Emeryville -- Even before any Oscar statuettes are handed out this Sunday, the Academy Awards has already made history by nominating the first woman director of a Pixar film. Domee Shi is a storyboard ...

Pixar has delved into Indian culture with “Sanjay’s Super Team” and Latino culture with “Coco.” In “Bao,” the eight-minute short that precedes “Incredibles 2,” the animation giant is taking a bite of ...

A version of this story about Domee Shi appeared in the Down to the Wire issue of TheWrap’s Oscar magazine. “Bao” is the 15th Pixar short nominated for an Oscar, but it’s the first of the hugely ...

Thankfully, that isn’t the case with Disney Pixar’s best animated short from the last decade. Bao, released in 2018, is currently soaring up the Disney+ chart, overtaking many of the franchise’s ...

Since Pixar was first founded back in the mid-1980s, there have been roughly 35 Pixar short films. Can you guess how many of them were directed by men? If you guessed, “35” you’d be correct! Since the ...

The 20th helmer to take on a Pixar short since the mid-1980s, and the the first woman to do so, Bao‘s Domee Shi is now on the path to making her feature debut, with the backing of one of the most ...