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).

Filmography

• 2026Ray Gunn — Producer
• 2026Swapped — Producer
• 2025Flink's Pigeon Problems — Producer
• 2024Spellbound — Producer
• WondLa — Executive Producer
• 2023Bad Luck Spot! — Executive Producer
• 2023Toy Story Funday Football — Writer
• 2022Lightyear — Thanks
• 2022Luck — Producer
• 2021Blush — Executive Producer
• 2021Pixar Remix: Cars "Rules of the Road" — Original Story
• 2019Toy Story 4 — Original Story, Storyboard Assistant
• 2018Bao — Executive Producer
• 2018Incredibles 2 — Executive Producer
• 2018Ralph Breaks the Internet — Executive Producer
• 2017Cars 3 — Executive Producer
• 2017Coco — Executive Producer
• 2017Gone Fishing — Executive Producer
• 2017Lou — Executive Producer
• 2017Miss Fritter's Racing Skoool — Executive Producer
• 2017Olaf's Frozen Adventure — Executive Producer
• 2016Finding Dory — Executive Producer
• 2016Inner Workings — Executive Producer
• 2016Moana — Executive Producer
• 2016Piper — Executive Producer
• 2016Zootopia — Executive Producer
• 2015Frozen Fever — Executive Producer
• 2015Inside Out — Executive Producer
• 2015Lava — Executive Producer
• 2015Riley's First Date? — Executive Producer
• 2015Sanjay's Super Team — Executive Producer
• 2015The Good Dinosaur — Executive Producer
• 2015Tick Tock Tale — Executive Producer
• 2015Walt Disney Animation Studios Short Films Collection — Executive Producer
• 2014Big Hero 6 — Executive Producer
• 2014Feast — Executive Producer
• 2014Party Central — Executive Producer
• 2014Planes: Fire & Rescue — Executive Producer, Characters
• 2014The Radiator Springs 500½ — Executive Producer
• 2014Tinker Bell and the Legend of the NeverBeast — Executive Producer
• 2014Tinker Bell and the Pirate Fairy — Story, Executive Producer
• 2014Toy Story That Time Forgot — Executive Producer
• 2013Bugged — Executive Producer
• 2013Frozen — Executive Producer
• 2013Get a Horse! — Executive Producer
• 2013Hiccups — Executive Producer
• 2013Monsters University — Executive Producer
• 2013Planes — Executive Producer, Original Story
• 2013Spinning — Executive Producer, Story
• 2013The Blue Umbrella — Executive Producer
• 2013Toy Story of Terror! — Executive Producer
• 2012Brave — Executive Producer
• 2012John Carter — Thanks
• 2012La luna — Executive Producer
• 2012Paperman — Executive Producer
• 2012Partysaurus Rex — Story, Executive Producer
• 2012Prep & Landing: Totally Tinsel Collection — Executive Producer
• 2012Secret of the Wings — Executive Producer
• 2012Tangled Ever After — Executive Producer
• 2012The Legend of Mor'du — Executive Producer
• 2012Time Travel Mater — Writer
• 2012Wreck-It Ralph — Executive Producer
• 2011Air Mater — Writer, Executive Producer
• 2011Cars 2 — Additional Voices (voice), Director, Original Story
• 2011Hawaiian Vacation — Executive Producer
• 2011Pixie Hollow Games — Executive Producer
• 2011Prep & Landing: Naughty vs. Nice — Executive Producer
• 2011Small Fry — Story, Executive Producer
• 2011The Ballad of Nessie — Executive Producer
• 2011Winnie the Pooh — Executive Producer
• 2010Day & Night — Executive Producer
• 2010Heavy Metal Mater — Director, Story
• 2010Mater Private Eye — Writer, Executive Producer
• 2010Monster Truck Mater — Director, Writer
• 2010Moon Mater — Writer, Executive Producer
• 2010Prep & Landing Stocking Stuffer: Operation: Secret Santa — Producer
• 2010Tangled — Executive Producer
• 2010Tinker Bell and the Great Fairy Rescue — Executive Producer
• 2010Toy Story 3 — Executive Producer, Story
• 2009Dug's Special Mission — Executive Producer
• 2009Partly Cloudy — Executive Producer
• 2009Prep & Landing — Executive Producer
• 2009Super Rhino — Executive Producer
• 2009The Princess and the Frog — Executive Producer
• 2009Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure — Executive Producer
• 2009Unidentified Flying Mater — Writer, Director
• 2009Up — Executive Producer
• 2008BURN·E — Executive Producer
• 2008Bolt — Executive Producer
• 2008Cars Toon Mater's Tall Tales — Director, Story, Executive Producer
• 2008El Materdor — Director, Story
• 2008Glago's Guest — Executive Producer
• 2008Mater the Greater — Director, Story
• 2008Presto — Executive Producer
• 2008Rescue Squad Mater — Director, Story
• Tales from Radiator Springs — Creator
• 2008Tinker Bell — Executive Producer
• 2008Tokyo Mater — Director, Story
• 2008WALL·E — Executive Producer
• 2007How to Hook Up Your Home Theater — Executive Producer
• 2007Meet the Robinsons — Executive Producer
• 2007Ratatouille — Executive Producer
• 2007The Pixar Shorts: A Short History
• 2007Your Friend the Rat — Executive Producer
• 2006Cars — Screenplay, Director, Original Story
• 2006Geared-Up
• 2006Lifted — Executive Producer
• 2006Mater and the Ghostlight — Director, Original Story
• 2006The Inspiration for 'Cars' — Self - Director, Thanks
• 2005Jack-Jack Attack — Executive Producer
• 2005One Man Band — Executive Producer
• 2004The Incredibles — Executive Producer
• 2003Boundin' — Executive Producer
• 2003Exploring the Reef — Executive Producer
• 2003Finding Nemo — Executive Producer
• 2002Mike's New Car — Executive Producer
• 2001Monsters, Inc. — Executive Producer
• 2000For the Birds — Executive Producer
• 1999Toy Story 2 — Additional Voices (voice), Director, Original Story
• 1998A Bug's Life — Additional Voices (voice), Director, Original Story
• 1997Geri's Game — Executive Producer
• The Wonderful World of Disney — Director
• 1996Tiny Toy Stories — Director
• Toy Story Treats — Creator
• 1995Toy Story — Director, Original Story
• 1994The Making of Bambi: A Prince is Born — Self - Director & Exec. VP, Pixar Animation
• 1991Front and Back — Director
• 1991Light and Heavy — Director
• 1991Surprise — Director
• 1991Up and Down — Director
• 1989Knick Knack — Producer, Director, Writer, Animation
• 1989Luxo Jr. 3D — Director
• 1988Tin Toy — Director, Producer, Animation, Writer
• 1987Red's Dream — Writer, Director, Producer
• 1986Luxo Jr. — Producer, Director, Animation Department Coordinator, Story
• 1985Young Sherlock Holmes — Animation
• 1984The Adventures of André and Wally B. — Modeling, Animation, Character Designer
• 1980Nitemare — Writer, Director, Producer, Animation
• 1979Lady and the Lamp — Producer, Animation, Writer, Director
• Cosmic Motors — Director, Producer
• Made in Point Richmond
• Untitled Jack and the Beanstalk Film — Producer
• Untitled Nathan Greno Animated Movie — Executive Producer

Appearances as themselves (40)

• 2022Beyond Infinity: Buzz and the Journey to Lightyear — Self (archive footage)
• 2019Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound — Self
• 2017Motori Ruggenti — Self
• 2016Bozzetto non troppo — Self (archive footage)
• 2016Imagining Zootopia — Self
• 2015A Grand Night In: The Story of Aardman — Self - Pixar Chief Creative Officer
• 2015Behind the Magic: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs — Himself
• Jay Leno's Garage — Self
• 2015Toy Story at 20: To Infinity and Beyond — Self
• 2015Winning: The Racing Life of Paul Newman — Self
• 2014The Story of Frozen: Making a Disney Animated Classic — Self
• 2013Bloomberg Inside: Pixar — Self - Walt Disney & Pixar Chief Creative Officer
• 2012Ray Harryhausen: Special Effects Titan — Self
• 2011A Day in the Life of John Lasseter — Self
• 2011These Amazing Shadows — Self
• America: The Story of Us — Self
• 2010Industrial Light & Magic: Creating the Impossible — Self
• 2010Magic in the Bayou: The Making of a Princess — Self
• 2010The Making of Mater's Tall Tales — Self
• 2010Waking Sleeping Beauty — Self (archive footage)
• 2009The Boys: The Sherman Brothers' Story — Self
• 2007AFI: 100 Years... 100 Movies... 10th Anniversary Edition — Self
• 2007Fog City Mavericks — Self
• 2007Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project — Self
• 2007The Pixar Story — Self
• 2005Hayao Miyazaki and the Ghibli Museum — Self
• 2005The Making of 'The Incredibles' — Self
• 2004The Force Is with Them: The Legacy of 'Star Wars' — Self
• 2003Lasseter-san, Thank You — Self
• 2003Making 'Nemo' — Self - Executive Producer
• 2003The Art of 'Spirited Away' — Self
• 2002The Making of TRON — Himself
• 2000Chuck Jones: Extremes and In-Betweens - A Life in Animation — Self
• 2000The Beatles Revolution — Self
• 1999From Star Wars to Star Wars: The Story of Industrial Light & Magic — Self
• 1999The Hand Behind the Mouse: The Ub Iwerks Story — Himself
• 1996The Story Behind 'Toy Story' — Self
• 1995The Making of Toy Story — Self
• 1991Tin Toys Knick Knacks & Algorithms — Self
• The Oscars — Self