High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Phillip Bradley "Brad" Bird (born September 11, 1957) is an American director, animator 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 very hard to think of another mainstream American director with a comparably fluid visual style or such a vise-grip on storytelling mechanics."