Ratatouille

Phillip Bradley "Brad" Bird is a critically acclaimed American director, voice actor, animator and screenwriter. He is best known for having written and directed Warner Bros.' The Iron Giant , and Pixar's The Incredibles and Ratatouille . He made his live-action film directing debut with Mission:... Impossible – Ghost Protocol . All of Brad Bird's films have received universal acclaim . On Rotten Tomatoes, his four films average a 95.75% rating, making him one of the most acclaimed living filmmakers, animated or otherwise. Bird was born in Kalispell, Montana, the youngest of four children of Marjorie A. and Philip Cullen Bird. His father worked in the propane business, and his grandfather, Francis Wesley "Frank" Bird, who was born in Sligo, Ireland, was a president and chief executive of the Montana Power Company. On a tour of the Walt Disney Studios at age 11, he announced that someday he would become part of its animation team, and soon afterward began work on his own 15-minute animated short.
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Dr. Jan Jaroslav Pinkava, Ph.D. is the director and writer of the Pixar Oscar-winning 1997 short film Geri's Game and the originator and co-director of Pixar's Oscar-winning 2007 film Ratatouille. He is the third-born of four children of the Czech polymath Václav Pinkava alias Jan... Křesadlo. The family emigrated to Britain in 1969, where he obtained British citizenship. He attended Colchester Royal Grammar School from 1974 to 1982 showing interest and talent in the arts, music, drama and sculpture. After obtaining an 8mm movie camera for Christmas in 1975, he began experimenting with pixilation, stop-motion plasticine, paper-drawn and cell animation. He had some early prize-winning successes in animation competitions. Most notably, he won the Young Film-Maker's Competition of the Year Award 1980 on the long-running BBC children's quiz series Screen Test for his animated short "The Rainbow".
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