Claim: Brave is a film.

Brenda Chapman -LRB- born November 1 , 1962 -RRB- is an American writer , animation story artist and director . In 1998 , she became the first woman to direct an animated feature from a major studio , DreamWorks Animation 's The Prince of Egypt . She co-directed the Disney · Pixar film Brave , becoming the first woman to win the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature .