Pixar's Up was the recipient of this year's animated feature Oscar, beating four other titles to the award.

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Mr Jobs also provided major funding to set up Pixar Animation Studios.

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The Disney-Pixar blockbuster "Up" won the Golden Globe for best animated movie.

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It will also be screened in 3D - only the second time in the history of the festival a film has been shown in the format after Pixar's Up opened in 2009.

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The movie has proved a huge hit for Disney even though many analysts predicted that a cartoon with a cranky old man as the lead would never live up to Pixar's previous successes.

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Everett Downing is an animator at Pixar who has worked on such films as Up and Toy Story 3.

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Instead he set up small private screenings on the Pixar and Disney lots, and courted the animation and film school communities in Los Angeles.

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Most Pixar films are rated G, though "Brave, " "Up, " and "The Incredibles" were rated PG, a signal that they might contain some material unsuitable for children.

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