How to pitch a movie idea to Pixar

In its own words

“Pixar does not accept any kind of creative submission.”

“All of Pixar’s ideas and stories are developed internally and it is our policy not to look at any external submissions.”

“For legal reasons we do not consider any creative material (scripts, synopses, sketches, etc.) sent to us unsolicited.”

Other companies that take a movie idea

• Angel StudiosHas a submission portalAngel Studios takes projects only as a Torch, filmed work its Angel Guild streams to gauge interest.

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  NetflixOnly through an agentNetflix reads nothing it did not ask for.

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  Apple TV+Does not take outside ideasApple does not accept, review or consider ideas or creative material it did not request, and anything sent anyway becomes Apple’s property…

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  DreamWorks AnimationDoes not take outside ideasDreamWorks Animation falls under NBCUniversal’s terms, which will not review story or character ideas it did not ask for.

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  LucasfilmDoes not take outside ideasLucasfilm accepts no unsolicited product, artwork, story idea or other creative material, and returns what is sent.

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  ParamountDoes not take outside ideasParamount accepts no unsolicited scripts, story lines, characters or ideas, and deletes them unread.

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  SkydanceDoes not take outside ideasSkydance accepts no unsolicited scripts, story lines, characters or ideas, and deletes them unread.

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  Sony PicturesDoes not take outside ideasSony Pictures seeks no unsolicited ideas for films, shows, books or music, and treats anything sent anyway as licensed to it.

All of them, open doors first