Founded by Edwin Catmull, John Lasseter and late Steve Jobs, Pixar is one of the most successful computer animation film studio in the world currently owned by The Walt Disney Company. Pixar is renowned for its CGI-animated feature films that are created using the software PhotoRealistic RenderMan.
Pixar started in the year 1979 and was part of the Lucasfilm computer division. It was a company on the verge of bankruptcy. Things turned around for them when late Jobs, the founder of Apple, decided to fund Pixar. Jobs then became Pixar’s majority shareholder and its co-founder.
Pixar produced an overall of 14 feature films from Toy Story in 1995 to Monsters University in 2013. The studio made $8.5 billion worldwide and all of its 14 films received a CinemaScore of at least “A-” ratings. Pixar has overall earned 27 Academy Awards, 7 Golden Globe Awards and 11 Grammy awards.
The studio continues to make more films in the upcoming years. A few films in production include Inside Out, The Good Dinosaur and Finding Dory, which is a sequel to the movie Finding Nemo.
Here is the list of the top 10 Pixar movies since 2013.
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