Pixar Animation Studios is an American CGI animation production company based in Emeryville, California United States. For now, the studio has received 24 Academy Awards, six Golden Globe and three Grammys, including many awards, recognition and achievement and has made a 5.5 billion U.S. dollars worldwide. This is one of the most critical movie studio recognized over the period. It is most known for its CGI animated films of his features were created with photorealistic RenderMan, the implementation of own-industry-standard Renderman image-rendering API used to produce high quality images.
Pixar started in 1979 as the Graphics Group, a part of the Computer Division of Lucasfilm before purchased by Apple founder Steve Jobs in 1986. The Walt Disney Company bought Pixar in 2006.
Pixar has made 10 films starting with Toy Story in 1995 and each has achieved critical and commercial successes. Pixar followed by Toy Story, A Bug’s Life in 1998, Toy Story 2 in 1999, Monsters, Inc. in 2001, Finding Nemo in 2003 (which, until now, the movie Pixar’s most commercially successful, selling more than $ 800,000 000 worldwide), The Incredibles in 2004, Car 2006, in the year 2007 Ratatouille, WALL-E in 2008, and upon the year 2009 (the first Pixar film presented in Disney Digital 3-D). eleventh-Pixar film, Toy Story 3 is scheduled for release on June 18, 2010, with Cars 2 will be released in summer 2011.
All seven Pixar movies released since the inauguration of the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature in 2001 has been nominated for the award. Five have won it: Finding Nemo, The Incredibles, Ratatouille, WALL-E, and Up. Up is the first Pixar film that was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture.
On September 6, 2009, the executives John Lasseter, Brad Bird, Pete medical doctor, Andrew Stanton and Lee Unkrich officially handed over the Golden Lion Lifetime Achievement Award by the Biennale Venice Film Festival. The awards were presented by Lucasfilm founder George Lucas.