1989 -- Pixar wins Academy Award for animated short film "Tin Toy."
1991 -- Marries current wife Laurene Powell. Has three children with her over the years.
1992 -- Next releases NEXTSTEP operating system for Intel Corp. 486 processors. It fails in the wake of competition from Microsoft Corp.'s Windows and IBM Corp.'s OS/2.
1993 -- Next shuts hardware division, shifts focus to software.
1995 -- Pixar's "Toy Story" highest grossing film that year.