How the Pixar Films bracket works
Rank Pixar movies without dragging anything into rows. You get one matchup at a time — Toy Story or Finding Nemo? Up or The Incredibles? — and after 23 picks the bracket has a champion, with everything else placed by how far it got. Comparing two films is far easier than sorting 24 of them at once, which is why the finished list tends to survive a second look.
This bracket runs 5 rounds at the default 24-slot size (Round of 24, Round of 16, Elite 8, Final Four, Championship), with every one of the 24 films in the field. 24 is not a power of two, so 8 of them draw a first-round bye — spread evenly across the draw rather than handed to whoever happens to land at the top of it. Seeding is random, which means a replay is a genuinely different bracket rather than the same path twice. You can also play it at 8 or 16 slots for a shorter or longer run.
23 picks, 5 rounds
- Round of 248 matchups
- Round of 168 matchups
- Elite 84 matchups
- Final Four2 matchups
- Championship1 matchup
Roughly 2-3 minutes start to finish.
All 24 entrants
All 24 entrants are listed below, including Toy Story, Finding Nemo, Up and The Incredibles.
Toy Story
1995
Finding Nemo
2003
Up
2009
The Incredibles
2004
Inside Out
2015
WALL-E
2008
Coco
2017
Ratatouille
2007
Monsters, Inc.
2001
Toy Story 3
2010
Toy Story 2
1999
A Bug's Life
1998
Finding Dory
2016
Brave
2012
Cars
2006
Soul
2020
Luca
2021
Turning Red
2022
Elemental
2023
Inside Out 2
2024
Toy Story 4
2019
Incredibles 2
2018
Onward
2020
The Good Dinosaur
2015
Would rather group them than rank them? Open all 24 in the tier list maker and sort them into S, A, B, C, D and F tiers instead — same entrants, no matchups.
How everyone else ranked them
Aggregated from 39 completed Pixar Films brackets. Win rate is the share of head-to-head matchups each entrant has won across every play.
- 1
Toy Story
55W - 16L · won 8 brackets
77%
win rate
- 2
Cars
53W - 20L · won 8 brackets
73%
win rate
- 3
Ratatouille
59W - 23L · won 7 brackets
72%
win rate
- 4
Monsters, Inc.
48W - 23L · won 1 bracket
68%
win rate
- 5
WALL-E
36W - 20L · won 5 brackets
64%
win rate
- 6
Finding Nemo
32W - 21L · won 2 brackets
60%
win rate
- 7
The Incredibles
35W - 26L · won 1 bracket
57%
win rate
- 8
Up
33W - 27L · won 2 brackets
55%
win rate
- 9
Toy Story 2
28W - 25L
53%
win rate
- 10
Coco
27W - 25L · won 1 bracket
52%
win rate
Getting a ranking you actually agree with
- 1Pick the film you would actually rewatch tonight, not the one with the better reputation.
- 2The default run puts all 24 films in the draw. Short on time? Drop to 16 slots — a quicker run over a random 16 of them.
- 3If a matchup genuinely splits you, undo and replay it — a coin-flip pick in round one distorts everything below it.
Pixar Films bracket FAQ
How many films are in the Pixar Films bracket?
The pool holds 24 films. A default run puts all of them in the draw and takes 23 picks across 5 rounds: Round of 24, Round of 16, Elite 8, Final Four, Championship. 8 entrants start with a first-round bye, spread evenly through the draw. Other field sizes are available too — 8, 16, 24 slots.
Which films are included?
Toy Story, Finding Nemo, Up, The Incredibles, Inside Out, WALL-E, Coco, Ratatouille, Monsters, Inc., Toy Story 3, Toy Story 2 and A Bug's Life, plus 12 more. Every entrant is listed further down this page with its artwork.
How long does the rank Pixar movies take?
About 2-3 minutes — 23 choices at the default size, or 7 if you drop to a 8-slot bracket. There is no sign-up and nothing is stored until you reach the final.
Is this a pixar films tier list or a ranking?
Both are here, and the bracket is closer to a tier list than it looks. It ends with a champion, a runner-up and then every other film grouped by the round it went out in — which is exactly a set of tiers, decided by 23 direct comparisons rather than by your first guess at a layout. What it deliberately does not do is claim a precise gap between two films that never met. If you would rather place the films into S through F rows yourself, the tier list maker loads all 24 of them at bracketranker.com/tier-list-maker.
Is there a community pixar films ranking?
Every completed bracket feeds the Pixar Films community results page, which aggregates win rates across all plays and tracks how often each of the 24 entrants takes the title. It updates continuously, so it moves as more people play.
Can I change which films are included?
Use the bracket maker: add your own films, name it, and share the link so other people play the same field. That is the route to take when this pool of 24 is missing something you would have picked, or when you want a version scoped to one era, label or franchise.