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The Pixar Perspective on Female Directors

March 12, 2013 by Josh Spiegel 7 Comments

The Pixar Perspective on Female Directors

Over the last two decades, Pixar Animation Studios has been able to top its competitors by reaching an almost unattainbly high level of quality. Pixar isn’t worried, it seems, with topping DreamWorks, but topping only what they’ve done in the past. Those rival studios—really, any studio making a family film, animated or not—are judged against whatever Pixar makes, but the Emeryville, California company raises the bar mostly so they can clear it before anyone else does. We may become rapidly disappointed at their output when they release something like Cars 2 after Toy Story 3, but it’s only because when Pixar delivers on a promise of brilliance, they do so in such unbelievable, ridiculous, unexpectedly moving ways. Their various consecutive runs of quality are unparalleled in the modern film industry, which they’ve worked hard to be separate from. Pixar works with Disney, fully ensconced in the culture of Hollywood, but being placed hundreds of miles north makes them feel totally separate, even now. And yet, there is one disturbing trait they share with the greater film industry, one that needs to be fixed soon: Pixar has a woman problem.

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Filed Under: Pixar Perspective Tagged With: Andrew Stanton, brave, brenda chapman, Cars 2, Dreamworks, Finding Nemo 2, Inside Out, Kung Fu Panda 2, Pete Docter, Pixar, Reese Witherspoon, The Good Dinosaur, Toy Story 3

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