The first Pixar film to be nominated for 6 Academy Awards. This ties it with the only other animated film to garner this many nominations: Die Schöne und das Biest (1991).
WALL·E stands for: Waste Allocation Load Lifter: Earth Class. EVE stands for: Extra-terrestrial Vegetation Evaluator.
To explore the possibilities of pure visual storytelling, Andrew Stanton and the Pixar team watched every single Charles Chaplin and Buster Keaton movie, both short films and features, every day during lunch for about 18 months.
The average number of storyboards used on a Pixar film is 75,000. For this movie, it was 125,000.