Interesting facts about Pixar
- Pixar Animation Studios is an American CGI animation production company based in Emeryville, California.
- The company was originally owned by Lucasfilm, and was created to develop advanced animation technology for use in live-action movies.
- To date, Pixar has earned twenty-four Academy Awards, six Golden Globes, and three Grammys.
- In 1986, the company was purchase by Steve Jobs, the head of Apple, Inc.
- Pixar started in 1979 as the Graphics Group, a part of the Computer Division of Lucasfilm before it was bought by Apple co-founder Steve Jobs in 1986. The Walt Disney Company bought Pixar in 2006.
- The 2007 release, Ratatouille amazed many critics with the individual detail now possible in CGI-rendered hair and fur.
- Pixar has made 10 feature films beginning with Toy Story in 1995 and each one has achieved critical and commercial success.
- Pixar followed Toy Story with A Bug's Life in 1998, Toy Story 2 in 1999, Monsters, Inc. in 2001, Finding Nemo in 2003 (which is, to date, the most commercially successful Pixar film, grossing over $800 million worldwide), The Incredibles in 2004, Cars in 2006, Ratatouille in 2007, WALL-E in 2008, and Up in 2009 (the first Pixar film presented in Disney Digital 3-D).
- Along with cutting-edge technology, the studio is known for extremely popular original story lines.
- Pixar's eleventh film, Toy Story 3, is scheduled for release on June 18, 2010, with Cars 2 to be released in Summer 2011 and Monsters, Inc. 2 scheduled for Winter 2012.
- Unlike traditional Disney films, none of the Pixar movies have been based on legends or fairy tales.
- Up is the first Pixar film to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture.
- In 2006, The Walt Disney Company purchased Pixar for $7.4 billion USD.
