Brad Bird

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Brad Bird (2009)

Brad Bird (born September 24, 1957 in Kalispell , Montana ; actually Phillip Bradley Bird ) is an American film director , producer and screenwriter . He was best known for his directorial work for the animated films The Incredibles (2004) and Ratatouille (2007), both of which were awarded an Oscar . Before his first feature film from 1999, The Giant from Space , he was mainly active for television, where he was involved in the Simpsons , among others .

Life

Brad Bird was born in Kalispell , Montana, the fourth child of a businessman in the energy sector. The family was inherently wealthy, but there were occasional financial problems. Before he was ten, the family moved to Oregon . As a child he began to draw and as a teenager tried to produce his own cartoons. His father supported Brad Bird and sent him to Disney Studios , where Bird was allowed to work with Milt Kahl . After graduating from school in 1977, thanks to a scholarship, he was able to go to the California Institute of the Arts , which was founded by Disney and is closely associated with the studio. There he also met John Lasseter , who would later found Pixar , where the two most successful films Birds were made. At Disney he first worked as an animator on the cartoons The Jungle Olympics (1980), Cap and Capper (1981) and The Dogs Are Los (1982).

From the mid-1980s, Bird was mainly active for television; as a screenwriter for the series Incredible Stories (1985–1987). He later worked for Klasky-Csupo in an advisory capacity and as a director and character developer on more than 180 episodes of the television series The Simpsons . In 1999, his first feature film, The Giant from Space , came out, which was well received. This was followed by The Incredibles in 2004 and Ratatouille in 2007 , both of which received multiple awards. With Mission: Impossible - Phantom Protocol (2011) and A World Beyond (2015), he then shot two real-life films before staging another animated film with The Incredibles 2 (2018).

Filmography (selection)

animator

Director

Screenwriter

Awards

Brad Bird with the Oscar for Ratatouille

Web links

Commons : Brad Bird  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Jessica Berens: Ratatouille: Year of the rat . In: The Daily Telegraph , September 29, 2007. Retrieved November 18, 2015. 
  2. ^ A b Heidi Gaiser: Kalispell Native is the Superhero Behind "The Incredibles" . In: Daily Inter Lake , November 12, 2004. Retrieved November 18, 2015. 
personal data
SURNAME Bird, Brad
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bird, Phillip Bradley (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American film director, producer and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH September 24, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Kalispell , Montana