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. 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.
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Films (48)
Incredibles 3
2028 · Edna Mode (voice), Writer, Executive Producer
Ray Gunn
2026 · Gunsol / Musker (voice), Director, Story, Screenplay, Producer
Incredicoaster | Disneyland Resort
2025 · Edna Mode (voice), Characters
Megalópolis
2024 · Thanks
Il était une fois Disney & la France
2023 · Self
Dans les Coulisses de Werewolf By Night
2022 · Self (archive footage)
Loup-garou de nuit
2022 · Thanks
The Power of Stone
2022 · Self
Ratatouille: The TikTok Musical
2021 · Original Film Writer
Pass the Warning: Reflecting on Nic Roeg's Masterpiece
2019 · Self
Strong Coffee: The Full-Bodied Mind of Pixar’s Brad Bird
2018 · Self - Writer & director
Tante Edna
2018 · Edna Mode (voice), Executive Producer
Les Indestructibles 2
2018 · Edna 'E' Mode / Additional Voices (voice), Director, Writer
The Giant's Dream: The Making of the Iron Giant
2016 · Self
Au cœur de l'animation Aardman
2015 · Self - Director 'The Incredibles' and 'Ratatouille'
Monde jurassique
2015 · Monorail Announcer (voice)
À la poursuite de demain
2015 · Director, Story, Screenplay, Producer
Les Origines des Nec Plus Ultra
2015 · Director
Ghost Protocol: Mission Accepted
2012 · Self
Ghost Protocol: Impossible Missions
2012 · Self
Mission : Impossible - Protocole Fantôme
2011 · Director
La Collection des courts-métrages Pixar
2011 · Self - Writer / Director, The Incredibles
Waking Sleeping Beauty
2010 · Self (archive footage)
Los Simpson Especial 20 aniversario en 3D en el Hielo!
2010 · Self
Passages nuageux
2009 · Thanks
Redefining the Line: The Making of One Hundred and One Dalmatians
2008 · Self
Fine Food and Film
2007 · Self - Screenwriter/Director
Notre ami le rat
2007 · Executive Producer
Fog City Mavericks
2007 · Self
L'Histoire de Pixar
2007 · Self
Ratatouille
2007 · Ambrister Minion (voice), Director, Story, Screenplay
More Making of 'The Incredibles'
2005 · Self, Executive Producer
From Walt's Table: A Tribute to Disney's Nine Old Men
2005 · Self
L'Homme-Orchestre
2005 · Executive Producer
The Making of 'The Incredibles'
2005 · Self, Executive Producer
Baby-sitting Jack-Jack
2005 · Director, Writer
Vowellet - An Essay by Sarah Vowell
2005 · Executive Producer
M. Indestructible et ses copains
2005 · Writer, Executive Producer
Les Indestructibles
2004 · Edna 'E' Mode (voice), Director, Writer
The Iron Giant
1999 · Director, Screenstory
The Making of 'The Iron Giant'
1999 · Self
Amazing Stories: The Movie III
1998 · Family Dog (voice), Director, Writer
*batteries not included
1987 · Screenplay
The Plague Dogs
1982 · Animation
Animalympics
1980 · Animation
Doctor of Doom
1979 · Don Carlo's Voice/Bystander's Voice
Tortoise and the Hare
1979 · Director
Surf Wars
1978 · Animation
