List of Pixar shorts

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Beginning with Pixar's second film A Bug's Life, almost all subsequent Pixar feature films have been shown in theaters along with a Pixar-created original short film, known as a "short." Other Pixar shorts, released only on home media, were created to showcase Pixar's technology or cinematic capabilities, or on commission for clients.

Pixar began producing shorts in the 1980s.[1] The first shorts were made while Pixar was still a computer hardware company, when John Lasseter was the only professional animator in the company's small animation department. Starting with Geri's Game, after Pixar had converted into an animation studio, all later shorts have been produced with a larger crew and budget.

Pixar produced four

Surprise, Up and Down, and Front and Back.[2]

During the development of Toy Story, Pixar set up a division to work on Pixar video games called Pixar's Interactive Products Group, specifically Toy Story entries in the Disney's Animated Storybook and Disney's Activity Center. Due to the intense resources required, the division was eventually folded and the staff were redistributed to start creating short films to accompany Pixar's theatrical releases.[3][4]

Beginning with A Bug's Life, Pixar has created extra content for each of their films that are not part of the main story. For their early theatrical releases, this content was in the form of

outtakes and appeared as part of the film's credits
. For each of their films, this content was a short made exclusively for the DVD release of the film.

Toy Story 4 was the first film not to have a theatrical short before it. Coco and Onward had theatrical shorts from other subsidiaries related to Disney. Luca, Turning Red and Lightyear had no theatrical shorts before them.[5] Elemental was the first film, released theatrically in the United States, to have a Pixar-produced short infront of it since Incredibles 2.[6]

Shorts

Original short films

Title Year Director(s) Initial release with Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film
Theatrical Home[a]/Premiere
The Adventures of André & Wally B.[b] 1984 Alvy Ray Smith
Luxo Jr. 1986 John Lasseter Toy Story 2[7] Nominated
Red's Dream 1987
Tin Toy 1988 Toy Story Won
Knick Knack 1989 Finding Nemo[8]
Geri's Game 1997 Jan Pinkava A Bug's Life Won
For the Birds 2000 Ralph Eggleston Monsters, Inc. (first release)
Luca (second release)
Monsters, Inc.
Boundin' 2003 Bud Luckey The Incredibles Nominated
One Man Band 2006 Andrew Jimenez and Mark Andrews Cars
Lifted 2007 Gary Rydstrom Ratatouille
Presto 2008 Doug Sweetland WALL-E
Partly Cloudy 2009 Peter Sohn Up Shortlisted[9]
Day & Night[10] 2010 Teddy Newton Toy Story 3 Nominated
La Luna[11] 2011 Enrico Casarosa Brave
The Blue Umbrella[12] 2013 Saschka Unseld Monsters University
Lava[13] 2014 James Ford Murphy Inside Out
Sanjay's Super Team[14] 2015 Sanjay Patel The Good Dinosaur Nominated
Piper[15] 2016 Alan Barillaro Finding Dory Won
Lou[16] 2017 David Mullins Cars 3 Nominated
Bao[17] 2018 Domee Shi Incredibles 2 Won

SparkShorts series