Pixar Animation Studios y sus empeados han recibido mas de 100 premios y nominaciones por sus peliculas animadas, comerciales y contribuciones tecnologicas. A continuación estan los premios ha recibido por parte de la Academia:
2007 Academy Award®
Best Animated Feature Film
Ratatouille
2005 Technical Achievement Award
Subdivision Surfaces
Ed Catmull, Tony DeRose and Jos Stam
2005 Scientific and Engineering Award
Cloth Simulation
David Baraff, Michael Kass and Andy Witkin
2004 Academy Award®
Best Animated Feature Film
The Incredibles
2004 Academy Award®
Achievement in Sound Editing
The Incredibles
Michael Silvers and Randy Thom
2003 Academy Award®
Animated Feature Film
Finding Nemo
2003 Academy Award®
NomineeOriginal Screenplay
Finding Nemo
Andrew Stanton, Bob Peterson and Dave Reynolds
2001 Academy Award®
Best Original Song
If I Didn't Have You (Monsters, Inc.)
Randy Newman
2001 Academy Award®
Best Short Film - Animated
For the Birds
Ralph Eggleston
2000 Academy Award® of Merit
Significant Advances in the Field of Motion Picture Rendering as exemplified in
Pixar's RenderMan™
Edwin Catmull, Loren Carpenter, Rob Cook
1998 Technical Achievement Award
PixarVision™
David DiFrancesco
1997 Academy Award®
Best Animated Short Film
Geri's Game
Jan Pinkava
1997 Scientific and Engineering Award
Marionette 3-D Animation Systems
Eben Ostby, William Reeves, Tom Duff
1997 Scientific and Engineering Award
Digital Painting
Thomas Porter
1996 Scientific and Engineering Award
Particle Systems
William Reeves
1996 Technical Achievement Award
Direct Input Device
Rick Sayre
1995 Special Achievement Award (Oscar®)
Toy Story
John Lasseter
1995 Scientific and Engineering Award
Digital Image Compositing
Edwin Catmull, Thomas Porter, Tom Duff
1994 Scientific and Engineering Award
Digital Scanning
David DiFrancesco
1992 Scientific and Engineering Award
RenderMan®
Loren Carpenter, Rob Cook, Ed Catmull, Tom Porter, Pat Hanrahan, Tony Apodaca, Darwyn Peachey
1991 Scientific and Engineering Award
Computer-Assisted Production System
Randy Cartwright, David B. Coons, Lem Davis, Thomas Hahn, James Houston, Mark Kimball, Dylan W. Kohler, Peter Nye, Michael Shantzis, David F. Wolf, Walt Disney Feature Animation Department
1988 Academy Award®
Best Animated Short Film
Tin Toy
John Lasseter, William Reeves
Ademas de los premios de la Academia, Pixar ha sido premiado por los Golden Globes, The National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences and ASIFA. Y cada pelicula y corto han sido reconocidos dentro del mismo estudio de animación y por otras intituciones menos famosas.