American director and producer George Lucas (and creator of the Star Wars saga) will present John Lasseter and the directors of Disney/Pixar–Brad Bird, Pete Docter, Andrew Stanton and Lee Unkrich–with the prestigious Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement of the 66th Venice International Film Festival, which runs from Sept. 2-12.
Lasseter, Bird, Docter and Stanton are all CalArts grads. Here’s a fun little video (above) from Comic-Con 2009 of director and fellow alum John Musker (Aladdin, The Little Mermaid) pointing out a couple of their famous faces in the CalArts class photo from 1976.