Brave is a film.
Brave is a 2012 American 3D computer-animated fantasy comedy-drama film produced by Pixar Animation Studios and released by Walt Disney Pictures . Co-directing with Mark Andrews , Chapman became Pixar 's first female director of a feature-length film . Brenda Chapman . She co-directed the Disney · Pixar film Brave , becoming the first woman to win the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature . Mark Andrews is a Pixar employee , best known as a director and screenwriter of the 2012 Pixar feature film Brave .