What was the budget for the 1995 film Toy Story?

The budget for the 1995 film Toy Story was $30 million.

That figure covered the production of Pixar’s first feature-length computer-animated film. Toy Story was produced by Pixar Animation Studios for Walt Disney Pictures and directed by John Lasseter, with a screenplay credited to Joss Whedon, Andrew Stanton, Joel Cohen, and Alec Sokolow.

The budget is sometimes confused with the film’s marketing costs. Disney spent about $20 million on advertising, while promotional campaigns involving outside companies added substantial exposure. Those expenses were separate from the reported production budget.

Toy Story premiered on November 19, 1995, and opened in North American theaters on November 22. It became a major commercial success, earning hundreds of millions of dollars worldwide and helping establish computer animation as a dominant force in mainstream feature filmmaking.