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John Lasseter was fired from Walt Disney Animation Studios in 1984 after pitching a project that combined computer-generated backgrounds with traditional hand-drawn animation. Animation administrator Ed Hansen and Disney studios head Ron W. Miller rejected the concept on cost grounds, and Lasseter was told his employment was terminated within minutes of the meeting.
Lasseter's first student films were Lady and the Lamp (1979) and Nitemare (1980), both produced at CalArts, each of which won a student Academy Award. His first professional feature film as director was Toy Story (1995), the first computer-animated feature film ever made.
Films directed or executive-produced by Lasseter grossed more than nineteen billion dollars in total. Five of the ten animated films that have surpassed one billion dollars worldwide were executive-produced by him: Toy Story 3, Frozen, Zootopia, Finding Dory, and Incredibles 2.
Lasseter has won two Academy Awards. He received the award for Best Animated Short Film for Tin Toy, and a Special Achievement Award for Toy Story, which the Academy recognized separately because no existing category fully applied to the first computer-animated feature film.
Lasseter took a six-month leave of absence in November 2017 following employee allegations of sexual misconduct, described as including grabbing, kissing, and comments about physical attributes over a number of years. In June 2018, Disney and Lasseter announced he would leave when his contract expired at the end of the year.
Since the 9th of January, 2019, Lasseter has headed Skydance Animation, the animation division of Skydance Media. He was hired by Skydance founder and CEO David Ellison, and serves as producer on feature films and executive producer on series at the studio.