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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 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. Bird moved to Pixar where he wrote and directed two successful animated films, The Incredibles (2004) and Ratatouille (2007). They earned Bird two Academy Awards for Best Animated Feature wins and Best Original Screenplay nominations. He transitioned to live-action filmmaking with similarly successful Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol (2011), he then directed Disney's Tomorrowland (2015). He returned to Pixar to develop Incredibles 2 (2018), which became the second-highest-grossing animated film of all time during its theatrical run, and earned him another nomination for the Academy Award. Bird has a reputation for supervising his projects to a high degree of detail. He advocates for creative freedom and the possibilities of animation, and has criticized its stereotype as children's entertainment, or classification as a genre, rather than an art. Description above from the Wikipedia article Brad Bird, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
In the quiet town of Rockwell, Maine during the height of the Cold War, curious young Hogarth Hughes (Dom Innarella) discovers a mysterious giant robot who has fallen from the sky. As Hogarth forms an unlikely friendship with the gentle machine, he soon realizes the Giant is not the weapon the world fears—but something far more human. While Hogarth’s hardworking mother, Annie (Lacey Chabert), struggles to keep their lives together, and local artist Dean McCoppin (Taylor Zakhar Perez) becomes an unexpected ally, a paranoid government agent begins closing in, convinced the Giant is a threat to national security. With fear spreading and the military on the brink of destruction, Hogarth must make a choice that will define not only his future—but the fate of his friend. In a world driven by fear, one boy teaches a giant what it truly means to be human.
