The Bible in film Christ with a climactic resurrection scene in color. "King of Kings" was re-released in 1931 with a synchronized musical score. MGM's 1925 silent-era "Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ", starring Ramon Novarro was the most expensive film of its time. It included two spectacular scenes: the sea galley battle with pirates and the famous chariot-race. Another "swords and sandals" epic of the 1920s was "Noah's Ark" which combined title cards with spoken dialogue. The major studios produced fewer epics during the 1940s due in part to wartime scarcity of resources. After the war, some of Hollywood's highest grossing films were
Brad Bird among Pixar's highest-grossing features and gave Bird two Academy Award for Best Animated Feature wins and Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay nominations. In 2011, Bird directed his first live-action film "", which was a critical and commercial success. His second live-action film, "Tomorrowland", starring George Clooney, was released in May 2015, to some acclaim but less commercial success. In 2018, "Incredibles 2" was released, which Bird wrote and directed. Like its predecessor, the film was a critical and box office success. Bird was born in Kalispell, Montana, the youngest of four children of Marjorie A. (née Cross) and Philip