Phillip Bradley "Brad" Bird (born September 11, 1957) is a two-time Academy Award-winning American director and screenwriter. His best known works are Disney/Pixar's The Incredibles 2004, for which he directed and wrote the script, and Ratatouille (2007). He also adapted and directed the critically-acclaimed 2-D hand-animated 1999 Warner Bros. film The Iron Giant. Reviewing the Ratatouille DVD, Eye Weekly offered this characterization of Bird's w...
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Phillip Bradley "Brad" Bird (born September 11, 1957) is a two-time Academy Award-winning American director and screenwriter. His best known works are Disney/Pixar's The Incredibles 2004, for which he directed and wrote the script, and Ratatouille (2007). He also adapted and directed the critically-acclaimed 2-D hand-animated 1999 Warner Bros. film The Iron Giant. Reviewing the Ratatouille DVD, Eye Weekly offered this characterization of Bird's work: "It’s hard to think of another mainstream American director with a comparably fluid visual style or such a vise-grip on storytelling mechanics."
Bird was born in Kalispell, Montana. On a tour of the Walt Disney Studios at age 11, he announced that someday he would become part of its animation team, and soon afterward began work on his own 15-minute animated short. Within two years, Bird had completed his animation, which impressed the cartoon company. By age 14, barely in high school, Bird was mentored by the animator Milt Kahl, one of...
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