Big-name shorts will compete against smaller international films for final nominations

Second-biggest field in animated feature category guarantees there will be five nominees this season

Disney's D23 Expo tossed out clips from The Avengers, Pixar, the Muppets and more to an avid sold-out crowd

After shunning the controversial animated awards in 2010, Disney and Pixar restore support for a revamped organization

Court rejects screenwriter's claims that he came up with the anthropomorphic autos in the mid-'90s

“Cars” -- though the least compelling of Pixar’s 11 previous features -- is a Lamborghini compared to the Edsel that is its sequel

Weezer recorded The Cars' "You Might Think" for Pixar's film, and Williams and Paisley recorded a duet

The "Fighter" sequel that might be, the Pixar movie that won't be, and what Banksy's wife tells the neighbors

Animation organization announces changes to process that had caused Disney/Pixar to withdraw

The fact is this weekend's Writers Guild of America Awards and Annie Awards are very very limited in their predictive ability for the Academy Awards

Mather takes position with company just out of Chapter 11

Ann Mather is also a director of Google and Netflix