Soul, which premiered on Disney+ over Christmas.
Soul, made with co-director Kemp Powers, features Pixar's first Black protagonist, a jazz pianist who confronts a typically Docterian existential question: What is the meaning of life? Docter first conceived the idea after his success on
Inside Out, which made $857.6 million in 2015 and won the animated feature Oscar. "I started wondering, 'I don't know if it's going to get better than that, so why is it that I still don't feel like everything's buttoned up and fixed in my life?' " he says. " 'It didn't fix everything. Is there something more I should be doing?' "