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Evans, Bradford (March 17, 2011). "The Lost Roles of Jim Carrey". Splitsider. Archived from the original on August 8, 2015 . Retrieved March 28, 2016. Early in Toy Story's development, producers wanted Paul Newman as Woody and Jim Carrey as Buzz Lightyear, with the two actors representing Old Hollywood and New Hollywood, respectively. Evans, Bradford (February 17, 2011). "The Lost Roles of Bill Murray". Archived from the original on May 20, 2015 . Retrieved May 25, 2015. Best Animated Movies (5–1) – The Moviefone Blog". Blog.moviefone.com. June 2, 2008. Archived from the original on July 8, 2012 . Retrieved July 8, 2011. It also ranks at number 99 in Empire magazine's list of the "500 Greatest Films of All Time" and as the "highest-ranked animated movie". [115]

The film won and was nominated for various other awards including a Kids' Choice Award, MTV Movie Award, and a British Academy Film Award, among others. John Lasseter received a Special Achievement Academy Award in 1996 "for the development and inspired application of techniques that have made possible the first feature-length computer-animated film". [122] [123] Additionally, the film was nominated for three Academy Awards, two to Randy Newman for Best Music—Original Song, for " You've Got a Friend in Me", and Best Music—Original Musical or Comedy Score. [124] It was also nominated for Best Original Screenplay for the work by Joel Cohen, Pete Docter, John Lasseter, Joe Ranft, Alec Sokolow, Andrew Stanton and Joss Whedon, making it the first animated film to be nominated for an Academy Award writing category. [124] Once the animators had a model, its articulation and motion controls were coded; this allowed each character to move in a variety of ways, such as talking, walking, or jumping. [55] Out of all of the characters, Woody was the most complex, as he required 723 motion controls, including 212 for his face and 58 for his mouth. [32] [56] The first piece of animation, a 30-second test, was delivered to Disney in June 1992, when the company requested a sample of what the film would look like. Lasseter wanted to impress Disney with several things in the test that could not be done in traditional, hand-drawn animation, such as Woody's yellow plaid shirt with red stripes, the reflections in Buzz's helmet and the decals on his spacesuit, or Venetian blind shadows falling across Andy's room. [26]

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The Debian GNU/Linux FAQ – The Debian FTP archives". Debian. April 25, 2015. Archived from the original on October 11, 2011 . Retrieved April 26, 2015. Disney has also recycled the phrase in homage to Toy Story at least twice. In the " blooper reel" shown during the credits of A Bug's Life, Dave Foley says the line while in character as Flik, and Tim Allen himself repeated his famous line in The Shaggy Dog, in a scene when the titular character jumps off a bridge onto a moving vehicle. [143] Other influences [ edit ]

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Toy Story 's cast of characters forms the basis for the naming of the releases of the Debian computer operating system, from Debian 1.1 Buzz, the first release with a codename, in 1996, to Debian 14 Forky, the most-recently announced future release. [144] [145]

Both sides were willing. Catmull and fellow Pixar co-founder Alvy Ray Smith had long wanted to produce a computer-animated feature, but only by the early 1990s were the computers cheap and powerful enough to make this possible. [12] [13] In addition, Disney had licensed Pixar's Computer Animation Production System (CAPS), and that made it the largest customer for Pixar's computers. [14] Jobs made it apparent to Katzenberg that although Disney was happy with Pixar, it was not the other way around: "We want to do a film with you," said Jobs. "That would make us happy." [14] Academy Awards". infoplease. Archived from the original on January 3, 2013 . Retrieved January 31, 2009. The Movie Blog's 10 Best Animated Films of All Time". The Movie Blog. October 4, 2008. Archived from the original on November 6, 2018 . Retrieved July 8, 2011. a b Richards, Olly (January 24, 2008). "Toy Story Movies Going 3D". Empire. Archived from the original on November 7, 2018 . Retrieved March 11, 2009.Top Ten Animation". American Film Institute. Archived from the original on June 19, 2008 . Retrieved March 11, 2009. Kozak, Jim (August 2005). "Serenity Now!". In Focus. National Association of Theatre Owners. Archived from the original on August 3, 2005 . Retrieved August 10, 2015. Ironically, Disney put the kibosh on the person they wanted for Buzz Lightyear because he wasn't famous enough, so we couldn't use Jim Carrey. But they had Tom Hanks in place. Domestic Grosses #1–100". Box Office Mojo. Archived from the original on August 3, 2018 . Retrieved March 11, 2009.