin' is a 2003 Pixar short film, shown at the start of the film The Incredibles. The film was written, directed, narrated and featured the musical composition and performance of PIXAR animator Bud Luckey.-Plot:...	BL	RLG	BL	BL			BL
One Man Band One Man Band (film) One Man Band is a 2005 Pixar animated short film. The film made its world premiere at the 29th Annecy International Animated Film Festival in Annecy, France, and won the Platinum Grand Prize at the Future Film Festival in Bologna, Italy...	MA, AJ	MA, AJ			AJ	BB		PS
Lifted	GR				AJ					AJ
Presto Presto (film) Presto is a 2008 American Pixar computer-animated short film shown in theaters before their feature length film WALL-E. The short is about a magician trying to perform a show with his uncooperative rabbit and is a gag-filled homage to classic cartoons such as Tom and Jerry and Looney Tunes...						JL, AS		TN
Partly Cloudy Partly Cloudy Partly Cloudy is a Pixar CGI animated short film directed by Peter Sohn and produced by Kevin Reher. It was shown in theaters before Pixar's feature film Up and is a special feature on its DVD and Blu-ray release. It was included in the Animation Show of Shows in 2009. In a , Sohn says his idea for...	PS		PS
Day & Night Day & Night (2010 film) Day & Night is a Pixar animated short film directed by Teddy Newton. It has been packaged to be shown in theaters before Disney·Pixar's feature film Toy Story 3, and has been released to purchase on iTunes in the United States....	TN

Film-based short films
Film title	Director	Co-Director	Writer	Voiced character(s)	Producer/Executive Producer	Art Department
Mike's New Car Mike's New Car Mike's New Car is a 2002 Pixar animated short, starring the two main characters from Monsters, Inc., Mike and Sulley. Directed by Pete Docter and Roger Gould, it is the first Pixar short to utilize dialogue and the first to take characters and situations from a previously established work.It...	RLG, PD		JeP, RLG, PD
Exploring the Reef Exploring the Reef Exploring the Reef is a humorous short documentary film included on the second disc of the Finding Nemo DVD. It features Jean-Michel Cousteau in a documentary film he is trying to make about coral reefs, but Marlin, Dory, and Nemo keep interrupting him....	RLG		JeP, RLG		AS
Mr. Incredible and Pals Mr. Incredible and Pals Mr. Incredible and Pals is an animated short film produced by Pixar, and included as a bonus on the DVD edition of its 2004 feature film The Incredibles....	RLG		RLG		BB
Jack-Jack Attack Jack-Jack Attack Jack-Jack Attack is a 2005 short film produced by Pixar based upon their film The Incredibles. Unlike many of their previous shorts, it was not given a theatrical release, but was included on the DVD release of the film...	BB		BB, TN, MA	BL
Mater and the Ghostlight Mater and the Ghostlight Mater and the Ghostlight is a 2006 Pixar computer-animated short created for the DVD of Cars, which was released on October 25, 2006 in Australia and in the United States on November 7, 2006...	JL	DS	JR, JR, DS		DKA
Your Friend the Rat Your Friend the Rat Your Friend the Rat is Pixar's first short film to feature traditional animation. At 11 minutes, it is also the longest Pixar short to date. Along with 2D animation, the short also includes stop-motion animation, computer generated imagery and live action, much like the children's television...				PS	BB, JL	TN
BURN-E BURN-E BURN-E is a short film by Pixar Animation Studios. It is a parallel spin-off from the feature-length movie WALL-E. Its protagonist, a repair robot named BURN-E, is a minor character from the first movie, and the film is intercut with scenes from WALL-E, which takes place concurrently.BURN-E was...			AS		JL, AS
Dug's Special Mission Dug's Special Mission Dug's Special Mission is a short Pixar film, directed by Ronnie del Carmen. It is tied into and included on the DVD and Blu-ray Disc release of Up.-Premise:...			BP	BP	PD, JL
George & A.J. George & A.J. George & A.J. is a short film created by Pixar which uses characters from the film Up to tell what Nurses George and A.J. did after Carl Fredricksen left with his house tied to balloons in the feature film...				BP, PS	PD

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