John Lasseter
Known for: Production
Born: January 12, 1957
Place of birth: Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA
John Alan Lasseter is an American film director, producer, screenwriter, animator, voice actor, and the head of animation at Skydance Animation. He was previously the chief creative officer of Pixar Animation Studios, Walt Disney Animation Studios, and Disneytoon Studios, as well as the Principal Creative Advisor for Walt Disney Imagineering. Lasseter's first job was with The Walt Disney Company, where he became an animator. Next, he joined Lucasfilm, where he worked on the then-groundbreaking use of CGI animation. After Lucasfilm became Pixar in 1986, Lasseter oversaw all of Pixar's films and associated projects as executive producer and he directed Toy Story, A Bug's Life, Toy Story 2, Cars, "Toy Story 3" and "Cars 2". He has won two Academy Awards, for Animated Short Film (Tin Toy), as well as a Special Achievement Award (Toy Story).
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Filmography
176 movies · 7 TV shows, newest first
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Ray Gunn
2026
8.9
Swapped
2026
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Flink's Pigeon Problems
2025
6.6
Spellbound
2024
7.4
WondLa
2024
NR
Toy Story Funday Football
2023
5.8
Bad Luck Spot!
2023
7.8
Luck
2022
6.9
Lightyear
2022
7.0
Beyond Infinity: Buzz and the Journey to Lightyear
2022NR
Just Losers
2022
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Pixar Remix: Cars "Rules of the Road"
2021
7.8
Blush
2021
6.9
Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound
2019
7.5
Toy Story 4
2019
7.2
Ralph Breaks the Internet
2018
7.5
Bao
2018
7.5
Incredibles 2
2018
6.5
Olaf's Frozen Adventure
2017
8.2
Coco
2017
4.7
Miss Fritter's Racing Skoool
2017
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Motori Ruggenti
2017
7.5
Lou
2017
6.9
Cars 3
2017
6.4
Gone Fishing
2017
7.8
Inner Workings
2016
9.5
Bozzetto non troppo
2016
7.6
Moana
2016
7.0
Finding Dory
2016
8.1
Piper
2016
7.1
Imagining Zootopia
2016
7.8
Zootopia
2016
7.1
A Grand Night In: The Story of Aardman
2015
6.3
Behind the Magic: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
2015
7.1
Toy Story at 20: To Infinity and Beyond
2015
6.4
Sanjay's Super Team
2015
6.7
The Good Dinosaur
2015
7.2
Riley's First Date?
2015
7.3
Jay Leno's Garage
2015
7.4
Tick Tock Tale
2015
7.8
Walt Disney Animation Studios Short Films Collection
2015
7.2
Lava
2015
7.9
Inside Out
2015
7.6
Winning: The Racing Life of Paul Newman
2015
6.8
Frozen Fever
2015
7.4
Tinker Bell and the Legend of the NeverBeast
2014
7.1
Toy Story That Time Forgot
2014
7.8
Feast
2014
7.7
Big Hero 6
2014
7.8
The Story of Frozen: Making a Disney Animated Classic
2014
6.2
Planes: Fire & Rescue
2014
6.2
The Radiator Springs 500½
2014
6.8
Party Central
2014
7.0
Tinker Bell and the Pirate Fairy
2014
7.6
Get a Horse!
2013
7.2
Frozen
2013
7.3
Toy Story of Terror!
2013
5.9
Planes
2013
7.1
Monsters University
2013
5.9
Hiccups
2013
6.1
Spinning
2013
5.7
Bugged
2013
7.5
The Blue Umbrella
2013
6.9
Bloomberg Inside: Pixar
2013
6.0
The Legend of Mor'du
2012
9.2
Prep & Landing: Totally Tinsel Collection
2012
8.0
Paperman
2012
7.4
Wreck-It Ralph
2012
7.4
Ray Harryhausen: Special Effects Titan
2012
7.1
Partysaurus Rex
2012
7.3
Secret of the Wings
2012
7.0
Brave
2012
6.1
Time Travel Mater
2012
6.4
John Carter
2012
7.8
La luna
2012
7.1
Tangled Ever After
2012
7.0
Pixie Hollow Games
2011
7.0
Prep & Landing: Naughty vs. Nice
2011
6.9
Small Fry
2011
6.1
Air Mater
2011
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A Day in the Life of John Lasseter
2011
7.0
Hawaiian Vacation
2011
6.2
Cars 2
2011
6.6
The Ballad of Nessie
2011
6.9
Winnie the Pooh
2011
7.4
These Amazing Shadows
2011
6.6
Prep & Landing Stocking Stuffer: Operation: Secret Santa
2010
7.6
Tangled
2010
6.7
Industrial Light & Magic: Creating the Impossible
2010
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The Making of Mater's Tall Tales
2010
6.3
Mater Private Eye
2010
6.4
Moon Mater
2010
6.1
Heavy Metal Mater
2010
6.2
Monster Truck Mater
2010
6.8
Tinker Bell and the Great Fairy Rescue
2010
7.7
Day & Night
2010
7.8
Toy Story 3
2010
8.2
America: The Story of Us
2010
8.0
Magic in the Bayou: The Making of a Princess
2010
6.9
Prep & Landing
2009
7.2
The Princess and the Frog
2009
6.3
Unidentified Flying Mater
2009
7.0
Dug's Special Mission
2009
7.2
Waking Sleeping Beauty
2009
6.8
Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure
2009
8.0
Up
2009
7.7
Partly Cloudy
2009
7.4
The Boys: The Sherman Brothers' Story
2009
6.0
Super Rhino
2009
6.3
Tokyo Mater
2008
6.6
Bolt
2008
7.5
BURN·E
2008
7.0
Cars Toon Mater's Tall Tales
2008
5.8
El Materdor
2008
6.1
Mater the Greater
2008
5.8
Rescue Squad Mater
2008
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Tales from Radiator Springs
2008
7.0
Tinker Bell
2008
7.8
Presto
2008
8.1
WALL·E
2008
5.5
Glago's Guest
2008
7.2
How to Hook Up Your Home Theater
2007
7.7
The Pixar Shorts: A Short History
2007
6.8
Your Friend the Rat
2007
8.5
Fog City Mavericks
2007
6.8
Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project
2007
7.5
The Pixar Story
2007
7.8
Ratatouille
2007
6.7
AFI: 100 Years... 100 Movies... 10th Anniversary Edition
2007
6.9
Meet the Robinsons
2007
7.5
Lifted
2006
5.8
The Inspiration for 'Cars'
2006
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Geared-Up
2006
6.3
Mater and the Ghostlight
2006
7.0
Cars
2006
7.3
One Man Band
2005
8.0
Hayao Miyazaki and the Ghibli Museum
2005
6.3
The Making of 'The Incredibles'
2005
7.3
Jack-Jack Attack
2005
7.7
The Incredibles
2004
8.0
The Force Is with Them: The Legacy of 'Star Wars'
2004
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Lasseter-san, Thank You
2003
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Making 'Nemo'
2003
6.1
Exploring the Reef
2003
6.5
Boundin'
2003
7.8
Finding Nemo
2003
8.2
The Art of 'Spirited Away'
2003
6.9
Mike's New Car
2002
6.9
The Making of TRON
2002
7.9
Monsters, Inc.
2001NR
The Beatles Revolution
2000
7.1
Chuck Jones: Extremes and In-Betweens - A Life in Animation
2000
7.5
For the Birds
2000
7.6
Toy Story 2
1999
7.6
The Hand Behind the Mouse: The Ub Iwerks Story
1999
7.8
From Star Wars to Star Wars: The Story of Industrial Light & Magic
1999
7.0
A Bug's Life
1998
7.6
Geri's Game
1997
6.9
The Wonderful World of Disney
1997
7.5
The Story Behind 'Toy Story'
1996
6.7
Tiny Toy Stories
1996
6.0
Toy Story Treats
1996
6.3
The Making of Toy Story
1995
8.0
Toy Story
1995
7.0
The Making of Bambi: A Prince is Born
1994
5.6
Up and Down
1991
4.7
Surprise
1991
5.7
Light and Heavy
1991
5.8
Front and Back
1991
6.0
Tin Toys Knick Knacks & Algorithms
1991
7.0
Knick Knack
1989
4.3
Luxo Jr. 3D
1989
6.1
Tin Toy
1988
6.1
Red's Dream
1987
7.0
Luxo Jr.
1986
6.8
Young Sherlock Holmes
1985
5.2
The Adventures of André and Wally B.
1984
6.2
Nitemare
1980
5.9
Lady and the Lamp
1979
7.0
The Oscars
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Made in Point Richmond
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Untitled Nathan Greno Animated Movie
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Eddie and the Beanstalk
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