a Yourlist ranking · the crowd decides the order
From the toy box that started it all to the latest tearjerker, vote on where every Pixar feature belongs in the pantheon.
What counts: Best is judged by a blend of critical acclaim, cultural impact, and emotional staying power; box office, critic scores, and Oscar counts are approximate and meant as context, not gospel — cast your vote for where each film truly ranks.
The film that invented an entire industry — the first fully computer-animated feature and the reason Pixar exists as a household name. Woody and Buzz's rivalry-turned-friendship set the emotional template every Pixar film since has chased. Still holds a perfect Rotten Tomatoes sc
Release Year: 1995Critic Score: 10/10Worldwide Box Office: 373 $MOscar Wins: 0
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Ten wordless minutes of Carl and Ellie's life together made grown adults weep before the plot even started, then Pixar had the audacity to turn the rest into a buddy-adventure with a talking dog. Balloons lifting a house remains one of animation's most iconic images. Proof Pixar
Release Year: 2009Critic Score: 9.8/10Worldwide Box Office: 735 $MOscar Wins: 2
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A nearly dialogue-free first act about a lonely trash robot in love is Pixar's boldest artistic swing, and it landed. EVE's arrival and the dance in space turned silence into pure cinema. A sly environmental parable wrapped in the sweetest love story in the catalog.
Release Year: 2008Critic Score: 9.5/10Worldwide Box Office: 521 $MOscar Wins: 1
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Turning the inside of an 11-year-old's brain into a buddy comedy shouldn't work, but Joy and Sadness's journey through Riley's mind redefined how movies talk about emotions. Bing Bong's farewell is the gut-punch scene everyone remembers. A genuinely original high-concept idea exe
Release Year: 2015Critic Score: 9.8/10Worldwide Box Office: 858 $MOscar Wins: 1
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Pixar proved it could do superheroes better than the genre itself, blending Bond-style spy action with sharp family-dynamics comedy. Edna Mode alone ('No capes!') is one of the studio's greatest supporting characters ever. The mid-credits-worthy fight against the Omnidroid remain
Release Year: 2004Critic Score: 9.7/10Worldwide Box Office: 633 $MOscar Wins: 1
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A vibrant, specific celebration of Mexican culture and the Day of the Dead that earns its tears honestly, building to the 'Remember Me' lullaby scene that levels entire theaters. Miguel's journey through the Land of the Dead is Pixar world-building at its richest. It's the rare l
Release Year: 2017Critic Score: 9.7/10Worldwide Box Office: 814 $MOscar Wins: 2
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A rat who dreams of cooking in Paris sounds like a hard sell, but Remy's journey and Anton Ego's climactic monologue about criticism and art make this Pixar's most sophisticated statement on creativity. 'Anyone can cook' became a genuine philosophy, not just a tagline. Visually,
Release Year: 2007Critic Score: 9.6/10Worldwide Box Office: 623 $MOscar Wins: 1
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'Just keep swimming' entered the cultural lexicon forever, and Marlin's ocean-spanning search for his son became one of the best-loved animated films of all time. Dory's introduction alone justified an entire spinoff franchise. The Australian Current sequence with the sea turtles
Release Year: 2003Critic Score: 9.9/10Worldwide Box Office: 940 $MOscar Wins: 1
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The incinerator scene, where the toys silently accept their fate and hold hands, is one of the most quietly devastating moments in family cinema. Andy's final handoff to Bonnie turned a toy story into a meditation on growing up that hit an entire generation squarely in the chest.
Release Year: 2010Critic Score: 9.8/10Worldwide Box Office: 1,067 $MOscar Wins: 2
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Sulley and Mike's door-hopping monster world is one of Pixar's most inventive premises, and Boo's giggle-powered energy twist gave the whole film a genuinely sweet emotional core. The closet-door chase finale remains a technical showcase. 'Kitty!' is still a line quoted two decad
Release Year: 2001Critic Score: 9.6/10Worldwide Box Office: 577 $MOscar Wins: 1
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A jazz pianist's near-death experience becomes a surprisingly deep meditation on purpose versus simply living, anchored by 22's cynical afterlife wanderings. Released mostly on Disney+ during the pandemic, it still landed as one of Pixar's most philosophically ambitious films. Th
Release Year: 2020Critic Score: 9.5/10Worldwide Box Office: 121 $MOscar Wins: 2
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Jessie's 'When She Loved Me' flashback is a masterclass in wordless emotional storytelling that arguably outdoes the original film's heart. The Round-Up gang and the Al's Toy Barn heist raised the stakes without losing the charm. A sequel made almost by accident that became a gen
Release Year: 1999Critic Score: 10/10Worldwide Box Office: 497 $MOscar Wins: 0
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Anxiety crashing into Riley's teenage brain and shoving Joy aside gave Pixar its biggest opening ever and proved the emotional-headquarters concept had room to grow. The panic-attack sequence is a startlingly accurate depiction of adolescent overwhelm. It became the highest-gross
Release Year: 2024Critic Score: 9.1/10Worldwide Box Office: 1,698 $MOscar Wins: 0
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Fourteen years after the original, Elastigirl finally got her turn to lead, and the Screenslaver hypno-goggles sequence is some of Pixar's most kinetic action animation. Jack-Jack's power-discovery scenes stole the show for laughs. It broke opening-weekend records for an animated
Release Year: 2018Critic Score: 9.4/10Worldwide Box Office: 1,243 $MOscar Wins: 0
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Pixar's first female-led film gave Merida a bow, a temper, and a mother-daughter conflict resolved through literal transformation into a bear. The Scottish highlands setting is a visual departure that still holds up. It won the studio's fourth Best Animated Feature Oscar despite
Release Year: 2012Critic Score: 7.8/10Worldwide Box Office: 540 $MOscar Wins: 1
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A 13-year-old turning into a giant red panda whenever she feels strong emotion is Pixar's boldest metaphor for puberty yet, tackled with unapologetic specificity about a Chinese-Canadian girl's boy-band-obsessed adolescence. The 4*Town concert climax is pure joyful chaos. It spar
Release Year: 2022Critic Score: 9.5/10Worldwide Box Office: 20 $MOscar Wins: 0
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An Italian Riviera summer about sea monsters passing as boys plays like Pixar's warmest, lowest-stakes hangout movie, built entirely around friendship rather than a villain. The Vespa-dream imagery and gelato-fueled bike race capture pure childhood longing. A quieter, cozier entr
Release Year: 2021Critic Score: 9/10Worldwide Box Office: 50 $MOscar Wins: 0
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Pixar's sophomore effort reimagined Seven Samurai with ants and grasshoppers, introducing Flik's misfit-inventor energy and a genuinely menacing Hopper as villain. The circus-bug ensemble gave the studio its first taste of large-cast comedy. Often overshadowed by Toy Story but fo
Release Year: 1998Critic Score: 9.2/10Worldwide Box Office: 363 $MOscar Wins: 0
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A prequel that dared to show Mike and Sulley as college rivals rather than best friends, culminating in a surprisingly bittersweet lesson about not getting everything you want. The Scare Games sequences gave the monster world fresh mythology. A rare Pixar prequel that mostly just
Release Year: 2013Critic Score: 7.9/10Worldwide Box Office: 744 $MOscar Wins: 0
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Dory finally got her own spotlight, and her memory-loss backstory with young parents Jenny and Charlie added surprising emotional weight to a film mostly known for Hank the septopus's tank-jumping antics. The Marine Life Institute setting expanded the underwater world nicely. It
Release Year: 2016Critic Score: 9.4/10Worldwide Box Office: 1,029 $MOscar Wins: 0
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A film many thought unnecessary earned its keep by giving Woody an actual ending, walking away from Andy's toys entirely to choose his own path with Bo Peep. Forky's existential 'I am trash' crisis provided unexpected comedic depth. The antique-shop setting with Gabby Gabby gave
Release Year: 2019Critic Score: 9.7/10Worldwide Box Office: 1,073 $MOscar Wins: 1
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Lightning McQueen's detour into sleepy Radiator Springs is Pixar's most divisive beloved-by-kids, shrugged-at-by-critics entry, yet it spawned a billion-dollar merchandising empire that outlasted its box office reception. Doc Hudson's backstory gave the racing comedy unexpected s
Release Year: 2006Critic Score: 7.4/10Worldwide Box Office: 462 $MOscar Wins: 0
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A Romeo-and-Juliet romance between literal fire and water people doubles as an immigrant-family allegory, with Ember and Wade's chemistry (sorry) winning over word-of-mouth audiences after a soft opening. Element City's visual design is some of Pixar's most inventive worldbuildin
Release Year: 2023Critic Score: 7.3/10Worldwide Box Office: 496 $MOscar Wins: 0
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Two elf brothers on a quest to resurrect their dead father for one day gave Pixar a Dungeons-and-Dragons-flavored adventure that landed just before COVID shut theaters down, robbing it of a fair shot. Ian and Barley's van-road-trip bond carries real sincerity. The final campfire
Release Year: 2020Critic Score: 8.8/10Worldwide Box Office: 142 $MOscar Wins: 0
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An aging Lightning McQueen facing obsolescence against younger, sleeker racers gave the trilogy an unexpectedly mature note about legacy and mentorship. Cruz Ramirez's arc from trainer to racer provided a fresher perspective than the franchise had shown before. It's widely seen a
Release Year: 2017Critic Score: 6.9/10Worldwide Box Office: 383 $MOscar Wins: 0
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