List of Pixar shorts

This is a list of animated short films produced by Pixar Animation Studios.

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. 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.

In 1991, Pixar made four CGI shorts produced for the educational TV series Sesame Street. The shorts illustrate different weights and directions starring Luxo Jr. and Luxo — Light & Heavy, Surprise, Up and Down, and Front and Back.

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.

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. Elemental was the first film, released theatrically in the United States, to have a Pixar-produced short infront of it since Incredibles 2.

Shorts

Original short films

Title Year Director(s) Initial release with Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film
Theatrical Home/Premiere
The Adventures of André & Wally B. 1984 Alvy Ray Smith
Luxo Jr. 1986 John Lasseter Toy Story 2 Nominated
Red's Dream 1987
Tin Toy 1988 Toy Story Won
Knick Knack 1989 Finding Nemo
Geri's Game 1997 Jan Pinkava A Bug's Life Won
For the Birds 2000 Ralph Eggleston 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
Day & Night 2010 Teddy Newton Toy Story 3 Nominated
La Luna 2011 Enrico Casarosa Brave
The Blue Umbrella 2013 Saschka Unseld Monsters University
Lava 2014 James Ford Murphy Inside Out
Sanjay's Super Team 2015 Sanjay Patel The Good Dinosaur Nominated
Piper 2016 Alan Barillaro Finding Dory Won
Lou 2017 David Mullins Cars 3 Nominated
Bao 2018 Domee Shi Incredibles 2 Won

SparkShorts series

SparkShorts is a series of animated short films produced by Pixar filmmakers and artists, similar to its sister series Short Circuit from Walt Disney Animation Studios. It consists of longer independent shorts. Under the project, Pixar's employees are merely given six months and limited budgets to develop these animated short films.

Title Year Director(s) Premiered Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film
Purl 2019 Kristen Lester YouTube
Smash and Grab Brian Larsen
Kitbull Rosana Sullivan Nominated
Float Bobby Alcid Rubio Disney+
Wind Edwin Chang
Loop 2020 Erica Milsom
Out Steven Clay Hunter Shortlisted
Burrow Madeline Sharafian Theatrical with Soul Nominated
Twenty Something 2021 Aphton Corbin Disney+
Nona Louis Gonzales
Self 2024 Searit Kahsay Huluf

Feature-related

Title Year Director(s) Initial release with Associated Feature Film Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film
Theatrical Home/Premiere
Mike's New Car 2002 Pete Docter and Roger Gould Monsters, Inc. Nominated
Exploring the Reef 2003 Roger Gould Finding Nemo
Jack-Jack Attack 2005 Brad Bird The Incredibles
Mr. Incredible and Pals Roger Gould
Mater and the Ghostlight 2006 John Lasseter Cars
Your Friend the Rat 2007 Jim Capobianco Ratatouille
BURN-E 2008 Angus MacLane WALL-E
Dug's Special Mission 2009 Ronnie del Carmen Up
George and A.J. Josh Cooley
The Legend of Mor'du 2012 Brian Larsen Brave
Party Central 2013 Kelsey Mann Muppets Most Wanted Disney Movies Anywhere Monsters University
Riley's First Date? 2015 Josh Cooley Inside Out
Marine Life Interviews 2016 Ross Haldane Stevenson Finding Dory
Miss Fritter's Racing Skoool 2017 James Ford Murphy Cars 3
Dante's Lunch Jason Katz Coco
Auntie Edna 2018 Ted Mathot Incredibles 2
Lamp Life 2020 Valerie LaPointe Disney+ Toy Story 4
22 vs. Earth 2021 Kevin Nolting Soul
Ciao Alberto McKenna Harris Luca

Pixar Popcorn

Title Associated Feature Film Year(s) Director(s) Premiere
To Fitness and Beyond Toy Story 4 2021 Adam Rodriguez Disney+
Unparalleled Parking Cars 3 James Ford Murphy
Dory Finding Finding Dory Michal Makarewicz
Soul of the City Soul Christopher Chua
Fluffy Stuff with Ducky and Bunny: Love Toy Story 4 Robert H. Russ
Chore Day the Incredibles Way Incredibles 2 Alan Barillaro
A Day in the Life of the Dead Coco Allison Rutland
Fluffy Stuff with Ducky and Bunny: Three Heads Toy Story 4 Robert H. Russ
Dancing with the Cars Cars 3 Juan Carlos Navarro Carrión
Cookie Num Num Incredibles 2 Jae Hyung Kim