This is a list of films from Pixar, an American CGI film production company based in Emeryville, California, United States. As of 2023, Pixar Animation Studios has released 27 feature films, which were all released under the Walt Disney Pictures banner. The company produced its first feature-length film, Toy Story, in 1995. Their second production, A Bug's Life, was released in 1998, followed by their first sequel, Toy Story 2, in 1999. Pixar Animation Studios had two releases in a single year three times: Inside Out and The Good Dinosaur in 2015, Cars 3 and Coco in 2017, Onward and Soul in 2020, and their latest being Elemental in 2023.
Their upcoming slate of films include Inside Out 2 in 2024, Elio in 2025, and Toy Story 5 and an untitled film in 2026.
Films
Released
| # | Film | Release date | Director(s) | Writer(s) | Producer(s) | Editor(s) | Composer(s) | Sound Designer(s) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Story | Screenplay | ||||||||
| 1 | Toy Story | November 22, 1995 | John Lasseter | Lasseter, Pete Docter, Andrew Stanton & Joe Ranft | Joss Whedon, Stanton, Joel Cohen & Alec Sokolow | Ralph Guggenheim & Bonnie Arnold | Robert Gordon & Lee Unkrich | Randy Newman | Gary Rydstrom |
| 2 | A Bug's Life | November 25, 1998 | John Lasseter Co-Director: Andrew Stanton |
Lasseter, Stanton & Joe Ranft | Stanton, Donald McEnery & Bob Shaw | Darla K. Anderson & Kevin Reher | Lee Unkrich | ||
| 3 | Toy Story 2 | November 24, 1999 | John Lasseter Co-Directors: Lee Unkrich & Ash Brannon |
Lasseter, Pete Docter, Brannon & Andrew Stanton | Stanton, Rita Hsiao, Doug Chamberlin & Chris Webb | Helene Plotkin & Karen Robert Jackson | Edie Bleiman, David Ian Salter & Unkrich | ||
| 4 | Monsters, Inc. | November 2, 2001 | Pete Docter Co-Directors: Lee Unkrich & David Silverman |
Docter, Jill Culton, Jeff Pidgeon & Ralph Eggleston | Andrew Stanton & Dan Gerson | Darla K. Anderson | Robert Graham Jones & Jim Stewart | ||
| 5 | Finding Nemo | May 30, 2003 | Andrew Stanton Co-Director: Lee Unkrich |
Stanton | Stanton, Bob Peterson & David Reynolds | Graham Walters | David Ian Salter | Thomas Newman | |
| 6 | The Incredibles | November 5, 2004 | Brad Bird | John Walker | Stephen Schaffer | Michael Giacchino | Randy Thom | ||
| 7 | Cars | June 9, 2006 | John Lasseter Co-Director: Joe Ranft |
Lasseter, Ranft & Jorgen Klubien | Dan Fogelman, Lasseter, Ranft, Kiel Murray, Phil Lorin & Klubien | Darla K. Anderson | Ken Schretzmann | Randy Newman | Tom Myers |
| 8 | Ratatouille | June 29, 2007 | Brad Bird Co-Director: Jan Pinkava |
Pinkava, Jim Capobianco & Bird | Bird | Brad Lewis | Darren T. Holmes & Stan Webb | Michael Giacchino | Randy Thom |
| 9 | WALL-E | June 27, 2008 | Andrew Stanton | Stanton & Pete Docter | Stanton & Jim Reardon | Jim Morris Co-Producer: Lindsey Collins |
Stephen Schaffer | Thomas Newman | Ben Burtt |
| 10 | Up | May 29, 2009 | Pete Docter Co-Director: Bob Peterson |
Docter, Peterson & Tom McCarthy | Peterson & Docter | Jonas Rivera | Kevin Nolting | Michael Giacchino | Tom Myers |
| 11 | Toy Story 3 | June 18, 2010 | Lee Unkrich | John Lasseter, Andrew Stanton & Unkrich | Michael Arndt | Darla K. Anderson | Ken Schretzmann | Randy Newman | |
| 12 | Cars 2 | June 24, 2011 | John Lasseter Co-Director: Brad Lewis |
Lasseter, Lewis & Dan Fogelman | Ben Queen | Denise Ream | Stephen Schaffer | Michael Giacchino | |
| 13 | Brave | June 22, 2012 | Mark Andrews & Brenda Chapman Co-Director: Steve Purcell |
Chapman | Andrews, Purcell, Chapman & Irene Mecchi | Katherine Sarafian | Nicholas C. Smith | Patrick Doyle | Gary Rydstrom |
| 14 | Monsters University | June 21, 2013 | Dan Scanlon | Scanlon, Dan Gerson & Robert L. Baird | Kori Rae | Greg Snyder | Randy Newman | Tom Myers | |
| 15 | Inside Out | June 19, 2015 | Pete Docter Co-Director: Ronnie del Carmen |
Docter & del Carmen | Docter, Meg LeFauve & Josh Cooley | Jonas Rivera | Kevin Nolting | Michael Giacchino | Ren Klyce |
| 16 | The Good Dinosaur | November 25, 2015 | Peter Sohn | Sohn, Erik Benson, Meg LeFauve, Kelsey Mann & Bob Peterson | LeFauve | Denise Ream | Stephen Schaffer | Mychael & Jeff Danna | Craig Berkey |
| 17 | Finding Dory | June 17, 2016 | Andrew Stanton Co-Director: Angus MacLane |
Stanton | Stanton & Victoria Strouse | Lindsey Collins | Axel Geddes | Thomas Newman | Tim Nielsen |
| 18 | Cars 3 | June 16, 2017 | Brian Fee | Fee, Ben Queen, Eyal Podell & Jonathon E. Stewart | Kiel Murray, Bob Peterson & Mike Rich | Kevin Reher Co-Producer: Andrea Warren |
Jason Hudak | Randy Newman | Tom Myers |
| 19 | Coco | November 22, 2017 | Lee Unkrich Co-Director: Adrian Molina |
Unkrich, Jason Katz, Matthew Aldrich & Molina | Molina & Aldrich | Darla K. Anderson | Steve Bloom | Michael Giacchino | Chris Boyes |
| 20 | Incredibles 2 | June 15, 2018 | Brad Bird | John Walker & Nicole Paradis Grindle | Stephen Schaffer | Ren Klyce | |||
| 21 | 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 | Axel Geddes | Randy Newman | |
| 22 | Onward | March 6, 2020 | Dan Scanlon | Scanlon, Jason Headley & Keith Bunin | Kori Rae | Catherine Apple | Mychael & Jeff Danna | Nia Hansen & Shannon Mills | |
| 23 | Soul | December 25, 2020 | Pete Docter Co-Director: Kemp Powers |
Docter, Mike Jones & Kemp Powers | Dana Murray | Kevin Nolting | Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross | Ren Klyce | |
| 24 | Luca | June 18, 2021 | Enrico Casarosa | Casarosa, Jesse Andrews & Simon Stephenson | Andrews & Mike Jones | Andrea Warren | Catherine Apple & Jason Hudak | Dan Romer | Christopher Scarabosio |
| 25 | Turning Red | March 11, 2022 | Domee Shi | Shi, Julia Cho & Sarah Streicher | Julia Cho & Domee Shi | Lindsey Collins | Steve Bloom | Ludwig Göransson | Ren Klyce |
| 26 | Lightyear | June 17, 2022 | Angus MacLane | MacLane, Matthew Aldrich & Jason Headley | Headley & Maclane | Galyn Susman | Anthony Greenberg | Michael Giacchino | |
| 27 | Elemental | June 16, 2023 | Peter Sohn | Sohn, John Hoberg, Kat Likkel & Brenda Hsueh | Hoberg, Likkel & Hsueh | Denise Ream | Stephen Schaffer | Thomas Newman | |
Upcoming
| # | Film | Release date | Director(s) | Writer(s) | Producer(s) | Editor(s) | Composer(s) | Sound Designer(s) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28 | Inside Out 2 | June 14, 2024 | Kelsey Mann | Leslie Dixon
Karen McCullah Kirsten Smith |
Meg LeFauve
Dave Holstein Jon Zack |
Mark Nielsen | Maurissa Horwitz | Andrea Datzman | Ren Klyce |
| 29 | Elio | June 13, 2025 | Adrian Molina | TBA | Mary Alice Drumm | TBA | James Newton Howard | TBA | |
| 30 | TBA | March 6, 2026 | TBA | TBA | TBA | TBA | TBA | TBA | TBA |
| 31 | Toy Story 5 | June 19, 2026 | TBA | TBA | TBA | TBA | TBA | TBA | TBA |
In-development projects
In February 2023, Disney CEO Bob Iger announced that a fifth Toy Story film is in development.
Production cycle
In July 2013, Pixar Studios 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 president Jim Morris revealed that after Toy Story 4, there were no plans for further sequels, and right now Pixar is only developing original ideas with five films currently in the works.
Cancelled projects
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 attached to direct. It would have marked Pixar's first involvement in a live-action production. The film was abandoned by Disney and Pixar due to script problems and an estimated budget of $200 million, and it is now in limbo at Warner Bros. In June 2018, Bird mentioned the possiblity of adapting the novel as a TV series, with the earthquake sequence as a feature film.
A Pixar film titled Newt was announced in April 2008, with Pixar planning to release it in 2011, which was later bumped to 2012, but it had been finally cancelled by early 2010. John Lasseter noted that the film's proposed plot line was similar to another film, Blue Sky Studios' Rio, which was released in 2011. In March 2014, in an interview, 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 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 films. Its first planned feature ShadeMaker was set for release in 2013, but was cancelled in 2012 due to creative differences. Selick was then given the option to shop the project (now titled The Shadow King) to other studios.
In addition, when the now-defunct Circle 7 Animation was open, there were plans for sequels to Finding Nemo (which became Finding Dory) and Monsters, Inc. (which became a prequel in the form of Monsters University), as well as a different version of Toy Story 3.
Co-production
Buzz Lightyear of Star Command: The Adventure Begins is a traditionally animated direct-to-video film 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, with Pixar creating the CGI portion of the opening theme.
Collaboration
Pixar assisted with the story development for the live-action Disney film The Jungle Book (2016), 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.
Related productions
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 third Planes film was announced in July 2017, with a planned release on April 12, 2019, but was subsequently removed from the release schedule on March 1, 2018. The film was eventually cancelled when Disneytoon Studios shut down on June 28, 2018.