John Lasseter

Paul Newman turned 81 this year. For decades, the Oscar-winning star seemed ageless, but on a muggy May afternoon in North Carolina, Newman seems a little tired, a little distracted, a little like an 81-year-old man. Packed into a small room with...

A cocky race car that learns the wisdom of slowing down won the race for best animated feature Sunday at the 34th annual Annie Awards, honoring achievements in feature film and television animation. "Cars," from The Walt Disney Co. and Pixar Animation...

Perhaps the only people who brag more about their illustrious alumni than Ivy Leaguers are the deans of film schools. At USC, the names dropped are Robert Zemeckis, Jay Roach, Ron Howard and Brian Grazer. UCLA proudly lists Francis Ford Coppola, Gore...

Pixar's "Cars" scored nine nominations for the International Animated Film Society's 24th annual Annie Awards, topping the field. While the Pixar's automotive comedy will face off with "Happy Feet," "Monster House" and "Open Season" in the best...

"Cars" marks Pixar's seventh animated film since 1995 and John Ratzenberger has lent his voice to every one. "It's like a Capra movie where every single character's got their own story arc," says Ratzenberger of the Pixar process. "It's not just the...

Perhaps there's no voice in Hollywood that suggests a smirk as well as Owen Wilson's nasal, Texas drawl. Indeed, as a kid, it was one of those tics that used to get him in trouble at school, or rather add to the trouble he was already in at school. "A...

In the beginning, there was Snow White. Walt Disney's lovely songbird made history in 1937, debuting in Hollywood's first movie-length cartoon. It was an instant creative and financial sensation. Today, 65 years later, her legacy will take center...

The awarding of the best animated feature Oscar to "Spirited Away" represented not only a victory for writer-director Hayao Miyazaki, but also a reflection of the growing popularity and influence of Japanese animation, or animé, in America. A fantasy-...

Friday November 20, 1998      Computer-animated movies, like computers themselves, are only as clever and funny as the people who program them. What "A Bug's Life" demonstrates is that when it comes to bugs, the most fun ones to hang out with hang...

Friday October 8, 1999      "The Hand Behind the Mouse: The Ub Iwerks Story," a documentary by the artist's granddaughter, Leslie Iwerks, which opens today at the El Capitan Theater for a one-week run, offers viewers a rare look at one of the unsung...

Friday November 19, 1999      Thirteen years have elapsed between the first Pixar film, an Oscar-nominated two-minute short about an adventurous lamp called "Luxo Jr.," and the current "Toy Story 2," the elaborate successor to one of the highest grossing...

With six Oscar winners and five other nominees, "Spike and Mike's Best of the Fest 25th Anniversary Show" offers some of the best animated shorts of recent years. These interesting and often hilarious films introduced audiences to several artists who have...