WALL-E

WALL-E is a 2008 American computer-animated science-fiction film produced by Pixar Animation Studios and released by Walt Disney Pictures. Directed by Andrew Stanton, it credits Stanton and Jim Reardon as screenplay writers. Its title refers to Waste Allocation Load Lifter: Earth-Class, the designation of a compacting robot. The film opens in 2805, when Earth is deserted and overwhelmed by garbage. WALL-E works alone in a ruined city, compressing trash into cubes and collecting objects he finds interesting. He stores these possessions in a shipping container, where he also watches Hello, Dolly! and often imitates its hand-holding scene with devotion alone. EVE, an Extraterrestrial Vegetation Evaluator, arrives in a spacecraft to look for plant life. WALL-E shows her a seedling he has found inside a refrigerator. EVE places the plant in a compartment and enters standby mode awaiting collection. WALL-E remains beside her until the Axiom, a starliner operated for the Buy n Large corporation, sends a ship to retrieve EVE. He clings to its exterior and reaches the Axiom, where passengers have spent centuries in space. The humans ride hovering chairs, consume meals from cups, and rely on systems. Captain B. McCrea learns that the plant can authorize Earth's recolonization. The Axiom's autopilot, AUTO, follows a directive called A113 issued after an earlier probe reported that Earth remained uninhabitable. AUTO tries to prevent the captain from using EVE's plant while WALL-E is damaged during the conflict. EVE repairs him with replacement parts from Earth but his memory and personality disappear. When she places his components back into him he recognizes her again. The film ends after the Axiom lands on Earth and its passengers begin cultivating the planet. A sequence shows people planting, building, making art, and teaching children while WALL-E and EVE continue to work together among the community. WALL-E premiered in the United States on June 27, 2008. It was Pixar's ninth feature film. Ben Burtt voiced WALL-E and supplied many of the robot's sounds; Elissa Knight voiced EVE. Jeff Garlin played Captain McCrea, and Fred Willard appeared as Shelby Forthright, Buy n Large's live-action chief executive. The film uses little dialogue in its stretch, drawing on storytelling and sound design. Thomas Newman's score earned an Oscar nomination, and the film won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature. It received nominations for Original Screenplay, Original Score, Original Song for “Down to Earth,” Sound Editing, and Sound Mixing.