🥰🩵💜🩷💙 Ok, last update! List of Black Actors who were Leads or Co-Leads in a Pixar full-length feature film: • Jamie Foxx / Joe Gardner / Soul (2020) • Keke Palmer / Izzy Hawthorne / Lightyear (2022) • Mamoudou Athie / Wade Ripple / Elemental (2023) • Laurence Fishburne / Rocco / Gatto (2027) Thanks to everyone for bringing this up in the comments, as I also felt Keke Palmer definitely deserves to be on this list. And this makes her the 1st Black actress to voice a Pixar lead! 🚀 I initially left Keke Palmer off the list because I viewed Izzy as supporting. When trying to figure out if she was a co-lead, I saw a definition that a co-lead has to be someone where if removed, the motivations of the lead would change—and I wasn’t sure if that applied to Izzy. But she definitely has the second most screen time, the second most development, and she has an incredible impact in the film. I really wanted to make the most accurate list I could possibly create and something beautiful for everyone to celebrate. And as a black Pixar fan, these characters mean the world to me. #Gatto #Elemental #Soul #ToyStory #Pixar #Disney

“Steal the Show” from ELEMENTAL (2023) feels like the perfect end-credits song. Lauv somehow captured the movie’s sweetness, awkwardness, and heart in three minutes. One listen and you’re right back with Wade and Ember.

🥹🩷🧜🏾 The more I see from Cartoon Saloon ‘JULIÁN’ the more i fall in love with this film. The animation is so beautiful, and the music and fluidity of the water is perfect for a film about gender expression, imagination, and black kid joy, plus I love Mermaids.😂🩵🩷 #JULIÁN #CartoonSaloon #annecyfestival #LGBTQIA #PrideMonth #TheLittleMermaid

NYC Mayor Mamdani pledges $15 MILLION in funding for trans communities over the next two years.

🥹🩷 Taylor Swift singing with Randy Newman ‘You’ve Got a Friend in Me’ is a dream collaboration I never thought I would ever see. At this point it’s gonna be hard press for me to not cry when I see TOY STORY 5 in theaters Jun 19.🍿🥤 #ToyStory5 #TaylorSwift #Pixar #Disney

‘LUCA’ director Enrico Casarosa will direct ‘GATTO’.

Under The Sea comes to life 🦀🧜🏽‍♀️🪸🐡🐬 I can’t believe people say the film isn’t colorful enough, it’s so beautiful! #thelittlemermaid #disneyprincess

🩵💜💙 (Correction) Laurence Fishburne is the 3rd Black Actor to have a leading role in a Pixar full length feature film voicing feline mob boss Rocco in Pixar’s Upcoming Film GATTO out Mar 5, 2027🍿🥤 Mamoudou Athie is actually the 2nd, voicing the heartwarming, encouraging, and lovable Wade Ripple in Pixar’s ELEMENTAL. And of course, Jamie Foxx was the first, voicing Joe Gardner in Pixar’s SOUL - and still holds the record as the only Black actor to be the singular main lead, while Athie and Fishburne serve as co-leads, respectively. • Jamie Foxx / Joe Gardner / SOUL (2020) • Mamoudou Athie / Wade Ripple/ ELEMENTAL (2023) • Laurence Fishburne / Rocco/ GATTO (2027) #GATTO #Pixar #Disney #Elemental #Soul

🙌🏾💙 Pixar GATTO looks breathtakingly beautiful, perhaps one of the most beautiful Pixar films ever made. I cannot wait to get to know this world in these characters. I’m so incredibly excited. #Gatto #Pixar #Disney

Mark Ruffalo as Nero, and Laurence Fishburne as Rocco is an immensely talented duo for Pixar’s GATTO. And with Fishburne technically being the second lead makes him the Second Black Actor to be in a leading position in a Pixar feature length Film since Jamie Foxx in SOUL. #GATTO #Pixar #Disney

🙌🏾💙🐈‍⬛ This First Teaser Trailer for Pixar's new original film ‘GATTO' looks incredible, i’m literally blown away!!! In theaters on March 5, 2027. 🍿🥤 The new hand-painted style of animation from ‘Luca' director Enrico Casarosa is truly breathtaking and stunning!!! Mark Ruffalo as Nero, and Laurence Fishburne as Rocco is an immensely talented duo, with Fishburne becoming the Second Black Actor to be in a leading role in a Pixar feature length Film after Jamie Foxx in SOUL. From the extraordinary writing for SOUL, to the bold execution of TURNING RED, to the incredible animation on ELEMENTAL, Pixar has been laying down the groundwork for a new era in original animation and I believe HOPPERS and GATTO will solidify this. To say I’m excited for this film is definitely an understatement.🙌🏾🔥💙 #GATTO #Pixar #Disney x.com/Pixar/status/206510179…

First clip from ‘Julián,’ the new animated feature from Cartoon Saloon (‘The Secret of Kells,’ ‘Song of the Sea,’ ‘Wolfwalkers’), directed by Louise Bagnall. The film is set to premiere later this month at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival.

Floyd Norman will receive an honorary Oscar. He was the first black animator at Disney and had a 65-year run at the studio working on films such as ‘Sleeping Beauty’, ‘The Jungle Book’, ‘Mulan’ and ‘Toy Story 2’.

Our ocean girls Ariel and Moana 🌊🌀💙🧜🏾‍♀️

I think Asad Ayaz has been doing incredible as Disney new marketing chief, HOPPERS and TOY STORY 5 marketing is fantastic. But he needs to do away with the dim low light Disney live action posters they are horrible. They need to be bright and energetic like this. #Moana #DisneyMoana #Disney

🙌🏾🩷 This new Moana trailer looks a 1000x better than the first one!!!🌴🌊 Maui‘s hair looks way better, Tamatoa looks really good, baby Heihei is so incredibly adorable, And the emotional ending scene with Te Fiti looks like it’s going to feel epic seeing it in theaters July 10. 🍿🥤 #Moana #DisneyMoana #Disney

🙌🏾🩷 Here’s the Final trailer for the live-action 'MOANA', and im so happy to say it looks really good!!🌴🌊 In theaters July 10🍿🥤 I think even us die hard Disney fans were a little nervous, But this new trailer really stepped it up. Everything looks better, and more important it feels like a Big Summer Blockbuster worthy of the cinema. Maybe this could still end up being one of my favorite Disney live actions next to Halle Bailey’s THE LITTLE MERMAID, Emma Stone’s CRUELLA, and LILO AND STITCH. 🥰🩷 Now we just have to see how the songs pan out, but Lin-Manuel Miranda is back so i’m hopeful. #Moana #Disney #DisneyMoana #Thelittlemermaid #Cruella #Liloandstitch

🚨| Adults Season 2 premieres August 27 on Hulu and Disney . via @FXNetworks

‘FLY’ has officially launched on Kickstarter (Link below). A coming of age story about Black kids who finally have power to fight back against systems designed against them.