Brave is a film.
Billy Connolly . Connolly is also an actor and has appeared in such films as Water ( 1985 ) , Indecent Proposal ( 1993 ) , Pocahontas ( 1995 ) , Muppet Treasure Island ( 1996 ) , Mrs. Brown ( 1997 ) , The Boondock Saints ( 1999 ) , The Man Who Sued God ( 2001 ) , The Last Samurai ( 2003 ) , Timeline ( 2003 ) , Lemony Snicket 's A Series of Unfortunate Events ( 2004 ) , Garfield : A Tail of Two Kitties ( 2006 ) , Open Season ( 2006 ) , The X-Files : I Want to Believe ( 2008 ) , Open Season 2 ( 2008 ) , Brave ( 2012 ) , Quartet ( 2012 ) , and The Hobbit : The Battle of the Five Armies ( 2014 ) . Brave is a 2012 American 3D computer-animated fantasy comedy-drama film produced by Pixar Animation Studios and released by Walt Disney Pictures . The film 's voice cast features Kelly Macdonald , Billy Connolly , Emma Thompson , Julie Walters , Robbie Coltrane , Kevin McKidd , and Craig Ferguson . 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 .