Brad Bird
Philip Bradley Bird (born September 24, 1957) is an American filmmaker, animator, and voice actor. He has had a career spanning over four decades in both live-action and animation. Bird was born in Montana and grew up in Oregon. He developed an interest in the art of animation early on, and completed his first short subject by age 14. Bird sent the film to Walt Disney Productions, leading to an apprenticeship from the studio's Nine Old Men. He attended the California Institute of the Arts in the late 1970s, and worked for Disney shortly thereafter. In the 1980s, Bird worked in film development with various studios. He co-wrote Batteries Not Included (1987), and developed two episodes of Amazing Stories for Steven Spielberg, including its spin-off (based on a segment written by Bird for the show), the widely panned animated sitcom Family Dog. Afterwards, Bird joined the animated sitcom The Simpsons as creative consultant for eight seasons. He directed the animated film The Iron Giant (1999); though acclaimed, it was a box-office bomb. Bird moved to Pixar where he wrote and directed two successful animated films, The Incredibles (2004) and Ratatouille (2007). They earned Bird two Academy Awards for Best Animated Feature wins and Best Original Screenplay nominations. He transitioned to live-action filmmaking with similarly successful Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol (2011), he then directed Disney's Tomorrowland (2015). He returned to Pixar to develop Incredibles 2 (2018), which became the second-highest-grossing animated film of all time during its theatrical run, and earned him another nomination for the Academy Award. Bird has a reputation for supervising his projects to a high degree of detail. He advocates for creative freedom and the possibilities of animation, and has criticized its stereotype as children's entertainment, or classification as a genre, rather than an art. Description above from the Wikipedia article Brad Bird, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
Known For
Credits
- 2023 · Il était une fois Disney & la France as Self
- 2022 · Director by Night as Self (archive footage)
- 2022 · The Power of Stone as Self
- 2022 · EPCOT Recentered as Self (voice) (archive sound)
- 2019 · Pass the Warning: Reflecting on Nic Roeg's Masterpiece as Self
- 2018 · Strong Coffee: The Full-Bodied Mind of Pixar’s Brad Bird as Self - Writer & director
- 2018 · Auntie Edna as Edna Mode (voice)
- 2018 · Incredibles 2 as Edna 'E' Mode / Additional Voices (voice)
- 2016 · The Giant's Dream: The Making of the Iron Giant as Self
- 2015 · A Grand Night In: The Story of Aardman as Self - Director 'The Incredibles' and 'Ratatouille'
- 2015 · Jurassic World as Monorail Announcer (voice)
- 2012 · Ghost Protocol: Mission Accepted as Self
- 2012 · Ghost Protocol: Impossible Missions as Self
- 2011 · Pixar 25 Magic Moments as Self - Writer / Director, The Incredibles
- 2009 · Waking Sleeping Beauty as Self (archive footage)
- 2008 · Redefining the Line: The Making of One Hundred and One Dalmatians as Self
- 2007 · Fine Food and Film as Self - Screenwriter/Director
- 2007 · Fog City Mavericks as Self
- 2007 · The Pixar Story as Self
- 2007 · Ratatouille as Ambrister Minion (voice)
- 2005 · More Making of 'The Incredibles' as Self
- 2005 · The Making of 'The Incredibles' as Self
- 2005 · From Walt's Table: A Tribute to Disney's Nine Old Men as Self
- 2004 · The Incredibles as Edna 'E' Mode (voice)
- 1999 · The Making of 'The Iron Giant' as Self
- 1985 · Amazing Stories as Scientist #2
- 1985 · Amazing Stories as Family Dog (Voice)
- Future · Incredibles 3 as Edna 'E' Mode (Voice)
- 1988 · Family Dog as Family Dog
- 1979 · Doctor of Doom as Don Carlo's Voice/Bystander's Voice