Pixar For The Birds

July 7, 2013 by staff

Pixar For The Birds, For the Birds is a short film released in 2000. It was written and directed by Ralph Eggleston – his first time in the directing chair. The short was shown theatrically before Monsters, Inc. The film won the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film.

Fifteen blue birds land one-by-one on a power line, and soon they encounter a huge and goofy-looking bird. They mimic and tease him, but he goes on the cord anyway. The little birds start pecking on him. They successfully get him off, but when the big bird falls off, the birds are flung away into the sky. When they come back down, we see that they have all lost their feathers, making them the goofy-looking ones now. The short ends with the big bird laughing hysterically as the other birds hide behind him.

The first four small birds to land on the power line are named Bully, Chipper, Snob and Neurotic.