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The Braintrust is a small group of highly experienced creative leaders at Pixar—originally including figures like John Lasseter, Andrew Stanton, Pete Docter, and the late Joe Ranft. Unlike typical studio executives who focus on marketability or budget, the Braintrust is comprised entirely of storytellers.

Their primary function is to review a film in its rough stages (often just storyboards and scratch vocals) and provide candid, often brutal, feedback to the director. girls of bangbros vol. 84: ava addams

Most Hollywood studios operate on a top-down hierarchy where producers and executives dictate changes to directors to ensure a film is "sellable." Pixar flips this model in two key ways: The Braintrust is a small group of highly