Toy Story 1-3 (1995, 1999, 2010)
Toy Story is the foundational achievement in feature-length computer animation. Seen all three more than five times across decades.
Writer: Andrew Stanton
Andrew Stanton co-wrote every Pixar feature of the studio’s first decade, including all four Toy Story films, A Bug’s Life, Monsters Inc and WALL-E, and functioned as the studio’s principal story voice.
His stated rule is to make the audience assemble the meaning instead of delivering it, and WALL-E’s near-silent first act is the test case. He has said the hardest thing was persuading the studio that forty minutes without dialogue would hold.
Finding Nemo won him a nomination for Best Original Screenplay, and its structure, a parent and child journey told in parallel, is more carefully built than the finished film makes obvious.
