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John Lasseter is a two-time Academy Award®-winning director and oversees all films and associated projects from Walt Disney and Pixar Animation Studios. He directed the groundbreaking and award-winning films Toy Story, A Bug's Life, Toy Story 2 and Cars. Additionally, his executive producing credits include Monsters, Inc., Finding Nemo, The Incredibles, Ratatouille, WALL•E, Bolt, and last year's critically acclaimed Up, which enjoyed the distinct honor of opening the 2009 Cannes Film Festival and was awarded two Academy Awards® for Best Animated Feature and Best Original Score. Lasseter also served as executive producer for Disney's Oscar®-nominated The Princess and the Frog, a musical comedy set in the great city of New Orleans, as well as Disney•Pixar's most recent critical and box office hit, Toy Story 3, which is based on a story by Lasseter, Andrew Stanton and Lee Unkrich.

Lasseter has written, directed and animated a number of Pixar's early short films, including Luxo Jr. (1986), Red's Dream (1987), Tin Toy (1988) and Knick Knack (1989). He has also been producer or executive producer on a number of shorts including Geri's Game, For the Birds, One Man Band, Lifted, Presto, Partly Cloudy and Day & Night. Pixar's Tin Toy became the first computer animated film to win an Academy Award® when it received the 1988 award for Best Animated Short Film. Pixar earned two more Academy Awards® for Geri's Game (1997) and For the Birds (2000).

Under Lasseter's supervision, Pixar's animated feature and shorts films have earned a multitude of critical accolades and film industry honors. Lasseter received a Special Achievement Oscar® in 1995 for his inspired leadership of the Toy Story team. His work on Toy Story also earned an Academy Award® nomination for Best Original Screenplay, the first time an animated feature had been recognized in that category.
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