Alvy Ray Smith
Smith and Catmull co-founded Pixar in 1986 with financing from Steve Jobs. After the spinout from Lucasfilm of Pixar, he served on the board of directors and was executive vice president. According to the Steve Jobs biography "iCon" by Jeffrey S. Young and William L. Simon, Alvy Ray quit Pixar after a heated argument with Jobs over use of a whiteboard. It was an unwritten rule that none other than Jobs was allowed to use it, a rule Smith decided to break in front of everyone after Jobs went "total street bully" on him and they ended up screaming into each other's face "in full bull rage". Despite being the co-founder of Pixar, Young and Simon claim that the company has largely overlooked his part in company history since his departure. For example, there is no mention of Smith on the Pixar website.
Pixar
The studio has earned 19 Academy Awards, 8 Golden Globe Awards, and 11 Grammy Awards, among many other awards and acknowledgments. Many of Pixar's films have been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature since its inauguration in 2001, with nine winning; this includes "Finding Nemo" (2003) and "Toy Story 3" (2010), along with "The Incredibles" (2004), "Ratatouille" (2007), "WALL-E" (2008), "Up" (2009), "Brave" (2012), "Inside Out" (2015), and "Coco" (2017). "Monsters, Inc." (2001) and "Cars" (2006) are the only two films that were nominated for the award without winning it, while "Cars 2" (2011), "Monsters University" (2013), "The Good Dinosaur" (2015), "Finding Dory" (2016), and "Cars 3" (2017), were not nominated. "Up" and "Toy Story 3" were also the respective second and third animated films to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture, the first being Walt Disney Animation Studios' "Beauty and the Beast" (1991). Luxo Jr., a character from the studio's 1986 short film of the same name, is the studio's mascot.