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Brad Bird

American film director, animator, screenwriter and producer (born 1957)

1.04body-of-work score · ranked #832 of 2631 directors · 3 films in our library

A director's score is the sum of their films' composite canon scores — methodology.

Born
September 24, 1957 · Kalispell
Nationality
United States
Work
screenwriter, film director, film producer, actor
Reference
Wikipedia · Wikidata
Portrait of Brad Bird
nicolas genin from Paris, France · CC BY-SA 2.0

Films in our library, ranked

Ranked by composite canon score across 20+ authoritative lists, awards and polls — our ordering, with every placement citing its evidence on the film's page.

  1. 1
    The Incredibles

    2004 · United States · action, comedy, animation

    Film Comment year-end poll 2004 #13 · National Film Registry (inducted 2025) · Empire 500 (2008) #400

    0.663 citations
  2. 2
    The Iron Giant

    1999 · United States · action, sci-fi, comedy

    Letterboxd Top 250 #189

    0.201 citation
  3. 3
    Ratatouille

    2007 · United States · comedy, drama, animation

    Empire 500 (2008) #379

    0.171 citation

Complete filmography

All 10 directorial credits recorded on Wikidata, in chronological order; films in our library link to their canon-score page.