John Lasseter — Chief Creative Officer of Walt Disney & Pixar Animation Studios at The Walt Disney Company

Mr. John Lasseter serves as Chief Creative Officer and Principal Creative Advisor Of Walt Disney Imagineering Walt Disney Co. Mr. Lasseter served as its Creative Chief of Animation and Head of the Imagineering department of Parks and Resorts division since February 2006. Mr.Lasseter serves as Chief Creative Officer and Executive Vice President, Creative division of Pixar. He served as a Senior Creative Officer of Pixar. He launched his career as an animator at Disney in the 1980s. In addition to serving as head of all of Pixar's Animation Studios' films and projects as Executive Vice President, Creative, he directed Toy Story, (the first feature-length computer animated film), A Bug's Life and Toy Story 2. He most recently served as Executive Producer of Monsters Inc. He was in development on his fourth feature film, Cars. He directed the first computer-animated feature film, Toy Story, for which he received a Special Achievement Oscar?? and was nominated for Best Original Screenplay, the first animated film ever to receive an Oscar?? nomination for screenplay. Mr. Lasseter joined Lucasfilm's Computer Division in 1984 and was a founding member of Pixar when it was formed in February 1986. He spent five years as an animator at The Walt Disney Company, where he worked on such films as The Fox and the Hound and Mickey's Christmas Carol. He designed and animated the Stained Glass Knight character in the 1985 Steven Spielberg production, Young Sherlock Holmes. Mr.Lasseter has written and directed a number of short films and television commercials while at Pixar: Luxo Jr. (1986 Academy Award?? nominee), Red's Dream (1987), Tin Toy (1988 Academy Award?? Winner) and Knick Knack (1989). His very first award came at the age of five when he won $15.00 from the Model Grocery Market in Whittier, California for a crayon drawing of the Headless Horseman. He is a two-time Academy Award??-winning Director and animator. Mr. Lasseter earned his B.F.A. in film from the California Institute of the Arts where he produced two animated films, each winners of the student Academy Award?? for Animation: Lady and the Lamp in 1979 and Nightmare in 1980. In 2001, he was given an honorary doctorate degree from the American Film Institute.