Pixar
Pixar helped define modern CGI feature animation. This topic is part of Animation Studios within Arts & Culture. This page currently draws on 15 supporting questions, with answers and bonus facts available below.
Pixar trivia questions
Pixar is best known for producing what kind of films?
Answer: Computer-animated films
Bonus fact: Pixar helped define modern CGI feature animation.
Which technology company bought Pixar in 2006?
Answer: The Walt Disney Company
Bonus fact: Disney acquired Pixar in an all-stock deal.
Brad Bird directed which Pixar film about a superhero family?
Answer: The Incredibles
Bonus fact: The film follows the Parr family.
Pete Docter directed which Pixar film about emotions inside a girl's mind?
Answer: Inside Out
Bonus fact: Joy, Sadness, and other emotions guide Riley's inner life.
Which Pixar film about racing vehicles did Lasseter direct?
Answer: Cars
Bonus fact: Cars was released in 2006.
Before Pixar, Lasseter worked as an animator at which studio?
Answer: Disney
Bonus fact: He began at Walt Disney Productions before joining the group that became Pixar.
Andrew Stanton directed which Pixar film about a trash-compacting robot?
Answer: WALL-E
Bonus fact: WALL-E won the Oscar for Best Animated Feature.
Which Pixar ocean adventure did Stanton direct?
Answer: Finding Nemo
Bonus fact: The film follows Marlin searching for his son.
Lee Unkrich directed which Pixar film set around Mexico's Day of the Dead?
Answer: Coco
Bonus fact: Coco won two Academy Awards.
What was Pixar's first feature film?
Answer: Toy Story
Bonus fact: Pixar's official feature-film chronology lists Toy Story in 1995 as its earliest feature.
Which Pixar film became the first animated feature to open the Cannes Film Festival?
Answer: Up
Bonus fact: Pixar records that Up opened the Cannes Film Festival in 2009 before its wide release later that month.
Before becoming a solo director, Unkrich served as co-director or editor on films for which studio?
Answer: Pixar
Bonus fact: He joined Pixar in the 1990s.