Monsters, Inc.
Also known as: Hidden City (Working Title), Monsters, Incorporated (Working Title)
- Studio
- Pixar Animation Studios, Walt Disney Studios
- Animation studio
- Pixar Animation Studios
- Distributor
- Buena Vista Pictures
Synopsis
A little girl enters the world behind her closet door; a world inhabited by monsters.
Characters
Mike Wazowski, James P. 'Sulley' Sullivan, Henry J. Waternoose, Celia, Boo, Randall Boggs, George Sanderson, Flint, Roz, Yeti, Fungus, Bile, Needleman, Smitty
Credits
Directing
- Director
- Peter Docter
- Co-Directed by
- David Silverman, Lee Unkrich
Producing
- Producer
- Darla K. Anderson
- Executive Producer
- John Lasseter, Andrew Stanton
- Associate Producer
- Kori Rae
Writing
- Writer
- Dan Gerson, Andrew Stanton
- Story
- Pete Docter, Jill Culton, Jeff Pidgeon, Ralph Eggleston
- Additional Screenplay Material
- Robert Baird, Rhett Reese, Jonathan Roberts
- Script Coordinators
- Esther Pearl, Shannon Wood
Voices
- Voice
- Billy Crystal (Mike), John Goodman (Sulley), James Coburn (Henry J. Waternoose), Jennifer Tilly (Celia), Mary Gibbs (Boo), Steve Buscemi (Randall), Sam 'Penguin' Black (George), Bonnie Hunt (Flint), Bob Peterson (Roz), John Ratzenberger (Yeti), Frank Oz (Fungus), Steve Susskind (Floor Manager), Jeff Pidgeon (Bile), Daniel R. Gerson (Needleman & Smitty)
Music
- Music
- Randy Newman
Animation
- Supervising Animators
- Glenn McQueen, Rich Quade
- Directing Animators
- Doug Sweetland, Scott Clark
- Animator
- Kyle Balda, Alan Barillaro, Stephen Barnes, Bobby Beck, Misha Berenstein, Dylan Brown, Brett Coderre, Tim Crawfurd, Ricardo Curtis, Dave Devan, Doug Dooley, Ike Feldman, Andrew Gordon, Stephen Gregory, Jimmy Hayward, John Kahrs, Nancy Kato, Karen Kiser, Shawn P. Krause, Wendell Lee, Angus MacLane, Dan Mason, Amy McNamara, Jon Mead, Billy Merritt, Dave Mullins, James Ford Murphy, Peter Nash, Victor Navone, Bret Parker, Michael Parks, Sanjay Patel, Bobby Podesta, Jeff Pratt, Bret Pulliam, Roger Rose, Robert H. Russ, Gini Cruz Santos, Andy Schmidt, Alan Sperling, Patty Kihm Stevenson, Ross Stevenson, David Tart, J. Warren Trezevant, Mike Venturini, Tasha Wedeen, Adam Wood, Kureha Yokoo, Ron Zorman, Kyle Balda, Alan Barillaro, Stephen Barnes, Bobby Beck, Misha Berenstein, Dylan Brown, Brett Coderre, Tim Crawfurd, Ricardo Curtis, Dave Devan, Doug Dooley, Ike Feldman, Andrew Gordon, Stephen Gregory, Jimmy Hayward, John Kahrs, Nancy Kato, Karen Kiser, Shawn P. Krause, Wendell Lee, Angus MacLane, Dan Mason, Amy McNamara, Jon Mead, Billy Merritt, Dave Mullins, James Ford Murphy, Peter Nash, Victor Navone, Bret Parker, Michael Parks, Sanjay Patel, Bobby Podesta, Jeff Pratt, Bret Pulliam, Roger Rose, Robert H. Russ, Gini Cruz Santos, Andy Schmidt, Alan Sperling, Patty Kihm Stevenson, Ross Stevenson, David Tart, J. Warren Trezevant, Mike Venturini, Tasha Wedeen, Adam Wood, Kureha Yokoo, Ron Zorman
- Supervising Technical Director
- Thomas Porter
- Lighting Supervisor
- Jean-Claude J. Kalache
- Layout Supervisor
- Ewan Johnson
- Modeling Supervisor
- Eben Ostby
- Layout Manager
- Victoria Jaschob
- Lead Layout Artist
- Patrick Lin
- Senior Layout Artist
- Craig Good
- Layout Artists
- Robert Anderson, Cortney Armitage, Louis Gonzales, Sungyeon Joh, Jongo, Jeremy Lasky, Mark Sanford, Gabriel Schlumberger, Yun Shin, Sylvia Wong
- Layout Technical Support
- Daniel Campbell, Patrick Geunette
- Layout Department Coordinator
- Tom Kim
- Additional Layout
- Patrick James, Eric Lebel, Billy Merritt, Bret Parker, Brett Pulliam, Gini Cruz Santos, Adam Schnitzer
- Layout & Set Dressing PA
- Jessica Hutchison
- Animation Manager
- Sarah Jo Helton
- Fix Animator
- Paul Mendoza
- Animation Deptartment Coordinator
- Jenni Tsoi
- Animation Fixes & Deliveries
- Chris Digiovanni
- Animation Fix Coordinator
- Kathleen Relyea
- Animation Production Assistant
- Gabrielle Siegel
- Modeling Manager
- Deirdre Warin
- Lead Modeling Artists
- Eliot Smyrl, Brian Green, Christian Hoffman
- Modeling Artists
- Mark Adams, Paul Aichele, James Bancroft, Jason Bickerstaff, Onny P. Carr, Jun Han Cho, Lawrence D. Cutler, Ruieta Dasilva, Cynthia Dueltgen, Danielle Feinberg, Michael Fong, Damir Frkovic, Mark T. Henne, Sangwoo Hong, Patrick James, Rob Jensen, Stephen W. King, Sonoko Konishi, Ivo Kos, Mike Krummhoefener, Michael Lorenzen, Steve May, Tim Milliron, Kelly O'Connell, John Singh Pottebaum, Guido Quaroni, Joshua Reiss, Dale Ruffolo, Andrew Schmidt, Gary Schultz, Bill Sheffler, Christine Waggoner, Kim White, Patrick Wilson
- Modeling Coordinator
- Ethan Owen
- Modeling & Shading Fix Coordinator
- Graham Moloy
- Lighting Manager
- Mark Nielsen
- Directing Lighting Artists
- Janet Lucroy, Joyce Powell
- Team Leads & Master Lighting Artists
- Lauren Alpert, Brian Boyd, Scott Clifford, Danielle Feinberg, Rob Jensen, Ana G. Lacaze, Eileen O'Neill, Dale Ruffolo, John Warren, Kim White, Patrick Wilson, Maria Yershova, Chad Belteau, Tim Best, Onny P. Carr, Jun Han Cho, Airton Dittz, Jr., Jay A. Faulkner, Christina Haaser, Thane Hawkins, Jesse Hollander, Cindy Hong, Steven James, Jae H. Kim, Lisa Kim, Michael R. King, Kristifir Klein, Ivo Kos, Holly Lloyd, David MacCarthy, Felix J. Mendoza, Amy Moran, Desiree Mourad, Carmen Ngai, Kelly O'Connell, Seth Piezas, Chris Rock, Vandana Reddy Sahrawat, Erik Smitt, Peter Sumanaseni, Brian Young
- Lighting Coordinator
- Bahram Hooshmand
- Lighting Production Assistant
- Elizabeth Gonzales-Guerra
Art Department
- Production Designers
- Harley Jessup, Bob Pauley
- Art Directors
- Tia W. Kratter, Dominique Louis
- Character Design
- Ricky Vega Nierva
- Story Supervisor
- Bob Peterson
- Development Story Supervisor
- Jill Culton
- Story Artists
- Max Brace, Jim Capobianco, David Fulp, Rob Gibbs, Jason Katz, Bud Luckey, Matthew Luhn, Ted Mathot, Ken Mitchroney, Sanjay Patel, Jeff Pidgeon, Joe Ranft, Bob Scott, David Skelly, Nathan Stanton
- Additional Storyboarding
- Geefwee Boedoe, Joseph "Rocket" Ekers, Jorgen Klubien, Angus MacLane, Ricky Vega Nierva, Floyd Norman, Jan Pinkava
- Story Consultant
- Will Csaklos
- Art Department Manager
- Jonas Rivera
- Additional Character Design
- Bob Pauley, Dan Lee
- CG Painters
- Bryn Imagire, Glenn Kim, Laura Phillips, Paul Mica, Jamie Frye, Phaedra Craig, Yvonne Herbst, Robin Cooper
- Art Department Coordinators
- Jay Ward, Andrea Warren
Visual Effects
- Simulation & Effects Supervisors
- Galyn Susman, Michael Fong
- Simulation & Effects Manager
- Nicole Paradis Grindle
- Simulation & Effects Artists
- Jessica Abroms, Anthony A. Apodaca, Chris Chapman, Patrick James, Thomas Jordan, Steven Kani, Michael Kilgore, Martin Nguyen, Andrienne Othon, Leslie Picardo, Keith Stichweh, Tim Swec, Richard Thompson, Allison Torres, Christine Waggoner
- Additional Effects Development
- Loren C. Carpenter, Daniel Herman, Ken Lao, Adam Woodbury
- Simulation & Effects Coordinators
- David Orecklin, Jenna Capozzi, Marcia Savarese
- Simulation & Effects Production Assistant
- Daniel Arriaga
Camera
- Camera Department Managers
- Perrin Cutting, Julie McDonald
- Camera Supervisor
- Louis Rivera
- Camera Software & Engineering
- John Hee Soo Lee, Matthew Martin, Jon Shlens
- Camera Technicians
- Don Conway, Jeff Wan
Editing
- Editor
- Ken Schretzmann, Jim Stewart
- Editorial Manager
- Marcia Gwendolyn Jones
- Second Film Editors
- Ken Schretzmann, Robert Graham Jones
- Additional Editing
- Lee Unkrich, Torbin Xan Bullock, Katherine Ringgold
- First Assistant Editor
- Torbin Xan Bullock
- Second Assistant Editors
- Dan Engstrom, Axel Geddes, Margaret Hou, Gren Snyder, David Suther, Chris Vallance, Anna Wolitzky, Mark Yeager
- Additional Editorial Assistants
- Luis Alvarez Y Alvarez, Jack Curtis Dubowsky, Jason Hudak, Elizabeth Thomas
- Editorial Coordinator
- Hoon H. Kim
- Editorial Production Assistants
- Renee Steen, Atsuko Yamagishi
Sound
- Sound Designer
- Gary Rydstrom
- Temp Sound Editor
- E.J. Holowicki
Music Department
- Temp Music Editor
- David Slusser
Casting
- Casting
- Ruth Lambert, Mary Hidalgo
- Casting Associate
- Matthew Jon Beck
Production Management
- Production Supervisor
- Katherine Sarafian
- Story Coordinator
- Esther Pearl
- Story Production Assistants
- Adrian Ochoa, Sabine Magdelena Koch, Tomoko Ferguson
- Art Production Assistant
- Nick Vlahos
- Shading Coordinator
- Gina Trbovich-Malewicz
Crew
- Shading Supervisor
- Rick Sayre
- Set Dressing Supervisor
- Sophie Vincelette
- Story Manager
- Marcia Gwendolyn Jones
- Additional Story Material
- Bob Peterson, David Silverman, Joe Ranft
- Production Artists
- Mark Cordell Holmes, Albert Lozano, Jason Deamer, Nathaniel McLaughlin, Randy Berrett, Glenn Kim, Paul Mica, Bud Thon, David Hong, Lawrence Marvit, Gary Schultz, Patrick Wilson
- Sculptors
- Jerome Ranft, Norm DeCarlo
- Visual Developement
- Geefwee Boedoe, Ralph Eggleston, Ricky Vega Nierva, Jill Culton, Lou Romano, Nicolas Marlet, Carter Goodrich, Peter Deseve, Dave Gordon, Oscar Grillo, Kevin Hawkes, Bud Luckey, J. Otto Seibold, Lane Smith, Chris Ure
- Crew
- LAYOUT, SET DRESSING, Editorial, MODELING, SHADING, LIGHTING, SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT, CAMERA
- Sequence Leads
- Shawn Brennan, Gregg Olsson, Derek Williams
- Set Dressing Manager
- Trish Carney
- Set Dressing Artists
- John Childress Farmer, Ellen Moon Lee, Phat Phuong, Danny Sukiennik, Elizabeth Torbit
- Additional Set Dressing
- David Eisenmann, Mark Sanford, Robert Anderson, Derek Williams
- Character Development
- Alan Barillaro, Dave Devan, Andrew Gordon, Stephen Gregory, Steven Hunter, John Kahrs, Shawn P. Krause, Angus MacLane, Dale McBeath, Bobby Podesta, Jeff Pratt, Gini Cruz Santos, Mark Walsh
- Shading Manager
- Sue Maatouk-Kalache
- Lead Shading Artists
- Daniel McCoy, Ben Jordan
- Shading Artists
- Anthony A. Apodaca, James Bancroft, Byron Bashforth, David Batte, Lars R. Damerow, Michael Fu, Nigel Hardwidge, Thomas Jordan, Michael R. King, Stephen W. King, Andrew Kinney, Ana G. Lacaze, Tom Miller, Davic Munier, Mira Nikolic, Keith Olenick, Brandon Onstott, Seth Piezas, Mitch Prater, Brian M. Rosen, John Warren, Bill Wise
- Sequence Supervisors
- Steve May, Mark T. Henne, Guido Quaroni, Michael Lorenzen, Jack Paulus, Brad Winemiller
- Software Team Leads
- Brad Andalman, Rob Cook, Bena Currin, Tony Derose, Kurt Fleischer, Tom Hahn, Peter Nye, Arun Reo, Paul S. Strauss, Dirk Van Gelder, Andy Witkin
- Software Engineers
- John Alex, David Baraff, Ronen Barzel, Sam "Penguin" Black, Malcolm Blanchard, Tom Duff, Doug Epps, Lisa Forssell, F. Sebastian Grassia, Kitt Hirasaki, Jisup Hong, Mitchell Im, Michael B. Johnson, Michael Kass, Chris King, Manny Ko, Craig Kolb, David Laur, Eric Lebel, Tom Lokovic, Tim Milliron, Gary Monheit, Shaun Oborn, Michael K. O'Brien, Sudeep Rangaswamy, Don Schreiter, Michael Shantzis, Brian Smits, Heidi Stettner, Tien Truong, Mark Vandewettering, Eric Veach, Kiril Vidimce, Karon Weber, Brad West, Audrey Wong, Wayne Wooten, David G. Yu
- Documentation & Support
- Ian Buono, Tom Deering, Susan Boylan Griffin, Cybele Knowles, Nghi "Tin" Nguyen, Kay Seirup, Maria Milagros Soto
- Machinist
- Drew TTV Rogge
- Photoscience Managers
- James Burgess, David DiFrancesco
- Department Administrator
- Beth Sullivan
Companies and other credits
- STORY
- ART
- ANIMATION
- SIMULATION & EFFECTS
Production notes
The first animated film nominated for an Academy Award for best sound editing.
Monsters, Inc. earned $62 million during its opening weekend. This set a box-office record for the biggest debut for an animated film (this record was alter broken by Finding Nemo, also a Disney-Pixar collaboration).
According to Pixar CEO Steve Jobs, an audience poll of Monsters, Inc. showed that the Pixar name was a stronger attraction than the Disney name- by a slim margin for families, but by a wide margin for adults. "At least in this survey of people walking out of Monsters, Inc., the Pixar brand was already a very important factor, more important than the Disney brand," he said.
Monsters, Inc. earned $62 million during its opening weekend. This set a box-office record for the biggest debut for an animated film (this record was alter broken by Finding Nemo, also a Disney-Pixar collaboration).
According to Pixar CEO Steve Jobs, an audience poll of Monsters, Inc. showed that the Pixar name was a stronger attraction than the Disney name- by a slim margin for families, but by a wide margin for adults. "At least in this survey of people walking out of Monsters, Inc., the Pixar brand was already a very important factor, more important than the Disney brand," he said.
Awards
Academy Award Nominee, Best Animated Feature, 2002.
Academy Award Winner, Nominee, Best Original Song, "If I Didn't Have You" (Music and Lyrics: Randy Newman), 2002.
Grammy Award, Best Song Written for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media, "If I Didn't Have You", (Music and Lyrics: Randy Newman), 2003.
Grammy Award, Best Musical Album for Children, Monsters, Inc.- Scream Factory Favorites, Riders in the Sky, 2003.
Grammy Award Nominee, Best Score Soundtrack Album For A Motion Picture, Television Or Other Visual Media, (Randy Newman), 2003.
Grammy Award Nominee, Best Instrumental Composition Written For A Motion Picture, Television Or Other Visual Media, "Ride of the Doors", (Music and Lyrics: Randy Newman), 2003.
Grammy Award Nominee, Best Spoken Word Album For Children, "Monsters, Inc. DVD Read-Along," (Various Artists), 2003.
Nominee, DVD Exclusive Award, Best Director of a DVD Premiere Movie, 2003.
Nominee, DVD Exclusive Award, Best Editing of a DVD Premiere Movie, 2003.
DVD Exclusive Award, Best Menu Design, John Ross, Gork Enterprises, 2002
Academy Award Winner, Nominee, Best Original Song, "If I Didn't Have You" (Music and Lyrics: Randy Newman), 2002.
Grammy Award, Best Song Written for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media, "If I Didn't Have You", (Music and Lyrics: Randy Newman), 2003.
Grammy Award, Best Musical Album for Children, Monsters, Inc.- Scream Factory Favorites, Riders in the Sky, 2003.
Grammy Award Nominee, Best Score Soundtrack Album For A Motion Picture, Television Or Other Visual Media, (Randy Newman), 2003.
Grammy Award Nominee, Best Instrumental Composition Written For A Motion Picture, Television Or Other Visual Media, "Ride of the Doors", (Music and Lyrics: Randy Newman), 2003.
Grammy Award Nominee, Best Spoken Word Album For Children, "Monsters, Inc. DVD Read-Along," (Various Artists), 2003.
Nominee, DVD Exclusive Award, Best Director of a DVD Premiere Movie, 2003.
Nominee, DVD Exclusive Award, Best Editing of a DVD Premiere Movie, 2003.
DVD Exclusive Award, Best Menu Design, John Ross, Gork Enterprises, 2002
Pictures
Reviews
Monsters, Inc.
My first recollections of monsters was seeing "fantasia" as a small child in a revival of the film in the early Fifties. I was hooked on monsters. So, when this one came out I couln't get to the theater fast enough! Wath for homage to the greatest single frame, stop-motion puppeteer of the Twentieth Century:
RAY HARRYHAUSEN!
Monsters, Inc.
My three year old daughter loves this movie as do i. It is fun for all ages. It will always be the first movie that we ever saw in the theatre together, and i am glad. The trailer for this film deserves to be classed as a short toon on its own. Both are very humerous.