Brad Bird filmography

Brad Bird is a filmmaker, animator, and voice actor. He has had a career spanning over four decades in both television, animation and live-action films.

In the 1980s Bird co-wrote Batteries Not Included (1987), and developed two episodes of Amazing Stories for Steven Spielberg. Afterwards, Bird joined the animated sitcom The Simpsons as creative consultant for eight seasons.

Bird directed his first animated film The Iron Giant (1999), before moving to Pixar where he wrote and directed two successful animated films, The Incredibles (2004), Ratatouille (2007), and Incredibles 2 (2018). He transitioned to live-action filmmaking with Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol (2011) and Disney's Tomorrowland (2015).

Animator

• Animalympics (1980)
• The Fox and the Hound (1981) (Uncredited)
• The Plague Dogs (1982)
• The Black Cauldron (1985) (Uncredited)
• The Brave Little Toaster (1987) (Uncredited)
• The Iron Giant (1999) (Uncredited)^[4]

Voice roles

Documentary appearances

• Fog City Mavericks (2007)
• The Pixar Story (2007)
• A Grand Night In: The Story of Aardman (2015)
• The Giant's Dream: The Making of The Iron Giant (2016)

Pixar Senior Creative Team

• WALL-E (2008)
• Up (2009)
• Toy Story 3 (2010)
• Cars 2 (2011)
• Brave (2012)
• Monsters University (2013)
• Inside Out (2015)
• The Good Dinosaur (2015)
• Finding Dory (2016)
• Cars 3 (2017)
• Coco (2017)
• Incredibles 2 (2018)
• Toy Story 4 (2019)

Uncredited brain trust^[5][6]

• Monsters, Inc. (2001)
• Finding Nemo (2003)
• The Incredibles (2004)
• Cars (2006)
• Ratatouille (2007)

Special thanks

• An American Tail (1986)
• Technological Threat (1988)
• Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)
• All Dogs Go to Heaven (1989)
• Thumbelina (1994)
• Balto (1995)
• Ice Age (2002)
• The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie (2004)
• Corpse Bride (2005)
• Friz on Film (2006)
• Fog City Mavericks (2007)
• Madison's Résumé (2007)
• The Pixar Story (2007)
• Calendar Confloption^[7] (2009)
• Partly Cloudy (2009)
• Day & Night (2010)
• Pinched (2010)
• Toy Story of Terror! (2013)
• Jurassic World (2015)
• The Angry Birds Movie (2016)
• Bao (2018)
• Frozen II (2019)
• Canvas (2020)
• Pixar Popcorn: Chore Day The Incredibles Way (2021)
• Pixar Popcorn: Cookie Num Num (2021)
• Lightyear (2022)
• Werewolf by Night (2022)
• Good Chemistry: The Story of Elemental (2023)

Other credits

• Brothers in Crime, an action comedy for New Line Cinema that was set to be Bird's directorial and live action feature debut.^[8]
• The Spirit, an animated feature based on the comic Bird developed with Jerry Rees and producer Gary Kurtz, based on Will Eisner's acclaimed comic strip. The studios they pitched it to liked the script, but were unwilling to take the gamble on an animated feature for the adult audience.^[9][10] Bird was then replaced by various directors, but ultimately replaced by veteran comic-book writer Frank Miller and was released on Christmas 2008 to critical and commercial negative reviews.
• The Incredible Mr. Limpet, a project that is still in development hell. Bird was attached to direct at one point but was replaced by Mike Judge and many others.^[11]
• Curious George, wrote a draft of the film at one point, but his script was not used in the produced version.^[12]
• The Simpsons Movie, the crew from The Simpsons including James L. Brooks and Matt Groening were hoping to get Bird to direct, but was too busy with The Incredibles and Ratatouille at the time. David Silverman, who was also working at Pixar at the time and quit his job after finishing work on Monsters, Inc., became the film's director.
• 1906, a collaborative project from Warner Bros. and Pixar (which could have been their first live-action project), in association with Walt Disney Pictures, where Bird would have directed. Disney and Pixar left the project in 2012 in development limbo at Warner Bros. due to delays in the film's several planned releases, several rejected scripts were not picked up, and going over budget ($200 million).^{[13][14][15][16]} However as of June 2018, Bird has expressed interest as to adapt the book as a TV series and the earthquake sequence as a live-action feature film.^[17]
• Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Bird was on a shortlist of directors to direct the seventh Star Wars film. He passed on the project in favor of Tomorrowland; The Force Awakens was directed by J. J. Abrams.^[18]
• Sonic the Hedgehog, Bird was featured on a shortlist of writers when the film was still in development at Columbia Pictures. After Jeff Fowler was chosen to direct, Pat Casey and Josh Miller were picked as writers.^[19]
• Untitled musical film, Bird announced in 2019 he was developing an original musical that would include songs by frequent collaborator Michael Giacchino and contain about 20 minutes of animation.^[20]

Music video

Video game voice roles

Theme park