First Pixar film

The first film produced by Pixar Animation Studios was Toy Story (USA, 1995), which was released on 22 November 1995.

John Lasseter’s directional debut, featuring the voices of Tom Hanks (Woody) and Tim Allen (Buzz Lightyear), was also the first feature-length computer-animated movie. There have been three further Toy Story films as well as the spin-off Lightyear (2022). Toy Story 3 (2010) became the first animated film to gross $1 bn at the global box office.

Since 1995, Pixar have produced a further 27 titles, including Cars (2006), Ratatouille (2007), Brave (2012), Coco (2017) and Inside Out 2 (2024), which is currently the highest-grossing animated film of all time with box-office takings of $1,696,395,068 as of 12 December 2024, according to The Numbers.

Pixar Animation Studios was acquired by Disney on 24 January 2006.