Which Toy Story film was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture?

Toy Story 3 was the Toy Story film nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture.

The 2010 film received the nomination at the 83rd Academy Awards, where it competed in the expanded Best Picture field. It also earned nominations for Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Sound Editing, and won Best Animated Feature and Best Original Song for Randy Newman’s “We Belong Together.”

Toy Story 3’s Best Picture recognition was historically notable because animated films had rarely been included in the Academy’s top category. It followed Pixar’s Up, making Toy Story 3 one of only two animated films nominated for Best Picture after the Academy established a separate animated-feature category.

The other options are common traps. The original Toy Story received a Special Achievement Oscar before the Best Animated Feature category existed, while Toy Story 4 won Best Animated Feature but was not nominated for Best Picture. Lightyear, released in 2022, was a spin-off rather than a Best Picture nominee.