Brad Bird

Brad Bird is, to me, one of the few directors who treats animation as a vehicle for adult-grade emotion rather than mere spectacle. The detail I keep returning to is that he finished a short film at fourteen and mailed it to Disney bold enough to be apprenticed by the Nine Old Men. Two Best Animated Feature Oscars for The Incredibles and Ratatouille confirm the craft, but what I admire is his read on human friction: family, ego, awkward heroism. That a storyteller of this reach came out of Kalispell, Montana only reinforces my belief that talent is geographically indifferent.

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Name (English)

Brad Bird

Name (Japanese)

ブラッド・バード

Reading

ぶらっど・ばーど

Born

September 24, 1957 (age 69)

Origin

Kalispell, Montana, United States

Occupation

screenwriter / film director / film producer / actor / animator

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Libra / Rooster

High school

Corvallis High School

Awards & achievements

• Annie Award
• 2005 Academy Award for Best Animated Feature
• 2008 Academy Award for Best Animated Feature
• 2005 Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form

Filmography / notable works

• Xhttps://x.com/BradBirdA113
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brad%20Bird
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%96%E3%83%A9%E3%83%83%E3%83%89%E3%83%BB%E3%83%90%E3%83%BC%E3%83%89
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q310960

Tags

• Montana
• screenwriter
• film director
• film producer

Last updated

November 2, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.