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Brad Bird
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American film director, animator, screenwriter and producer (born 1957)
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Brad Bird is an American screenwriter, film director, film producer, and actor. Born on September 24, 1957, in Kalispell, Montana, he was educated at the California Institute of the Arts and studied under Eric Larson. His professional career began in 1979. Bird has worked for Walt Disney Studios and Pixar, and his works are held in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art.
He has received an Annie Award and the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature. Additionally, he has been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Writing, Original Screenplay and the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature. Bird resides in Corvallis, Tiburon, and Los Feliz. He speaks English as his native language.
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 12
Top works
- Unrestraining Grace
- Getting Grace Through Christ
- Getting Grace Daily
- Getting Grace
- My Dear Boy
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Film & TV
Directing · 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…
Known for
- Incredicoaster | Disneyland Resort — Edna Mode (voice)2025
- Il était une fois Disney & la France — Self2023
- The Power of Stone — Self2022
- Director by Night — Self (archive footage)2022
- Pass the Warning: Reflecting on Nic Roeg's Masterpiece — Self2019
- Incredibles 2 — Edna 'E' Mode / Additional Voices (voice)2018
- Auntie Edna — Edna Mode (voice)2018
- Strong Coffee: The Full-Bodied Mind of Pixar’s Brad Bird — Self - Writer & director2018
- The Giant's Dream: The Making of the Iron Giant — Self2016
- A Grand Night In: The Story of Aardman — Self - Director 'The Incredibles' and 'Ratatouille'2015
via TMDB
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1957
Discography
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 1,789
- Total plays
- 4,809
Brad Bird is a sometimes ambient / drone composer from Cape Town, South Africa not to be confused with the sometimes American animation director of the same name. Taking influence from recent post rock and drone artists such as Godspeed YBE and Fennesz, as well as the classic artists in this area like Eno and William Basinski, his work explores the repetitive rhythms found in nature, combining these with various found sounds, field recordings and undulating compositions. <a href="https://www.la
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Systematic and integrative analysis of large gene lists using DAVID bioinformatics resources
· 2008 · cited 31,728x
- Bioinformatics enrichment tools: paths toward the comprehensive functional analysis of large gene lists
· 2008 · cited 12,448x
- Resolving surface chemical states in XPS analysis of first row transition metals, oxides and hydroxides: Cr, Mn, Fe, Co and Ni
· 2011 · cited 9,597x
- The Cancer Genome Atlas Pan-Cancer analysis project
· 2013 · cited 8,304x
- DAVID: Database for Annotation, Visualization, and Integrated Discovery
· 2003 · cited 6,801x
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Quotes
- “Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol (2011)”
- “Batteries Not Included (1987)”
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Key facts
- Born
- Philip Bradley Bird , ( 1957-09-24 ) September 24, 1957 (age 68) , Kalispell, Montana , U.S.
- Alma mater
- California Institute of the Arts ( BFA )
- Occupations
- Film director screenwriter producer animator voice actor
- Years active
- 1977–present
- Employers
- Walt Disney Animation Studios (1978–1984) Amblin Entertainment (1985–1989) Gracie Films (1989–1996) Warner Bros. Feature Animation (1997–2000) Pixar Animation Studios (2000–2018, 2024–present) Skydance (2010–2011, 2021–present)
- Spouse
- Elizabeth Canney ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1988 )
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Philip Bradley Bird (born September 24, 1957) is an American filmmaker, animator, and voice actor. 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.
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