Corporate Special Achievement
Award Recipients

2004: Pixar Animation Studios
Pixar Animation Studios combines creative and technical artistry to create original stories in the medium of computer animation. Pixar has created a number of the most successful and beloved animated films of all time: the Academy Award winning Toy Story, A Bug's Life, Toy Story 2, Monsters, Inc., and Finding Nemo. This year, Finding Nemo earned an Academy Award as the year's best animated film. Nemo also ranks as the highest grossing animated film in history. Since its incorporation, Pixar has been responsible for many important breakthroughs in the application of computer graphics to filmmaking. Pixar's talented creative teams have collaborated to develop three core proprietary software systems: Marionette, an animation software system for modeling, animating, and lighting; Ringmaster, a production management system; and Render Man II, a software system for high quality, photorealistic image synthesis.