Brad Bird

Known for DirectingBorn 1957-09-24 (age 68)Kalispell, Montana, USA

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. In 2026, he is set to partner with Skydance Animation to direct Ray Gunn, a sci-fi noir film he’s wanted to make for over thirty years. 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 WikipediaRead more

Movies & web series

From Walt's Table: A Tribute to Disney's Nine Old Men

Fog City Mavericks

The Giant's Dream: The Making of the Iron Giant

The Iron Giant

Ratatouille

The Simpsons

Partly Cloudy

The Incredibles

Incredibles 2

The Pixar Story

The Plague Dogs

Auntie Edna

Jack-Jack Attack

Amazing Stories

One Man Band

Waking Sleeping Beauty

A Grand Night In: The Story of Aardman

Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol

Pass the Warning: Reflecting on Nic Roeg's Masterpiece

Werewolf by Night

Redefining the Line: The Making of One Hundred and One Dalmatians

The Simpsons 20th Anniversary Special - In 3D! On Ice!

Jurassic World

Your Friend the Rat

The Making of 'The Iron Giant'

Ratatouille: The TikTok Musical

Director by Night

*batteries not included

The Oscars

Tomorrowland

The Making of 'The Incredibles'

Family Dog

More Making of 'The Incredibles'

Vowellet - An Essay by Sarah Vowell

Animalympics

Incredicoaster | Disneyland Resort

Mr. Incredible and Pals

Megalopolis

Pixar 25 Magic Moments

Doctor of Doom

Tomorrowland: The Origins of Plus Ultra

Incredibles 3

Il était une fois Disney & la France

The Power of Stone

Strong Coffee: The Full-Bodied Mind of Pixar’s Brad Bird

Ghost Protocol: Mission Accepted

Ghost Protocol: Impossible Missions

Fine Food and Film